Cliff Rold
427 articles · Hard Core Boxing
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Ready for the Devil, Saul Alvarez Punishes at Home
By Cliff Rold
20-year old Mexican crowd favorite Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO) won his then-vacant WBC Jr. Middleweight belt in March with a win over a fighter who wasn?t even a Jr. Middleweight. The…
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Make Room For Super Middles: Pound for Pound Update
By Cliff Rold
The list is getting crowded. Chalk that up to Floyd Mayweather and the Super Six tournament. Mayweather was going to be removed from the list in its first update since April of…
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Mayweather Picks Ortiz: Showing Us More Than Manny?
By Cliff Rold
Lineal World Welterweight Champion Floyd Mayweather (41-0, 25 KO) still can?t count. How else to take a statement released in the wake of his announced September return against WBC Welterweight titlist Victor…
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Executing Accomplishment: Review and Ratings Update
By Cliff Rold
Pernell Whitaker when he won his first Middleweight belt? Roy Jones Jr. when he unified the 160 lb. class? Floyd Mayweather when he moved up the scale to win the Ring Magazine…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Picks of the Week
By Cliff Rold
On paper it didn?t look like a meaningful fight. In the ring, it didn?t look like one either. The Manny Pacquiao express moves on, Shane Mosley should retire, and Jorge Arce rocked…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Picks of the Week
By Cliff Rold
And now the stars come out. Manny Pacquiao might not be the most famous athlete in the world right now. He?s not far off. The U.S. is sometimes slow to embrace foreign-born…
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Maidana-Morales, Guerrero-Katsidis: Pre-PPV Report Card
By Cliff Rold
Lights, camera, action. Action! ACTION!!! That?s what viewers will get on Saturday night. Whether it lasts one round, or all twelve, Saturday?s main event is a crossroads battle between arguably the greatest…
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Yuriorkis Gamboa Getting Closer: Review, Ratings Update
By Cliff Rold
The pre-fight report card referred to the rise of hyper talented Cuban Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO) as a high wire act, ?the viewing of Gamboa a marvel of wondering if he…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Picks of the Week
By Cliff Rold
Twice in 2011, fights have been hyped and fans hyped right along with them. The first, Timothy Bradley-Devon Alexander, didn?t meet expectations even of purists who are fine with more cerebral action.…
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Don?t Move Up (Yet) Donaire!: Review, Ratings Update
By Cliff Rold
For good reason, the buzz is already in the air, the marquees already being written. Nonito Donaire-Juan Manuel Lopez? Donaire-Yuriorkis Gamboa? We?re not there yet, but it already feels inevitable. Let?s hope…
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Undeniable Donaire: BoxingScene?s Pound for Pound Top Ten
By Cliff Rold
Filipino-born Southern Californian Nonito Donaire had been a somewhat polarizing figure on the boxing landscape. The talent was obvious. There were some questions to be had about just how strong the resume…
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The Big Mega-Fights: Serve It While It?s Hot
By Cliff Rold
As his face was turned into Bitochki by Antonio Silva last weekend, as what appeared to be the last vestiges of the prime Fedor Emelianenko, arguably MMA history?s greatest Heavyweight, were beaten…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Picks of the Week
By Cliff Rold
Some weeks just kick more ass than others. This is shaping up to be one of those weeks. No one can say for sure. Style clashes, accidental head clashes, or just plain…
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Pacquiao-Mosley, Bradley-Alexander: Big Fight, Good Fight
By Cliff Rold
Boxing returns to Network TV! Okay. Not really. But sort of. The big business-of-boxing news this week has all been about where fans will be able to see May?s Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley…
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Ricardo Mayorga is Still Doing The Money Dance
By Cliff Rold
Since a December 2003 Welterweight unification defeat, he?s averaged exactly one fight per year. He lost three of them by knockout. Those three losses came at the hands of the three of…
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Timothy Bradley Looking To Clean House at 140-Pounds
By Cliff Rold
Timothy Bradley has changed his mind. Bradley now believes that he doesn?t need to fight Manny Pacquiao to validate his place in boxing. A move up to welterweight to face Pacquiao obviously…
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Juan Manuel Marquez-Erik Morales in 2011? Just Say Yes
By Cliff Rold
Maybe we?ll never know, really, who the better man would have been on their best day. The best that can probably be discovered is who the superior man is right now, in…
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Agbeko vs Mares Set For Bantamweight Fireworks in 2011
By Cliff Rold
It wasn?t quite the barnburner their first contest was. That turned out to be to the advantage of the victor. Boxing smart and showing great determination, Ghanaian 30-year old Joseph Agbeko (28-2,…
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Donaire-Sidorenko, Soto-Antillon: The Pre-Report Card
By Cliff Rold
It?s rare that a fight card loses its main event and gets better, but this Saturday may be one of those cases. There are those who enjoy the adventures of Julio Cesar…
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Martinez-Williams: Secretly Already Rooting for Three?
By Cliff Rold
Boxing is unhealthy, on its deathbed, irrelevant. Etc. It?s all been said before and it?s never quite true. Last weekend, over 40,000 showed up to watch Manny Pacquiao play the prohibitive favorite.…