Kevin Iole
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Wrongly convicted Bozella gets a bout at age 52
By Kevin Iole
Walking down the street in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on an otherwise nondescript summer day in 1977, 18-year-old Dewey Bozella was about to be robbed. What was taken from him was far greater than…
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Dawson leans on Scully to prepare for Hopkins
By Kevin Iole
Scully has been hidden away in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, preparing Chad Dawson for his light heavyweight title bout against Bernard Hopkins on Oct. 15 on HBO Pay-Per-View at the Staples…
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Mailbag: Martinez stuck in the middle
By Kevin Iole
After weighing in at 158 on Friday, then eating a meal that included a steak and a slice of cheesecake, Martinez rehydrated only six more pounds. But that shows the problem Martinez…
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Bradley on collision course to face Pacquiao
By Kevin Iole
In about five weeks, after Juan Manuel Marquez is done chugging his own pee and Manny Pacquiao finally gets an emphatic victory over his long-time Mexican rival, the significance of Top Rank?s…
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Martinez searches for big-time foe
By Kevin Iole
It would be easy to say that rare is the superstar boxer who finds himself in the plight that Ring middleweight champion Sergio Martinez faces. Martinez is one of boxing?s most gifted…
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?JuanMa? rebuilds after devastating loss
By Kevin Iole
Juan Manuel Lopez finally concedes he was wrong. He had a seemingly stay-busy title defense lined up against Orlando Salido on April 16 and didn?t think an impending divorce from his wife,…
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Mailbag: Ward takes patient path
By Kevin Iole
Andre Ward, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist, still isn?t a household name, despite defeating Mikkel Kessler, Allan Green, Sakio Bika and Arthur Abraham during Showtime?s Super Six tournament and moving into the…
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Rankings: Pacman holds off Mayweather
By Kevin Iole
April was the last month that Floyd Mayweather Jr. was eligible because he had last fought in May 2010 and the poll's rules require a fighter to compete at least once in…
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Cotto won?t rap on Margarito?s wraps
By Kevin Iole
If steam actually did come out of a person?s ears when they were angry, Miguel Cotto would have looked like an overheated industrial-sized furnace as he spoke of Antonio Margarito. Cotto was…
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Mailbag: Floyd and Pacman take similar path
By Kevin Iole
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has repeatedly intimated that Manny Pacquiao?s rise through boxing?s weight classes is due to something other than natural growth. But the statistics do not back Mayweather?s contention. Mayweather is…
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Mayweather missteps, avoids Pacman question
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? The sole mistake that Floyd Mayweather Jr. made on Saturday came about 90 minutes after he disposed of Victor Ortiz and claimed the World Boxing Council welterweight championship with…
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Floyd the straw that stirs boxing?s drink
By Kevin Iole
On Saturday, after 16 months on the sidelines, Mayweather returned to make the World Boxing Council welterweight champion look like a rank amateur. It leads one to wonder what the guy might…
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Smart marketing makes Mayweather ?Money?
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? Richard Schaefer had had enough of Floyd Mayweather Jr. During a cross-country tour to promote the 2007 fight between Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya, Schaefer quickly grew irritated…
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Hard childhood made Ortiz a fighter
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? Victor Ortiz was staring at the floor, speaking dispassionately, rarely making eye contact, when someone mentioned that fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena…
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Mailbag: Boxing isn?t going anywhere
By Kevin Iole
If you search the Internet for the phrase ?boxing is dead,? it will turn up tens of millions of responses. Mixed martial arts fans mockingly say it. Boxing promoters often moan about…
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Klitschko machine clicking on all cylinders
By Kevin Iole
It?s not news that Vitali Klitschko has lapped the field in the heavyweight division. That should have been obvious years ago. And it really won?t be significant news when Klitschko successfully defends…
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Mayweather, De La Hoya spar over legacies
By Kevin Iole
LAS VEGAS ? Roger Mayweather is stretched out on a couch in the lobby of the Mayweather Boxing Club, awaiting his nephew?s arrival. Between swills from a can of sweet iced tea,…
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Mailbag: Changes needed in HBO?s methods
By Kevin Iole
Gary Russell Jr. proved on Saturday in the opener of HBO?s doubleheader from Biloxi, Miss., why so many believe he?s the top prospect in boxing. Russell dominated Leonilo Miranda, using his blazing…
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Backlash has Berto reflecting on his career
By Kevin Iole
Andre Berto says he doesn?t give two hoots about your opinion. He insists he doesn?t care what the media says. He doesn?t care what is written about him on Twitter or Facebook.…
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De La Hoya hopes second time is charm
By Kevin Iole
Oscar De La Hoya said in a lengthy telephone interview with Yahoo! Sports on Thursday that he had also entered drug and alcohol rehabilitation in 2009, but that ?it didn?t work? and…