Ralph Rimpell
206 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Mikey Garcia Will Be ‘The Man’, If He Beats Spence Jr.
Somewhere in some office at the Showtime network, executives are no doubt salivating at the prospect of matching 4 division champion and newly unified WBC/IBF lightweight (135lbs) champion Mikey Garcia (39-0, 30KOs)…
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PACQUIAO-MATTHYSSE FIGHT ANALYSIS
This upcoming Saturday future boxing hall of famer and living legend Manny ?Pac Man? Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38KOs) makes his return to boxing after a one year layoff to fight dangerous ?Regular? WBA…
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Crawford-Spence No later Than Oct 2019, Please!
Newly crowned WBO welterweight champion, former unified jr. welterweight champion, and former lightweight champion Terence ?Bud? Crawford (33-0, 24KOs) recently said, ?Their can only be one King? in reference to a fight…
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Ralph Rimpell’s P4P List
Over the weekend I went to the ESPN website to look at the fight schedule for the summer as it is a very reliable site in regards to fight dates. I then…
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?Crunch Time? for Triple G
For those of you readers not familiar with the term ?crunch time?, it?s an expression often heard in arenas when two competitive teams are battling to get the victory over the opposing…
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Can Deontay Wilder Be Great?
It?s almost 3 weeks now and dust has settled from that exciting fight at Barclay Center in Brooklyn, New York between WBC Heavyweight Champion Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39KOs) and top contender Luis…
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Garcia KOs Rios in 9th; Benavidez decisions Gavril
At the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, former welterweight champion Danny ?Swift? Garcia (34-1, 20KOs) overcame a tough challenge from former Champion ?Bam Bam? Brandon Rios (34-4-1, 24KOs) to keep his hopes…
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Danny Garcia-Brandon Rios (Fight Preview)
On Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the red hot welterweight division continues to get even hotter when two former champions Danny ?Swift? Garcia (34-1, 19KOs) and Brandon ?Bam…
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Ralph Rimpell?s Boxing P4P List
It?s been 10 months since I wrote a P4P list (last list published on Philboxing 3/26/17). The time has come once again for me to rate who I feel are the current…
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Spence Jr. Ignites Buzz In Welterweight Division
Not since the days of Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran has there been such a Buzz in the Welterweight division (147lbs). For those not familiar with the term ?Buzz?…
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The Greatness of Floyd ?Money? Mayweather
On October 11, 1996 Olympic Bronze Medalist Floyd Mayweather Jr. made is professional debut by stopping his opponent in two rounds. That was more than 20 years ago. Mainstream fighters like Mike…
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Mayweather: ?I?m not scared of GGG? (Who cares!)
Recently retired Hall of Fame fighter and Superstar Floyd ?Money? Mayweather (50-0, 27KOs) was heckled by a fan while at Madison Square Garden attending a Knick preseason game for not fighting reigning…
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Boxing Belongs to ?Triple G? If He Beats Canelo
The first time I heard the expression ?The World is mine? was when watching the classic gangster flick ?Scarface? starring American Actor Al Pacino. The character he portrayed in the movie, Tony…
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Mayweather-McGregor Fight Analysis and Prediction
The date was January 25, 2003 over 14 years ago. This author was in attendance at the Penchanga Resort and Casino in California to watch late WBC welterweight champion Vernon Forrest who…
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NBA — Will The King be a Knick in 2018?
NEW YORK -- For the past six months or so the NBA has been buzzing about the mess in New York as it pertains to the direction that former team president Phil…
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Pacquiao?s Revenge on Horn: No Rematch
It?s been over three weeks that the sport of boxing regressed or took steps back from all the progress it had made thus far in 2017 when the world saw Manny Pacquiao…
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McGregor Has 0% Chance vs Mayweather?
The year was 1996 and Mike Tyson, after a stint in jail, was set to face Evander Holyfield who appeared to be on the decline after a terrible performance against Bobby Czyz.…
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Light Heavyweight Division Making a Comeback in 2017?
Michael Spinks. Do any of you boxing fans remember Michael Spinks, Dwight Muhammad Qwai, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, and Marvin Johnson? These fighters were light heavyweight champions that fought in the late 1970s…
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All Hail Future King Errol Spence, Jr.?
Former 2012 Olympian and Current IBF #1 welterweight contender Errol Spence Jr. (21-0, 18KOs) is set to face IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook in less than 2 weeks across the Pond, in…
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Still No Mayweather-McGreggor? Why not Mayweather-Pacquiao II?
For about a year and a half there has been talk, a buildup, or an unofficial promotion of boxing great Floyd ?Money? Mayweather (49-0,26KOs) fighting UFC MMA star Connor McGregor (0-0,0KOs)*. Most…
