David A. Avila
297 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Canelo training for Mayweather at Big Bear cabin
The summer of 2013 will be remembered as one of the driest when it comes to big prizefights. But come September, things really heat up. Floyd Mayweather and Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez appeared…
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Is ?GGG? The Straw That Stirs The Middleweight Drink?
After a couple of years of trying to percolate among the boxing public that Gennady ?GGG? Golovkin is a genuine knockout machine not built of straw, the WBA and IBO middleweight champion…
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Will Gennady Golovkin?s Baby Face Fool Matthew Macklin?
Baby-faced boxers are a strange lot. They look innocent and incapable of violence and seem vulnerable to strangers with candy. But then you place them in a prize ring and they change…
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Bob Arum Says Bradley-Marquez Is Best Fight of the Year
It?s months before Timothy ?Desert Storm? Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez set foot in the ring to exchange fighting skills, but there they were in the posh Beverly Hills Hotel hyping their…
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Why Malignaggi Will Beat Broner
Words have been spilled and feelings over-boiled, now it?s time to fight. Brooklyn?s own Paul ?The Magic Man? Malignaggi (32-4, 7 KOs) clashes with Cincinnati?s Adrien ?The Problem? Broner (26-0, 22 KOs)…
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Sugar Shane Mosley Reloads & Fights Pablo Cano
Remember in the movie ?Shane? when the blond youngster shouted out to Alan Ladd?s character, ?Shane, come back.? Well, the Pomona icon is returning to the boxing ring. Sugar Shane Mosley (46-8-1,…
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AVILA’S POUND FOR POUND LIST, UPDATED
Let?s cut to the root. Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer out there pound-for-pound. Before meeting fellow pound-for-pound fighter Robert Guerrero, this writer felt ?Money? had lost his legs. Apparently that is…
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Avila?s Las Vegas Fight Journal: May Day 2013
Springtime in Southern California can be the best time of the year. With temperatures in the 80s and a brisk wind blowing through the Cajon Pass, we breezed up the mountain freeway…
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Two Most Athletic Boxers Face Off: Robert ?The Ghost? Guerrero vs. Floyd Mayweather
Most of Robert ?The Ghost? Guerrero?s career has existed under the radar, like one of those stealth bombers that suddenly appear in a flash. Others received the fanfare, television time and adulation…
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Canelo vs. Trout: The Moment of Truth.
It's the moment of truth for Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. Can Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 Kos) defeat a bona fide contender or a world titleholder like Austin "No Doubt" Trout (26-0, 14 Kos) on…
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Floyd Mayweather Day Again
LAS VEGAS-Maybe it was more restricted, or maybe it was simply access to Floyd Mayweather's media day was unnecessary, but fewer reporters appeared at the Las Vegas boxing gym located in Chinatown…
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Ghost Day in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS-Spur of the moment drug testing delayed the media day festivities of Robert ?The Ghost? Guerrero on Tuesday at the IBA gym. More than 100 reporters mulled around the fair-sized boxing…
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BOXING: Makings of a great fight
Redheads are taking over the sports world. Basketball has Blake Griffin, baseball has Mike Trout, and now boxing has Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez. All redheads who can really deal. Many expect WBC junior…
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Canelo Wants to Fight Only the Best
SANTA MONICA-Ocean breezes don?t quite make it to the gym where Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez trains, but take my word for it, the training facility is less than two miles from the Santa…
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ONE FC Challenging UFC and All Comers in Asia; Plus, Top Rank in Macau
Wow. Seems like everyone is headed toward Asia. Mixed martial arts and professional boxing all have their eyes fixed on the area known as the ?Ring of Fire? this week. Better get…
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Can Mike Alvarado Force a Trilogy With Bam Bam Rios?
So what can you expect from Brandon Rios vs. Mike Alvarado II? It could be a bloody slugfest with Rios battering his way through his superior strength. Or, it could be Alvarado…
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The Year of the Welterweights: With Bradley, Mayweather, Ghost & Others
Boring is not the word to describe Tim ?Desert Storm? Bradley?s firefight with Ruslan ?Siberian Rocky? Provodnikov. Mind-blowing is a better term. Just when you think you have the crowded welterweight division…
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RINGSIDE REPORT Tim Bradley Wins Slugfest Over Ruslan Provodnikov
CARSON-WBO titleholder Timothy ?Desert Storm? Bradley escaped with his title after 12 eye-popping rounds in hand-to-hand combat with Russia?s Ruslan ?Siberian Rocky? Provodnikov on Saturday. Wow. Bradley (30-0, 12 Kos) didn?t have…
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Tim “Desert Storm” Bradley Under the Hollywood Lights
WEST HOLLYWOOD-Deep in the bosom of Hollywood where the media capital reigns and just two miles from where the Academy Awards took place, Top Rank held its media day for WBO welterweight…
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Golden Deal For Floyd Mayweather and Robert Guerrero On May 4
Floyd ?Money? Mayweather has decided to take his date with Robert ?The Ghost? Guerrero to the Showtime network when they fight on May 4, in Las Vegas. Golden Boy?s Richard Schaefer said…
