Browsing Tag Sandy Saddler

• 

  The Top Twelve 8

  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights

  We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our list of the all-time best to lace up ...

  On October 15, 2021 / By Robert Portis
• 

  Lee Wylie 3

  Wylie On Pep: Subtle Sophistication

  Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of boxing’s singular champions, the greatest featherweight of all-time and a true original, Willie Pep. And while he passed ...

  On September 19, 2021 / By Lee Wylie
• 

  Boxiana 3

  Sept. 8, 1950: Pep vs Saddler III

  Pep vs Saddler. For die-hard fans of fisticuffs, those four syllables conjure up all kinds of recollections and images and important facts from the rich history of pugilism. ...

  On September 8, 2021 / By Neil Crane
• 

  Boxiana 3

  Rivalry: The Tale Of Duran vs De Jesus

  Duran vs De Jesus: A Rivalry In Three Chapters  Prologue The story of boxing is the story of rivalries. And rivalries themselves are stories. During the contentious years ...

  On March 29, 2021 / By Zach Dunn
• 

  Boxiana 6

  Feb. 11, 1949: Pep vs Saddler II

  There is a certain mystique to legendary fights of yesteryear, a nostalgia that speaks of a time when ‘The Sweet Science’ was larger than life and ruled supreme. ...

  On February 11, 2021 / By Daniel Attias
• 

  The Top Twelve 10

  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 ...

  On October 3, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
• 

  The Top Twelve 2

  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 ...

  On September 5, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
• 

  The Top Twelve 16

  Top 12 All-Time “Dirtiest” Champs

  A comprehensive roster of boxers who dabbled in the darker arts of ring-craft would rival a catalogue of the soldiers who ringed the walls of Troy, or a ...

  On August 24, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
• 

  Features 0

  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 ...

  On April 22, 2016 / By Robert Portis