Bryan Armen Graham
64 articles · Sports Illustrated
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Naoya Inoue boosts claim as world’s best boxer with destruction of Luis Nery
Naoya Inoue bolstered his claim as the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter on Monday when he came off the floor to retain his undisputed junior featherweight championship with a technical knockout of Luis…
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Gennady Golovkin: ‘Turning 40 is not a verdict. I feel great right now’
Veteran middleweight champion ready for one last run at the top, fighting Ryōta Murata this weekend before potential rematch with old foe Canelo Álvarez Bryan Armen Graham @bryanagraham Fri 8 Apr 2022…
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Tyson Fury beats Deontay Wilder in all-time classic to retain WBC heavyweight title
Tyson Fury has retained the WBC heavyweight championship after he won the third fight of his trilogy with Deontay Wilder on Saturday night in Las Vegas. He beat the challenger by TKO…
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Vegas lights back on for Fury’s fight with Wilder but air of sterility persists
Nineteen months ago, the anxiously anticipated rematch between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder marked a triumphant return of big-time heavyweight boxing to Las Vegas for the first time in more than two…
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Tyson Fury: ‘Anxiety is one of the worst things anybody could have’
It’s all smiles in dressing room four in the bowels of the MGM Grand Garden Arena, where Tyson Fury is only days away from defending his WBC heavyweight title against Deontay Wilder.…
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Fury v Wilder II: Fighters unveil bulked-up physiques on eve of rematch
There was a time when Deontay Wilder would have been one of his country’s most famous sportsmen, which makes the 34-year-old among the biggest casualties of boxing’s retreat toward the margins of…
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?I?m not going to scream robbery? ? Fury relaxed about controversial Wilder decision
On a night full of surprises Tyson Fury saved the biggest curveball for after the final bell. The 30-year-old from Manchester was hardly alone in believing he had done enough to outpoint…
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Gennady Golovkin scoffs at ‘clown’ Canelo ?lvarez at contentious weigh-in
Gennady Golovkin and Canelo ?lvarez both made weight on Friday afternoon ahead of their much-anticipated rematch for the world middleweight championship on the Las Vegas strip. Golovkin, who emerged first in a…
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Bad blood gives Golovkin and ?lvarez rematch an added edge
Boxing could have scarcely have dreamed of a better advertisement than last year?s summit meeting between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo ?lvarez, that rare showdown between two of the most accomplished fighters of…
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Conor McGregor open to boxing return despite defeat by Floyd Mayweather
Only the most devoted supporters of Conor McGregor, of which there were no shortage in Las Vegas, gave him a chance in Saturday?s junior middleweight fight with Floyd Mayweather. What hope did…
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Time to doff your cap because the last laugh will be Floyd Mayweather?s
Lou DiBella was near the end of an 11-year run as an executive at HBO when a young fighter walked into his office looking to renegotiate his contract with the network. The…
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Screaming Conor McGregor ridicules Floyd Mayweather at weigh-in
We have a fight. Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor both made the weight before their much-anticipated junior middleweight showdown on Saturday night in Las Vegas. McGregor was first on the scales on…
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Sergey Kovalev out for revenge against Andre Ward in hostile rematch
Sergey Kovalev is convinced he did enough to defeat Andre Ward when they met for the unified light heavyweight championship in the autumn but this time he is determined to sprint through…
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The Mayweather-McGregor farce is the event our idiocracy deserves
n Wednesday it was announced the finest boxer of his generation, unbeaten in 49 paying fights and 26 world championship contests with titles in five weight classes, will fight a scheduled 12-round…
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Joshua v Klitschko: the moment boxing?s epicentre moved from Vegas to London
Anthony Joshua lingered in the ring at Wembley Stadium as midnight struck on Sunday morning, bathing in the afterglow of the famous night that saw him write his name indelibly into his…
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The Kovalev-Ward decision was about boxing’s fine margins, not corruption
cathy Duva is no stranger to disappointment. The veteran promoter behind Sergey Kovalev has been on the wrong end of more than a few controversial decisions in her nearly three decades in…
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Carl Frampton facing tall order against WBA champion L?o Santa Cruz
Surely Carl Frampton knew what he was getting into when he surrendered his super-bantamweight titles and immediately targeted the biggest, baddest opponent at 126lb: the undefeated three-division champion L?o Santa Cruz. However,…
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Manny Pacquiao on Mayweather, Trump and the world’s most famous shoulder
The Manny Pacquiao who entered the congested dressing room on Thursday morning at Madison Square Garden, smartly clad in a glen plaid suit and Louis Vuitton sunglasses, with a pair of iPhones…
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Canelo Alvarez is now boxing’s biggest star as Gennady Golovkin looms
The first weekend of May and the second weekend of September represent the most important dates on the boxing calendar, the traditional stomping grounds of the sport?s biggest star. Most recently that?s…
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Gennady Golovkin shows boxing is in good hands after Floyd Mayweather
Even if it wasn?t officially the beginning of boxing?s post-Mayweather era ? even if the sport?s longtime standard-bearer comes out of retirement to fight once or twice more next year ? it…