Browsing Tag Mickey Walker
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Fight City Legends: The Georgia Deacon
He was only thirty-two when he left this world but if, as the old saw goes, only the good die young, then Tiger Flowers could never have escaped ...
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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 ...
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July 22, 1931: Walker vs Sharkey
There 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 ...
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Fight City Legends: The Smoke City Wildcat
They called them the Roaring Twenties, that crazy decade following World War I when the economy boomed, “speakeasies” opened on every other corner, the “flappers” started showing a ...
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Top 12 All-Time Best Middleweights
The middleweights have traditionally been regarded as one of the sport’s true “glamour” divisions, boasting some of the best talent to ever lace ’em up and some of ...
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Top 12 All-Time Most Cerebral Boxers
It takes more than strength, punching power and great conditioning to become a champion prizefighter. Mastery of footwork, angles, feinting, defense and the ability to adapt to an ...
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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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Nov. 1, 1922: Britton vs Walker II
It was that same old tale, the one we must relive over and over again. The aging champion refuses to move on and leave the cheers of the ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Body Punchers
Body punchers don’t get enough love. Except for those dramatic instances where a paralyzing left hook to the liver produces a knockout, much of the time an effective ...
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Fight City Legends: The Toy Bulldog
There’s a character archetype that’s been floating around for decades, if not centuries: the scrappy Irishman who makes up with strength and guts what he lacks in stature, ...
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Explosive Potential: 147 Should Be Boxing’s Hottest Division
It was, until recently, the premier division in boxing, the weight class with the most elite-level talents and the most tantalizing match-ups to be made. Over the decades, ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Welterweights
Our ratings of the all-time greatest fighters in each of the traditional eight weight classes continues with a look at the storied ranks of the welterweight division. As noted ...
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Top 12 All-Time Biggest Middleweight Fights
A couple years ago, when everyone was getting set for the long-awaited confrontation between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, we put together a list of the “biggest” welterweight ...
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Top 12 All-Time Biggest Welterweight Fights
35 years ago one of the biggest fights in boxing history shattered box-office and telecast records and ushered in the era of The Four Kings. Hearns vs Leonard ...
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