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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 ...
On July 8, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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Didn’t Forget: Wylie On Superman

If boxing videos by Lee Wylie highlight the subtleties and nuances of ringcraft, they also inspire requests from avid watchers. One pugilist who more than a few ardent ...
On May 13, 2019 / By Lee Wylie
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April 25, 1998: Jones vs Hill

It had taken far too long to happen, but this past February, Roy Jones Jr. finally announced his long overdue retirement from the fight game. At the age ...
On April 25, 2019 / By Jamie Rebner
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Yes, Roy Really Was That Good

By the mid-90’s, the question was being asked: was he the best ever? Certainly there had been no one quite like him in recent memory, no one who ...
On February 17, 2018 / By Sean Crose

The Fight City

Montreal is The Fight City. Known in years past as "Sin City" and "Babylon on the St. Lawrence", it saw more than its share of ring legends over the decades. A metropolis where hundreds of young warriors train and battle each day in its many gyms, it is where Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Bernard Hopkins all found greatness. It is a city of fights and fighters, of hockey and heroes, of broken dreams and immortal glory, a city unlike any other. Montreal is The Fight City.

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