Cliff Rold
427 articles · Hard Core Boxing
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Picks of the Week
By Cliff Rold
After the sport's most popular, and most exciting star, has left the stage, what can boxing do for an encore? The answer this week is attach the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito replay to…
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Pacquiao, Haye Make Statements? Review, Ratings Update
By Cliff Rold
Is it a statement if everything goes according to the most likely scenario? That?s one question fans were left with as two of the sports most significant players plied their trade. One…
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Flip ?Em One More Time: BScene?s Pound for Pound Top Ten
By Cliff Rold
It?s a two-man race for the top spot. That much has not changed. In that race, the last man seen running can make the difference in which one is observed leading the…
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For Manny Pacquiao, Eight is (More Than) Enough
By Cliff Rold
The Great Manny Pacquiao. That?s capital ?G? great. Few fighters, still in their prime, could be genuinely identified as the ?The Great?? anything. The Filipino icon is among those few. If he…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Picks of the Week
By Cliff Rold
That wasn?t so bad, was it? All those weeks of waiting for a good fight, for a big fight, and then Showtime blows up the spot. A Fight of the Year contender…
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Men For All Seasons: Lopez, Johnson Shine in Las Vegas
By Cliff Rold
In the biggest victory of his career to date, 27-year old Juan Manuel Lopez (30-0, 27 KO) of Caguas, Puerto Rico, made his second defense of the WBO Featherweight belt, forcing a…
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Are Those Regulation Cement Blocks?: 24/7 Pt. 2 Reviewed
By Cliff Rold
Last week on 24/7, former Welterweight titlist Antonio Margarito proclaimed (and explained) his innocence. Current WBO Welterweight titlist and Filipino Congressman Manny Pacquiao had a laugh about it. Both men trained, sometimes…
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An Actual Winner Cometh to Cowboys Stadium
By Cliff Rold
After unavoidable delays, the time has finally arrived to sit back and enjoy another round of HBO?s answer to QTC. Is it advertising the cresting story of a superstar whose title accomplishments…
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2010 Has Been a Good Year For Boxing Fans (Really!)
By Cliff Rold
We won?t be getting Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather. The Super Six evolved into the Super Eight. Cancellations. Postponements. Lawsuits. Compared to recent years, compared to most years, 2010 is going down as one…
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Oscar Wants to Rule the World (Ok, Not Really But?)
By Cliff Rold
In a slow week for domestic boxing news, comments made by future Hall of Famer boxer and current Golden Promotions figurehead Oscar De La Hoya got some attention. As recounted by BoxingScene?s…
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Measured Against All Time: Bernard Hopkins
By Cliff Rold
Just a week ago, the rumors became signatures . The deal is done. The newly crowned leader of the Light Heavyweight division, 27-year old Jean Pascal (16-1, 16 KO) will attempt to…
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Hernandez Blasts Anchondo in Four in Primm, Nevada
By Cliff Rold
31-year old Welterweight Freddy Hernandez (29-1, 20 KO) of Mexico City, Mexico, methodically walked down 28-year old former WBO Jr. Lightweight titlist Mike Anchondo (30-3, 19 KO) of La Puente, California, on…
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Measured Against All Time: Erik Morales
By Cliff Rold
When Michael Buffer, or any other ring announcer, extended the ?e? at the end of Erik Morales?s nickname in pre-fight introductions, it was enough to raise the pulse of anyone watching. Goosebumps…
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Not Pound for Pound?Champ for Champ 2010
By Cliff Rold
No one ever asks, literally, who would win a fight between Jr. Bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan and Middleweight Champion Sergio Martinez. Little time is spent wondering if Manny Pacquiao could overcome a…
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Cloud vs Johnson: The War 2010 Has Been Waiting For?
By Cliff Rold
It?s enough to have a fight worth looking forward to. Regardless of its status as opening act for the HBO Boxing After Dark broadcast on Saturday, the first attempted defense of the…
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Marquez vs Diaz Rematch: The Post-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
Winning by decision over a man one has previously knocked out may not seem a more decisive victory in the imagination but it is what occurred last Saturday night in Las Vegas.…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao: The Perfect Date, If 2010 is Out
By Cliff Rold
With less, if still ample, teeth gnashing than was to be heard when the fight didn?t happen earlier this year, it appears Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao is unlikely to occur in November 2010.…
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Halfway Home: BoxingScene.com?s Mid-Year Review
By Cliff Rold
With the long hot summer fully underway, boxing 12-month season reaches its halfway mark without knowing where it will end up. The biggest fight which can be made is the same one…
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Ringside at Foreman-Cotto: The Post-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
With the fistic shadows of Benny Leonard, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pep, and Muhammad Ali cast across the outfield ring, boxing produced a memorable Saturday night on June 5, 2010…
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Nashiro-Cazares, Williams-Cintron: The Post-Report Card
By Cliff Rold
Sometimes, it?s just one of those nights. Marlon Starling-Tomas Malinares with its late punch and injured stem? One of those nights. Lennox Lewis-Oliver McCall II? A special one of those nights. Paul…