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Legends Die Hard: A Pacquiao vs. Matthysse Preview

If matched against a savvy, skilled boxer with comparable physical ability, Pacquiao would have real trouble? This Saturday on ESPN+ (Underc…

Thu, 12 Jul 2018

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Boxing?s Summer Recycling Plan

There?s nothing wrong with fighters who are less than top tier being able to earn some honest paydays? Not every baseball game is the sevent…

Tue, 10 Jul 2018

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Keith Thurman Turns On, Tunes In, and Drops Out

In recent videos and photos, Thurman has never looked happier?and, at the same time, never so far away from being in fighter mode? Try to wr…

Fri, 06 Jul 2018

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ESPN?s Hard Sell Makes Zurdo Ramirez Look Bad

It?s hard to be too harsh on the defending WBO super middleweight champ for looking fairly pedestrian against Angulo? If it weren?t for the …

Mon, 02 Jul 2018

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Good News or Bad News?

Boxing is falling back on, again, messing with its loyalists. More and more, fight fans are being asked to pay more for less quality? Depend…

Thu, 28 Jun 2018

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The Great White?Missed Opportunity

Joe Smith Jr., the 28-year-old fighting construction worker from Long Island, never got the monstrous, life-changing payday that should?ve c…

Tue, 26 Jun 2018

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Canelo vs. Golovkin 2: The Codependency Continues

Ever know a couple?or maybe you?re one-half of such a couple?that is just so awful for one another, yet they stay stuck to each other? Ever …

Wed, 20 Jun 2018

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Is Patience a Virtue for Fans of Welterweight Boxing?

At this point that it?ll take tranquilizer darts and a giant butterfly net to ever get Pacquiao in the same ring with Crawford? Over at my o…

Tue, 19 Jun 2018

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Canelo Alvarez Stripped of Pretend Ring Magazine Title

If the purpose of rankings and titles is to bring order and respectability to the sport, then they need to reflect what?s actually going on …

Wed, 13 Jun 2018

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Pulp Fiction

At the end of the day, it makes one wonder about the sadder tale coming from Saturday?s otherwise outstanding night of boxing? Jeff Horn did…

Tue, 12 Jun 2018

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The Charlos May Be The Solution to Golovnelo

The surly powder keg image of the Charlos is somewhere between prime Mike Tyson and a jacked up World Star version of a grim Sonny Liston? G…

Tue, 05 Jun 2018

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Lomachenko-Linares was a Big-Picture Flop

With an average of just 1.024 million viewers, the entertaining lightweight title bout utterly failed to reach anyone but the usual diehards…

Wed, 23 May 2018

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Adonis Stevenson: Man and Superman

It?s okay to acknowledge both sides of Adonis Stevenson. It?s even okay to acknowledge, maybe, the ugliest of all realities? ?Man is a rope …

Thu, 17 May 2018

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Lomachenko is a Victim of Boxing Business

Lomachenko could be an Ali without a Frazier, a Leonard without a Duran?a genius without true opposition? If you listened to the ESPN broadc…

Mon, 14 May 2018

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One More Note on The Middleweights: 160 is Golovkin?s Division Now

Wherever the middleweight division goes from here, the reality is that the 160 lb. class is Gennady Golovkin?s? Wherever the middleweight di…

Fri, 11 May 2018

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Vasyl Lomachenko and The Hype/Hate Dynamic

Fighting Orlando Salido and Gary Russell Jr. in your second and third fights as a pro is deserving of some serious boxing street cred? Hype …

Tue, 08 May 2018

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Jamie Munguia: From Human Sacrifice to World Champ?

Now that he has avoided becoming a human sacrifice at the altar of Triple G, he?ll have a chance at developing into the fighter he was meant…

Wed, 02 May 2018

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Canelo Alvarez Exonerated? Does It Even Matter?

Boxing fans are a stubborn lot and once they decide that someone is persona non grata, there?s little anyone can do to budge them from their…

Tue, 01 May 2018

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Thurman Makes Way for Welterweight Flow

The Thurman/WBC decision, although not exactly a cure-all for a division still handcuffed by politics to a great extent, is a win for boxing…

Fri, 27 Apr 2018

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When Hunter Becomes Hunted: Why Charlo vs. Golovkin Ain?t Happening Anytime Soon

The fairytale myths constructed over the realities of the sport only hold water for those not wanting to know or acknowledge the truth? Mome…

Wed, 25 Apr 2018