Browsing Tag Jack Dempsey
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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 ...
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The Top Twelve 3
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 ...
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April 5, 1915: Johnson vs Willard
It is not for nothing that late scribe Jimmy Cannon called boxing “the red light district of sports.” Pugilism is no stranger to corruption and criminals and over ...
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Dempsey’s Long Goodbye (Part 2)
This is the second of two articles detailing Jack Dempsey’s comeback tour. For Part One, click here. Dempsey took a brief break from the first leg of the ...
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Dempsey’s Long Goodbye (Part 1)
The comeback trail is a well-trodden path for professional boxers. Ex-champions, contenders, and club fighters alike are all tempted to return to the ring for one last payday. ...
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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 ...
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Fight City Reviews 1
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 ...
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Top 12 All-Time Most Controversial Fights
No sport has courted as much scandal and public outrage as boxing. From dives and fixed fights, to outrageous decisions, not to mention the shady stuff behind closed ...
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The Twelve Rounds Of Christmas
It’s a timeless Yuletide classic, a tune sung for centuries at this time of year, but now “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” has a special pugnacious and pugilistic ...
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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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Boxiana 3
Fight City Legends: The Aldgate Sphinx
Historically speaking, boxing is a sport of great rivalries, though now we can only pine for the days when pugilists thought nothing of facing an adversary more than ...
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The Top Twelve 13
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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Fight City Legends: King of the Canebrakes
It’s October 3, 1933 and a young man, a fighter, lies close to death in a hospital bed in Macon, Georgia. The room is quiet, morose even, such ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
I Fight For A Living
One of boxing’s most enduring tropes is that of the prizefighter who punches his way out of the depths of poverty and obscurity and into a life of ...
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Turning Defeat Into Victory
“A rose is a rose is a rose,” writer Gertrude Stein once famously claimed. Likewise, a loss is a loss is a loss. Nothing more. Nothing less. One ...
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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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Top 12 All-Time 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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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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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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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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