Browsing Tag Sandy Saddler

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  Willie 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, 2019 / By Lee Wylie
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  Sept. 8, 1950: Pep vs Saddler III

  Pep vs Saddler. For die-hard fans of “The Sport Of Kings,” those four syllables conjure up all kinds of recollections and images and important facts from the rich ...

  On September 8, 2019 / By Neil Crane
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  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 ranking of the best to ever lace up ...

  On August 14, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Victories

  For the purposes of this list, a great victory is one which takes place against a great fighter when they are in their prime and no mitigating factors ...

  On June 7, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  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 10, 2019 / By Daniel Attias
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  Top 12 All-Time “Dirtiest” Champs

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

  On January 11, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Rivalries

  The best boxing rivalries are about more than a series of fights. Great rivalries are stories, absorbing narratives that not only offer genuine intensity and riveting action, but ...

  On December 23, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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  The Duran vs De Jesus Rivalry

  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 October 9, 2018 / By Zach Dunn
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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 ...

  On April 22, 2016 / By Robert Portis