Kevin Iole
1,466 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Ward vs. Kovalev prediction: It’s more than just boxer vs. puncher
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? This fight is what boxing dreams are made of, unbeaten vs. unbeaten, champion vs. champion, boxer vs. slugger, two men in their primes at the top of their chosen…
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Sergey Kovalev’s path from boxing unknown to top of the sport
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? About five years ago, a little known boxing manager named Egis Klimas approached Bob Arum, one of the sport?s most powerful promoters, about taking on a promising light heavyweight…
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Why Andre Ward has a chance to be a PPV star
By Kevin Iole
Andre Ward is a great fighter, a maestro in shorts the likes of which rarely comes along in boxing these days. He is also not a huge draw. That point will be…
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Manny Pacquiao likes to give more than he receives
By Kevin Iole
Las Vegas (AFP) - Boxer Manny Pacquiao, known as the people's champion in his native Philippines, says he has given away about $200 million on projects to help the less fortunate. "Every…
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Manny Pacquiao is taking a massive financial risk in his fight against Jessie Vargas
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? Manny Pacquiao has admitted that, at least in part, his return after a brief retirement from boxing is about money. The man who last year earned well over $100…
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Why Manny Pacquiao’s return is about more than boxing
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? Those who know him say Manny Pacquiao never watches boxing at home. He defeated Timothy Bradley Jr. in April, promptly announced his retirement and figured he was done with…
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Manny Pacquiao trying to win a world title while training part time
By Kevin Iole
Manny Pacquiao may never have become a superstar boxer and cultural icon whose charity and good works changed the lives of countless of his countrymen if his nation?s current policy against drugs…
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Marquee fights await Manny Pacquiao if he can find his knockout power
By Kevin Iole
Manny Pacquiao is in a strange position in his boxing career. He?s one of the most successful, and exciting, fighters of his generation, but when is the last time that one of…
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Don King’s use of racial slur sparks war of words with old rival over politics
By Kevin Iole
Boxing promoter Don King?s voice on the telephone was booming, full of excitement. It was as if he had a major fight to announce, but this time, he was talking politics. King…
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Take that, Putin: Michael Conlan signs with Top Rank one month after famous post-fight meltdown
By Kevin Iole
Michael Conlan is perhaps best known for a tweet he sent to Russian president Vladimir Putin, but Top Rank CEO Bob Arum and president Todd duBoef are convinced bigger things are ahead.…
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Canelo Alvarez delivers another one-sided win against a fighter not named Gennady Golovkin
By Kevin Iole
Canelo Alvarez put on an offensive clinic on Saturday before 51,240 at AT&T Stadium in his junior middleweight title fight with Liam Smith, winning the WBO belt by knocking out the game-but-overmatched…
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Ultimate nice guy Jessie Vargas doesn’t appreciate lack of respect ahead of his fight with Manny Pacquiao
By Kevin Iole
Jessie Vargas is a world champion with 27 wins in 28 fights and has a Nov. 5 pay-per-view date with Manny Pacquiao that could serve to put him on the international boxing…
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Liam Smith believes he can do to Canelo Alvarez what Buster Douglas did to Mike Tyson
By Kevin Iole
Liam Smith understands more than most the doubters. He gets why Canelo Alvarez is a 12-1 favorite on Saturday to defeat him and lift the WBO junior middleweight title in the main…
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Canelo Alvarez in for the fight of his career, and it’s not inside the ring
By Kevin Iole
Canelo Alvarez entered 2016 as the unquestioned biggest draw in boxing. But he?s been mishandled so badly that Saturday?s bout against Liam ?Beefy? Smith figures to serve as a referendum on just…
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Don’t fall for Oscar De La Hoya’s lies about Canelo vs. Golovkin
By Kevin Iole
Oscar De La Hoya, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, has made it clear by his actions over the last few months that what he says and what he does are two…
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Boxing debate: Does wearing headgear actually increase risk of concussion?
By Kevin Iole
RIO DE JANEIRO ? In 2010, the International Boxing Association (AIBA), the federation that runs Olympic boxing, created a professional series it named the World Series of Boxing. It uses the same…
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USA Boxing is rolling at Olympics, despite lack of respect from USOC
By Kevin Iole
RIO DE JANEIRO ? Each morning, the United States Olympic Committee sends out an email to journalists here with highlights of the performance of American athletes in the Games the day prior.…
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Manny Pacquiao’s returning to boxing, and that’s just sad
By Kevin Iole
The scariest thing about the news that Manny Pacquiao is going to fight Jessie Vargas on Nov. 5 in Las Vegas is not that promoters are actually going to put that on…
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Irish medal-contending boxer Michael O’Reilly fails pre-Olympic drug test
By Kevin Iole
RIO DE JANEIRO ? Michael O?Reilly of Ireland, a medal contender at middleweight, failed a pre-Olympic drug test and has been provisionally suspended by the International Amateur Boxing Association. O?Reilly?s A sample…
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Olympic trial win over Floyd Mayweather Jr. nearly changed this U.S. boxing coach’s life
By Kevin Iole
RIO DE JANEIRO ? Augie Sanchez has finally made the U.S. Olympic men?s boxing team, and he still harbors dreams of gold. But it?s 2016, not 1996, and Sanchez has long ago…