Browsing Tag Wilfred Benitez
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Aug. 2, 1980: Pryor vs Cervantes
The Montreal Olympics in 1976 was a galvanizing moment for boxing in America, an event that saw the sport gain new stars and new fans, as the U.S. ...
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Plaster of Torrance (Part Two)
Plaster of Torrance: Unwrapping the Meaning of Antonio Margarito, Part Two. Excerpted from The Bittersweet Science. There are times when boxing matches resemble more a bullfight than they ...
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June 27, 1987: Hilton vs Drayton
Fighting families are not exactly unique in boxing. Indeed, the history of prizefighting is filled with siblings who shared the profession, such as Max and Buddy Baer, Leon ...
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June 22, 1979: Duran vs Palomino
If one decides to rank the finest performances in the amazing career of the great Roberto Duran, his ten round tour de force against Carlos Palomino clearly merits ...
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Feb. 15, 1982: Leonard vs Finch
It is 1982 and Sugar Ray Leonard is the king of not only the welterweight division, but of the entire sport of boxing. No other fighter is as ...
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The Top 12 All-Time Cockiest Boxers
There’s confident, and then there’s cocky, the former being expected of any prizefighter with the guts to step into the ring, but the latter taking confidence and turning ...
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Jan. 29, 1983: Duran vs Cuevas
Roberto Duran vs Pipino Cuevas. Just two or three years earlier, an absolute dream match, but now a meeting of ex-champions, if not has-beens; two once proud warriors, ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Welterweight Fights
No matter how you break it down, Errol Spence vs Danny Garcia has one major thing going for it: it’s one of the best matches that can currently ...
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Dec. 3, 1982: Gomez vs Pintor
On this date back in 1982, Wilfredo Gomez and Lupe Pintor helped write another thrilling chapter in the long saga of glorious violence that is the rivalry between ...
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Nov. 30, 1979: Benitez vs Leonard
Perhaps few people at the time realized it, but the title match between Wilfred “Radar” Benitez and Sugar Ray Leonard at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas constituted an extremely ...
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Nov. 3, 2001: Tszyu vs Judah
The word ‘unification’ is magic to a boxing fan’s ears. It conjures up the ghosts of yesteryear, from a time when each weight class had a single champion ...
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Right Fight, Wrong Time: Hagler vs Leonard In 1983
Back in 1987, Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler threw down in a highly-advertised middleweight championship fight in Las Vegas, a glorious spectacle which captured the attention ...
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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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“A Moment I Will Never Forget”
It was one of the biggest fights in boxing history and one of the most controversial. Sugar Ray vs Marvelous Marvin. Hagler vs Leonard. Few fights have been ...
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Top 12 All-Time Best Welterweights
Our ratings of the all-time greatest fighters in each of the traditional eight weight classes continues with a look at the storied ranks of the welterweight division. As ...
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Legends In The Bronx: Ring 10 Fundraiser On Sept. 23
It may not be the only organization working to assist the boxing’s fallen warriors and ex-fighters in need, but Ring 10 of New York City is certainly one ...
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At Long Last
Since Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao trolled the sporting world to the tune of six hundred million dollars two years ago, boxing fans have craved a superfight. A ...
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Miguel Cotto: An Appreciation
I haven’t always been an enthusiastic supporter of the proud Puerto Rican champion they call “Junito,” but if tonight proves to be his final fight — a distinct ...
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Welcome To Four Kings Week
Today is the 35th anniversary of one of the most significant and thrilling battles in boxing history. On this date in 1981, a pair of boxers universally regarded ...
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Sugar Ray Leonard Is A Coward & A Bum
In the 1980s, seven wise, unseen men sat in judgement of boxing. Their names, as far as we know, were Tony, Wes, Ike, Tim, Travis, Ernie and Rodrigo. ...
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Welcome to Hands of Stone Week
If you want to have a special tribute to Roberto Duran, then you have to do it in June. It just so happens that, with few exceptions, Duran ...
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Magomed Abdusalamov: Boxing Must Do More
Former heavyweight boxer Magomed Abdusalamov has returned to hospital for treatment of serious blood and bone infections which, according to doctors, are potentially life-threatening. This is just the ...
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In Praise of Defensive Genius
The buildup to the recent Bernard Hopkins vs Chad Dawson fiasco provided ample opportunity for boxing commentators (as well as bloggers) to throw around the term “defensive genius” like it ...
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