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Top 12 All-Time Best Cuban Boxers
Cuba has always boasted more than its share of gifted pugilists, but since the abolishment of professional boxing in the early 60′s, most of that great talent has been on display at the amateur level with multi-medal Olym...
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Top 12 Greatest ‘Catchers’ of All-Time
Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado meet tonight in a rematch of their first thrilling slugfest and in honour of the occasion we present our list of the best ‘catchers’ of all time. A ‘catcher’ is a boxer who...
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Top 12 Greatest One Punch Knockouts of All-Time
As Juan Manuel Marquez‘s cold-cocking of Manny Pacquiao amply demonstrated last month, few things in all of sports are as electrifying as the one punch knockout. Boxing offers a plethora of memorable one shot demolitions,...
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Top 12 Most Threatening Nicknames
First we had the most fitting nicknames, then the most memorable, now to complete the trilogy, we give you the 12 monikers most likely to chill an opponent’s blood. We must point out this list of menacing nicknames is not...
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Top 12 Most Memorable Nicknames
We previously brought you the Top 12 Most Apt Boxing Nicknames, but that’s nowhere near enough. The abundance of fighters struggling to make a name for themselves guarantees some of them will end up with a real noodle-scr...
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Top 12 Most Apt Boxing Nicknames
Many boxing nicknames are meant to intimidate, while others are coined primarily to be memorable or to attract attention. Then there are the nicknames inspired by their bearers’ comportment or distinctive traits. Below, o...
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Top 12 All-Time Cockiest Boxers
There’s confident, and then there’s cocky, the former being expected of any prizefighter with the guts to step into the ring, but the latter taking confidence and turning it into a spectacle, a display of verbal bol...
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Top 12 All-Time Best Boxing Trainers
1. Ray Arcel: The last bridge between the post-Ali era and the Golden Age of boxing, the 1920s and 30s, Arcel enjoyed an unassailable reputation as a master trainer and strategist. Worked with Benny Leonard in the 1920s and Lar...
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Top 12 All-Time Most Intimidating Boxers
Intimidation can come in many different forms — body language, facial expression, rippling muscles, the cold stare that sends chills through another’s backbone — but whatever its manifestation, its objective i...
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Top 12 All-Time Worst Cheap Shots
All intentional fouls or blindside hits are cheap, but for this list we define a “cheap shot,” also known as a “sucker punch,” as a blow rendered when the opponent is not expecting it, or clearly cannot ...
