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Happy #InternationalWomensDay to the fighting women who have inspired countless others inside the ring and out 🥊

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I grow older, I collect more boxing magazines, but one truth remains: Don't ask for my attention if you don't ACTUALLY want it 😘😉

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Happy 71st Birthday to Alfonso Zamora, hard-hitting 1970s bantamweight champion and 1972 Olympic silver medalist, who was born Alfonso Zamora Quiróz in Ciudad de México, México #OnThisDay in 1954.

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Jackie Fields, 1920s and 30s two-time welterweight champion and 1924 Olympic gold medalist, was born Jacob Finkelstein in Chicago, Illinois #OnThisDay in 1908.

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Really cool opportunity to contribute toward getting a really excellent boxing documentary into some U.S. and U.K. film festivals! That gravelly voice doing narrating is me, sure. But I've gotten a look at the doc and it's objectively awesome. ➡️ www.indiegogo.com/projects/blo...

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Really cool opportunity to contribute toward getting a really excellent boxing documentary into some U.S. and U.K. film festivals! That gravelly voice doing narrating is me, sure. But I've gotten a look at the doc and it's objectively awesome. ➡️ www.indiegogo.com/projects/blo...

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King "Sugar" Ray Robinson and his championship belts 👑

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"Big" George Foreman sure loved his luxury cars.

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Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and other stars gather for the Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Special in 1990. Other celebrities included Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Richard Pryor, Clint Eastwood, Dionne Warwick and Magic Johnson.

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Thank goodness for Corey Erdman bringing these people back to earth with his commentating. Claressa is having an easy time countering and they just keep taking about Perkins’ power

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That was hilarious. Lacy was trying to get back into the ring and Moore grabbed him back

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Boxing media people going after the Black fighter but not the white one who did the exact same thing is really weird* *unless you view boxing media as a collection of stupidass racist meatballs, in which case it was incredibly predictable

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As expected, venerable members of the boxing community dedicating hours to discrediting Jackie Tonawanda's hall of fame entrance years after her death on the basis of her being "a fraud" for a fudged record have nothing to say about Cat Davis, the white hall of fame lady who... fudged her record.

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🗣 "[Sugar Ray Robinson] is the greatest I've ever seen in action. They will never get another one like him in the ring in 100 years. He had class all around." - Joe Louis

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Benvidez threw after the bell first and Morrell responded. Stupidass deduction from the referee, it's that simple.

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Cuba's first ever world champion Kid Chocolate and his predecessor Black Bill, who had the same trainer and manager, and who "The Keed" looked up to for several years 🇨🇺

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Last few rounds, Benavidez's pressure and relentlessness is obviously getting to Morrell, who looks like he's finally succumbing to exhaustion from this kind of fight

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Commentating is a bit too Benavidez-leaning imo. Morrell is doing very well in some of these sequences but you wouldn't really know it

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🗣 "[Henry Armstrong] was a unique individual, one of the greatest fighters I ever saw. He fought three minutes every round. I saw him in most of his championship fights. He could be classed with the greatest fighters of all time." - Great boxing trainer Ray Arcel

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"El Flaco Explosivo" Alexis Argüello poses with actor and director Clint Eastwood.

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🗣 "I am a pioneer, you see. Those who come after me will get a lot more out of this. As far as money goes, I don't think I get what I deserve. I don't even know how much I'll get. I won't get what I deserve until society takes us seriously." - "Lady Tyger" Marian Trimiar

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Trainer Emanuel Steward watches as heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis trains to face wily contender Andrew Golota in 1997.

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Billy Bird, London welterweight who fought more than 350 times between 1920 and 1948, scoring 139 knockouts, which is currently thought to be the all-time record.

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Floyd Patterson and George Chuvalo fought a savage "Fight of the Year" where Patterson took a close 12 round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York #OnThisDay in 1965.

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Bob Foster climbed off the deck to make his first defense of the light heavyweight championship with a wild 1st round TKO of Frankie DePaula at Madison Square Garden in New York #OnThisDay in 1969.

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Paul Pender put and end to the championship days of 38-year-old "Sugar" Ray Robinson with a 15 round split decision at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts #OnThisDay in 1960.

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Mike Tyson defended the unified heavyweight title with a 4th round TKO of 38-year-old former champ Larry Holmes at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey #OnThisDay in 1988.

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"Big" George Foreman scored a huge upset to win the heavyweight championship with a shocking 2nd round TKO of "Smokin'" Joe Frazier at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica #OnThisDay in 1973.

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Happy 61st Birthday to Nigel Benn, aka "The Dark Destroyer," hard-swinging two-division WBO champion in the 1990s, who was born in Ilford, England #OnThisDay in 1964.

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Rocky Marciano and Harry Matthews pose after signing to face one another in 1952, with the winner taking on heavyweight champion Jersey Joe Walcott. Marciano would flatten Matthews in two rounds, then score an all-time brutal knockout of Walcott to become the king of the heavyweights.

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"Big" George Foreman was ranked 9th on a list of "Greatest Punchers of All Time" back in 2003. Where would you rank him? And how would Foreman do against today's heavyweights?

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Had to update the collection recently. See anyone you recognize? 🥊

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Rocky Graziano, heavy-swinging 1940s middleweight champion, was born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City, New York #OnThisDay in 1919.

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Freddie Roach back when he was a young featherweight in the 1970s, and now.

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To be honest, it’s kind of comforting that the same idiots who wrote insanely dumb crap and fucked up boxing media in the late 90s and early 2000s are still fucking up boxing media.

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Come on, y'all. Do some basic math real quick. 116-112 is 8-4 in rounds, which means swing two close rounds and it's a draw. It was a relatively close fight, I'm not sure how anyone could have it "way closer" for Usyk as a few replies suggest

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All three judges scored it 116-112 for Oleksandr Usyk!!!

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It was a bit of a slog and Fury's extra weight actually may have helped him absorb punches better, but he also didn't work enough to win some of those close ones. Usyk 7-5 on my card.

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