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The Year Of Living Dangerously: Alan Minter In 1980 (Part III)
**** Alan Minter was perhaps the most popular man in Britain heading into his fateful clash against Marvin Hagler on September 27, 1980. After winning the world title in March in Las Vegas from Vito…Read More
THE BIG HURT: Jeff Fenech on the Rampage in the 1980s
**** A ferocious pressure fighter with an uncompromising will, Fenech invariably bludgeoned his opponents into submission. At least he did when he had the equipment to do so. More often than not, however,…Read More
All Day Permanent Red: Frankie Duarte-Alberto Davila II
**** Between them, they had more tragedy than a sporting life—or any other life, for that matter—ought to allow. Frankie Duarte, who had pulled himself from the grip of a suffocating alcohol and heroin…Read More
Let The Good Times Roll: The Night Hilmer Kenty Won The Lightweight Title
**** In order to secure Kenty a title shot, Steward had to pay tribute to the new Mafiosi in boxing: banana republic sanctioning bodies. Yes, the likes of Frankie Carbo, Blinky Palermo, and Eddie Coco…Read More
“We Were Young Together Once”: Top 20 Favorite Fighters of the 1980s, A Personal Reminiscence
**** For a little while, say about a year, Donald Curry was considered the best fighter in the world. Unlike most contemporary P-4-P entries, however, who short-circuit keyboards for beating squeegee…Read More
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The Year Of Living Dangerously: Alan Minter In 1980
**** After snatching the middleweight championship from the clutches of Vito Antuofermo on March 16,…Read More
Some Kind of Wonderful: The Title Reign of Marvelous Marvin Hagler
**** January 17, 1981 Not even Marvin Hagler knew his name. Not really. “What’s his name? Fully…Read More
SOMETHING WILD: The Hectic Days & Frantic Nights Of Hector “Macho” Camacho
**** Emerging from the slashing switchblade streets of 1970s Spanish Harlem—not a neighborhood listed…Read More
“We Were Young Together Once”: Top 20 Favorite Fighters of the 1980s, A Personal Reminiscence
**** #19 BOBBY CZYZ Bobby Czyz was “The Matinee Idol” of network television during the early 1980s.…Read More
“We Were Young Together Once”: Top 20 Favorite Fighters Of The 1980s, A Personal Reminiscence
**** First, he destroyed one of my heroes, the unassuming accountant-like Donald Curry, in a fight that…Read More
The Year of Living Dangerously: Alan Minter in 1980
**** 1980 would be a memorable year for Alan Minter, as the British southpaw battled through a tumultuous…Read More
RUMBLEFISH: Earl Hargrove
**** A two-fisted banger with a vicious temperament, Hargrove knocked out his first 24 opponents, raising…Read More
On Mike Tyson
**** With enough hang-ups to fill a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…Read More
NEON NIGHTS: Leon Spinks In The 1980s
**** A hangover/holdover of the Studio 54 era, Leon Spinks staggered, knock-kneed and disco-biscuits…Read More
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