“We were Jews living in an Irish neighborhood. You can guess the rest. I used to fight four, five, ten times a day.” Abraham “Abe” Attell was born ...
On January 19, 2021 / By Jamie RebnerWith boxing still profoundly affected by the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to periodically revisit some of our past feature articles. Today, on the anniversary of the great ...
On January 12, 2021 / By Patrick ConnorAnyone familiar with American popular culture has heard the name Wyatt Earp and fans of the movie Tombstone may believe they know all about the man. But there’s ...
On December 2, 2020 / By Sean Crose“Jeffries number one? No, sir. Give me Joe Choynski anytime. I faced both and should know. Jeffries had a powerful wallop, but Choynski had a paralyzing punch. His ...
On October 23, 2020 / By Jamie RebnerThere really was nothing left to prove. Why Mickey Walker felt an assault on the heavyweight division was necessary, nobody still living knows. It likely had much to ...
On July 22, 2020 / By Patrick ConnorIn 1910, Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries clashed in Reno, Nevada to contest the world heavyweight crown in what was then billed as “The Fight of the ...
On July 4, 2020 / By Eliott McCormickWe live in the age of the camera and mass produced, edited, precisely manicured images, when glamour, style and looks have never been more important. On this score, ...
On May 26, 2020 / By Michael CarbertFrom the embers of the Great Boston Fire of 1872 rose a man not small of frame and stature like his 5-foot, 2-inch father, but instead heavy and ...
On May 14, 2020 / By Patrick ConnorThe first Jeffries vs Corbett clash took place in Coney Island, New York over a century ago but the storylines highlighted by that historic battle are ones we ...
On May 11, 2020 / By Rafael GarcíaNapoleon, war-master, was a terror to his foes, A general of generals, as everybody knows; And Jack McAuliffe, lightweight king, who many battles won, Was tagged by his ...
On May 10, 2020 / By Alden Chodash“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 April 29, 2020 / By Alden ChodashAt 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 ...
On March 7, 2020 / By Robert PortisThe Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion Originally published in 1925, The Roar of the Crowd is an entertaining ...
On August 13, 2019 / By Rafael GarcíaRing 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 ...
On November 15, 2015 / By Sean Crose“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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