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Mike Casey

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Articles by Mike Casey

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Walcott and Louis: One Myth or Two?

Jersey Joe Walcott, who gatecrashed the party late and then got little time to enjoy it, has gone down as a romantic and whimsical figure of…

Tue, 10 Jun 2014
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Joe Bugner: Never Up, Never In

White, blond and athletic, Bugner was a golden boy, with all the good and bad baggage that comes with that dubious classification? In the ge…

Tue, 20 May 2014
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Some Like It Hot: Paolino Uzcudun

Although devoid of silky skills, the Basque hard man was tough to hit with a clean blow and was always firing back with his own busy fists? …

Sat, 05 Apr 2014
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Careful with that Cleaver, Cleve

Big Cat was one of the most splendidly proportioned and hardest hitting heavyweight contenders of the fifties and sixties? Wherever Clevelan…

Wed, 26 Feb 2014
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Bennie Briscoe: One Night in Paris

Bennie Briscoe campaigned against the world?s top middleweights in a colorful career that spanned more than a decade? Bennie Briscoe, still …

Tue, 04 Feb 2014
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Dreamland in Miniature

A picture of a bearded sailor against the backdrop of the sea is framed by a lifebuoy emblazoned with the words Player?s Navy Cut? I had a n…

Thu, 02 Jan 2014
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We Are the Hollow Men

Does anyone seriously believe Corrie Sanders and Lamon Brewster would have knocked out Dempsey, Louis, Marciano, Liston, Foreman or Ali? Eve…

Fri, 29 Nov 2013
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Jimmy Ellis: From Floyd to Frazier

Ellis had a broken nose and a tired look on his face when the bout ended. Floyd Patterson wore no battle scars? The cold and icy blasts for …

Thu, 24 Oct 2013
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Hanging Around: Oakland Billy Smith

?When they pulled off his robe, I nearly died. The guy had a build that made Max Baer look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame?? Some fighters …

Mon, 07 Oct 2013
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Joe Grim: How to Take It and Then Some

For a silver lira or less, Joe Grim would demonstrate his mettle by running headlong into the iron door of his local church? Down through th…

Wed, 04 Sep 2013
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The Tiger in the New York Jungle

Former world heavyweight champion Max Schmeling, always a very astute observer and commentator on the fight game, got talking in his twiligh…

Sat, 10 Aug 2013