Jeff Powell
252 articles · Mail Online (UK)
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Masterful Mayweather produces scintillating display to tame young lion Alvarez in Vegas
Floyd Mayweather produced another night of magic in the desert to brush aside the muscular young challenge from Mexican prodigy Saul Alvarez. Not everyone appreciates genius at work and one of the…
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Canelo? Mayweather is more worried about who serves the best BURGER in Vegas!
The main point of contention for the best prize-fighter on the planet is not whether the Mexican prodigy he faces on Saturday night is dangerous enough to inflict the first defeat of…
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Mayweather the ring king is turning heat on cool Kid in Las Vegas
The last of my breed. That is how the best boxer in the world describes himself. Arrogant, maybe, but The One, as he is being billed in Las Vegas on the eve…
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EXCLUSIVE: De La Hoya set to miss Mayweather-Alvarez mega fight after rushing in to rehab
Oscar De La Hoya has admitted himself into rehab at the start of a week in which he is supposed to be promoting the biggest fight of this century so far. The…
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Burns v Beltran – round-by-round coverage of the WBO lightweight title fight
Ricky Burns can lay claim to being Scotland's greatest ever boxer if he defeats Mexican Raymundo Beltran over 12 rounds at Glasgow?s SECC, says promoter Eddie Hearn. But Burns know he will…
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Pacquiao, Froch and Khan make the list but why is there no place for Mayweather in the top 10 most exciting fighters in the world?
Popular website Eastside Boxing has produced a top 10 of the most exciting ? as opposed to simply the best ? active fighters in the world. Unsurprisingly, Manny Pacquiao is at No…
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EXCLUSIVE: Khan will fight Alexander in Dubai for welterweight title in December… with winner set for Mayweather showdown
Amir Khan is to challenge Devon Alexander for the American?s IBF world welterweight title, almost certainly in the first big fight ever to be held in the Arabian desert. If Khan becomes…
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Forget Beckham’s millions, Manny and Money Mayweather show the hard old game is still a real box-office hit
After all the hullabaloo about David Beckham earning more than the gross national product of many third world countries, it turns out that he is not even the best paid sportsman on…
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Khan’s as exciting as they come but he might not be around for much longer ? we should all enjoy him while we can
The mystery of why Amir Khan is the most polarising sporting figure in this country remains as perplexing as ever. Even in as thrilling a victory as anyone could wish to see,…
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Jeff Powell’s review of 2012, with Ricky Hatton, Manny Pacquiao and more
'Tis the season to put on a few pounds, let the stitches heal the wounds, to soothe the swollen hands, take the weight off the feet without every second counting? and confer…
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De La Hoya on his way as Golden Boy applies for British license
The Golden Boy is preparing to invade England with major boxing events show-casing Britain's 2012 Olympians on the under-cards of top Americans in world title fights. Oscar De La Hoya and his…
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JEFF POWELL: King Khan is back on track and showing the world his exciting natural talent… but he will have to wait for title shot
Next stop the world. So says Amir Khan after laying waste to a neighbourhood of east Los Angeles on Saturday night. Maybe so, now that he has pulled back from the edge…
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I must KO Marquez! Pacquiao fears judges’ revenge if fight No 4 goes all the way
An English judge has been called by the state of Nevada to help resolve, once and for all, the most festering dispute in world sport. John Keane, a veteran boxing referee from…
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Ricky Hatton exclusive: ‘I want to redeem myself. I want my kids to be proud of me’
The house that Ricky built stands up the road from the tough council estate where he grew up and from which he came out fighting. Electronic gates open on to the driveway…
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So long, Ricky Fat-ton! Returning Hitman vows to quit boozing between bouts
There will be no more boozing and bingeing between the boxing during Ricky Hatton?s comeback. The Hitman makes that promise as he trains himself to the limit in readiness for his return…
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Marvellous Martinez is the new master after schooling Chavez Jnr in Vegas
Boxing has its successor to the middleweight legend, and the arrival of this late-comer to glory has lifted the hard old game into enlightened belief that there will be life ? and…
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Freed Mayweather’s hopes of $200m Pacquiao fight are running out of time
Floyd Mayweather has come out of prison looking as perfectly healthy and powerfully muscled as when he took occupancy of his solitary cell at Clark County Jail two months ago. So it…
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Jailed Floyd on the Money with drug campaigning
The prison cell which Floyd Mayweather finds so distasteful is turning into a sanctuary wherein he avoids being hit by large boxers falling out of the branches of the steroids tree which…
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In Manchester, El Paso and the Philippines – boxing was back hitting the right notes
In El Paso, Texas, Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr successfully defended his WBC world middleweight title by stopping 'Irish' Andy Lee in the seventh round, thereby setting up a mouthwatering September showdown with…
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Was this the biggest robbery in boxing history? Sport stunned as Pac Man loses title on points
Not even George Clooney and his boys would have dared attempt a movie heist in Sin City as big as the real crime perpetrated under cover of darkness here. A cool $200million…
