Steve Bunce
76 articles · Setanta Sports
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Manny Pacquiao’s defeat by Jeff Horn provoked the hysterical, darker side to boxing
By Steve Bunce
It is perhaps convenient to forget the dismal performance by Manny Pacquiao in the ring and concentrate on the outrage at the decision in Sunday's brawl in Brisbane. Pacquiao is now 38…
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Retirement beckons for Manny Pacquiao after dreadful defeat
By Steve Bunce
Today should be the first day of Manny Pacquiao's permanent retirement from boxing. On Sunday afternoon in Brisbane he was pushed, hit, cut and made to look old, predictable and slow at…
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Forget Mayweather vs McGregor, Gennady Golovkin’s showdown with Canelo Alvarez promises a real spectacle
By Steve Bunce
There is an alarming sparkle in the eyes of Gennady Golovkin when he recalls his brief nights in the boxing ring and becomes oddly animated from about the same distance as he…
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Kell Brook challenger Errol Spence has it all to prove, says Steve Bunce
By Steve Bunce
Kell Brook is still slightly amused that he is expected to lose his latest world title defence on Saturday night against Errol Spence in Sheffield, outdoors under the stars at Bramall Lane.…
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Predictable, weary and no killer instinct – is Gennady Golovkin’s reign at the very top of boxing finally nearing its end?
By Steve Bunce
It is far too simple to dismiss the odd performance of Gennady Golovkin on Saturday night in the Madison Square Garden ring as the start of the end for the fighting maestro…
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Amir Khan vs Manny Pacquiao: Despite the endless speculation, this is a fight that was always going to happen
By Steve Bunce
The fight between Amir Khan and Manny Pacquiao was guaranteed to take place at some point from the first time the pair sparred together in October 2008 at Freddie Roach?s Wild Card…
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Reputations improved, Andre Ward, Sergey Kovalev unite in rematch calls
By Steve Bunce
There was a rare moment of unity in the boxing business at the end of Saturday's fight in Las Vegas when all three judges agreed on the score and both boxers demanded…
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Manny Pacquiao’s brilliant return switches attentions to Floyd Mayweather rematch
By Steve Bunce
The first fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather generated $600 million, took six years to get to the ring and was forgettable after three minutes. Since that shambolic deal in May…
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Santa Cruz vs. Frampton restores sense at time of freak fights
By Steve Bunce
The Carl Frampton and Leo Santa Cruz fight is a great fight in any era and at any weight. At a time of entertaining and wildly popular freak fights, where men walk…
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Kell Brook vs Gennady Golovkin continues British tradition of hard to invent fights
By Steve Bunce
On Saturday in Cardiff the greatest Cuban boxer to ever climb over the wall and escape, to what was always called the West in the Cold War heyday, will fight for a…
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The remarkable night Sugar Ray Robinson met his match, recalls Steve Bunce
By Steve Bunce
Sugar Ray Robinson had a dwarf called Arabian Knight in his entourage of 13 during his tour of Europe that ended at Earl?s Court in July 1951 after six fights, in just…
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Amir Khan vs Canelo Alvarez: Flame of 2004 Olympics still burns in fearless Khan as he faces biggest challenge
By Steve Bunce
He has walked through the tinkling cash caverns in Las Vegas before, gazed at sixty-feet of his smiling face, mixed it with 11 world champions in his career and never once entered…
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Replacing Mayweather the real title for Khan
By Steve Bunce
Last September Floyd Mayweather left vacant the pay-per-view title, earlier this month Manny Pacquiao regained the lavish crown and then vacated as he vanished into another retirement. Early next month the new…
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Guillermo Rigondeaux digs a big hole for himself by going underground again
By Steve Bunce
Some reports claimed that the two Cuban amateur boxers dressed up as women to slip through Brazilian security, and everybody agrees the pair were in a brothel when they were captured a…
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Golovkin the new pay-per-view boy but Lemieux won’t be happy fall guy
By Steve Bunce
Gennady Golovkin is boxing's scariest fighter according to the men that he has left reeling during five years of world title fights. The Kazakh defends his WBC interim middleweight title and the…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao: The aftermath in Vegas
By Steve Bunce
A man was shot outside, not far from the MGM Grand, inside just over 50,000 people had queued patiently to wager just under $30 million (?20m) in bets and wandering the property,…
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Bunce: Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao superfight is finally here – and it won’t disappoint
By Steve Bunce
It's here. On Saturday night a crowd of 16,800 people will stand and holler when Michael Buffer and Jimmy Lennon have performed their lines and emptied from the ring at the MGM…
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Mayweather, Paquiao could disappoint
By Steve Bunce
One day in January 1990, at a hotel in Beverly Hills, Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson announced the world's most lucrative fight, with Don King boldly talking of both boxers making $40m.…
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Floyd Mayweather ends the carnival this week and picks his next fight – but will it be Amir Khan, Manny Pacquiao or Miguel Cotto
By Steve Bunce
This week the $150m soap opera dominating boxing will finally end and all will be revealed as Floyd Mayweather picks his opponent for May ? while the leftover fighters all scramble for…
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Mayweather and Pacquiao at the risk of joining boxing’s ‘lost fights’
By Steve Bunce
In the movie Grudge Match two old hams meet up in the ring when they are both pensioners. I think of this disaster when people tell me that Floyd Mayweather and Manny…