Jersey George's Boxing Blog

Category: Boxing History

  • A Case for Yordenis Ugas: End the Stalemate at Welterweight

    I am pulling for Yordenis Ugas in this weekends upcoming welterweight unification clash against Errol Spence Jr. This is the big one fight fans, three titles on the line, pay-per-view, in a major venue. No its not the Spence vs Terrence Crawford fight fight fans have been clamoring for over the last several years but…

  • International Boxing Hall of Fame 2022 Inductees Announced

    Many times these hall of fame announcements are semi controversial with fans bickering over certain guys getting in. Whether it be European fans feeling their legends are underappreciated or accusing the hall of letting in subpar American fighters based on a bias; and American fans feeling someone in the long history of the sport is…

  • Fight of the Day # 4: Roy Jones Jr vs Montell Griffin II

    Revenge is best served with a left hook! Keeping in the spirit of rematches of controversial fights and short fights here is Roy Jones Jr going up against Montell Griffin. For those unfamiliar, Griffin was the first man to “defeat Roy Jones” as a pro when they met in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Griffin had…

  • Fight of the Day #3: Kendall Holt vs Ricardo Torres II

    I missed a day yesterday so I chose a short fight to catch up. Whatever you do, please do not blink when watching this fight. Bombs away from the start Kendall Holt of Paterson, New Jersey and Colombia’s Ricardo Torres met in a WBO 140 lb. title tilt in 2008 in Las Vegas. This was…

  • Fight of the Day # 2: Muhammad Ali vs George Chuvalo II

    Today I watched the Muhammad Ali and George Chuvalo rematch from 1973. The fight took place in Vancouver Canada and was roughly seven years after their 1966 encounter in Toronto where Ali still the champion defeated Chuvalo by unanimous decision. Having seen that fight several times on ESPN Classic its hard to forget the hard…

  • Fight of the Day#1: Sonny Liston vs Floyd Patterson

    In the spirit of watching more fights and writing more I have decided to do a series that I hope to contribute daily to by watching a fight, posting the link, and writing about it. I watched the pair of heavyweight title fights in the early 1960’s that saw Sonny Liston win the heavyweight world…

  • Jersey Joe Walcott Honored In Camden, New Jersey

    Born Arnold Cream but famous as “Jersey Joe Walcott” the former heavyweight champion of the world in 1951 has been honored with a statue in Camden, New Jersey. Walcott at thirty-seven years old became the then oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Ezzard Charles in their fourth meeting. He lost the title to the…

  • Think Violently With a Calm Mind-Deontay Wilder

    Deontay Wilder took part in an interesting interview with the PBC Podcast crew today in the lead up to his October 9th rematch with WBC Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury. I am recommending this interview on my blog as it is a great insight to Wilder’s mentality heading into this fight and has some touching discussion…

  • Manny Pacquiao vs Keith Thurman: Revisited Fight

    With the all time great boxing icon Manny Pacquiao set to face Yordenis Ugas in a WBA welterweight championship fight I decided to revisit his last performance. I missed this fight when it happened live as I am less tolerant of buying pay-per-view fights and I had struggled to find quality uploads of this online.…

  • Recommended Viewing: YouTube Boxing Content Creators Discuss Heavyweight Boxing History

    Rich The Fight Historian: For anyone that enjoys throw back boxing or grew up in the sixties or seventies this is a great YouTube channel to follow. He does a lot of ten to thirty minute mini documentaries that highlight well known and forgotten fighters throughout different eras and weight classes. I find his videos…