Browsing Tag Oleksandr Usyk
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The Weekend That Was (No. 19)
Nothing like a high profile heavyweight showdown, not to mention an upset that forces everyone to recalibrate the boxing landscape. Bottom line, that kind of event gets everyone’s ...
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Fight Report: Usyk vs Joshua
Back in 1985, Michael Spinks, the undisputed champion of the 175 pound division, challenged long-time heavyweight king Larry Holmes. It was an intriguing match-up for sure, but at ...
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Joshua vs Usyk: The Fight City Picks
A long, long time ago, back before anyone had ever heard of something called “COVID-19,” we published a list of the fights we really wanted to see in ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 51
It’s been a while since Alden Chodash took the helm for a full-fledged edition of our podcast, that is, one which ranges over a number of topics and ...
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The Only Decision To Make
It remains unforgettable: Roberto Duran, arguably the greatest boxer, pound-for-pound, on the planet, stops fighting, turns his back on his opponent, and tells the referee: “No mas.” Sugar ...
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October Fireworks
As we all know, boxing was off the air completely for many weeks this past spring due to the ongoing pandemic, before returning thanks to Top Rank’s summer ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 44
Brand new edition of our podcast is ready for your listening pleasure, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site contributor Jeffery Fuss discuss recent ring ...
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Fight Report: Briedis vs Dorticos
Two years ago, as in long before the whole world looked to be going to hell thanks to a pandemic and riots in the streets and raging wildfires, ...
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Top 12 Fights We Want To See In 2020
No one can dispute the fact that 2019 was a strong year for boxing with some excellent fights we’ll remember for a long time to come. Match-ups such ...
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Beterbiev vs Gvozdyk: Light Heavyweight Lift Off
Recent weeks have seen boxing fans spoiled by a deluge of terrific contests between big-name fighters. From the back-and-forth battle between Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter, to ...
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The Portis Pound-For-Pound
The other week Max Kellerman, currently pugilism’s premier talking head, released his new, updated pound-for-pound rankings and it sent all the hardcore boxing geeks into a tizzy. For ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 15
Time for another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash who this week is joined by site editor Michael Carbert. Strap in, as Alden breaks down the chaos at ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 10
Welcome to another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash who is joined once again by site founder and editor Michael Carbert. This week it’s all about ...
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2018 Fighter Of The Year
Nominations: Vasyl Lomachenko Tyson Fury Oleksandr Usyk Canelo Alvarez Josh Warrington Winner: Oleksandr Usyk While all of our nominees had outstanding years and deserve consideration for top honors, ...
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2018 Performance Of The Year
Nominees: Gennady Golovkin (vs Canelo Alvarez) Josh Warrington (vs Carl Frampton) Deontay Wilder (vs Luis Ortiz) Oleksandr Usyk (vs Murat Gassiev) Tyson Fury (vs Deontay Wilder) Eleider Alvarez (vs Sergey Kovalev) Oscar Valdez ...
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2018: The Nominations
In many ways, 2018 picked up where 2017 left off with its share of excellent match-ups, unification fights, and a heaping helping of action-packed, crowd-pleasing battles. But perhaps ...
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Fight Report: Usyk vs Bellew
The Event: The fallacy of the cruiserweight division lies in the fact that it has never quite broken free of its original intent. Cruiserweight was first formed in ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 4
Time for the latest edition of The Fight City Podcast! As usual, Alden Chodash is at the helm, with site editor Michael Carbert joining him in some rousing ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 1
Over the last few months, Alden Chodash has proven himself a most industrious contributor to your favourite independent boxing website and he also happens to be the proprietor ...
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Too Many Belts, Not Enough Champions
Believe it or not, there are a total of 102 recognized ‘world’ championships in existence in professional boxing today. Discounting the 34 champions which may be of an ...
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Fight Report: Usyk vs Gassiev
The Event: Since Marvin Camel became the first man to win the cruiserweight championship of the world in 1980, only one man has ever fully unified the division: ...
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Usyk vs Gassiev: The Fight City Picks
It’s getting repetitive, but at the same time it bears repeating: 2018 is proving to be an excellent year for professional boxing. The number of high-calibre, high-stakes matches ...
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The Best Is Yet To Come (Part 1)
As we approach the halfway point of the year, the World Cup has taken center stage, attracting the undivided attention of a large majority of sports fans around ...
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Fight Report: Gassiev vs Dorticos
The Event The World Boxing Super Series has been, by almost any measure, a resounding success thus far. This fact was confirmed in most dramatic fashion a week ...
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Fight Report: Usyk vs Briedis
The Event Nothing but good can come from any tournament which seeks to crown a single fighter as the king of their respective weight class and the World ...
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Hyped Yet For 2018?
Time to look forward, fight fans, as we turn the corner with great expectations for a new year of boxing action that will, we hope, at least come ...
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2017: The Nominees
One thing we know for certain: 2017 was, in many ways, a very good year for professional boxing. Compared to recent years when significant matches were few and ...
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Usyk vs Huck: An Impressive Performance
The World Boxing Super Series kicked off on Saturday at the Max Schmeling Hall in Berlin with a clash of cruiserweight champions, Marco Huck and Oleksandr Usyk, and ...
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On The Cusp Of A Breakthrough
The shadow cast by boxing’s heavyweights has long loomed over the sadly dismissed cruiserweight division, much to the detriment of boxing fans eager to see fighters with intriguing combinations ...
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2016 Performance Of The Year
Performance of the Year Nominations: Carl Frampton W12 Leo Santa Cruz Errol Spence TKO5 Chris Algieri Vasyl Lomachenko RTD7 Nicholas Walters Jermall Charlo TKO5 Julian Williams Oleksandr Usyk ...
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