by Fox Doucette Good evening, ladies and gentleducks, and welcome to a special Halloween edition of Historical Fight night! We're dispensing with all things serious this week and giving you one rematch of by far our silliest fight to date, as Joe Calzaghe takes on Nigel Benn, and rather than put them in a time machine, we've just kept them in 2015 since their first fateful … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2015
This Week in Boxing History: October 26th – November 1st
October 26 1902: Jack Sharkey born in Binghamton, New York. 1906: Primo Carnera born in Sequals, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. 1915: Boston, Mass. World Welterweight Championship. Ted ‘Kid’ Lewis W 12 Milburn Saylor. Retains title. 1915: New York City, NY. Willie Ritchie ND 10 Johnny Dundee. 1931: Paris, France, NBA Flyweight Championship. Young Perez KO 2 Frankie … [Read more...]
Pumping a Dry Well; Magno’s Monday Rant
October 17th, Gennady Golovkin had his pay-per-view debut and the number of buys reported ranged from 97,000 from matchmaker and boxing insider Rick Glaser to just over 150,000, a number pushed by the event's promoter Tom Loeffler. The Boxing Tribune, based on information provided and culled from three independent sources, reported that the buy total was less than 150,000 (and … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Manny Pacquiao vs. Roberto Duran
by Fox Doucette Roberto Duran has gotten some seriously short shrift from the Temporal Commission in past episodes of this show. Against Carlos Monzon, the ugly specter of the “No Mas” fight came up after Monzon knocked Duran all over the shop, to the widespread derision of the audience. This spilled over into social media; your columnist was given a bunch of unsolicited … [Read more...]
This Week in Boxing History: October 19th – October 25th
October 19 1917: Milwaukee, WI. Harry Greb ND 10 Len Rowlands. 1926: San Francisco, CA. World Junior Lightweight Championship. Tod Morgan W 10 Johnny Dundee. Retains title. 1955: Cincinnati, Ohio. World Lightweight Championship. Bud Smith W 15 Jimmy Carter. Retains title. 1962: Evander Holyfield born in Atmore, Alabama. 1964: Jorge Luis Gonzalez born in Havana, … [Read more...]