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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Opening Rounds

In boxing, as in most things in life, it’s quality, not quantity. Excitement is the name of the game and the greatest fights are the ones that offer ...
On April 26, 2020 / By Neil Crane
Boxiana 1
Dec. 10, 1958: Moore vs Durelle I

The story of Archie Moore is, above all else, one of perseverance. While generally not considered part of the famous “Murderers Row” gang — a group of skilled ...
On December 10, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
The Fight City 0
Furious Fisticuffs at Grant Brothers Pro-Am Event

You’re a boxing manager with a not uncommon problem: you have a talented and capable pugilist under contract, but no one wants to see him compete due to ...
On June 27, 2015 / By Robert Portis

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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