Browsing Tag Philadelphia
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The Executioner’s Greatest Victories
To state the obvious, fight fans have always been attracted to thunderous power punchers. The sheer violence of a sudden, dramatic knockout is a major part of boxing’s ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sept. 23, 1952: Marciano vs Walcott I
After a record breaking reign atop the big man division, the great Joe Louis had finally retired in 1948 and in the years immediately following boxing struggled to ...
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Aug. 22, 1998: Gatti vs Robinson I
People are a product of their environment; where and how you grow up shapes what you become. The same is true for boxers and how they box. Cuban ...
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Aug. 11, 1954: Moore vs Johnson V
Until December of 1952, some eighteen years after he had embarked on what would eventually be an all-time great pro career, Archie Moore was part of that long ...
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Aug. 4, 1947: Williams vs Montgomery
Ike Williams and Bob Montgomery made no secret of the fact that they disliked one another and their animosity made for a pair of brutal clashes in Philadelphia, ...
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Will Beterbiev Make Montreal Great Again?
After losing by knockout, Oleksandr Gvozdyk held up his hands in honest submission. The gesture came on his way back to the dressing room when a group of ...
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Fight Report: Gvozdyk vs Beterbiev
The Event: For quite some time hardcore fight fans have been gazing at the rankings of the light heavyweight division and muttering to themselves,”What gives?” As in, how ...
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Philadelphia Marks Five Decades of Peltz Boxing
There was an atmosphere of celebration last Friday night, but one with an accent of sadness, as a nine fight card full of competitive bouts went off at ...
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Fight Night In Philly
Philadelphia fight fans like to come out and support their local fighters, and I like to see prospects develop, so despite the loss of Carl Frampton to a ...
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Sonny Conto: “I’m For Real!”
Sonny Conto is three fights and just four rounds into his professional career, yet he’s already a Philadelphia phenomenon. Indeed, Conto has received more than his share of ...
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Bobby “Boogaloo” Watts And The Philadelphia Middleweights
Bobby “Boogaloo” Watts is from a different era, a time when more often than not, fighters embraced challenges and took on all comers. It was the 1970’s and ...
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Carto Crashes In Philly
The “Philly Special” was a homegrown night at the fights that ended with almost nothing going as I expected it would, a night wherein fans’ heightened emotions were ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest “Philly” Champs
Rocky is a great movie, and Creed was pretty good, but they get my town all wrong when it comes to boxing. The films portray Philadelphia as a city ...
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Michelle Rosado And The Philly Special
When I ask Michelle Rosado to give me a little summary of her career, she has a tough time starting. This hesitation stems from the fact that her ...
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Yo, Adrian! Here We Go Again!
And so I’ve now seen Creed II, the successful sequel to the surprisingly effective and popular 2015 film, Creed. In this second installment, Adonis Creed, son of deceased ...
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Philadelphia Fight Night
Manny Rivera, co-owner of Hard Hitting Promotions, was walking the main room of the 2300 Arena in a checked suit that would have fit the scene back when ...
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Garcia vs Porter: The Fight City Picks
As one of our contributors discussed not that long ago, the current version of the welterweight division has all the necessary ingredients to give boxing fans plenty of ...
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Atlantic City Comeback, Part II
Atlantic City is no longer America’s Playground, and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s a city of casinos along the famous boardwalk, many of which are run ...
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Christian Carto: Philadelphia’s New “Rocky”
Philadelphia has long prided itself on its rich pugilistic tradition, and while the current boxing scene may not be as vibrant as in the glorious past, bantamweight prospect ...
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The Weekend That Was
Once again we offer a run-down of much of this past weekend’s boxing action with help from our good friends at FightFan.com. First up, an absolute waste of ...
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Teaching The Sweet Science
Bernard Hopkins is synonymous with Philadelphia boxing. Throughout his career, the man once known as “The Executioner” has been at the top of the list as a crowd ...
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Tim Witherspoon: “I’m The Real Rocky!”
Everyone knows who Rocky Balboa is, but who is the true Rocky, the real-life Rocky? Tim Witherspoon, a former heavyweight champion who, like the mythical Rocky, hails from ...
