Cliff Rold
427 articles · Hard Core Boxing
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Donaire vs. Rigondeuax: Pre-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
This is the sort of fight hardcore fan are always calling for. They were pleasantly surprised to find out they?re getting it. From the moment Cuban defector Guillermo Rigondeaux officially won the…
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The Cult of Rigondeaux is Poised for Expansion
By Cliff Rold
From the perspective of a professional boxing fan, it has to be considered among the great tragedies of fistiana. Kid Chocolate, Kid Gavilan, Jose Napoles, Luis Rodriguez; Cuba had given the sport…
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Igarashi-Yaegashi/Yamanaka-Tunacao: Report Card
By Cliff Rold
While most US fights fans are readying themselves for work or school in the wee hours of dreaded Monday morning, a stellar fight card will likely be in full gear on the…
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Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero: Religion and May 4th
By Cliff Rold
One can only imagine the scene if there had been cameras and microphones in, approximately, 1000 BC. ?I?d like to thank God for allowing me to find just the right pebble. I…
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Bradley vs. Provodnikov: The Pre-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
An old commercial adage: you never get a second chance to make a first impression. An old saying: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. A counter to both: WBO Welterweight titlist Timothy…
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Bernard Hopkins: Better After 40?
By Cliff Rold
It?s hard not watch Bernard Hopkins with a little bit of awe. In the 1990s, Roberto Duran challenged William Joppy for Middleweight belt at the age of 47. It was a disgusting…
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Archie Solis-Edgar Sosa III: Getting Back To Yesterday
By Cliff Rold
This Saturday, while most boxing fans in the U.S. still have their attention turned to the latest chapter in the Bernard Hopkins Methuselah Chronicles, a pair of old rivals will lock horns…
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Measured Against All Time: Juan Manuel Marquez
By Cliff Rold
Will he or won?t he? One of the big questions as 2013 develops is whether December 8, 2012 ended one of the great rivalries or simply turned to page to a fifth…
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Guillermo Rigondeaux, Kazuto Ioka: Twelve The Hard Way
By Cliff Rold
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The Floyd Mayweather Jr. Circus is Back in Town
By Cliff Rold
After his turgid outing versus Randal Bailey in October, it seemed it was going to take a lot to make Welterweight titlist Devon Alexander interesting again. It turns out all it took…
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The State of The Game: The Fights We Do Get
By Cliff Rold
We didn?t get Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao, at least not when it mattered most. Maybe one day we?ll get the Jones-Hopkins II version. It?s not quite the same. It increasingly looks like, at…
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Is Donaire vs. Mares Worth Getting Hopes Up For?
By Cliff Rold
It?s probably too early to speculate. Let?s go ahead and do it anyways. Late Friday evening, BoxingScene?s Rick Reeno posted breaking news stories that furthered chatter begun earlier in the week by…
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Orlando Salido-Mikey Garcia: Pre-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
They are fighters who have traveled different paths. The defending titlist turned professional in March 1996 at the tender age of 15, suffering his first of five career stoppage losses. He suffered…
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Not Pound for Pound?Champ For Champ 2012
By Cliff Rold
Boxing has lots of belts, too many arguments comparing fighters from different weight classes who can?t fight, and too few of what still makes it a sport. Boxers fight in weight divisions.…
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BScene?s 2012 Year End Awards: Fight of The Year
By Cliff Rold
Magnitude matters. There are times a fight occurs a little off the radar and it?s so good that it doesn?t matter what happened among bigger stars or on bigger stages. 2001 was…
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BoxingScene?s 2012 Year End Awards: Upset of the Year
By Cliff Rold
Boxing is a big sport. There are notable events and participants on each of the six habitable continents. Hardcore soccer fans know what it?s like to follow a layout like that. Few…
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Donaire Looked Lethal in Houston: Post Report Card
By Cliff Rold
There?s no need to play make believe. What Nonito Donaire did on Saturday was not impressive. He knocked out a fighter he was supposed to in about the easy fashion anyone could…
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Nonito Donaire-Jorge Arce: The Pre-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
Sometimes, talent isn?t enough. To be a star in boxing today in the U.S. means getting network dates and being known. It?s not the same as stardom in a broad sense. Fair…
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Rigondeuax-Poonsawat: Cult of Rigo Gets Its Case Maker
By Cliff Rold
Break out the chants. Don the robes. Saturday night, on the HBO-televised undercard of the lineal World Jr. Featherweight title bout between champion Nonito Donaire and challenger Jorge Arce, one of boxing?s…
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Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez: Pre-Report Card
By Cliff Rold
Here we go again. It took four years to get the rematch after their epic first encounter and three and change to get a third. Only one year has passed to reach…