by Fox Doucette It's Carnival in Rio, and what better way to celebrate than with the first appearance on Historical Fight Night of one of Brazil's greatest champions? Acelino Freitas gets in the time machine from a four-round smackdown of Juan Carlos Ramirez, and he arrives in 2016 to take on Genaro Hernandez, master of the good old Mexican one-two punch, who is himself coming … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: George Foreman vs. Primo Carnera
by Fox Doucette Regular fans at the Historical Fight Night Arena in San Dimas know the promoters' love of combining a big-man main-event with a little-man co-feature, and tonight's event is no different. The main event pits George Foreman, at his most devastating after the first Joe Frazier fight, against a guy who, if Sylvester Stallone is the Italian Stallion, is more like … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Roger Mayweather vs. Ben Tackie
by Fox Doucette It's a Floyd Mayweather kind of night here in San Dimas, but not in the way you might be thinking. Rather than the 49-0 retired champion, one of the great fighters of all time, we've got the Grand Rapids family in the ring tonight. Your main event is Uncle Roger, who had a helluva title run at 140 in the late '80s and comes in off a win over Rene Arredondo to … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Azumah Nelson vs. Alexis Arguello
by Fox Doucette Most of the time, your columnist finds these days that any "who would beat whom?" discussion on social media's been answered here on this show. I've linked a ton of Historical Fight Night episodes in those comment threads; it's like a self-perpetuating form of marketing. Other times, there's a eureka-moment "wait, I haven't done that one yet." Tonight's main … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Micky Ward vs. Ruslan Provodnikov
by Fox Doucette ...and the two men punched each other in the liver for 36 minutes, stopping only to sit in the corner and dispense entirely with the notion of water in favor of drinking vodka to take the edge off. When the fight ended, it was declared a draw not by the judges (who had since ascended to the gods, their lives satisfied and with nothing left on this earth to keep … [Read more...]