Every great fighter brings something different to the ring.

Some had lightning-fast hands, others possessed granite chins. Some could make opponents miss by inches, while others broke them down with punishing body shots or ended fights with a single punch.

In this episode co-hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs are asking a question boxing fans have debated for generations: If you could build the perfect boxer, whose traits would you choose?

We're not picking the greatest fighter of all time. We're creating the ultimate fighter by combining the very best attributes from boxing's legends. Muhammad Ali's footwork? Mike Tyson's explosiveness? Marvin Hagler's chin? Floyd Mayweather's defense? Roberto Durán's inside fighting? George Foreman's power? They're all on the table.

We'll break down every category—from ring IQ and jab to power, defense, conditioning, heart, body punching, and knockout instinct—to see which legends own each piece of the perfect fighter.

And, of course, we're going to have a few and of course debates along the way. Because in boxing, there are very few unanimous decisions.

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After 53 years of heartache, bad teams and near misses, the New York Knicks are now the toast of the NBA.

Saturday night, behind Jalen Brunson's 45 point performance in game Five in San Antonio, the Knicks long awaited dream of a world championship finally came true.

In this all-new episode of the podcast, Charles Combs and Dana Auguster provide their reaction to the recently completed NBA finals where the New York Knicks completed an improbable run to capture the Larry O'Brien trophy for the first time since 1973.

We will discuss what we witnessed in this championship series between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs where the Knicks finally rewarded their fans with a championship that many people in that lonely lot was convinced would never happen in their lifetime.

We will take a look at the finals series with fresh and hot takes on both teams that caused some debates between the two of us so please stay tuned for that.

Also stick around for us to compare the joyous reaction of the Knicks ending their championship drought to other teams that ended long droughts including ones by the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs.

We have that and so much more in this spirited edition of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast....a member of the Sports History Network.

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Over the years the Cleveland sports scene has had to endure some painful and heartbreaking losses, more then its fair share.

From "The Fumble", to "The Drive", to coming oh so close with their baseball team in several instances in the fall classic.

Yet the Cleveland Cavaliers finally answered the prayers of all northeast Ohio in 2016, erasing a 3-1 deficit in the NBA finals to give the city along Lake Erie its much needed and delayed championship, the city's first in several generations.

Yet during the down years of Cleveland sports in the mid 1970s, it was their basketball team that filled the void, climbing from an obscure NBA expansion team to not only capturing the hearts of Cleveland fans but captured the attention of the entire basketball world.

In this episode co hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs are heading back to the 1976 NBA playoffs to revisit one of basketball's most remarkable Cinderella stories—the "Miracle at Richfield."

Just five years after joining the league as an expansion franchise, the Cleveland Cavaliers shocked the basketball world by defeating the heavily favored Washington Bullets and capturing the imagination of an entire city.

We'll examine how a team of overlooked players, a passionate fan base, and a little bit of playoff magic combined to create one of the greatest upsets in NBA history.

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