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Welterweight Ghosts That Won't Go Away
By Tris Dixon , BoxingScene.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Ghosts linger in the welterweight division. Maybe it is because Sugar Ray Leonard loitered, incredibly youthfully, through fight week in New York. Maybe nostalgia loomed in part because CBS/Showtime compared the welterweight unification fight between WBA champion Keith Thurman and WBC ruler Danny Ga Read Full Story >>>To Punch A Puncher
By Hamilton Nolan, Deadspin.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Think of something that is perilous and requires great caution?performing heart surgery, or defusing landmines. This is what it?s like fighting a puncher. You wouldn?t call it fun, but sometimes it has to be done.
In boxing, a ?puncher? is someone whose primary characteristic is that they can hu Read Full Story >>> John the Barber
By Pete Ehrmann, Boxing.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Dempsey wrote about Reisler in his autobiography. He called him ?a shifty character,? ?a vicious person,? ?poison,? and said, ?I hated his guts??
The obituary of John J. Reisler in the September 16, 1930 New York Times said that the man who?d briefly managed Jack Dempsey 15 years earlier ?always Read Full Story >>> Could Pacquiao and Khan Have Been Catfished?
By William Holmes, Boxing Insider, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Catfish Defined:
Noun: A freshwater or marine fish with whiskerlike barbels around the mouth, typically bottom-dwelling.
Verb: Lure (someone) into a relationship by means of a fictional online persona
MTV?s popular catfish television show has been on air for six years and is extremely popula Read Full Story >>> Thurman V Garcia [Vol.VI]: Ponytails
By John Gatling, NYFights.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Keith ?No-Time? Thurman V Dandelion ?Pfft? Garcia. Yeah? That?s what I?m calling this one. Friday?s weigh-in was shockingly anticlimactic, as the fight itself morphed into extreme buzz kill.
Mad as hell? like the record breaking crowd at Barclays Center that ran for the exit signs as if Keith Thu Read Full Story >>> Keith Thurman, Tony Bellew have their days: Weekend Review
By Michael Rosenthal, RingTV.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
BIGGEST WINNER
Keith Thurman: Thurman earned his rewards on Saturday night in Brooklyn, where he defeated Danny Garcia by a split decision to unify two sanctioning-body welterweight titles. I thought he won eight of the 12 rounds, using quick lateral movement to avoid taking punches and deliverin Read Full Story >>> Roy Jones Jr Tells BradCooney.com His Next Fight Will Be His Last
By Brad Cooney, BradCooney.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr informed BradCooney.com that he's got one more fight in him and then he's done. The former pound for pound greatest, and future hall of famer is coming off of a dominant performance over bare knuckle champion Bobby Gunn. Roy Jones Jr is one of the greatest fighters that's Read Full Story >>> TAPALES WORKING DOUBLY HARD AHEAD OF OMORI REMATCH
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
CEBU CITY ? Not taking his Japanese foe for granted whom he beat by 2nd round knockout on Dec. 16, 2015 to earn his world title shot, WBO bantamweight world champion Marlon Tapales said he is working doubly hard in preparatio Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao leads casting of fists in Elorde Boxing Awards rites
By Dong Secuya, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Five current and former world champions will etch their names into immortality in the ?Casting of Fists,? a major highlight of the 17th Gabriel Flash Elorde Memorial Boxing Awards and Banquet of Champions on March 25 at Read Full Story >>> Angel Garcia wants son Danny to retire after losing to Thurman
By Rich Mazon , PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Brooklyn, NY - The outspoken father and trainer of Danny Garcia wanted his son to hang up his boxing gloves hours after losing his World Boxing Council welterweight title to fellow champ Keith Thurman (World Boxing Read Full Story >>> Alexander Shlemenko defeats Paul Bradley, Kunchenko retains M-1 Challenge title
PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
MOSCOW (March 4, 2017) -- Russian middleweight Alexander "Storm" Shlemenko defeated American Paul "The Gentleman" Bradley and undefeated M-1 Challenge welterweight champion Alexey Kunchenko retained his title last night Read Full Story >>> Mario Barrios Remains Undefeated with Sixth Round TKO
PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
BROOKLYN, NY (March 5, 2017) - Last night at the Barclays Center in New York, San Antonio native, Mario Barrios (18-0, 10 KOs), remained undefeated with a stellar performance, defeated his opponent Yardley Suarez (20-7, 11 KO Read Full Story >>> Exclusive: Brook wants Thurman fight, backs Pacquiao over Khan
By Nick Parkinson, ESPN.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Kell Brook hopes to fight new WBA-WBC world welterweight champion Keith Thurman later this year.
Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs) defended his WBA belt and gained Danny Garcia's (33-1, 19 KOs) WBC title with a split points decision win over his fellow American on Saturday night.
Briton Brook, the IBF ch Read Full Story >>> Keith Thurman-Danny Garcia: Post-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Hardcore boxing followers may have been intrigued. Having seen far worse fights, they?ll easily convince themselves that ?it wasn?t that bad.?
It would miss the point.
In the most anticipated fight so far of 2017, after a string of exciting fights this year including a blazing upset earlier in Read Full Story >>> Exclusive: Floyd Mayweather - 'If Conor McGregor is smart he'll let me kick his a** and make a ton of money before he loses in the UFC'
By Gareth A Davies, Telegraph.co.uk, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Floyd Mayweather has advised Conor McGregor to fight him and make tens of millions in a boxing match before the Irishman loses in the UFC and fades as one of the hottest properties in combat sports.
McGregor has become a lightning rod in the UFC and has consistently called out Mayweather for a bo Read Full Story >>> Thurman-Garcia Receives Top TV Ratings
By Joseph Santoliquito, CBS news, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
PHILADELPHIA, PA (CBS) ? CBS was the No. 1 network in prime time on Saturday night, according to Nielsen overnight ratings, with the live broadcast of Showtime Championship Boxing on CBS, presented by
Premier Boxing Champions. The broadcast, which was produced by SHOWTIME Sports, featured a welter Read Full Story >>> Brook has Thurman in his sights despite impending Spence bout
AOL Sports, Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Kell Brook is already targeting a bout with WBA and WBC welterweight champion Keith Thurman after his impending match-up with Errol Spence.
Thurman (28-0) took the WBC belt from Danny Garcia with a split points decision in New York on Saturday.
The American is now in the sights of IBF champion Read Full Story >>> Thurman wins split decision in a big fight that barely delivered
By Mitch Abramson, RingTV.com, Sun, 05 Mar 2017
Ray Leonard may want a retraction.
After declaring the matchup of Danny Garcia and Keith Thurman the second coming of his epic 1981 RING Fight of the Year with Thomas Hearns, today?s fighters failed to live up to the hype, producing a puzzling, cautious effort in a primetime slot on CBS.
Thurm Read Full Story >>> ?One Time? Wins Big Time
By Robert Ecksel, Boxing.com, Sun, 05 Mar 2017
Thurman took his foot off the gas during the championship rounds, but he didn?t pull an Oscar De La Hoya against Felix Trinidad?
Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, WBA welterweight champion Keith ?One Time? Thurman (28-0, 1 ND, 22 KOs), the exemplary boxer-puncher from C Read Full Story >>> Borges: Keith Thurman?s split decision win vs. Danny Garcia lacks punch
By Ron Borges, Boston Herald, Sun, 05 Mar 2017
NEW YORK ? When Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns fought to unify the welterweight title Sept. 16, 1981, nobody booed. When Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia went about the same hard business last night at the Barclays Center, the record crowd of 16,533 booed during the second half of the bout and af Read Full Story >>>
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