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Sweet Home Chicago: The Ten Biggest Boxing Matches in Windy City History
James Foley returns to Bad Left Hook this morning with a simple and valid question: What happened to boxing in the city of Chicago? As a frustrated boxing fan in Chicago, I often wonder why my humble city no longer plays host to any big prize-fights. This isn't a recent development; it's been...
Classic Fight Series: Four Rounds From Sonny Liston
James Foley returns to Bad Left Hook today for another installment of the Classic Fight Series. Charles Liston, the man, was an enigma. Sonny Liston, the heavyweight champion from 1962-1964, was a 215 lb tank, with a booming cannon for a left arm. Liston (50-4, 39 KO) was a knockout artist who...
UFC 134: Rio Judo Chop - Anderson Silva, Muhammad Ali, and the Anchor Punch
At UFC 134: Rio, Anderson Silva turned in another mind-boggling performance against Yushin Okami, destroying the challenger with apparent ease. One of the strikes he landed against Okami was the same hands down jab that he famously used to knock out Forrest Griffin back at UFC 101. In the lead up...
Book Review: 'Guts & Glory'
'Guts & Glory: The Golden Age of American Football,' by Neil Leifer (Publisher: Taschen Books) is a huge, coffee table size book, with almost 300 pages of information and especially classic photographs from one of the NFL's best photographers. Known in many different sports, Leifer has snapped...
Today in Sports History: July 22nd
(Liston knocks out Patterson again. Photo courtesy of AP Photos) 7/22/1963 - Patterson loses in Liston rematch On September 25, 1962, Sonny Liston humiliated Floyd Patterson to steal from him the title of world heavyweight champion. Patterson had claimed the championship belt from 1956 to 1959,...
The History of Theatrics in Combat Sports Part I - Clay vs. Liston
In the wake of Brock Lesnar's win over Frank Mir at UFC 100 we are experiencing a focus on personality and theatrics in the fight game. Rather than allow this to simply be passed over as a product of a former WWE star I will be taking a look back at the history of theatrics in combat sports in a...
Ingemar Johansson: 1932-2009
Former world heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson passed away yesterday, the result of complications from a bout of pneumonia. He was 76 years old. Johansson was the only Swedish heavyweight champion in history, winning the title when he destroyed Floyd Patterson in the third round at Yankee...
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