Francois Botha Archives - The Fight City

Legitimate superfights tend not to just happen spontaneously, but instead build up over time. The first bout between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali was years in the making, as was even the first Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns

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Light Heavyweight Mayhem

February 8, 2020February 6, 2021

The famous middleweight “Murderer’s Row” of the 1940s, which in its prime featured Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles, Charley Burley, Lloyd Marshall and Holman Williams (among others), had something of a mini-forebear in the light-heavyweight division of the 1930s.

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April 7, 2001: Hamed vs Barrera

April 7, 2021May 23, 2021

“I’m here training the greatest featherweight of all time.” None other than Emanuel Steward spoke those words, three weeks before Prince Naseem Hamed faced Marco Antonio Barrera in the biggest little fight money could buy in 2001. Manny

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Fight City Legends: The Boston Gob

October 28, 2021October 29, 2021

In boxing history, there are the champions and there are those who fight among them. For every Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey, there were hundreds of pugilists who aspired to that kind of greatness and renown

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Fight City Legends: King of the Canebrakes

October 3, 2021October 6, 2021

On this day way back in 1933, a young man, a fighter, lies close to death in a hospital bed in Macon, Georgia. The room is quiet, morose even, such a contrast to the thrill seeking, hundred-mile-an-hour life