Jersey George's Boxing Blog

Category: Boxing History

  • Tony Galento Remembered in Orange, NJ

    The nature of my work has changed recently allowing me to travel around Essex County, New Jersey. Along my travels I got a chance to see a street in Orange named after Tony Galento. Downtown has honored different figures like former Governor Richard Cody and other famous residents including the ex-heavyweight challenger “Two Ton” Galento.…

  • Classic Revisited: Bernard Hopkins Stops Felix Trinidad in 12

    It is always a pleasure meeting fellow boxing fans and I was pleasantly surprised to find a coworker who loves the sport like I do. He mentioned coming to the country as a young kid and being grabbed by boxing. One of his favorite fighters growing up was Bernard Hopkins who happened to also be…

  • Classic Fight: Hagler vs Duran

    Based on some back and forth debating on this fight among forum posters Boxing News 24’s classic section’s scorecard thread, I decided to revisit this classic bout from the 1980s. I had not watched this fight in at least five years. My memory was that Hagler won, and he won clearly, but that it was…

  • Fight of the Day: Mayweather vs Castillo I

    Floyd Mayweather’s 2002 foray into the lightweight division to face WBC Champion Jose Luis Castillo is a fight still argued over to this day. While I would not call it the most controversial decision of the twenty-first century, it is seen by many as an unofficial blemish on Mayweather’s perfect record. I had not scored…

  • Fight of the Day: Vitali Klitschko vs Chris Byrd

    I was inspired to watch this fight and write about it recently due to some debate over the scoring and how much credit to give Chris Byrd for Vitali Klitschko throwing in the towel. There appears to be some push-back forming online to the main narrative of Klitschko being in control of a fight he…

  • Boxing in Media: Kelly Pavlik vs Jermaine Taylor Relived

    Boxing gets decent traffic on social media despite falling from the prominent position it once held in American Sports. Recently, while doom scrolling a boxing social media site page recently posted highlights from Pavlik and Taylor’s middleweight contest from the 2000s. This was one of the great fights of HBO in the 21st century and…

  • Boxing In Media: ESPN+ New Fight Library

    My biggest gripe with ESPN+ and their boxing on demand is their lack of choices. Given ESPN and Top Rank’s multi decade fight library, their selection of fights is very skinny. In fact, for months it felt like it was the same five or six fights minus replays of the latest contests without time stamps.…

  • Sergey Kovalev: A Look Back at the Krusher

    Sergey Kovalev emerged on the American boxing scene in the early 2010’s on NBC and HBO as a viscous punching light heavyweight who unified titles and generated exciting knockouts. At this time he is 39 and still active but his best days are now behind him. For some reason I was compelled to watch some…

  • Recommendation: Jimmy Bivins Documentary

    Rich the Fight Historian is at it again with another brilliant boxing documentary; this time he highlights the career of 1940’s and 1950’s light heavyweight and heavyweight great Jimmy Bivins. Rich’s channel on YouTube is one I have featured on here several times in the past and that is because the work speaks for itself.…

  • Fight of the Day: Corrie Sanders Stuns Wladimir Klitschko

    An interesting flashback to 2003 for what was a massive heavyweight upset that is still discussed amongst hardcore boxing heads today. Most remember Wladimir Klitschko as the dominant heavyweight from 2006 to 2015 but in 2003 he was the WBO titleholder seeking a fight with then champion Lennox Lewis. At 40-1 Wladimir held the WBO…