Browsing Tag Willie Pep
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The Top Twelve 3
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 ...
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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 ...
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March 2, 1980: Kenty vs Espana
After decades of decline, Detroit, Michigan, attempted to reverse the years of stagnation and neglect and reassert itself in the late 70s as one of America’s great cities. A ...
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The Top Twelve 3
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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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
The Gods Of War
One of the best parts about being a boxing fan is the vitality of the sport’s history and the spirited debates and discussions that arise from it. The ...
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Boxiana 3
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 ...
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Lee Wylie 3
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 ...
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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 ...
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Columns 5
Happy Birthday To The Rock
Today is the birthday of legendary heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano and, despite the fact “The Rock’s” famous 49-0 career mark was “eclipsed” by Floyd Mayweather, we’re always going to pay tribute ...
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Fury vs Wilder: Money Changes Everything
Some like to say that money would never change them, that if they won the lottery or became a huge overnight success, they would still be the same, ...
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Columns 2
The Fight Game Has Changed
Since inception, the relationship between television and boxing has been bittersweet. Back in the 1950s A. J. Liebling, journalistic star for The New Yorker and boxing writer extraordinaire, ...
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Lee Wylie 3
Ali: The Fighter
1. What tactics or skills were most crucial to Muhammad Ali’s boxing success? Distance and Timing: By leaning forward at the waist, Ali could, almost at will, cause ...
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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 ...
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Willie Pep Teaser
Lee Wylie has something very special in the works. Here’s a taste: ...
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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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