by Fox Doucette We're breaking all the rules in this week's edition of Historical Fight Night. Unlike most fights, which exist in vacuums, involve mind-wipes of the participants so they have no memory of what took place in what is to them the future, and otherwise work from clean slates, this time we're doing things a little different. See, this is the second fight between … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Andre Ward vs. Sugar Ray Leonard
by Fox Doucette Sugar Ray Leonard is a tale of two fighters in his career. As a young man fighting at welterweight, his hand speed, power for his size, and ability to use the ring with his footwork was second to none. The later, older Sugar Ray, however, had lost those gifts, and much like other slick boxers, once it starts to go, it goes big time. Still, that older Leonard … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Keith Thurman vs. Ike Quartey
by Fox Doucette It's another Old Vs. New Night here at the Historical Fight Night Arena in San Dimas, as Keith “One Time” Thurman, awaiting Shawn Porter in our prime timeline, takes a moment for a blast from the past (temporal shenanigans, grandfather paradoxes, it's complicated) against Ike Quartey. Meanwhile, we've got another special involving a fighter from the 1990s, as … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Roberto Duran
by Fox Doucette The best part about a De La Hoya-Duran matchup is that both guys could come into the fight just about anywhere on the scale, from lightweight to middleweight, and if you did the fight three times, you might well get three different results. Indeed, consider this the opening act for a trilogy between the two men; we're starting at 135, and future installments … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Mark Breland vs. Shane Mosley
by Fox Doucette It's a welterweight showcase here at the Historical Fight Night Arena tonight, as a couple of stars of the Eighties who fought each other, Mark Breland and Lloyd Honeyghan, step into the ring tonight, but not for a rematch; each has his own opponent to deal with tonight. For Breland, it's Sugar Shane Mosley, while Honeyghan takes on Wilfred Benitez in the … [Read more...]