Browsing Tag Jimmy Wilde

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  Jan. 21, 1927: LaBarba vs Clark

  Flyweight wasn’t much of a division until Jimmy Wilde came along. While not the first of the little champions, “The Ghost With the Hammer in His Hand” showed ...

  On January 21, 2019 / By Patrick Connor
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  Fight City Legends: Pancho Villa

  The real Pancho Villa was a prominent Mexican revolutionary who won fame for his military victories during the early part of the 20th century. Exactly why Francisco Guilledo ...

  On August 1, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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  Fight City Legends: The Mighty Atom

  The writer of a profile of Jimmy Wilde, aka “The Mighty Atom,” is tempted to put down the particulars of Wilde’s incredible record – 152 bouts, 146 victories, ...

  On March 10, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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  Top 12 All-Time Best Flyweights

  We started with the middleweights, then the bantamweights, followed by the light heavyweights. Continuing our rather infrequent series of all-time rankings of the greatest boxers in each of ...

  On March 18, 2017 / By Robert Portis
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  Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”

  In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died before their time. Such deaths are tragic almost by definition, but in the case of the young ...

  On March 10, 2017 / By Rafael García