Browsing Tag Jack Dempsey
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Fight City Reviews 0
The Long Count
Nine decades have passed since the rematch between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey took place on a brisk September evening at Chicago’s Soldier Field in 1927, and in ...
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Boxiana 4
Fight City Legends: The Fighting Marine
Gene Tunney will forever be a truly great boxer, one of the best to ever step into the ring. A clever strategist with excellent footwork, superb defense and ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
The Boxing Kings
It’s one of life’s most interesting ironies that prizefighting–a brutal, often exploitative, enterprise baptized as “the red light district of sports” by the late Jimmy Cannon–is the most ...
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The Top Twelve 36
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 ...
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Columns 2
The Fight Game Has Changed
Since inception, the relationship between television and boxing has been bittersweet. Back in the 1950s A. J. Liebling, journalistic star for The New Yorker and boxing writer extraordinaire, ...
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Features 2
“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 ...
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The Top Twelve 25
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweight Punchers
When it comes to popular water-cooler topics in boxing, few, if any, top this one: who is the most powerful puncher to ever step through the ropes? Now ...
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The Top Twelve 4
Top 12 Most Intimidating Boxers
Intimidation can come in many different forms: aggressive body language, rippling muscles, obnoxious trash talk, or the cold stare that sends chills down another’s backbone. Whatever way it’s ...
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Columns 0
Yes, Roy Really Was That Good
By the mid-90’s, the question was being asked: was he the best ever? Certainly there had been no one quite like him in recent memory, no one who ...
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The Top Twelve 11
Top 12 All-Time Worst Cheap Shots
All intentional fouls or blindside hits are cheap, but for this list we define a “cheap shot,” also known as a “sucker punch,” as a blow rendered when ...
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The Top Twelve 2
Top 12 All-Time Best Mike Tyson Quotes
Like a traffic jam caused by people rubber-necking the carnage from a massive pileup, boxing fans couldn’t get enough of the crazy circus that was the career of ...
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Features 1
Protect Yourself At All Times
If you’re involved in the business of boxing, or even just a fervent fan of the fight game, and you’re not yet familiar with the name of Adrian ...
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Columns 1
More Personality, Please!
Here’s a bit of info about me: I’ve never been a big MMA fan. Oh, I don’t mind the sport. Truth be told, I even admire it. Those MMA ...
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Lee Wylie 1
Question And Answer With Lee Wylie (No. 4)
Suffering from uncertainty about your lead shoulder feint? Having trouble with your distance management or footwork? Are tactical concerns regarding your favorite fighter keeping you up at night? ...
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Features 1
Seven Days Of Superfights
They come along in fits and starts and sometimes years can pass before they’re ever seen from again, but when they happen, they inspire millions and bring fresh ...
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Columns 1
Boxing’s Great Equalizer: The Internet
As a boxing writer I can attest first hand that the internet is both a wonderful and a terrible thing, though mostly wonderful. It not only lets talented ...
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Features 0
Dawn Of A New Era
Boxing is a cyclical sport. No matter how dominant, fearsome or skilled a reigning champion may seem at the height of his powers, sooner or later, the old ...
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Columns 5
Is Bigger Really Better?
Heavyweight champ Jess Willard was 6’6, but he was absolutely destroyed by Jack Dempsey who stood five inches shorter and gave away 58 pounds. Another huge champion, Primo ...
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Columns 4
The Enigma of Canelo Alvarez
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is an enigma. Okay, the man himself may not be, but his career trajectory certainly seems enigmatic. Don’t believe me? Ponder the following: Alvarez may ...
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Columns 1
The Return Of The Heavyweights
Check it out: I’m genuinely excited for this Saturday’s heavyweight championship fight. Been a long time since I could utter or type those words with conviction. Truth be ...
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Columns 1
The Tragedy of Boxers With CID
Ring rust is real. Three long years is what John L. Sullivan waited between fights; Jack Dempsey did the same. Neither heavyweight returned from the long, dry spell ...
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Features 0
The Giant Falls Again
Undefeated. Invincible. Unstoppable. The best. The greatest. All applied to Ronda Rousey short hours ago, and thus her fall to unheralded Holly Holm is easily the biggest upset ...
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Boxiana 0
Fight City Legends: The Aldgate Sphinx
Boxing history is chock full of great rivalries, though now we can only pine for the days when pugilists thought nothing of squaring off against an adversary several ...
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Columns 0
The Second Coming Of Dempsey?
Jack Dempsey. That’s who David Lemieux reminds me of: Jack Dempsey. The Manassa Mauler. Maybe it sounds crazy, but bear with me for a minute. Because there are ...
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The Top Twelve 1
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 ...
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Columns 6
Whatever Happened to Ambition?
Why isn’t Deontay Wilder screaming for a fight with Wladimir Klitschko? Why isn’t Leo Santa Cruz calling out Guillermo Rigondeaux? Or Vasyl Lomanchenko? Or Nicholas Walters? Why isn’t Adonis Stevenson ...
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Features 2
Above All Mortals
Just past 11 p.m. at Madison Square Garden on a cold March evening in 1971, the undefeated former champion was growing visibly weary. “Don’t you know I’m God?” ...
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Columns 1
Boxing’s Most Feared Fighter
UFC star Conor McGregor found himself being bested in the octagon by Chad Mendes two weeks ago but McGregor overcame the adversity, came back, and pulled out a ...
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Boxiana 0
He Howled and Made Horrid Faces
“They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity–like yours–the thought of your remote kinship with ...
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