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It's said fighters often feel some kind of bond after a grueling fight, and fighters who go to war together are forever linked.
Some fights, like Robert Quiroga vs Akeem Anifowoshe, 1991's "Fight of the Year," epitomize the idea that once two fighters lock horns and give pieces of themselves in a fight, nothing is ever the same afterward. Robert Quiroga and Akeem Anifowoshe's stories both ended far earlier than they should have, and it's tough not to believe that their fight caused most of it.
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So why didn't Lennox Lewis and Riddick Bowe ever fight? And what exactly happened that one time they met in the ring?
On this episode of the Knuckles and Gloves podcast, Patrick Connor and Brin-Jonathan Butler break down the matchup between Lewis and Bowe in the 1988 Olympics, their career and the reasons why they never fought. Yes, including the infamous "WBC belt in the trash can" incident.
Mike Tyson and George Foreman are two of the biggest heavyweight punchers both of recent memory, and all-time. And they almost fought!
On this episoe of the Knuckles and Gloves podcast, Patrick Connor and Brin-Jonathan Butler talk about why Tyson-Foreman never happened, and what the result may have been if they had!
Fighters fight on too long as a general rule. Even so, some fighters notably have longer careers than others.
On this episode of the Knuckles and Gloves podcast, boxing historians Patrick Connor and Aris Pina team up to remember a handful of fighters whose careers spanned impressive lengths of time.
