Cliff Rold
427 articles · Hard Core Boxing
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BoxingScene’s 2009 Fight of the Year: Marquez-Diaz
Before the year felt like it had really even begun, Andre Berto and Luis Collazo were slugging it out on January 17 for the WBC Welterweight title. It was, even that early,…
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Manny Pacquiao: The Easy Answer That Isn’t
The easy answer is to take the damn tests. By the time this column runs, given the pace of negotiations to date for the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather megafight, perhaps it will already…
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Closing 2009 – BoxingScene’s Pound for Pound Top Ten
With the significant results for the year tallied, and the anticipation for 2010 already building, this marks the final look at the top fighters in the sport for this year. Not much…
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Daisuke Naito-Koki Kameda: The Pre-Fight Report Card
When Manny Pacquiao’s hand was raised against Miguel Cotto a couple of weeks ago, boxing fans in the U.S. said goodnight to ‘superfight’ season for 2009. There are other parts which make…
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Boxing: Remembering to Say Thank You
3 million pay-per-view buys. No fight has hit the plateau yet. In 2010, a potential epic may do the trick if Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao elect to share a ring together.…
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Pacquiao Rates on New Turf: Ratings and Results Update
With an in depth look at the Welterweight division yet to come this week here at BoxingScene, the sport basks still in the glow of the latest event at 147 lbs. It…
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And Then There Was “Money”: The Post-Fight Report Card
We’re going to run out of superlatives eventually. Great is no longer a superlative. Great is a matter of fact, a truism. New WBO Welterweight titlist and reigning World Jr. Welterweight champion…
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Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao: Pre-SuperFight Report Card
As 2007 came to a close, boxing’s next potential superfight seemed certain. Having dusted then-reigning Jr. Welterweight king Ricky Hatton in December, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was seen by many as the best…
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Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao: 24/7 Pt. 4 Reviewed
Saturday on 24/7, Freddie Roach watched TV, some trainer smack went down, there was more senseless attention on kvetching inside Team Manny Pacquiao, and Bob Arum said the underdog he promotes, in…
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Real History: How Serious is Pacquiao’s Quest for Seven?
It doesn’t take much to be amazed by reigning World Jr. Welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KO). Much has been written about the accomplishments of Pacquiao, particularly in the last year,…
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The Top 25 Welterweights of All-Time – 11 to 25
The Eight, Pt. 6 For any new boxing fan, the time is not long before a fellow fan points out a magic number which grows more mythologized with time: eight. As in…
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Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao: 24/7 Pt. 3 Reviewed
Last week on 24/7, Manny Pacquiao’s team continued to bicker, Cotto worked out, Manny’s puppy got left at the airport…and Amanda returns to Melrose Place this week. Heather Locklear isn’t what she…
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Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao: 24/7 Part 2 Reviewed
Last week on 24/7, there were pool parties, tattoos, and camp squabbles all made to look trite next to the very real tragedy of typhoon victims in the Philippines. With both fighters…
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Miguel Cotto-Manny Pacquiao: 24/7 Pt. 1 Reviewed
It feels like only weeks since the last journey though reality TV waters…mostly because it has been. Unlike the last time out, the hype this time surrounds a fight that isn’t a…
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Big Numbers and Small Fighters: September in Review
This was a big month for boxing. Big in money. Big in viewers. Big in creating an even more prosperous future. One week apart, Floyd Mayweather’s return versus Juan Manuel Marquez did…
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Money or Manny? – BoxingScene’s Pound 4 Pound Top 10
It’s d?j? vu all over again. Beginning with the decline of Pernell Whitaker in the second half of the 1990s, and through the first few years of the 00’s, the pound-for-pound debate…
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The Top 25 Featherweights of All-Time – 11 to 25
The Eight, Pt. 3 For any new boxing fan, the time is not long before a fellow fan points out a magic number which grows more mythologized with time: eight. As in…
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Mayweather-Marquez 24/7: Pt. 2 Reviewed
“Last week on Mayweather-Marquez 24/7…” we learned playing craps make the heart grow fonder, Juan Manuel Marquez likes eating birthday cake, Mayweather still rocks classic skates among other “S*&^” that’s paid for…
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Not Pound for Pound…Champ for Champ 2009
Contrary to some big money trends of late, boxing is a sport of lines. Specifically, it is a sport of lines between weight divisions whether it be the old days of eight…
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A Whirlwind Career: The Unfortunate Shane Mosley
By Christmas morning 2009, Santa will have exited and the cookies will be gone. That will be a good thing for the World’s best Welterweight. After all, cookies can get in the…
