Posts Tagged ‘Rocky Marciano’

British boxing icon Lennox Lewis wrote in the Daily Telegraph Tuesday that Muhammad Ali, who turned 70 Tuesday, “should be considered the greatest sportsman of all time.” "I studied all the great heavyweights, but Muhammad Ali for me was the main guy," wrote Lewis, 46, the first and only world heavyweight titleholder ...

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Ring Magazine, IBF, IBO and WBO king “Dr. Steelhammer” Wladimir Klitschko said on the Jim Rome Show Monday he will “try” mixed martial arts (MMA). “I have a lot of respect for MMA fighters,” said Klitschko, 35, who won a Gold medal as a super heavyweight at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. “It's a very ...

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White has often expressed his belief that boxing is a dying sport. White, who as a young adult lived in South Boston and worked as a bouncer at the famed Irish pub "Black Rose" near Quincy Market, was an amateur pugilist who once established a boxing program for inner-city ...

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93 years ago this past Wednesday, iconic pugilist John L. Sullivan died at 59 in Mattapan, Mass. In tribute to Sullivan and his absolute greatness in the squared circle, I decided to rank the five greatest boxers ever to hail from “The Hub of the Universe.” 1) “The Brockton Blockbuster” Rocky ...

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We have had some great knockout punches over the years. Take a look at some of boxings greatest knockout's.

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“The Town,” a crime film set in Boston, Massachusetts, has received rave reviews since it opened in theaters last month. Prior to the start of the motion picture, “The Fighter” was previwed. “The Fighter” is an upcoming movie starring Mark Wahlberg that centers on the life and professional boxing career of “Irish” Micky Ward from Lowell. Boston is a ...

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