Jeff Powell
252 articles · Mail Online (UK)
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Manny Pacquiao’s victory over Jessie Vargas hailed but it’s not enough yet for him to return to the top of the pound-for-pound rankings
By Jeff Powell
Two boxing websites of repute in America have restored Manny Pacquiao to No 1 in their pound-for-pound-greatest rankings following his dominant world welterweight title victory over Jessie Vargas. They also weighed into…
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Manny Pacquiao shines in comeback win against Jessie Vargas to put Floyd Mayweather rematch on the cards
By Jeff Powell
The Pacman is back, with vengeance on his mind. Whether Floyd Mayweather will grant Manny Pacquiao the opportunity to vex his grudge is a question wafting on the desert breeze through Las…
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Manny Pacquiao looking for divine intervention as he heads to Las Vegas chapel prior to Jessie Vargas bout
By Jeff Powell
Manny Pacquiao has geared up for his ring comeback on Saturday night by leading a prayer meeting in a Las Vegas chapel. The Pacman joined about a hundred worshippers, the majority of…
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Manny Pacquiao must once again defy his small stature in order to defeat Jessie Vargas, win world title in an eighth division and tempt Floyd Mayweather into a rematch
By Jeff Powell
Manny Pacquiao has not knocked out an opponent for seven years. Read and inwardly digest. That piece of information comes as something of shock to many of the thousands descending on Sin…
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Tyson Fury is down… but don’t count out the man who became heavyweight champion of the world just yet
By Jeff Powell
Tyson Fury?s meltdown has reduced him from the heavyweight champion of the world to a fallen giant at rock bottom. But it is not terminal. Not quite. Not yet. Those priceless belts…
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Gennady Golovkin: Kell Brook was easy, now time for Billy Joe Saunders!
By Jeff Powell
If Gennady Golovkin gets his way he will return to London this winter to inflict the same eye-busting punishment on Billy Joe Saunders that put a savage end to five rounds of…
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Gennady Golovkin poised to crush Kell Brook’s dream in world middleweight title showdown
By Jeff Powell
Once upon a time in that gritty old boxing gym in Sheffield, the Prince, Naseem Hamed, told a kid, Kell Brook, that one day he too would be a champ. Special K,…
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Kell Brook eager ‘to shock the world’ in title bout with Gennady Golovkin as Brit’s camp insist: ‘His weight gain has been calculated… he’s coming to win’
By Jeff Powell
Kell Brook has walked onto the first big punch from Team Golovkin, 48 hours before he challenges the Kazakh KO king for the world middleweight championship. The final media conference before Saturday…
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Kell Brook unfazed by dangerous knock-out king: ‘I nearly died… so Gennady Golovkin is nothing’
By Jeff Powell
The famous comparisons keep crowding in on Kell Brook, as will the world's most fearsome boxer in London's O2 Arena this Saturday night. As Brook nerves himself to do battle with Gennady…
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Kell Brook unfazed by dangerous knock-out king: ‘I nearly died… so Gennady Golovkin is nothing’
By Jeff Powell
The famous comparisons keep crowding in on Kell Brook, as will the world's most fearsome boxer in London's O2 Arena on Saturday night. As Brook steels himself to do battle with Gennady…
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Team GB’s Joe Cordina sees off Charly Suarez to edge into lightweight last 16 at Rio Olympic Games
By Jeff Powell
Joe Cordina, Cardiff's European lightweight champion, edged through his first Olympic fight on a split decision against Philippines showman Charly Suarez. The second man into the ring on day one of the…
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Carl Frampton beats Leo Santa Cruz on points as the Jackal claims WBA featherweight title after a ferocious battle in Brooklyn
By Jeff Powell
Carl Frampton, the ultimate fighting Irishman, mounted one of the most monumental performances in the history of the British ring to win a fight of extraordinary courage in the mecca of boxing.…
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Manny Pacquiao closer to a comeback after Terence Crawford set himself up as perfect opponent for November 5 Las Vegas return
By Jeff Powell
The path to Manny Pacquiao's comeback is opening wider day by day. Terence Crawford's world light-welterweight title-unifying victory over Viktor Postol in Las Vegas on Saturday night went a long way towards…
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Kell Brook did not flinch from challenge of moving up two weight divisions to fight Gennady Golovkin… he has earned the respect of the boxing community
By Jeff Powell
Whatever fate befalls Kell Brook when he steps into the ring with Gennady Golovkin, and the bookies are among many who expect him to be flattened by the ring?s KO king, he…
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Canelo Alvarez is the iron Mexican and WBC champion standing in Amir Khan’s way… and he has been fighting all his life
By Jeff Powell
Everybody calls him Canelo, the iron Mexican who Amir Khan dares to rise up and challenge for the world middleweight championship here this Saturday night. Anyone who follows the fight game knows…
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Amir Khan hoping for astonishing victory over Canelo Alvarez as Floyd Mayweather fuels speculation of a return to the ring
By Jeff Powell
When Amir Khan looks out of the window of his hotel here the first thing he sets eyes upon is a giant image of himself glaring out from an electronic screen on…
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Manny Pacquiao let his halo slip with homophobic slurs? his cherished place in the affections of millions is in jeopardy
By Jeff Powell
Whether or not this is the PacMan's last stand, he needs to storm into the Las Vegas night this Saturday with all guns blazing. For so long the unimpeachable holder of the…
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Manny Pacquiao may be forced into making retirement U-turn after falling down pecking order in Philippines political leadership race following public jibe at homosexuals
By Jeff Powell
The Pac Man could be obliged to box on after the fight next month which he has pronounced will mark his farewell to the ring. Manny Pacquiao?s hitherto seamless transition from world…
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Carl Frampton defeats Scott Quigg by split decision to unify the IBF and WBA super-bantamweight world titles in gripping bout
By Jeff Powell
Carl Frampton preserved his unbeaten record with a split-decision win over Scott Quigg on Saturday night. The Jackal won Quigg's WBA super-bantamweight world title to unify the division with his IBF belt…
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Tyson Fury’s victory over Wladimir Klitschko joins the great upsets in boxing history alongside James ‘Buster’ Douglas and the Rumble in the Jungle
By Jeff Powell
After Tyson Fury sensationally defeated Wladimir Klitschko by a unanimous points decision in Dusseldorf on Saturday,Sportsmail look back at the six biggest upsets in boxing history. From the epic Rumble in the…