Thomas Gerbasi
114 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Still Plenty of Time For Kelly Pavlik To Get Things Right
?It was my fault.? Despite all the calls for former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik to dump his team after his April loss to Sergio Martinez, to revamp everything that seemed to be…
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Pound for Pound ? Appreciating Ivan Calderon
Just like one of his rapier-like jabs or quickfire combinations can momentarily stun opponents, Ivan Calderon shocked me the last time we spoke, days before his 2008 rematch with Hugo Cazares. ?I?ll…
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Erik Morales ? Still Leaving It All In The Ring
I insisted this day would never come, but at 42, I?ve become THAT guy. You know the one, a little gray on the temples who looks around, sighs, and says, ?well, things…
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Diaz: ?Shoulda Been? Superstar Reaches The Crossroads
20 years from now, we probably won?t even be thinking about Juan Diaz the boxer. We?ll be referring to him as Senator Diaz, Governor Diaz, or maybe even President Diaz. That?s the…
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Diaz: ?Shoulda Been? Superstar Reaches The Crossroads
20 years from now, we probably won?t even be thinking about Juan Diaz the boxer. We?ll be referring to him as Senator Diaz, Governor Diaz, or maybe even President Diaz. That?s the…
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Timothy Bradley: From Hunter to Hunted, and He Likes It
If the world of professional boxing ever has a czar, I?d like to nominate WBO junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley for the position. Why? Well, in a game filled with dodgers and…
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Barrera Not Ready to Say Goodbye, and Neither are We
Nearly 21 years ago, a teenager named Marco Antonio Barrera stepped through the ropes for the first time as a professional with a simple philosophy, one that had nothing to do with…
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Miguel Cotto ? A Different Kind of Faith
In the lead-up to Saturday?s junior middleweight title bout at Yankee Stadium between Yuri Foreman and Miguel Cotto, much of the attention has been focused on the faith of the champion, a…
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Truth, Justice, and The Paulie Malignaggi Way
When you?ve died ? in a figurative sense ? and come back to life, what usually results is a jaded, world-weary knowledge; a thick skin that makes you impervious to pain and…
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Shane Mosley ? Doin? Work The Right Way
At Big Bear Lake, Shane Mosley isn?t ?Sugar Shane? ? boxing superstar and future Hall of Famer. He?s just Shane, and after ten years there, the conversations with the locals are the…
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Shane Mosley: “In This Division, I’m The Best”
Can you picture this? Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is walking down the street and gets called on to join in a pickup game at the local schoolyard – and he…
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Team Cotto – Composing Their Symphony of Destruction
When it comes to accomplishments in pro boxing, Joe Santiago can’t hold a candle to Freddie Roach. When it’s time to grab a quote from the camps of Miguel Cotto or Manny…
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Farewell to Boxing’s Truest Warrior
LAS VEGAS, July 11 – ‘Warrior’ is the most overused term in boxing today. Arturo Gatti was a warrior. For 16 years, there was no truer fighter, no man more willing to…
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JuanMa Lopez and the Comparison Game
When you?re a Puerto Rican prizefighter, your career is almost immediately intertwined with every other fighter who has hailed from the Caribbean island. If you?re a power puncher, you will be compared…
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Dinamita! Marquez KOs Diaz in Nine after Unforgettable War
Call it another one for the ?old? guys, as 35-year old Juan Manuel Marquez joined his Golden Boy Promotions stablemates Shane Mosley and Bernard Hopkins by turning back the clock and the…
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Yes He Can! Pacquiao Stuns and Stops De La Hoya In Eight
Size didn?t matter at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday night, but speed certainly did, as pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao ? who won his first world title…
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Well-Rested or Battle-Tested? The Riddle of Oscar-Pacquiao
Let?s get this out of the way at the start ? Oscar De La Hoya is in the best shape of his life, he?s got the fire back, and he?s coming out…
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Superman?s Last Flight? Hardly
On October 2, 2004, the scene in the bowels of Madison Square Garden was almost funeral-like. Just a week removed from his frightening knockout loss at the hands of Glen Johnson -…
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Pound for Pound? One Man?s View
Nothing gets the blood flowing and the barbs flying like a good ol? debate about the best fighters in the world, pound for pound. And given last Saturday?s master class by Bernard…
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Hall of Fame? Casamayor Can Answer That Question Saturday
Long left out of the conversation when it comes to the best fighters of this era, linear lightweight champion Joel Casamayor was all but written off after what should have been a…
