Browsing Tag Kid Chocolate

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  The Top Twelve 5

  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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  July 15, 1931: Chocolate vs Bass

  Throughout boxing history, world titles have assumed various levels of worth, some about as valuable as your proverbial wooden nickel. It’s a process unlikely to ever stop, as ...

  On July 15, 2019 / By Patrick Connor
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  June 4, 1971: Napoles vs Backus II

  Cuba’s messy political issues in the last half-century have made for countless stories of struggle and triumph, though more the former than anything else. From rafting across shark-infested ...

  On June 4, 2019 / By Patrick Connor
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  Oct. 5, 1936: Canzoneri vs McLarnin II

  Tony Canzoneri vs Jimmy McLarnin. Two of the very best from one of boxing’s great eras, the 1930’s, the Depression years, the glorious decade of Kid Chocolate, Barney ...

  On October 5, 2018 / By Robert Portis
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  Sept. 27, 1950: Charles vs Louis

  There’s little doubt that Ezzard Charles is one of boxing’s most underrated champions. A skillful technician, he holds wins over a long list of great fighters and he ...

  On September 27, 2018 / By Daniel Attias
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  Lee Wylie 1

  Question & Answer With Lee Wylie (No. 3)

  Suffering from uncertainty about your lead shoulder feint? Having trouble with your distance management or footwork? Are concerns about how best to parry a right lead keeping you ...

  On February 9, 2016 / By Lee Wylie
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  Features 2

  Peter Quillin: Life After Jacobs

  Going into his fight with Daniel Jacobs, Peter Quillin was a slight betting favorite to win with many predicting a “Kid Chocolate” victory based on the fact he ...

  On January 16, 2016 / By Thad Moore