Cliff Rold
427 articles · Hard Core Boxing
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New Champ Same as The Old: Ratings and Results Update
By Cliff Rold
Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn?t care to pay a sanctioning fee to the WBA on Saturday night. That didn?t mean he left the ring after dominating Shane Mosley as any less than a…
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DiBella: Mayweather vs Martinez “Would Be Spectacular”
By Cliff Rold
As noted on BoxingScene following the Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley fight, the now two-time lineal World Welterweight Champion Mayweather (41-0, 25 KO) gave an interesting response about the future on Saturday night. Mayweather…
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Shane Mosley-Floyd Mayweather: Pre-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
After seeing planned encounters in 1990 and 1991 fall apart, Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson finally consummated a years-long rivalry in 1996. Promoter Don King didn?t come up with a title like…
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The New Em Was Bangin?: Mosley-Mayweather 24/7 Pt. 4
By Cliff Rold
Last week?heck this season on 24-7, training reached ?furious peaks,? viewers got a peek at Olympic drug testing procedures, Mayweather talked trash, Brother Nazim dropped some racial sociology? ...and the theme song…
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Hozumi Hasegawa: Buy Japanese
By Cliff Rold
During the 1980s, with manufacturing jobs drying up and American automakers struggling to keep pace with increasingly popular Japanese models, the clarion call went out: Buy American. When it comes to boxing,…
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The Zen of Nazim: Mosley-Mayweather 24/7 P3 Reviewed
By Cliff Rold
Previously on 24-7, trainers talked trash to each other, Floyd Mayweather talked trash in general, Shane Mosley went into family issues, and Nazim Richardson spit wisdom (he does a lot of that).…
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Of Jheri Curls, Confrontation: Mosley-Mayweather 24/7 P2
By Cliff Rold
Last week on 24-7, there were clips of shoving, shouting, and drug tests. Narrator Liev Schreiber doesn?t even get to the obligatory ?This is 24/7.? One guesses with tensions being so high…
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A Commercial By Any Name: Mosley-Mayweather 24/7 P.1
By Cliff Rold
The drama. The tension. The ?you know you want to pay at least 50 bucks, 60-plus in HD, to see it? flair of HBO?s 24/7 boxing infomercials is back and it brings…
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Andre Berto, Celestino Caballero Impress in Florida
By Cliff Rold
Choosing to step out of a unification contest with WBA Welterweight titlist Shane Mosley in January to focus attention on the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, 26-year old ethnic Haitian Andre…
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Kameda-Wonjongkam; Moreno-Cermeno: Report Cards
By Cliff Rold
There were many a week ago lamenting a Heavyweight championship fight being left off of U.S. airwaves. It wasn?t a one-time occurrence; Heavyweight titlists like Nicolay Valuev and Ruslan Chagaev had title…
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Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey: Post-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
The “Event” was, well, uneventful in the ring. To be fair, there were plenty of pre-fight predictions which saw what happened ahead of time. It was still impressive in the unfolding. It’s…
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Manny still the King: BoxingScene’s Pound for Pound Top 10
By Cliff Rold
With the first man on this list having made his first start of 2010, boxing’s elite are in full swing with some anticipated twists and turns pending. Manny Pacquiao didn’t add his…
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Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey:Pre-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
It remains to be seen just how big an event “The Event” will be outside Cowboys Stadium on Saturday night. With over 40,000 tickets already sold, it will look the part. Pay-per-view…
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Lightweight Looks For More Lightning in Texas
By Cliff Rold
Lightning struck. The storm passed. Just less than twelve months ago, four significant Lightweight contests rolled out at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, part of a small April pay-per-view card…
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Alexander, Darchinyan Shine: Post-Weekend Report Card
By Cliff Rold
There is a difference in boxing between a titlist and a genuine World Champion. There are plenty of the former, only a handful of the latter in the game right now. Saturday…
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Looking for Someone to Look Forward To
By Cliff Rold
It’s a fight worth looking forward to which will ask a simple question: will one or both of the competitors do enough on Saturday night to make them worth looking forward to…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Picks of the Week
By Cliff Rold
This week presents a choice boxing fans will have to make. Two weeks after a solid pay card presented by Top Rank, and a couple weeks away from Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey digging…
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Edwin Valero-Antonio DeMarco: Post-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
He can punch. And, hell yes, he can fight. With a litany of opposition which for the most could not bring the full range of his qualities to the surface, questions were…
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Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao: Money Goes Up 2-0
By Cliff Rold
As long as they are today’s standard in the subjective world pound for pound ratings, as long as it is certain a bout between Floyd Mayweather (40-0, 25 KO) and Manny Pacquiao…
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Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather: Round Two Begins
By Cliff Rold
No matter one’s opinion of the Manny Pacquiao/Floyd Mayweather blood testing rift, one thing was abundantly clear. In round one of the fight before whenever they actually, well, fight (and they will…