Carlos Acevedo
262 articles · Mvn.com
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CONTEMPT: On Timothy Bradley-Manny Pacquiao
They should hold the rematch in Area 51, roughly 140 miles away from Sin City, where Manny Pacquiao dropped a peculiar split decision to Timothy Bradley at the MGM Grand last night…
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CONTEMPT: On Timothy Bradley-Manny Pacquiao
They should hold the rematch in Area 51, roughly 140 miles away from Sin City, where Manny Pacquiao dropped a peculiar split decision to Timothy Bradley at the MGM Grand last night…
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AFTERMATH: Tarver-Kayode, Quillin-Wright, Trout-Rodriguez, Santa Cruz-Malinga, & Bika-Davis
On Saturday night Showtime aired a quadruple-header?creatively named ?Four Warned (?)??from the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. This card, which included a prelim broadcast on Showtime Extreme, was like the going…
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The New Deal: Main Events and NBC Fight Night
A few weeks ago Golden Boy Promotions announced with great fanfare?is there any other kind??that they had signed an exclusive output deal with Fox Sports. Some of the boxing cheerleaders out there…
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UNDER SATURN: Johnny Tapia 1967-2012
1. ?The past is inevitable.? Delmore Schwartz 2. Look: there he is, a faraway blur, caught for an instant in the slipstream of time. Is it ESPN or USA? Is it 1989…
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DIRTY POOL: On David Haye, Dereck Chisora, & Frank Warren
A dangerous precedent was set last week when Frank Warren circumvented the British Boxing Board of Control and announced a sideshow between David Haye and Dereck Chisora, two lunatic fringe members looking…
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FAST COMPANY: Floyd Mayweather Jr. W12 Miguel Cotto
Drawing first blood was not enough for a spirited Miguel Cotto, who dropped a unanimous but competitive decision to Floyd Mayweather, Jr., on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas,…
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Why Not Lucy the Elephant Instead? Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson Preview
Imagine anyone re-electing Nixon, or agreeing to sail on the Titanic II, or, having miraculously escaped execution by hanging, volunteering to face the gibbet once again. When Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson…
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AFTERMATH: Mares-Morel, Moreno-De La Mora, Taylor-Truax, Lara-Hearns, & Stevenson-Gonzalez
Abner Mares deserves a heap of credit for doing what hitherto seemed like an impossibility: making an Eric Morel fight interesting. Vying for some vacant junior featherweight trinket set at a bizarre…
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10 & Counting: Linares, Pavlik, Kirkland-Molina Afterthoughts, Harry Crews & The Knockout Artist, Bell-Ringing Blues
Unheralded Sergio Thompson threw a rubber chicken into a bowl of Golden Boy Wagyu soup on Saturday night when he stopped Jorge Linares via TKO in two at the Oasis Hotel Complex…
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An Uncertain Time: Juan Manuel L?pez Waits for His Future
Juan Manuel L?pez, who went before the Puerto Rico Boxing Commission last Monday in a hearing to determine disciplinary action against him for his allegations against referee Roberto Ram?rez, Sr., may be…
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NIGHTSIDE: Zab Judah-Vernon Paris Preview
Vernon Paris gets his biggest chance to abandon the fringes at last when he faces veteran southpaw Zab Judah on Saturday night in an intriguing matchup scheduled for 12 at the Aviator…
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NIGHTSIDE: Zab Judah-Vernon Paris Preview
Vernon Paris gets his biggest chance to abandon the fringes at last when he faces veteran southpaw Zab Judah on Saturday night in an intriguing matchup scheduled for 12 at the Aviator…
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Hardchaw, Dreaming: Sergio Martinez-Matthew Macklin Preview
Sergio Martinez takes a break from cyber-bullying Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. when he meets bruising dreamer and EBU middleweight champion Matthew Macklin tomorrow night at the Theater in Madison Square Garden in…
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LOVING MONSTERS: Orlando Salido TKO10 Juan Manuel Lopez
?I like you. You are a nice monster.? Tennessee Williams In a breathtaking display of ultraviolence, veteran dangerman Orlando Salido battered fearless but outgunned Juan Manuel Lopez into a 10th-round TKO defeat…
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The Lighthouse Invites the Storm: Orlando Salido-Juan Manuel Lopez Preview
Orlando Salido looks to turn Puerto Rico into Snake Island for the local hero one more time when he faces Juan Manuel Lopez tonight at the Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan.…
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NO CLASS: Vitali Klitschko W12 Dereck Chisora
Vitali Klitschko successfully defended his McFit heavyweight championship of the world against limited but plucky Dereck Chisora with a unanimous 12-round decision at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany. Final scores were 118-110,…
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Geezers Need Excitement: Vitali Klitschko-Dereck Chisora Preview
Vitali Klitschko returns to the ring tomorrow night when he prepares to spank the latest l?enfant terrible?or is just ?terrible? enough??of British heavyweights, Dereck Chisora, over a scheduled 12 at the Olympiahalle…
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BAD COMPANY: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Marco Antonio Rubio Preview
Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., AKA ?The Thing That Should Not Be,? returns to San Antonio tonight, perhaps in a stretch limo, to face veteran powerpuncher Marco Antonio Rubio in a scheduled 12…
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The Clock Strikes Thirteen: The Best of TCS, 2011
Boxing Needs You, Baby! On Arum, Pacquiao, & Mosley Professional logicians would go mad, like blindfolded chess players, trying to make sense of boxing, its followers, and that strange hydra-headed beast, the…