by Fox Doucette Styles make fights in San Dimas tonight, as the second Saturday edition of Historical Fight Night plays host to Saul Alvarez, fresh off his atomic carpet bombing of Josesito Lopez, takes on Emile Griffith, who is brought in from his first victory over Joey Archer in 1966. You'll also notice that this is not being fought under "Old Vs. New" rules; Alvarez today … [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: Diego Corrales vs. Marco Antonio Barrera, Rocky Marciano vs. Evander Holyfield
by Fox Doucette In the December 1998 “Holiday Issue” of Ring Magazine, that publication's editors ranked the greatest heavyweights of all time. To no great surprise, Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis locked down the top two spots. At third? Evander Holyfield, illustrating the danger of trying to evaluate an active fighter who still had fights in front of him (and conveniently … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday, Marco Antonio Barrera: Today, January 17
[embedplusvideo height="410" width="510" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/OYeDNIW7M3A?fs=1" vars="ytid=OYeDNIW7M3A&width=510&height=410&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep9241" /]Marco Antonio Barrera is a three-division world champ who has held titles in the junior featherweight, featherweight, and super … [Read more...]
Measuring Men (Pacquiao vs. Mayweather), Part 2: The BIG difference
by Ben Randall Welcome back. Remember the scene as we left it? The guys at Canastota, in a move reminiscent of some pugilistic Willy Wonka, have announced that they are opening their doors one final time and have space for just 1 candidate. The all-time great of the current boxing era. And they will only consider the two leading lights of the current pound for pound … [Read more...]