Wrigley Brogan
33 articles · Boxing.com
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Small Town Impossibility
Torres entered the ring to the shouts of his fans. Provodnikov was a dark glowing coal ready to burst into flame? Unfortunately all the heart in the world cannot make up for…
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Attack of the Giant Legume
Eric Esch lumbered off the airplane like a crate of melons. His shoulders went from wall to wall and no one could pass him down the gangplank? Eric Esch lumbered off the…
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The Day the Circus Came to Town
Few women were in attendance, but those that were glittered like iridescent flamingos on an evening pond? The fight reminded me of the stories I had heard of the circus coming to…
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A look at the future?Wilfred Benitez
The idea of him being punch-drunk were simply not true. I only knew he was not the same fighter he once was, regardless of age? Wilfred Benitez was considered one of the…
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Knockout Boxing Shots
During my time in the business I?ve learned many things that might help new photographers who want to sit ringside? Never wear anything white when photographing a boxing event. Bloodstains are permanent.…
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Mike Gavronski: Making it on Your Own
Boxing is a precarious business. Everyone claims to be an expert and they often offer the moon to a young man eager for fame? I once read that one million dollars will…
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Running to Nowhere
There are seldom any good reasons for a boxer to attempt a comeback. The worst reason of all is because he is broke? ?A man who can?t keep track of ten dollars…
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The Punch That Ended a Career
Like many boxers, Hatton is a quiet man, almost shy. He understood his career would not be a long one because of the way he fought? For eight years I ran the…
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Championship Qualities
Single-minded focus occurs most commonly in soldiers during combat where everything is shut out except concentrating on aiming and pulling the trigger? At the age of 50 Roberto Duran was training to…
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Greg Haugen?Bad to the Bone
They called him the ?Mutt,? Greg ?Mutt? Haugen, lightweight champion of the world, a vicious mongrel dog and one of the meanest, nastiest boxers in history? They called him the ?Mutt,? Greg…
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When Fight Plans Go Wrong
His entire life he had made his own decisions. Now, in the most important fight of his life, Joe Hipp had left the strategy to others? Heavyweight contender Joe Hipp relaxed in…
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Two Memories, One Regret
About the only one who visited McMurtry in the dressing room before the fight was ?Blinky? Palermo, top henchman for Mobster Frankie Carbo? The lights of the Heritage Rehabilitation and Specialty Care…
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Remembering Bobby
Just possibly it is better to have been the best in the world at something, than to have slogged through a life of mundane anonymity? ?Bobby Chacon?s up on Main Street,? said…