Browsing Tag Mike Weaver

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  March 31, 1980: Tate vs Weaver

  Not for nothing do they call boxing “the cruelest sport.” Just as the outcome of a baseball game can be decided with a single crack of the bat, ...

  On March 31, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  March 11, 1989: Holyfield vs Dokes

  When Evander Holyfield and Michael Dokes clashed for the WBC Continental Americas Title back in 1989, the result was a battle which some later called the heavyweight fight of ...

  On March 11, 2019 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Nov. 6, 1981: Holmes vs Snipes

  In May of 1981, undefeated fair-skinned heavyweight contender Gerry Cooney galvanized the attention of fair-skinned American sports fans by demolishing respected veteran Ken Norton in a mere 54 ...

  On November 6, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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  Oct. 25, 1980: Weaver vs Coetzee

  Following Leon Spink’s huge upset win over Muhammad Ali in 1978, the heavyweight title belt was torn in two. The World Boxing Council stripped Spinks of their championship after ...

  On October 25, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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  Sept. 28, 1979: Holmes vs Shavers

  We talk of fighters having a “puncher’s chance,” and indeed that, more than anything else, was what Earnie Shavers brought into the ring at Caesars Palace in Las ...

  On September 28, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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  Sept. 21, 1985: Holmes vs Spinks I

  In March of 1985, heavyweight champion Larry Holmes scored a tenth round stoppage of undefeated contender David Bey and then immediately announced that he was done. As in, ...

  On September 21, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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  Joshua vs Povetkin: Worth The Risk?

  This Saturday, boxing fans get yet another heavyweight title fight that is not the battle that everyone wants to see. Instead of taking on Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua, ...

  On September 20, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Tim Witherspoon: “I’m The Real Rocky!”

  Everyone knows who Rocky Balboa is, but who is the true Rocky, the real-life Rocky? Tim Witherspoon, a former heavyweight champion who, like the mythical Rocky, hails from ...

  On February 9, 2016 / By Thad Moore
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  Michael Dokes: 1958-2012

  News of the death from cancer of Michael “Dynamite” Dokes, former WBA heavyweight champion, causes one to pause and consider the terrible toll an overestimation of one’s talent ...

  On August 14, 2012 / By Michael Carbert