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A review of Antoine Fuqua's HBO Documentary Muhammed Ali What's My Name. Then Ringside Seat's William Dettloff joins us to talk about the Canelo Vs Jacobs fight and his amazing Ezzard Charles Biography A Boxing Life.

A collection of chats with the late sports historian .Little told tales of Jack Johnson Jess Willard Dempsey Tunney Sharkey and Max Baer to modern thoughts on Tyson Lennox Lewis The Klitchko Brothers and Floyd Mayweather. Jr

We start this episode with thoughts on ESPN's 30 For 30 Buster Douglas Documentary 42-1 about Buster Douglas's epic upset over Mike Tyson. Then from 2002 a chat with Max Baer Jr and the Baer family point of view of the Ron Howard Film Cinderella Man. Max has great stories about Max Sr's whole career, and his films the Prizefighter and The Lady and the 50s boxing classic The Harder They Fall , Hump...

Great chat with Ring's Editor In Chief Doug Fisher. We re-hash Fury Wilder and discuss the highlight's of 2018 and look to the match ups of 2019

From 2003 a conversation with the legendary IBOHF writer about his whole career as a novelist screenwriter and Fight Reporter. The man who wrote The Harder They Fall, On The Waterfront, and covered boxers from Dempsey To Lennox Lewis

Longtime Chicago Broadcaster Chet Coppock has a new book featuring memories of Joe Fraizer and Sonny Liston. We talk about his favorite and sad memories of Chicago Boxing from the 60s through the 80s .

Dettloff talks about his magazine Ringside Seat, and we review and preview recent and upcoming bouts.

Imagine if we thought only about Joe Frazier when talking about the Ali Frazer fights? Ali won the 2nd and 3rd fights. Gene Tunney lived that sort of frustration. He won both matches against Jack Dempsey decisively yet we mostly remember Dempsey's 7th round kockdown of Tunney that produced "The Long Count Moment" . Tunney biographer Jack Cavanaugh is here to set the record straight and remind of G...

We review Saturday's Main Event with Chicago Sports Talker Mike North

From 2002 a comprehensive look at the Dempsey Tunney rivalry culminating in the infamous 1927 Long Count Fight. We explore the fighters the bouts and it's impact on 1927 Chicago and pop culture. With Studs Terkel Budd Schulberg Roger Kahn Jack Cavanaugh and words from Dempsey and Tunney themselves!