Mark Ortega
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West Coast Boxing Report, Dec. 3
By Mark Ortega
Last week, talks began to surface that the Jan. 19 Showtime Championship Boxing card headlined by Devon Alexander (24-1, 13 KOs) of St. Louis and Kell Brook (29-0, 19 KOs) of the…
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Glenn Donaire Looks To Extend The Family Winning Streak Against Giovani Segura
By Mark Ortega
Saturday night on HBO, Nonito Donaire added another big name to his resume as he stopped the durable and undefeated for many years Toshiaki Nishioka in nine rounds in southern California. Donaire,…
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Brandon Rios Stops Mike Alvarado In A War, Nonito Donaire Impresses In Carson
By Mark Ortega
Nonito Donaire did it again. He notched a victory over yet another notable name as he starched Tokyo's Toshiaki Nishioka in nine rounds in front of a capacity crowd at the Home…
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Sergio Martinez Vs. Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. More Compelling Thanks To Boxing Politics
By Mark Ortega
There are plenty of people out there, this writer included, who won't believe we will be seeing Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. fight Sergio Martinez until Michael Buffer makes it official on Sept.…
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NorCal Boxing Report, Aug. 29: Jorge Linares, Andre Ward Vs. Chad Dawson Undercard, More
By Mark Ortega
San Francisco's Hargraves Ready For Godoy in Stiff Four-Rounder in San Diego San Francisco welterweight Richard Hargraves (3-0-1, 2 KOs) steps up his opposition a notch Thursday night in San Diego as…
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Nonito Donaire Gears Up For Toshiaki Nishioka
By Mark Ortega
Last Friday at the O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Nonito Donaire fired a pitch high but over the plate on Filipino Heritage Night prior to the hometown Athletics' game with the Cleveland Indians.…
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Golden Boy Mostly Ghosts For Robert Guerrero Win
By Mark Ortega
When boxing promotional juggernaut Golden Boy Promotions announced their most recent run of major fights, most experts thought if one of the house fighters was going to lose, Gilroy, Calif.'s Robert Guerrero…
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Robert Guerrero Hopes To Keep Golden Boy Apple Cart From Being Overturned By Selcuk Aydin
By Mark Ortega
It has been more than a year and a half since a major fight took place in northern California. The region is home to arguably three of the sport's best fighters in…
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The Sins Of Adrien Broner Vs. Vicente Escobedo
By Mark Ortega
What was previously disregarded as just another mismatch engineered by adviser Al Haymon atop an HBO televised doubleheader morphed into case studies of a number of contentious topics in the sport by…
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Canned: Timothy Bradley In 2010
By Mark Ortega
The Manny Pacquiao conqueror in 2010 interview talks about steroids, not getting a big fight, signing Cameron Dunkin, being dropped by Kendall Holt, watching tape on his opponents, and picking up a…
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Half-Year 25 Favorite Boxing Prospects Report Card
By Mark Ortega
In January, one of my first contributions to TQBR was a list of my 25 favorite prospects to start 2012. Now that we have met the halfway point of the year, compiled…
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Nonito Donaire Wraps Up San Carlos Camp
By Mark Ortega
Thursday afternoon in San Carlos, Calif., multi-division titlist Nonito Donaire concluded his sparring in preparation for his fight with South African beltholder Jeffrey Mathebula, which takes place in southern California at the…
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Josesito Lopez And The Eight-Year Plan
By Mark Ortega
Though many memorable moments remain from last Saturday's shocking result at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, one of those moments that stuck with me late into the following week about Josesito…
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Josesito Lopez Looks To Upset The Odds Against Victor Ortiz
By Mark Ortega
There aren't many giving Riverside, Calif.'s Josesito Lopez much of a chance to overturn the already set table of his June 23 opponent Victor Ortiz at the Staples Center in Los Angeles…
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Tomasz Adamek Beats Eddie Chambers, But Look, Another Interesting Scorecard
By Mark Ortega
Saturday night, an NBC Sports televised intriguing heavyweight crossroads bout between New Jersey based Pole Tomasz Adamek and Philadelphia's Eddie Chambers went head-to-head against the big league broadcast by HBO, with Adamek…
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Former Foes Shane Mosley, Winky Wright Say Goodbye, Others Step Away From The Squared Circle
By Mark Ortega
The sweet science has always been known as a sport where headlines are made as much outside of the ring as they are between the ropes, and leading up to June's big…
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Larry Merchant’s Thoughts On Timothy Bradley Vs. Manny Pacquiao
By Mark Ortega
Saturday night, Timothy Bradley earned an extremely controversial split decision victory over Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Noticeably missing from the HBO broadcast was the venerable Larry Merchant,…
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Billy Joe Saunders Rolls Against Bradley Pryce
By Mark Ortega
Friday night from York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, Billy Joe Saunders scored the biggest win of his career as he lopsidedly dominated Bradley Pryce to successfully retain his Commonwealth middleweight title…
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Austin Trout Remembers, Emulates Departed New Mexico Boxing Icon Johnny Tapia
By Mark Ortega
Saturday night, Las Cruces, New Mexico's Austin Trout makes his debut on the big stage as part of a Showtime televised quadrupleheader taking place in Carson, Calif. where he defends his 154-pound…
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Weekend Afterthoughts, Featuring Carl Froch, Lucian Bute, And The Landscape At 168
By Mark Ortega
Lucian Bute had a bit of an Ivan Drago quality to him heading into his fight this past weekend with Carl Froch in Nottingham, making Froch's choice to use ?No Easy Way…