Browsing Tag Pancho Villa

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  The Top Twelve 2

  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Flyweights

  We started with the middleweights, then the bantamweights, followed by the light heavyweights. Continuing our rankings of the greatest boxers in each of the original eight weight classes, ...

  On September 11, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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  Fight City Reviews 3

  Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”

  In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died much too soon. Such deaths are tragic by definition, but in the case of the men depicted ...

  On August 12, 2021 / By Rafael García
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  Fight City Legends: Pancho Villa

  The real Pancho Villa was a prominent Mexican revolutionary who won fame for his military victories during the early part of the 20th century. Exactly why Francisco Guilledo ...

  On August 1, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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  Boxiana 2

  The Smoke City Wildcat

  They called them the Roaring Twenties, that crazy decade following World War I when the economy boomed, “speakeasies” opened on every other corner, the “flappers” started showing a ...

  On June 6, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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  Fight City Legends: The Mighty Atom

  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, ...

  On February 6, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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  Jan. 21, 1927: LaBarba vs Clark

  Flyweight wasn’t much of a division until Jimmy Wilde came along. While not the first of the little champions, “The Ghost With the Hammer in His Hand” showed ...

  On January 21, 2021 / By Patrick Connor
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  Top Men: Greatest Asian Boxers

  With the cancellation of this Saturday’s heavyweight showdown between Deontay Wilder and Alexander Povetkin, the good folks at Top Men Boxing Radio are as bummed out as any ...

  On May 20, 2016 / By Robert Portis