Kevin Iole
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Pound-for-pound great Terence Crawford getting no traction in bid for mega-fights
By Kevin Iole
The stories are the same. Only the names of the opponents change. In April, when Terence Crawford was preparing to defend his WBO welterweight title in a pay-per-view bout in New York…
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Michael Conlan relishing ‘chance at redemption’ over controversial Olympic loss
By Kevin Iole
This isn’t a chance to right a wrong, to make a stolen dream a reality. There is no way that Michael “Mick” Conlan will ever get the Olympic medal he so desperately…
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Teofimo Lopez focused on Richard Commey as family drama continues to swirl
By Kevin Iole
The cold, dispassionate numbers on a screen tell one story: Teofimo Lopez has been, they suggest, his usual brilliant self in 2019. Lopez opened the season as one of the hottest fighters…
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As his moment of truth nears, Andy Ruiz Jr. says there’s ‘no way’ he lets his belts go
By Kevin Iole
During a lull between fights at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in July, where Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman were scheduled to fight for the WBA welterweight title in…
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From state pen to the Hall of Fame: How Bernard Hopkins became an icon inside and outside the ring
By Kevin Iole
The story has been told thousands of times by now, but as it is so central to the man and, yes, the role model that Bernard Hopkins eventually became, it is worth…
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Why Deontay Wilder is the right heavyweight champion at the right time for the division
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? On Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden, Deontay Wilder will defend his WBC heavyweight title against Luis Ortiz in a matchup that he did not have to take and,…
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Nevada commission threatens Matchroom’s promoter’s license over Chavez Jr.’s skipped drug test
By Kevin Iole
The executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission threatened disciplinary action against a leading boxing promoter if his company goes forward with a bout on Dec. 20 in Phoenix involving Julio Cesar…
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Bigger issues face boxing than KSI-Paul bout, which actually taught some good lessons
By Kevin Iole
Ask yourself a question: What is worse for boxing, a pair of YouTube stars who trained very hard and fought each other with all that they had headlining a show at Staples…
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In glaring sign of weakness, DAZN delays Canelo-Kovalev until after UFC 244
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? The biggest star in boxing paced in his locker room, gloves on, for what seemed an eternity. He couldn?t make the ring walk to the roars of the crowd…
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Has Canelo Alvarez been underrated as an all-time great fighter?
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? For months, I kept hearing about this freckle-faced teenager from Mexico who had been knocking grown men out cold. Sure, most of the men he was kayoing were never…
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The sad truth about ‘quitting’ in boxing … and why Max Kellerman was wrong to say it
By Kevin Iole
?Quitting? is a loaded word in boxing circles. Maybe it?s fair to say that a boxer who took a bout because he needed a few extra bucks to pay for some work…
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Oleksandr Gvozdyk, boxing’s best kept secret, added more bite to his game thanks to Teddy Atlas
By Kevin Iole
In Teddy Atlas? world, Oleksandr ?The Nail? Gvozdyk has the talent to be a shark, but if the budding Ukrainian star wanted to fulfill his vast potential as a boxer, Atlas felt…
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The Hall of Fame case for renowned promoter Dan Goossen
By Kevin Iole
The summer of 2014 was a lonely one. The phone didn?t ring nearly as often as it once had. The corny jokes and the bad impersonations ceased. Just a few weeks after…
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Vasiliy Lomachenko, the most unbeatable boxer in the game, won’t get caught up in the hype
By Kevin Iole
He?s the single most unbeatable boxer in the world, even if he has a loss among his 14 pro fights and was decked just three fights ago. Vasiliy Lomachenko is so talented,…
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Anthony Joshua feuds with Lennox Lewis, continues embarrassing himself
By Kevin Iole
Lennox Lewis is among a small handful of the greatest heavyweight boxers who ever lived, an athletic, powerful and shrewd man who never ducked a challenge. He conducted himself with dignity and…
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Money talks and Eddie Hearn and Co. are listening as Ruiz-Joshua rematch lands in Saudi Arabia
By Kevin Iole
Many major sporting events have begun to be hosted in Saudi Arabia, largely because of the enormous amounts of money the Saudis are offering to lure them to the kingdom. And whenever…
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Canelo Alvarez saga rolls on as Golden Boy scrambles to get him back into the ring
By Kevin Iole
For several weeks, as the topic of Canelo Alvarez?s next fight was discussed, boxing insiders whispered that the unified middleweight champion wasn?t on speaking terms with either Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar…
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John Skipper’s epic failure has Canelo Alvarez flexing his muscle at DAZN
By Kevin Iole
There is no other way to put it: John Skipper is making an absolute mess of the boxing program at DAZN. He blew it by not having final say on Canelo Alvarez?s…
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Vintage Manny Pacquiao turns back the clock in Fight of the Year frontrunner
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? Manny Pacquiao is far from the first boxer to win a major fight after his 40th birthday. But none of those who did so previously ? Bernard Hopkins, George…
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Manny Pacquiao hands Keith Thurman his first loss in thriller
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? There haven?t been many 40-year-old boxers in the long and storied and occasionally sordid history of this sport who have been able to keep the kind of pace Manny…