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  Fight City Legends: The Old Master

  Born in Baltimore in 1874, the great Joe Gans got his start in boxing the way many black fighters of his time did, in absurd, exploitative spectacles called ...

  On January 19, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights

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

  On August 14, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  Top 12 All-Time Best Bantamweights

  A while back we published our list of the greatest middleweights of all time and when we did we promised to follow-up with additional rankings for all of ...

  On May 24, 2019 / By Neil Crane
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  Top 12 All-Time Most Cerebral Boxers

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

  On February 22, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  Fight City Legends: Gentleman Jim

  “From my first fight I started to run away.” James John Corbett, often referred to as “Gentleman Jim,” never cared much for the brutish nature of the sport ...

  On September 26, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  The Golden Door

  Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I ...

  On July 8, 2018 / By Daniel Attias
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  Fight City Legends: Little Chocolate

  The question is posed: who was the first black man to win a world boxing championship? And here are the likely replies: Jack Johnson? Joe Gans? While incorrect, these ...

  On December 24, 2017 / By Robert Portis