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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 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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Jan. 15, 1990: Foreman vs Cooney

They billed Foreman vs Cooney as “The Preacher and The Puncher,” but it quickly became known as “The Geezers at Caesars,” this unique crossroads battle between two aging ...
On January 15, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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Above All Mortals

With boxing still profoundly affected by the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to periodically revisit some of our past feature articles. Today, on the anniversary of the great ...
On January 12, 2021 / By Patrick Connor
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Dark Trade

My earliest memory of boxing is a poster for Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks from back in 1988, the big heavyweight superfight that lasted exactly 91 seconds. The poster ...
On December 28, 2020 / By Joshua Isard
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Top 12 Greatest Ali Performances

Do we need a special occasion to pay tribute to arguably the most popular and influential prizefighter of all-time? Is there ever a bad time to recall the ...
On December 22, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Dec. 20, 1963: Carter vs Griffith

You should forget that Bob Dylan song for a minute. Don’t even think about Denzel Washington. Get beyond the courtrooms, the jail cells. Go back to Pittsburgh. Was a storm ...
On December 21, 2020 / By David Como
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Dec. 15, 1995: Gatti vs Patterson

This was the beginning, the dawn of the legend that was to become Arturo “Thunder” Gatti. It was on this day that the world discovered a boxer who ...
On December 15, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Dec. 7, 1970: Ali vs Bonavena

You can take issue with his politics, label him a braggart and a loudmouth, make an inventory of all the lucky breaks he got, and even insist the ...
On December 7, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Nov. 18, 1970: Frazier vs Foster

When former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier died in 2011 it came as a shock to the boxing world. After all, he was a mere sixty-seven years of age ...
On November 18, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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ALI ’66

After he had won the heavyweight championship of the world a record third time and announced his retirement (which proved a hiatus lasting little more than a year), ...
On November 14, 2020 / By Lee Wylie
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Nov. 9, 1996: Holyfield vs Tyson I

Intimidation. From the jungles of our primitive ancestors, to the boardrooms of today’s suit-and-tie warriors, the ability to demoralize an antagonist without resorting to physical violence remains a ...
On November 9, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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More Than Just One Punch

It was on this day in 1994 that the “impossible dream” was fulfilled. At age 45, former heavyweight champion George Foreman became the oldest man to win the ...
On November 5, 2020 / By Alden Chodash
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Nov. 5, 1994: Foreman vs Moorer

Boxing, they say, is a young man’s game. An obvious fact, one would think, especially for a sport as rough and dangerous as pugilism. But on the other ...
On November 5, 2020 / By Jamie Rebner
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Colin Hart: From Caracas To Kinshasa

For almost six decades, renowned British sports writer Colin Hart has covered the good, the great, and not so great of sporting events across the world. And back ...
On October 31, 2020 / By Shaun Brown
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Oct. 30, 1974: Ali vs Foreman

In 1974, George Foreman reigned supreme. The previous year he had astonished the sports world with his terrifying demolition of Joe Frazier, knocking Smokin’ Joe to the canvas ...
On October 30, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Oct. 26, 1970: Ali vs Quarry I

Following his successful defense of the heavyweight championship of the world against Zora Folley in March of 1967, Muhammad Ali’s boxing career came to a sudden, though not ...
On October 26, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Oct. 25, 1980: Weaver vs Coetzee

Following Leon Spink’s huge upset victory over Muhammad Ali in 1978, the heavyweight championship belt was torn in two. The World Boxing Council soon stripped Spinks of their ...
On October 25, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Right Fight, Wrong Time: Hagler vs Leonard In 1983

Back in 1987, Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler threw down in a highly-advertised middleweight championship fight in Las Vegas, a glorious spectacle which captured the attention ...
On October 9, 2020 / By James Simpson
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Victories

For the purposes of this list, a great victory is one secured in the face of an overwhelming disadvantage, or taken at the expense of a truly great ...
On October 3, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Oct. 1, 1975: Ali vs Frazier III

Forty-five years later, one still hears the echoes, the reverberations of that final, epic struggle between two boxing legends. After all, it was more than a heavyweight championship ...
On October 1, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Ali vs Shavers: The Greatest’s Finest Hour

No matter how dismal the fight scene may be at a given time, fans can always cherish and take comfort from the sport’s glorious history. The past is ...
On September 30, 2020 / By Michael Ezra
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Sept. 28, 1976: Ali vs Norton III

In a time of endless and constant media exposure and thirty second attention spans, it is almost impossible to fully appreciate the larger-than-life fame and popularity of Muhammad ...
On September 28, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Sept. 28, 1979: Holmes vs Shavers

We talk of fighters having a “puncher’s chance,” and that, more than anything else, was what Earnie Shavers brought into the ring at Caesars Palace on this fateful ...
On September 28, 2020 / By Neil Crane
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Yes, Roy Really Was That Good

By the mid-90’s, the question was being asked by more than a few: was he the best ever? Certainly there had been no one quite like him in ...
On September 25, 2020 / By Sean Crose
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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, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Sept. 10, 1973: Ali vs Norton II

It had been years since Muhammad Ali worked with such intensity and purpose, years since he had forced his body to undergo the torture necessary to reach supreme ...
On September 10, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Rivalries

The best boxing rivalries are about more than a series of action-packed fights. Great rivalries are stories, absorbing narratives that capture the attention of legions of fans and ...
On September 5, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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McIlvanney On Boxing

A.J. Liebling will always be boxing’s literary standard bearer, his masterwork The Sweet Science and other books certain to find appreciative fans through the generations. If there’s a ...
On September 4, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Top 12 All-Time “Dirtiest” Champs

A comprehensive roster of boxers who dabbled in the darker arts of ring-craft would rival a catalogue of the soldiers who ringed the walls of Troy, or a ...
On August 24, 2020 / By Michael Carbert