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ANTUOFERMO UD 10 GRIFFITH, NOV. 22, 1974
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ARCHER UD 10 ROBINSON, NOV. 10, 1965
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GRIFFITH MD 15 ARCHER, JULY 13, 1966
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ANTUOFERMO D 15 HAGLER, NOV. 30, 1979
DE LA HOYA UD 12 CAMACHO, SEPT. 13, 1997
CAMACHO UD 12 DURAN, JUNE 22, 1996
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HAGLER UD 15 DURAN, NOV. 10, 1983
CRAWFORD TKO 9 HORN, JUNE 9, 2018
PACQUIAO TKO 8 DE LA HOYA, DEC. 6, 2008
HORN UD 12 PACQUIAO, JULY 2, 2017
Fights only last a matter of minutes, but fighters are connected to each other by chains that extend for decades – even centuries – into the past. Their bond is a lineage built face-to-face – a young prospect struggles with the skills of an aging veteran whose nose was once broken by a fighter now enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. In that way, muscle memory carries knowledge and boxers face a piece of everyone their opponent has fought, everyone those people fought, and so on. This month we’re linking Sugar Ray Robinson, arguably the greatest fighter of all time, to Terence Crawford, a generational talent who will try to add his name to the GOAT conversation with a proposed September showdown against Canelo Alvarez. There are multiple paths linking the fierce American stylists whose primes are separated by well over half a century, but we’ve selected the nine-boxer Fightline above. There’s at least one way to get there faster. Can you find it? If so, or if you have another Fightline you’d like to submit, send it to comeoutwriting@gmail.com. And remember, some fighters can be linked on paper by jumping forward and backward in time, but to be a true lineage the fights must come in chronological order. 96
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