Cliff Rold
427 articles · Hard Core Boxing
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Porter vs. Ugas, Bivol vs. Smith: Stats & Stakes
By Cliff Rold
Counter programming is nothing new in boxing but it?s always hardest when there are two genuinely interesting main events. DAZN and Fox will have overlapping broadcasts on Saturday night and while start…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Pick of The Week – March 8
By Cliff Rold
Pick It: TBRB #2 Shawn Porter vs. #8 Yordenis Ugas (Saturday, Fox, 8 PM EST) It?s hard not to look forward to a Shawn Porter (29-2-1, 17 KO) fight. They may not…
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Manny Pacquiao-Adrien Broner: Stats & Stakes
By Cliff Rold
As he enters his 70th professional fight, a little more than a month past turning 40, there is much to be said about Manny Pacquiao being on the back nine of his…
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Donnie Nietes-Kazuto Ioka: Afterthoughts
By Cliff Rold
As we know it today, three official judges decide a boxing match when it goes the scheduled distance. Two judges aren?t enough. Too often, boxing fans are left with the bitter impression…
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Nietes-Ioka: A Gem in the New Year’s Eve Tradition
By Cliff Rold
Boxing does not have seasons. It does, and has always had, dates or times of the year where the expectation of big time boxing heightens. Today, in the United States, fans know…
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Canelo on DAZN: The Investment Begins
By Cliff Rold
This weekend is only the beginning, a toe in the water. No one expects world middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KO) to lose this weekend in a sojourn to super middleweight.…
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Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder: Afterthoughts
By Cliff Rold
It ended as it began. Deontay Wilder is still the WBC heavyweight champion. Tyson Fury retains the lineal crown. He is still the man who beat the man. More people, it seems,…
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Naoya Inoue – Can He Run The Table?
By Cliff Rold
For fans of the international boxing, getting up at odd hours to watch a fight is nothing new. This Sunday, it?s something to get a little more excited about. Subscribers to the…
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Manny Pacquiao vs. Lucas Matthysse: Afterthoughts
By Cliff Rold
It wasn?t the blazing destroyer of a decade ago but Manny Pacquiao found enough of his old self, and the right opponent in Lucas Matthysse, to give fans another good memory. With…
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Manny Pacquiao – A Last Good Memory
By Cliff Rold
Start with the obvious. Manny Pacquiao isn?t really Manny Pacquiao anymore. That?s not just a reflection of an athlete nearing forty. He?s not the same attraction, the same revenue generator, the same…
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Joshua-Wilder: We’ll Probably Get a Fight, Might Miss a Rivalry
By Cliff Rold
No one should be shocked. They shouldn?t even be all that surprised. After the requisite social media bantering, the trash talk, the competing ?offers? for a showdown, this fall the boxing world…
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Santa Cruz, Crawford Win in Different Ways: Afterthoughts
By Cliff Rold
In a sport where love for the underdog is never in short supply, boxing delivered wins from the favorites on Saturday night. But boxing delivered and that?s what counted. It delivered in…
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BoxingScene.com’s Television Picks of The Week – May 26
By Cliff Rold
Pick It: TBRB #2 Jerwin Ancajas vs. Jonas Sultan (Saturday, ESPN+, 9:30 PM EST) A busy weekend for the new ESPN+ app got off to a roaring start with Naoya Inoue?s debut…
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Golovkin, Hopkins, Monzon: The Record at Middleweight
By Cliff Rold
middleweight belt he has held since a 2010 victory over Milton Nunez. In the years since, he?s added WBC and IBF belts with wins over Marco Antonio Rubio and David Lemieux. With…
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Magdaleno-Dogboe and the State of Jr. Featherweight
By Cliff Rold
In this case, maybe it was all about the foundation. Wilfredo Gomez wasn?t the first Jr. featherweight champion. The division had a short life in the 1920s and was reborn, first with…
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Jessie Vargas-Adrien Broner: Afterthoughts
By Cliff Rold
Showtime had another good weekend. They?ve had more than a few recently. On a day when Carl Frampton proved too much for Nonito Donaire, Zolani Tete walked away with a win over…
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Joshua vs. Parker: One Fight at a Time
By Cliff Rold
For all the talk of a world that moves faster than ever, much of the good stuff still takes time. A proper marinated steak has to sit for hours and then be…
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Srisaket Sor Rungvisai-Juan Francisco Estrada: Afterthoughts
By Cliff Rold
The little guys delivered again. HBO?s investment in Roman Gonzalez has borne fruit on several vines. Gonzalez?s classics with Carlos Cuadras and Srisaket Sor Rungvisai now are joined by excellent clashes between…
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Donnie Nietes Versus The Clock
By Cliff Rold
SuperFly 2 is almost here and it?s easily the best HBO card since, well, probably since the first SuperFly. This time, all of the televised action won?t be in the 115 lb.…
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Ryoichi Taguchi-Milan Melindo: Post-Fight Report Card
By Cliff Rold
It wasn?t a classic but, as is often the case, unification brought out some of the best of both men involved. In the end, Japan?s Ryochi Taguchi made his seventh WBA title…