Nat Fleischer Archives - The Fight City

Born in Baltimore in 1874, the great Joe Gans got his start in boxing the way many black fighters of his time did, in absurd, exploitative spectacles called “battle royals.” For these brutal, winner-take-all brawls, several young black

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Happy Birthday To The Old Master

November 25, 2020December 3, 2020

Joe Gans was a pugilistic pioneer. He innovated many now common boxing techniques and his crafty ways and unmatched ring intelligence earned him the nickname “The Old Master.” More than one boxing reporter from Gans’ era pegged him

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Fight City Legends: The Mighty Atom

February 6, 2021February 9, 2021

The writer of a profile of Jimmy Wilde, aka “The Mighty Atom,” is tempted to put down the particulars of Wilde’s incredible record – 152 bouts, 146 victories, 100 knockouts, the vast majority of those contests fought within

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Sept. 27, 1980: Hagler vs Minter

September 27, 2021September 29, 2021

For too long Marvelous Marvin Hagler had been denied, ignored and unjustly sidelined while lesser middleweights had got the big opportunities and the big money. For too long Hagler had toiled in the shadows, in grimy gyms in

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Feb. 19, 2000: Morales vs Barrera I

February 19, 2021February 21, 2021

No one can really pin down how the animosity began. Perhaps it was a regional rivalry with Erik Morales hailing from the working class region of Zona Norte, Tijuana while Marco Antonio Barrera came from the more genteel

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Sept. 27, 1986: Curry vs Honeyghan

September 27, 2021September 29, 2021

Time flies and it’s already more than five years since Britain’s Kell Brook tried to shake up the boxing world by challenging feared knockout puncher Gennady Golovkin at The O2 Arena in London. Brook was a huge underdog as