All posts tagged "Roberto Duran"
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Worldwide2 months agoNYF ARCHIVE HIT: Remembering Corpas vs Juan Laporte
It was a simple gesture. It happened on one of those summer days where not much more than a hot breeze was happening. It was an...
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News4 months ago
Vasiliy Lomachenko: Top 3 Fights
Vasiliy Lomachenko of Ukraine is a first-ballot lock for the Hall of Fame. He is among boxing’s all-time best amateurs, with two Olympic gold medals to...
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Worldwide6 months ago
Farewell To Ken Buchanan, Scotland’s Best Ever
Ken Buchanan 28 June 1945 – 1 April 2023 In a boxing sense it is fair to state that Ken Buchanan put Scotland on the map...
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Worldwide7 months agoBefore You Watch Creed III, Here Are 3 Boxing Movies To See
This week the latest installment in the “Rocky” movie dynasty launches, with “Creed III”. Conspicuous by his absence will be the seminal character Rocky Balboa. Sylvester...
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Worldwide1 year ago
Like Leonard & Duran, Canelo & GGG Took A While To Complete A Bitter Trilogy
When Roberto Duran waved his hands in resignation and quit in the rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard 42 years ago, it appeared the rivalry with the...
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Worldwide2 years ago
Boxing and Hospitality Remain Inter-Linked For Scott Murray
For Scott Murray, the owner/founder of Bar Sport in his hometown of Cannock, Staffordshire in the English Midlands, boxing and the hospitality industry have always gone...
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Worldwide2 years ago
NYF Special: Vinny Paz-Overcoming Adversity, Revisiting Bleed For This & The Future
It’s been a little over five years since Miles Teller played the accomplished, combative, and oh so colorful 5-time world champion Vinny Pazienza in the excellent...
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Worldwide2 years ago
The Kings Director Mat Whitecross Shares Behind the Scenes Process, Part 2
Writer David Phillips has made no secret of his admiration for the film-work of Mat Whitecross, who directed “The Kings,” a four-part documentary series running on Showtime....
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Worldwide2 years ago
The Kings Director Mat Whitecross Shares Behind the Scenes Process, Part 1
At first, director Mat Whitecross may seem like a surprising choice for a project like Showtime’s The Kings. Whitecross admits that he is at best a...
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Worldwide2 years agoThere Were Not Just Four Kings–The Case for Wilfred Benitez As The Fifth King
What is a king? How does one become a king? These are simple questions that solicit a degree of complex answers that differ from society to...
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Worldwide2 years ago
THE KINGS Episode Three: The Will to Win
“This is a poor boy’s sport.” That’s one of the first lines you hear in voiceover from episode three of the Showtime documentary The Kings,...
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Worldwide2 years ago
The Kings Episode Two: Flesh & Blood
“It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men.”—Frederick Douglass Episode two of The Kings places a large amount of its focus on...
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Worldwide2 years ago
The Kings Episode One: Ghetto to Glory Road
The Showtime documentary series The Kings, about the grand era of the 80s when the giants of their sport, boxers Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas...
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Worldwide2 years ago
When Lou Bizzarro, A Good Fighter, Battled A Great Fighter, Roberto Duran
1976, Part 17 – May 23, Erie, Pennsylvania (County Field House) – ROBERTO DURAN KO 14 LOU BIZZARRO/Don King Productions There he is, on the ring...
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Announcements2 years ago
Showtime Examines “Four Kings” Legacy With Doc Premiering June 6
NEW YORK – April 12, 2021 – In boxing, it is said that styles make fights. From 1980 through 1989, it was the style of four...
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Worldwide3 years ago
NY Fights Crew Shares How The Death of Marvin Hagler Hit Hard
Deaths of legends, of icons, those can hit harder than when people you actually know die. It’s because you have strong associations with those legends, usually...
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Worldwide3 years agoRest In Peace, Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1954-2021)
It was November of 1979, and Boston sports fans were their typically surly selves. The Red Sox last won a World Series in 1918, and this...
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Worldwide3 years agoThe Two Davey Moores
I was surprised when I saw my fine editor’s tweet about the latest fighters chosen for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Among the...
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New York3 years ago
No Mas, Forty Years Later
It was November 25, 1980. I was with Bert Sugar, and, more memorably, Christie Brinkley, in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the rematch between Roberto Duran and...
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Worldwide3 years agoBoxer Sings the Blues
Pete Ranzany was scheduled to fight Jimmy Heair on a Tuesday, in December, 1978, and Heair arrived in Sacramento the Wednesday before. His luggage had been...
Zhilei Zhang Vs Joe Joyce 2 Preview: Can Juggernaut Rebound?
The Pugilist Who Does Not Rest
Does Bellator Pay More than the UFC?
Fiziev vs Gamrot in the UFC APEX
Michael Reyes: I Got the No 1 Most Ducked Kid From Argentina
NYFIGHTS Contender Watch: Indiana Super Middle Malcolm Jones
Usyk Avoids Disaster, Defeats Dubois in 9
Tito Mercado Got Game – Back in Action August 26
RIP Mike Stafford, Ohio Mentor, Trainer To Adrien Broner
