Pittsburgh Windmill Archives

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 little skin below the knee, and professional sports placed second

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Rikki-Tikki-Harry

April 3, 2021April 3, 2021

“….young Mr. Greb, acting like Mr. Kipling’s mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, bounced, caromed, slid and glided from so many angles and in so many ways at the more orthodox and sedate glove man that Gibbons was all at sea and

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Aug. 14, 2010: Pascal vs Dawson

August 14, 2020August 14, 2021

It doesn’t seem that long ago but the time has gone so fast. And so much has changed. Eleven years later, we’re still in the midst of a pandemic and combat sports in Montreal are fighting to survive.

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June 26, 1972: Duran vs Buchanan

June 26, 2021June 29, 2021

In September of 1970, Scotland’s Ken Buchanan won the WBA version of the lightweight championship by close 15 round decision over Panamanian Ismael Laguna. He would defend his title twice before taking on red-hot top contender Roberto Duran,

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August 23, 1997: Lopez vs Sanchez

August 24, 2016August 24, 2016

“Before each round Ricardo looks up at the heavens, then goes out to kill, kill, kill. It’s like he’s asking permission from God to annihilate the other guy.” In two sentences the late Jose Sulaiman summed up the

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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