Entries tagged with "George+Dixon":
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“It will be said that what Shakespeare was to literature, what Napoleon was to military science, Griffo was to boxing.” Not bad for a drunk…
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I have taken the 16 best featherweights (any fighter can only be ranked in one division) of all time and put together a random draw…
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Genuine Joe Percente did give Battling Nelson four epic scraps before the latter became lightweight champion of the world…
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The Kid spoke most humorously about the grisly souvenirs he collected and their deceptively positive effect on his well-being…
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Jack Johnson—if he were teleported from his championship days to a modern ring—would not do well against many of the more contemporary greats...
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When you examine the Cuban mentality you begin to quickly understand what makes Cuban fighters so exceptional…
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"The gravediggers would also watch us fight, and after each fight we fighters would go around with a basket. Half the money you got was bad..."
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However in 2014 ominous clouds appeared and the demise of pro boxing in Delaware is a distinct possibility…
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“It was a fight, pure and simple,” according to the New York Tribune, “one of the most brutal and ghastly ever seen in the city...”
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At around 9:35 in the evening, the bell for the opening round sounded and the warmth departed McGovern’s soul. He crushed Dixon like a bug...
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In twelve months he defeated, by destructive knockout, the reigning bantamweight, featherweight and lightweight champions of the world. It will be easy...
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Travelling back more than a hundred years to Tom’s time, we find that everything was of a more simplistic and brutal nature...
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Decades before baseball admitted Jackie Robinson into its lily white ranks, boxing was making strides to give African-American fighters a fair shake. But then as now, racial overtones influenced who fought who. Icons like John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey, even Jack Johnson, drew the color line when…
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“I don’t agree with those who say that clever boxing is no longer popular. People today are simply not familiar with it…”
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“He was incomparable – the supreme artist of glove-fighting, the perfect, polished stylist whose ringcraft and skill verged upon the uncanny…”
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Broner takes a severe beating this night. Believe me, ringside, you could hear the thump and crack of both head and body shots that Broner absorbed…
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“As a fan who held my precious baseball in such high regard, it was a kick in the balls to learn that Johnson was allowed to fight and win a heavyweight title…”
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Broadcast to you from the center of a black hole, here are the first ten names that make the list of the twenty greatest fighters in history...
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Should conservatism in matchmaking become the norm, much of the oxygen that allows greatness to burn is sucked from the room...
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I do not ascribe to the notion that a fighter cannot be great unless there are other great fighters in his era. Domination counts for much; talent for no little...
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Young Griffo would sit at an open air café picking flies out of the air with finger and thumb. This was corroborated by Tommy Burns...
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Way up in the rafters, you can hear conversations about Durelle, Chuvalo, the Hiltons, Gatti, Pep, Gray, Melo, and so many others…
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Lord, how we need him. Take away Manny and our battered old sport would be depressingly lacking in vintage talent...
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The Right Stuff. It is a beautifully apt phrase. Three simple words for having what it takes, going the extra mile, being a man apart...