Rocky Marciano vs Sugar Ray Robinson
PAT MURPHY: Rocky Marciano wasn’t an elegant fighter. With him, it was all about brute force, relentless aggression, and destructive punching power
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Luis Ángel Firpo was boxing’s Wild Bull of the Pampas
PAT MURPHY: Defensive subtlety wasn’t his style. He was all about aggression and clubbing his opponents into submission. A colourful crowd pleaser ($)
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Rocky Marciano was formidable from his first fight to his last
PAT MURPHY: Rocky was all about brute force, relentless aggression and destructive punching power (PREMIUM)
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The Mayweather-Paul bout was bad for boxing but good for capitalism
MICHAEL TAUBE: Exhibition matches aren’t a true test of a pro boxer. They tend to occur in more relaxed environments with unique rules – and showboating (PREMIUM)
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The cultural ripples of the fight of the century
PAT MURPHY: The first Ali-Frazier fight was boxing at its most thrilling. But it was also surrounded by name calling and racial strife, with political overtones ($29)
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The 1960 Olympics were spectacular in more ways than one
PAT MURPHY: Wilma Rudolph, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Peter Snell and Herb Elliott were the brightest stars in Rome (PREMIUM)
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Floyd Patterson: the boxer who came back
PAT MURPHY: Written off as a hopeless case, he brought a ruthless, coiled fury to the ring, taking back the world championship
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How Gene Tunney brought down a boxing legend and an era
PAT MURPHY: He beat Jack Dempsey twice to become heavyweight champion – and his staid personal style foreshadowed the end of the Roaring ’20s
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Jack Dempsey and the birth of the Roaring ’20s
PAT MURPHY: The boxer was a prime example of the ascension of celebrity, perhaps rivalled only by baseball’s Babe Ruth
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