Joseph Santoliquito
94 articles · The Ring
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Boxing makes a bullish return to network TV
There is a generation of boxing fans that never had the chance to plop down in a recliner on a Saturday afternoon, channel hop (when you actually had to get up to…
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Insiders weigh in on Garcia?s present and future
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. ? Danny Garcia kind of rushed up on us. Before one swooping counter left hook in the last minute of the third round in mid-July, the 140-pound beltholder was considered…
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Insiders weigh in on Garcia?s present and future
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. ? Danny Garcia kind of rushed up on us. Before one swooping counter left hook in the last minute of the third round in mid-July, the 140-pound beltholder was considered…
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Inside Team Garcia ? Part II
Thursday, Aug. 30 9:00 a.m.: Team Garcia is getting itself together for today?s press conference. They?re a pretty organized and quick group. Unlike many boxing entourages, these guys move with alacrity. Of…
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Homebody Garcia is used to being underestimated
A black sign with the words ?Swift Boxing Club? scrawled in big red letters hangs on the side of the Harrowgate Boxing Club in North Philadelphia. Below the sign is an arrow…
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The American Dream came close to being a nightmare
The room is small, dimly lit, but clean. A flat-screen TV sits in the tiny parlor where the curtains are always drawn. Boxing magazines and books are splayed out across the floor…
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Behind bars: How will jail time affect Floyd Mayweather Jr.?
The facade of the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas looks more like an office building in any downtown metropolis than it does a prison. To outsiders, it was intended to…
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Floyd Mayweather, the man who loves to be booed
Floyd Mayweather gets booed by much of the public whether he's talking up his May 5 opponent, Miguel Cotto, or putting down his perennial nemesis, Manny Pacquiao, but he doesn't seem to…
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Arum is in full selling mode for Pacquiao-Bradley promotion
NEW YORK, N.Y. ? Bob Arum was beaming. The Hall of Fame promoter tends to emote whenever he talks about an upcoming Manny Pacquiao fight, but he was at his throaty, cantankerous,…
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Q&A with Larry Merchant: ?If I was 50 years younger …?
We?re used to him coming through our TV screen in measured, rhythmic tones. Hall of Fame commentator Larry Merchant has been part of this generation?s boxing lexicon since HBO began broadcasting fights.…
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10 ROUNDS: Q&A with Wladimir Klitschko
The heavyweight division may be moribund in the United States but that doesn?t mean it is on life support everywhere else in the world. The heavyweight showdown between RING champ Wladimir Klitschko…
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10 ROUNDS: Q&A with Victor Ortiz
This is the first in monthly series of Q & As with boxing?s elite fighters and top personalities. Victor Ortiz was stung by the criticism and sarcastic remarks that followed his loss…
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Q & A: ESPN’s Brian Kenny
He?s been boxing broadcasting?s white knight since he first began as the studio host of Friday Night Fightsin the fall of 1998. While sports talking heads jibber, jabber and try to fake…
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Mosley-Mayweather: Classic good guy vs. bad guy
They?ve been sprinkled throughout boxing history, the intriguing hook that lures in not only boxing fans but also those with only a passing interest in the sport. They?ve run along racial boundaries…