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Here it's all about the fascinating history of heavyweight #boxing.

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REVENGE: New York, Polo Grounds, 1960. Floyd Patterson watches Ingemar Johansson fall after landing a huge left hook in round five of their rematch. The shot put Ingo down & out, making Patterson the first to ever regain the world title.

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2020-04-08

Part-time alligator wrestler Elmer "Violent" Ray slips a right hand from Jersey Joe Walcott during their 1946 battle in Madison Square. Ray won the decision but lost the rematch 4 months later, so Walcott got the shot at champ Joe Louis.

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Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton confront each other in 1976 before the final fight in their trilogy. Held at Yankee Stadium during a police strike, and with the world title on the line, the match saw Ali take a controversial 15 round decision.

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2020-04-05

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Teófilo Stevenson of poses for the camera. Was he the greatest heavyweight ever in amateur boxing?

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Harry Wills, aka "The Black Panther," and Luis Firpo, aka "The Wild Bull Of The Pampas," pose before their 12 round match at Boyle's Thirty Acres in in 1924. Wills clearly got the better of the Argentinian.

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Three champions, three Jersey Joe, "The Brown Bomber," and "The Manassa Mauler."

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The dangerous right hand of Larry Holmes, aka "The Easton Assassin," jellifies the face of Renaldo Snipes during their 1981 title fight. Snipes decked Holmes with his own big right hand in round seven, but the champion came back to win by TKO.

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2020-04-01

"I think Sam Langford was the greatest we ever had ... Even at my best I don't know whether I could lick him or not. He was a good man, good puncher, rough, tough." -- Jack Dempsey, as quoted in Peter Heller's "In This Corner."

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2020-03-30