by Fox Doucette Happy first anniversary to Historical Fight Night, which first ran as a one-off spinoff pilot to replace the old What If series before moving into its new home as a weekly series after ESPN's Friday Night Fights went off the air. The first episode of the series ran on May 29, 2015...tomorrow marks a year and over 100 fights since it began (and, as with all … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Archie Moore vs. Matthew Saad Muhammad
by Fox Doucette If Boxrec is to be believed, Archie Moore is the greatest fighter of all time on a pound-for-pound basis. It's not a bad choice; really, you could have your pick between Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali...one thing that is in no doubt is that Archie Moore is one of the very best. This is also why Moore has not yet appeared on Historical Fight Night; the … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Wilfred Benitez vs. Mike McCallum
by Fox Doucette Wilfred Benitez was a master of defense, they say. Better than Mayweather, better than Whitaker, the equal of Pep or Greb. If that’s the case, then why did it always look like he was easy to hit? Why did Sugar Ray Leonard drag him into one of the most epic three-minute wars the sport has seen in the 15th round of their championship fight? … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Sugar Ray Leonard
by Fox Doucette Oscar De La Hoya, in his absolute prime and still undefeated, stepped up to welterweight for the first time in 1997 and solved quite possibly the greatest defensive fighter of all time in Pernell Whitaker en route to a unanimous decision. Sugar Ray Leonard, over eight rounds in November of 1980, not only avenged the only loss of his “real” career (let us never … [Read more...]
Ring Muggings: Part Fourteen
Norris vs. Mugabi (March 31, 1990) Norris vs. Gatti (September 9, 1993) “I knock him out.”-John Mugabi On March 17, 1985, mugger extraordinaire John “The Beast” Mugabi, , moved to 25-0 with all 25 wins coming by way of KO. His victim on that date was another KO artist by the name of Earl Hargrove (26-1 with all but one of his wins coming within the distance). This was a … [Read more...]