Browsing Tag Sam Langford
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Fight City Legends: The Boston Bonecrusher
When we compare the great fighting champions of past and present, inevitably we draw a distinction between the true warrior and the mere athlete. At that point we ...
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Feb. 25, 1964: Clay vs Liston I
An earthquake. The ground collapsing beneath one’s feet. All that is established and familiar giving way to things new and strange and frightening. We’re only human so don’t ...
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Sugar And Steel
Though it is almost impossible to overstate Sugar Ray Robinson’s greatness, so much has been written on the subject of that inarguable status that little can be said ...
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Nov. 26, 1914: Langford vs Wills II
The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of rapid evolution for the sport of boxing. Legal restrictions were being lifted around the world, and ...
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Oct. 27, 1903: Johnson vs McVea II
On February 5th of 1903, Jack Johnson outpointed “Denver” Ed Martin to win what was referred to at that time as the “Black” or “Colored” heavyweight championship of ...
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The Top Twelve 8
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Victories
For the purposes of this list, a great victory is one secured in the face of an overwhelming disadvantage, or taken at the expense of a truly great ...
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The Top Twelve 4
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Uncrowned Champions
For most of boxing history, world title belts didn’t grow on trees, as they say, and even title shots were a rare and much sought-after commodity. Competition was ...
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The Fight That Never Was
Back during that awful time when for five long years it seemed Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would never, ever meet in the ring, pundits and historians mused ...
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Sept. 6, 1920: Dempsey, Greb & Langford
It’s now a very rare thing for boxing fans to get genuinely excited about the undercard for a major fight. The preliminaries for big showdowns are often exercises ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Rivalries
The best boxing rivalries are about more than a series of action-packed fights. Great rivalries are stories, absorbing narratives that capture the attention of legions of fans and ...
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Aug. 15, 1911: Langford vs O’Brien
It’s a sad tale, but a classic one, told many times in boxing: the proud, old king saddles up for one last battle against a young warrior just ...
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Top 12 All-Time Most Cerebral Boxers
It takes more than strength, punching power and great conditioning to become a champion prizefighter. Mastery of footwork, angles, feinting, defense and the ability to adapt to an ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Body Punchers
Body punchers don’t get enough love. Dramatic instances where a paralyzing left hook to the liver or a crushing right to the ribs produces a KO aside, much ...
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Lee Wylie 1
The Genius Of Sugar Ray Robinson
For fans of “The Sweet Science,” today should be a very special occasion, if not a national holiday. It’s Sugar Ray Robinson’s birthday and everyone who loves the ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweights
At a very leisurely pace over the last couple of years, The Fight City has offered its own idiosyncratic rankings of the all-time greatest boxers in each of ...
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The Contrasting Legacies Of Roy & Floyd
When James J. Jeffries, heavyweight champion of the world, retired undefeated in 1905, few were in any doubt that they had just seen the greatest heavyweight fighter of ...
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Fight City Legends: The Old Master
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 ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweight Punchers
When it comes to popular water-cooler topics in boxing, few, if any, top this one: who is the most powerful puncher to ever step through the ropes? Now ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Light Heavyweights
Continuing our infrequent rankings of the all-time greatest boxers in each of the original eight weight classes, we offer our third installment in the series. We started with ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
I Fight For A Living
One of boxing’s most enduring tropes is that of the prizefighter who punches his way out of the depths of poverty and obscurity and into a life of ...
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King Of The North: Big Country vs Monster Mel
The absurdly one-sided demolition inflicted by Deontay Wilder on Bermane Stiverne in their rematch a month ago was painful to watch in any case, but it was especially ...
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The Fight City 0
Will Beterbiev Ignite The Light Heavyweights?
All dressed up, no place to go: that’s boxing’s light heavyweight division at the moment. So much talent, so many great matches waiting to be made, but everything ...
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Top Men: Hardest P4P Punchers Ever
Starting today, The Fight City is pleased to bring you episodes of Patrick Connor’s Top Men Boxing Radio podcast. This week, Patrick, noted boxing scribe and historian, along ...
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