An earthquake. The ground collapsing beneath one’s feet. All that is established and familiar giving way to things new and strange and frightening. We’re only human so don’t ...
On February 25, 2021 / By Michael CarbertIt’s a most intriguing irony that prizefighting–a brutal and exploitative enterprise baptized as “the red light district of sports” by the late Jimmy Cannon–is the most romanticized of ...
On February 13, 2021 / By Rafael GarcíaThe popularity of boxing has waxed and waned over the decades, but the 1950s saw a new source of anxiety emerge for professional prizefighting: television. With boxing featured ...
On February 1, 2021 / By Michael CarbertThe latest biography of Muhammad Ali, surely the most written-about boxer in history, is also the longest, and will be among the best-selling and most-read. Jonathan Eig’s Ali: A ...
On January 18, 2021 / By Michael EzraThis was the beginning, the dawn of the legend that was to become Arturo “Thunder” Gatti. It was on this day that the world discovered a boxer who ...
On December 15, 2020 / By Robert PortisYou can take issue with his politics, label him a braggart and a loudmouth, make an inventory of all the lucky breaks he got, and even insist the ...
On December 7, 2020 / By Robert PortisIn decades past, when undisputed heavyweight champions were the norm and not the exception, they inevitably created a great vacuum of power upon retiring. It was a mad scramble ...
On November 30, 2020 / By Patrick ConnorNo matter how dismal the fight scene may be at a given time, fans can always cherish and take comfort from the sport’s glorious history. The past is ...
On September 30, 2020 / By Michael EzraI wrote about this famous and most scandalous of duels for an earlier post on this site, our list of the most controversial fights in boxing history. I ...
On May 25, 2020 / By Robert PortisLooking back, it’s easy to forget that until the early 1970s and his wars with Bonavena, Frazier, Norton and Foreman, many seriously questioned the toughness of Muhammad Ali. ...
On May 21, 2020 / By Michael CarbertFew champions have ever inspired as much public ambivalence, mistrust, and scorn as Sonny Liston. The frequently violent events of a life spent underneath the bright lights of ...
On May 9, 2020 / By Eliott McCormickIn June of 1967, a jury found world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali guilty of draft evasion for his refusal to join the military and participate in the war ...
On April 27, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIn boxing, as in most things in life, it’s quality, not quantity. Excitement is the name of the game and the greatest fights are the ones that offer ...
On April 26, 2020 / By Neil CraneThe first, prolific championship reign of Muhammad Ali, which saw him defend his title eight times in two years, had, regrettably, always been more about politics than sports. ...
On March 22, 2020 / By Robert PortisAt a very leisurely pace over the last couple of years, The Fight City has offered its own idiosyncratic rankings of the all-time greatest boxers in each of ...
On March 7, 2020 / By Robert PortisOne of the best parts about being a boxing fan is the vitality of the sport’s history and the spirited debates and discussions that arise from it. The ...
On February 27, 2020 / By Joshua IsardHeading into tonight’s much-anticipated rematch between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder, the man they call “The Gypsy King” has repeatedly promised an action-packed war, a heavyweight version of ...
On February 22, 2020 / By Patrick ConnorOn June 19, 1936, the number one ranked heavyweight contender, Joe Louis, stepped into the ring at Yankee Stadium in New York City. In the opposite corner stood ...
On August 19, 2019 / By Hunter BreckenridgeEvery year there is a new crop of boxing books and without question one of this past year’s stand-out titles is The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled The ...
On April 12, 2018 / By Will KohlerAs noble and gentlemanly as the sport of boxing can sometimes be, one of the biggest draws in pugilism tends to be the spectacle. There’s just something about ...
On September 25, 2015 / By Patrick ConnorCharles Farrell is a former boxing manager who once steered Mitch “Blood” Green, Leon Spinks, and Freddie Norwood. He is also the author of “Why I Fixed Fights”, ...
On January 28, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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