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vintage boxing photos only. 23 year old Marketing student. Boxing historian. Concept artist.

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Jose "Mantequilla" Napoles. Anyone notice the similarity in styles Napoles had to Robinson. Sandy Saddler to Foreman and Frazier to Armstrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2pu2qo5o3c

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the greatest heavyweights, I've done in pencil

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Today on WNYC in 1969: Press conference with Olympic gold medalist George Foreman. http://wny.cc/1eTyolZ

photo: wikimedia commons

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"It’s like being in love with a woman. She can be unfaithful, she can be mean, she can be cruel, but it doesn’t matter. If you love her, you want her, even though she can do you all kinds of harm. It’s the same with me and boxing. It can do me all kinds of harm, but I love it." - Floyd Patterson

The Gentleman of Boxing.

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Life Magazine: Previously unreleased pictures from Ali v Frazier I

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SUGAR BABY | Undated Sugar Ray Leonard (birth name, Ray Charles, nickname, Sugar) ….first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, won world titles in five weight divisions, and defeated future fellow International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees Wilfred Benítez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Durán, and Marvin Hagler. Named “Boxer of the Decade” for the 1980s.

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A happy birthday to Muhammad Ali, here walking away from his opponent, Floyd Patterson, during their heavyweight championship fight in November 1965. 

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Sugar Ray Leonard

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