Browsing Tag Floyd Patterson

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  Feb. 25, 1964: Clay vs Liston I

  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 Carbert
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  The Boxing Kings

  It’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 García
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  Feb. 1, 1965: Patterson vs Chuvalo

  The 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 Carbert
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  Ali: A Life

  The 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 Ezra
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  Dec. 15, 1995: Gatti vs Patterson

  This 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 Portis
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  Dec. 7, 1970: Ali vs Bonavena

  You 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 Portis
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  Nov. 30, 1956: Patterson vs Moore

  In 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 Connor
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  Ali vs Shavers: The Greatest’s Finest Hour

  No 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 Ezra
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  May 25, 1965: Ali vs Liston II

  I 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 Portis
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  May 21, 1966: Ali vs Cooper II

  Looking 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 Carbert
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  The Mysterious Champion

  Few 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 McCormick
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  April 27, 1968: Ellis vs Quarry

  In 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 Carbert
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Opening Rounds

  In 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 Crane
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  March 22, 1967: Ali vs Folley

  The 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 Portis
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweights

  At 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 Portis
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  The Gods Of War

  One 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 Isard
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweight Slugfests

  Heading 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 Connor
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  Exposed? Maybe. Maybe Not.

  On 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 Breckenridge
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  “An Elemental Sport”: Interview With Paul Beston

  Every 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 Kohler
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  Top 12 All-Time Craziest Publicity Stunts

  As 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 Connor
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  Five Questions For Charles Farrell

  Charles 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