The Ring Magazine, May 2025 • Canelo vs Scull • Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
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58 TENDER WARRIOR KATIE TAYLOR IN PERSON MIGHT SEEM TOO NICE TO BE A FIGHTER, BUT HER DESIRE FOR BLOOD-AND- GUTS CONQUEST IS FAR FROM EXHAUSTED By Adam Smith 64 SONNY LISTON 2.0 LABELED A DISGRACE AFTER THE “PHANTOM PUNCH” CONTROVERSY, SONNY LISTON WAS FORCED TO EITHER REBUILD OR RETIRE By Don Stradley 70 BACK TO THE SPECTRUM BEFORE HIS MIDDLEWEIGHT REIGN, BEFORE HE WAS “MARVELOUS,” MARVIN HAGLER PROVED HIS METTLE IN PHILADELPHIA By Dave Wedge 80 BEYOND TOUGH GREG HAUGEN BECAME A FAN FAVORITE THROUGH HIS ABSOLUTELY FEARLESS APPROACH TO FIGHTING – WHICH WAS EASY BECAUSE IT WAS THE THING HE
32 A GENTLE GIANT GEORGE FOREMAN’S TRIUMPH OVER JOE FRAZIER MADE IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT THE NEWEST HEAVYWEIGHT KING WAS SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL By George Girsch 38 NO MORE GRUDGES HERO TO SOME, HERO-SLAYER TO OTHERS – SOMETIMES BOTH – FOREMAN’S CHARM WAS JUST AS POWERFUL AS HIS PUNCH By Wallace A. Matthews 44 CANELO VS. THE GREATS MEXICO’S MODERN-DAY SUPERSTAR TAKES ON CHAMPIONS OF THE PAST IN 12 MYTHICAL MATCHUPS By Anson Wainwright 52 THE NEW ATOMIC AGE THE TRAGIC AND TRIUMPHANT CAREER OF FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT TITLEHOLDER OLIVER MCCALL ENTERS ITS NEXT CHAPTER By Ted Kluck
9 RINGSIDE By Doug Fischer 12 BERNSTEIN ON BOXING By Al Bernstein 14 MY FIRST TIME: KELLY PAVLIK By Kelly Pavlik and Anson Wainwright 19 STEVE’S SOAP BOX By Steve Kim 22 BY THE NUMBERS By Don Stradley 24 RING RATINGS PACKAGE 76 FUNDAMENTALS By Tom Gray 78 BOOKREVIEW By Thomas Gerbasi 84 FIGHT DOCTOR By Dr. Margaret Goodman 86 THE FACE OF BOXING By Wojtek Urbanek and Thomas Hauser 88 COMMISSIONER’S CORNER By Randy Gordon 90 WORLD BEAT 94 FINISHING SHOTS 96 FIGHTLINE
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