Browsing Tag Lou Duva
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July 12, 1986: Holyfield vs Qawi
You rarely see fighters who love the sheer brutality of boxing as much as Dwight Muhammad Qawi once did. Fighters who smile when they take punches. Fighters who ...
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July 11, 1996: Bowe vs Golota I
Golota gets eleven stitches, his head smashed open with a two-way radio. His trainer, 74-year-old Lou Duva, leaves the ring on a stretcher and is taken to hospital. ...
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May 19, 1985: Gomez vs Lockridge
In recent years the late Rocky Lockridge unfortunately became as well-known for his appearance on the television show “Intervention” and the visceral cry of pain that launched countless ...
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Nov. 23, 1991: Holyfield vs Cooper
Let’s raise a glass and give a heart-felt salute to Bert Cooper, may he rest in peace. He went on to that big ring in the sky in ...
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Pernell Whitaker: Gone Too Soon
When the United States Olympic Boxing Team sauntered away with a staggering nine gold medals in 1984, Pernell Whitaker was actually lost in the shuffle. First came an ...
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Top 12 All-Time Best Larry & Lampley Moments
On January 22, 1973, a broadcasting start-up by the name of Home Box Office debuted in the sport of boxing, bringing viewers George Foreman’s legendary second round annihilation of ...
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Columns 1
Too Many Belts, Not Enough Champions
Believe it or not, there are a total of 102 recognized ‘world’ championships in existence in professional boxing today. Discounting the 34 champions which may be of an ...
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Remembering The Kronk
[Ed. Note: Since the publication of this article, more than one individual associated with the Kronk Gym has questioned the accuracy of this account. It should be noted ...
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Remembering Lou Duva
If you were a boxing fan in the 1980s and 90s, you knew the face and the name and the voice. He was seemingly omnipresent, as so many ...
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