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April 14, 1979: Galindez vs Rossman II

The Latin code of “machismo” is a harsh one. Pain, weakness or humility do not exist for the true “macho man” who will concede nothing, who will never ...
On April 14, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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A Requiem For Iron Mike

“The only thing we knew was violence in Brownsville, even with people we love.” — ...
On April 12, 2021 / By Eliott McCormick
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April 11, 1981: Holmes vs Berbick

In 1981 few doubted that Larry Holmes was one of the best boxers in the world, but rarely had the holder of the most coveted prize in all ...
On April 11, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Chins

A pugilist’s last line of defense is the durability of his mandible and of course no one doubts that a key qualification for ring greatness is sheer toughness, ...
On April 9, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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March 31, 1980: Tate vs Weaver

Not for nothing do they call boxing “the cruelest sport.” Just as a baseball game can end with a single crack of the bat, one hard blow has ...
On March 31, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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March 31, 1973: Ali vs Norton I

Few deny that Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all-time, perhaps even “The Greatest,” and a major part of the evidence for that claim ...
On March 31, 2021 / By Jamie Rebner
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When We Were Kings

With the death earlier this month of filmmaker Leon Gast, many fight fans are fondly recalling his most celebrated creation, a much-loved documentary which somehow seems as fresh ...
On March 30, 2021 / By Eliott McCormick
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Upsets In Boxing History

How does one measure an upset? Simple: by the number of chins on the floor at the end of the fight. And the power of the shockwaves felt ...
On March 28, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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March 26, 1974: Foreman vs Norton

On March 31, 1973, unheralded heavyweight contender Ken Norton outpointed Muhammad Ali to score a huge upset. Seven months later, Ali scored a close decision victory of his own ...
On March 26, 2021 / By Eliott McCormick
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March 22, 1967: Ali vs Folley

The first, prolific championship reign of Muhammad Ali, which saw him defend his title eight times in two years, had, regrettably, always been more about politics than sports. ...
On March 22, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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March 13, 1963: Clay vs Jones

No matter how impressive the amateur credentials, or how good they look in the gym, you can never know what a prospect is made of before they are ...
On March 13, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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March 8, 1971: Ali vs Frazier I

Back in 2015, immediately following the announcement of a Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao match finally being signed and sealed, excited boxing pundits began searching for comparisons. How ...
On March 8, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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The Fight City Podcast No. 48

Brand new podcast for you, fight fans, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, and it’s a special edition marking the 50th anniversary of quite possibly the biggest prizefight ...
On March 8, 2021 / By Alden Chodash
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The Blood Feud

HBO’s 2008 film Thrilla In Manila is a sports documentary with an agenda; not necessarily a bad thing, but when a bias obscures and twists the truth, as happens here, ...
On March 7, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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Joe Louis: Mechanical Wonder

“I could have struggled up once more, but when I get executed, people are going to have to pay more than twenty-five dollars a seat to watch it.” ...
On March 6, 2021 / By Lee Wylie
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Feb. 28, 1973: Napoles vs Lopez II

They call boxing the cruelest sport for a number of reasons, one of them being that no matter how talented or dedicated a boxer is, his success ultimately ...
On February 28, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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Feb. 25, 1964: Clay vs Liston I

An earthquake. The ground collapsing beneath one’s feet. All that is established and familiar giving way to things new and strange and frightening. We’re only human so don’t ...
On February 25, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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Feb. 16, 1970: Frazier vs Ellis

Following Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be drafted into the U.S. Army in June 1967 and his being relieved of both his title and his license to box, the matter ...
On February 16, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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The Boxing Kings

It’s a most intriguing irony that prizefighting–a brutal and exploitative enterprise baptized as “the red light district of sports” by the late Jimmy Cannon–is the most romanticized of ...
On February 13, 2021 / By Rafael García
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On Leon Spinks

In mourning the death of Leon Spinks one week ago, one is not lamenting the loss of “a great fighter,” as some, moved by sentiment, have called him, ...
On February 12, 2021 / By Neil Crane
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The Top 12 All-Time Cockiest Boxers

There’s confident, and then there’s cocky, the former being expected of any prizefighter with the guts to step into the ring, but the latter taking confidence and turning ...
On February 4, 2021 / By Neil Crane
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Feb. 1, 1965: Patterson vs Chuvalo

The popularity of boxing has waxed and waned over the decades, but the 1950s saw a new source of anxiety emerge for professional prizefighting: television. With boxing featured ...
On February 1, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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Jan. 28, 1974: Ali vs Frazier II

That first historic Ali vs Frazier confrontation in 1971, without question one of the biggest sports events of all-time, took a significant toll on both “Smokin’ Joe” and ...
On January 28, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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Facing Ali

Casualties of a cruel sport. Broken spokes on boxing’s eternal wheel. Archetypes for the noble poor. Or, to cast such reductive generalizing aside, perhaps just men who made a choice. Facing Ali, ...
On January 27, 2021 / By Eliott McCormick
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The Fight City Podcast No. 47

Brand new edition of our podcast is now available for your listening pleasure fight fans, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site contributor Jeffery Fuss discuss ...
On January 26, 2021 / By Alden Chodash
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Jan. 24, 1976: Foreman vs Lyle

Following his surprise defeat to Muhammad Ali in one of the most historic fights in boxing history, George Foreman returned from Africa not just a former champion, but ...
On January 24, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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Jan. 22, 1988: Tyson vs Holmes

Throughout his career, Larry Holmes had been underestimated. When he started fighting his way up the heavyweight ranks while working as a sparring partner for Joe Frazier and Muhammad ...
On January 22, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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Muhammad Ali: The Fighter

A few days ago the boxing world marked the anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s birth and so we keep the festivities and remembrances going with an in-depth appreciation of ...
On January 20, 2021 / By Lee Wylie
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Ali: A Life

The latest biography of Muhammad Ali, surely the most written-about boxer in history, is also the longest, and will be among the best-selling and most-read. Jonathan Eig’s Ali: A ...
On January 18, 2021 / By Michael Ezra
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Top 12 Reasons Why Muhammad Ali Is The Greatest

Today is the anniversary of the birth of the amazing athlete who changed boxing forever and, as we must each year, we take time to celebrate his life ...
On January 17, 2021 / By Michael Carbert

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