by Fox Doucette With Thanksgiving so recent an event that many a reader of this feature has a turkey sandwich at the ready, some leftover cranberry sauce, and a piece of pie to sit down and enjoy the show, it's time for the first-ever Historical Fight Night Pay-Per-View...and, since Black Friday is all about great deals, we're giving you the doorbuster price of 100% off! So … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Muhammad Ali vs. Lennox Lewis
by Fox Doucette The ghost of Don LaFontaine would seem to haunt the Historical Fight Night arena tonight. In a world...where crowds are lulled to sleep by subpar boxing on TV...four men...with heavyweight power...will take the world...by storm. Coming in November to a theater near you, it's... Heavyweight Thunder. That's right, folks, we've got Muhammad Ali, taken from the … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Erik Morales vs. Wilfredo Gomez
by Fox Doucette We've been hitting the oldest possible old-school of the television and film era quite a bit lately. Carmen Basilio, Marcel Cerdan, Tony Zale...fighters whose last fights were years before most of the readers were even born. Not tonight. We're going back no further than the end of the Seventies and even hitting a few fighters who were in action in this … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Kid Gavilan vs. Jose Napoles
by Fox Doucette Irresistible Force vs. Immovable Object is the oldest and greatest rivalry in sports and in life. Sometimes the irresistible force wins, like the Germans against France in the first part of World War II and the combined Soviet and Allied armies in the second part. Sometimes the immovable object wins, like the trench warfare of World War I. Other times, nobody … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Bugs Bunny vs. Mr. T
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...]