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Fight City Legends: Little Chocolate

October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 Robert Portis 0 Comments Abe Attell, George Dixon, Jack Johnson, Joe Gans, Joe Louis

The question is posed: who was the first black man to win a world boxing championship? And here are the

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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights

October 15, 2021October 16, 2021 Robert Portis 8 Comments Abe Attell, Alexis Arguello, Azumah Nelson, Danny Lopez, Eusebio Pedroza, Freddie Miller, George Dixon, Henry Armstrong, Johnny Dundee, Johnny Kilbane, Kid Chocolate, Marco Antonio Barrera, Salvador Sanchez, Sandy Saddler, Vincente Saldivar, Willie Pep

We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our

Top 12 All-Time Greatest Bantamweights

July 14, 2021July 17, 2021 Neil Crane 4 Comments bantamweights, Carlos Zarate, Charles "Bud" Taylor, Eder Jofre, Fighting Harada, George Dixon, Johnny Coulon, Manuel Ortiz, Panama Al Brown, Pete Herman, Ruben Olivares, Terry McGovern

A while back we published our list of the greatest middleweights of all time and when we did we promised

Fight City Legends: Gentleman Jim

July 8, 2021July 12, 2021 Alden Chodash 0 Comments Benny Leonard, Bob Fitzsimmons, Gene Tunney, Gentleman Jim, George Dixon, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jake Kilrain, James J. Corbett, Joe Choynski, Joe Gans, John L. Sullivan, Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston, Sugar Ray Robinson

“From my first fight I started to run away.” James John Corbett, often referred to as “Gentleman Jim,” never cared

Fight City Legends: The Old Master

May 10, 2021July 25, 2021 Michael Carbert 2 Comments Battling Nelson, George Dixon, Henry Armstrong, Joe Gans, Nat Fleischer, Roberto Duran, Sam Langford, Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Ritchie

Born in Baltimore in 1874, the great Joe Gans got his start in boxing the way many black fighters of

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Fight City Legends: The Little Hebrew

January 19, 2021January 21, 2021 Jamie Rebner 2 Comments Abe Attell, Aurelio Herrera, Battling Nelson, Boxing, George Dixon, James J. Corbett, Johnny Kilbane, Owen Moran, The Little Hebrew

“We were Jews living in an Irish neighborhood. You can guess the rest. I used to fight four, five, ten

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Top 12 All-Time Most Cerebral Boxers

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Michael Carbert 4 Comments Archie Moore, Benny Leonard, Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather, Gene Tunney, George Dixon, George Foreman, Harry Greb, Holman Williams, Jersey Joe Walcott, Jim Driscoll, Joe Gans, Mickey Walker, Muhammad Ali, Sam Langford, Sugar Ray Robinson, top twelve, Willie Pep

It takes more than strength, punching power and great conditioning to become a champion prizefighter. Mastery of footwork, angles, feinting,

The Golden Door

July 8, 2018July 8, 2018 Daniel Attias 2 Comments Barney Ross, Benny Leonard, Budd Schulberg, Chris Mannix, Christopher Klein, Emma Lazarus, Gennady Golovkin, George Dixon, Jack Johnson, Jack Slack, Joe Gans, John L. Sullivan, Maxie Rosenbloom, Statue of Liberty

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Nov. 26, 1914: Langford vs Wills II

November 26, 2020May 19, 2021 Hunter Breckenridge 0

The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of rapid evolution for the sport of boxing. Legal

June 5, 1925: Tunney vs Gibbons

June 5, 2021June 8, 2021 Michael Carbert 0

By 1924, Gene Tunney, to the incredulity of American sports fans, had begun openly campaigning for a chance to face

July 2, 1921: Dempsey vs Carpentier

July 2, 2021August 30, 2021 Michael Carbert 0

The year was 1921. Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight champion of the world, reigned as the most titanic figure in all of

Nov. 24, 1990: Jackson vs Graham

November 24, 2020November 27, 2020 Neil Crane 2

All it takes is one punch. In baseball, you can overturn a three run deficit, win the game or even