Cliff Rold
427 articles · Hard Core Boxing
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Two New Champions: BScene Review and Ratings Update
By Cliff Rold
Jr. Middleweight and Jr. Welterweight are vacant no more. Floyd Mayweather and Danny Garcia both put on exceptional performances on the card of the year, adding new honors to their already well…
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Mayweather?Period: BScene Pound-for-Pound Update
By Cliff Rold
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Mayweather-Alvarez/Garcia-Matthysse: Post Report Card
By Cliff Rold
Both big winners on Saturday entered with belts around their waist. They left etching new places for their names in history. With the lineage of the crowns at 140 and 154 lbs.…
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Mayweather-Alvarez: Real History & Report Card
By Cliff Rold
When stars collide in boxing, everything feels possible. There are always big fights. There are not always Superfights. We have a Superfight this weekend. Anytime a weigh-in has more butts in the…
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Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin: Horse, Then Cart
By Cliff Rold
It was the sort of performance that gets a million Twitters aflutter. Faced with what was the most accomplished opponent of his career, 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist Gennady Golovkin (27-0, 24 KO)…
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Paulie Malignaggi-Adrien Broner: Pre-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
The cultivation of a star can develop many different ways. Supporting casts play a big part. To date, Adrien Broner has built nicely in a down period for both the Jr. Lightweight…
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Adrien “The Problem” Broner: To Be The Man?
By Cliff Rold
This Saturday night, WBC Lightweight titlist Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO) will move up two weight classes to attempt to win a belt in his third weight division. The target, WBA Welterweight…
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Mikey Garcia-Juan Manuel Lopez: Pre-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
Here we go again. One of many farces boxing perpetuates, the day-before weigh-in is one of the more foolish and dangerous. An incentive for fighters to shrink even farther past the point…
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Coming To The Big Dance: Mikey Garcia – Part II
By Cliff Rold
It?s a story as old as the frayed yellow pages of a vintage Police Gazette. A fighter turns professional and wins enough to get noticed as a comer. From there, they build…
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Chad Dawson: Hell of a Way To Start a Reign
By Cliff Rold
Chad Dawson (31-2, 17 KO) remains the Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. Too bad, as he prepares for his first defense of the lineal crown he wrested from Bernard Hopkins in…
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BoxingScene Update: Pound for Pound List and Review
By Cliff Rold
Halfway through the year, it?s as good a time as any to take a snapshot of the best of the best across boxing?s seventeen weight divisions. The previous list, last updated on…
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Floyd Mayweather-Canelo Alvarez: Superfight Ready To Go
By Cliff Rold
This was almost a column on this weekend?s Flyweight clash between former titlists Tyson Marquez and Carlos Tamara. It should be a good scrap. For those who can find it, on a…
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Matthysse (Almost) Arrives: Review and Ratings Update
By Cliff Rold
The stage is set. September 7, we hope, the two best Jr. Welterweights on the current scene should face off. Lucas Matthysse could well be undefeated. Danny Garcia is. When their time…
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May Rules The Day (Again): Review and Ratings Update
By Cliff Rold
The Welterweight Champion of the World remains as he ever was. Floyd Mayweather is approaching the 15th anniversary of his first world title win at Jr. Lightweight. By the time that date…
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Abner Mares: Substance Is His Style
By Cliff Rold
The end came too quick. That much was pretty clear, in real speed and in slow motion replay. It might have been almost over, but with Daniel Ponce De Leon still firing…
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Mayweather-Guerrero: Cinco De Mayweather Report Card
By Cliff Rold
In recent years, boxing has largely played out in two different stratospheres in the U.S. There is the larger sport, with varied attendance, fight quality, and attention largely paid by devoted fans.…
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The Kings Step Into the Boxing Heatwave
By Cliff Rold
No sport has delivered better in 2013 than boxing. That?s not hyperbole. It?s not overstatement. It?s also not a comment on other sports not delivering this year. Far from it. The Super…
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Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez: Champion, Finally
By Cliff Rold
On April 17, 2010, Sergio Martinez rose from the floor to bloody and best Kelly Pavlik to wrest away history?s championship at 160 lbs. On September 15, 2012, Martinez became everyone?s Middleweight…
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Canelo’s Stock Continues To Rise With Alamodome Win
By Cliff Rold
In a fight that lived up to the hype, 22-year old WBC 154 lb. titlist Saul Alvarez (42-0-1, 32 KO) of Guadalajara, Mexico, used hard power shots and a seventh round knockdown…
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Will Austin Trout Get a Fair Shake With Saul Alvarez?
By Cliff Rold
It?s hard to ask for much more as a fight fan. Two undefeated fighters, both with belts in tow, in what has often since the 1980s been one of boxing?s glamour divisions.…