Cliff Rold
427 articles · Hard Core Boxing
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Mayweather still owns fans, media
In a couple of weeks, Winky Wright returns to the ring from over a year and a half off from the ring. It's not being treated like a comeback or any other…
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Pacquiao Aims for Four (and Six): Real History Part III
In this series, designed to culminate the week of the May 2nd showdown between Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KO) and World Junior Welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32 KO), Pacquiao?s previous title…
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Pacquiao Aims for Four (and Six): Real History Part II
In the first part of this series, designed to culminate the week of the May 2nd showdown between Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KO) and World Junior Welterweight champion Ricky Hatton (45-1, 32…
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Pacquiao Aims for Four (and Six): Real History Part 1
The echoing chorus of drunken Manchester natives is heading across the pond one more time. An island nation will live and die with its idol. May 2nd, it will be Ricky Hatton…
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The Top 20 Junior Lightweights of All-Time
The Other Nine, Pt. 5 Follow the sweet science long enough and even a passing fan will hear, with sounds of awe, about an ?original eight,? about a bygone era when the…
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There Could Be Only Juan: February in Review
February might be Black History Month, but the loudest exaltation in the sweet science was ?Viva Mexico.? The familiar cry was saved for the last minutes of a strong twenty-eight days and…
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hThe World?s Best Featherweight Meets the World
43 Fights, 42 wins, 22 Knockouts, no losses. It?s a good start. For 29-year old Featherweight Chris John, it?s been more that a start. It?s the ledger of the man whose been…
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A Solid Finish – BoxingScene?s Month in Review
While far from the busiest month on the 2008 calendar, December produced the richest fight of the year (Pacquiao-De La Hoya) along with three spectacular wars. On December 11th, an old-school Don…
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BoxingScene.com?s 2008 Year-End Awards Part I
It is one of the rare sports which see its seasons pass only with the turning of the calendar. Judged end to end, this was another strong season for Boxing. As 2007…
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BoxingScene 2008 Year in Review: The Welterweights
Almost universally hailed as Boxing?s best weight division for the last couple of years, 147 lbs. turned in another roller coaster ride in 2008. Blood and guts, upsets and revenges (see Paul…
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BoxingScene 2008 Year in Review: The Jr. Welterweights
Is Jr. Welterweight a good division? It?s a question which was there before the start of 2008 and remains at the end of it. There are good fighters, but there isn?t a…
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BoxingScene 2008 Year in Review: The Lightweights
When 2008 began, 135 lbs. looked like a division building fully to the coronation of a single man in then-undefeated Juan Diaz. As it ends, the pinnacle position in the class is…
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Pacquiao-Mayweather Countdown Begins: Report Card
The pre-fight build was clear?if a 35-year old Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KO) was shot, if he couldn?t pull the trigger, then 29-year old current Lightweight and former Flyweight champion…
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Measured Against All Time – Joe Calzaghe
It shouldn?t matter, but it did. Logic said Joe Calzaghe, while only three years younger, had too much in the tank to be troubled much by a man who still looks like…
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Quarterly pound for pound: It’s all Manny
Following Antonio Margarito's devastating knockout win over Miguel Cotto in July, the pound-for-pound ratings were shaken up. Now a Mexican countryman of Margarito's, new World Lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez, has forced…
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Marquez Forces Realignment: BoxingScene Pound for Pound Top Ten
Following Antonio Margarito?s devastating knockout win over Miguel Cotto in July, the pound-for-pound ratings were shaken up. Now a Mexican countryman of Margarito?s, new World Lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez, has forced…
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Casamayor vs. Marquez: The Pre-Fight Report Card
Seldom to two fighters with big names and potential for the Hall of Fame enter the ring against each other under a gray cloud. With the World Lightweight title at stake, two…
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Casamayor-Marquez provides eras’ postscript
"It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second...just so it can hurt a little more." ? Unknown There is…
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Pacquiao-De La Hoya: Good or Bad Idea? Confusion Reigns
It is an admittedly schizophrenic reaction. Former World Flyweight and Featherweight, and current World Jr. Lightweight champion and WBC Lightweight, champion Manny Pacquiao (47-3-2, 35 KO) fighting former World Jr. Welterweight, Welterweight…
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Manny Ruled The Land: Mid-Year Boxing Review
Faster than a Francisco Lorenzo flop, 2008 has arrived at its halfway point and it?s tough to tell where the sport is headed in the second half. The pay-per-view calendar is filling…
