Charles Saunders
208 articles · Boxscorenews.com
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Look out Pacquiao & Mayweather! Keith Thurman is coming
SONHAR: March 8, 2015 - The future of the welterweight division was on display Saturday as WBA champion Keith Thurman defended his title with a one-sided but still exciting 12-round decision over…
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Boxing’s heavyweights coming alive
SONAHR: Halifax, Nova Scotia - March 1, 2015 - Don?t look now, but the long-moribund heavyweight division is showing signs of resurrection. Only two months into the new year, the winds of…
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Mayweather vs Pacquiao: The Big Fight is on!
SONAHR: Halifax, Nova Scotia - February 22, 2015 - Ordinarily, British challenger Martin Murray?s game effort on Saturday against WBA middleweight champion (?super? version) Gennady Golovkin would have provided a major talking…
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Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2015: Noteworthy or Not Noteworthy?
SONAHR: HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - February 8, 2015 - Last year?s class of Modern category inductees into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York, were: Joe Calzaghe, Oscar De…
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Boxing’s Greatest Heavyweights
SONAHR: HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - February 1, 2015 - The middle of the second decade of the 21st century marks a time of transition in heavyweight boxing. The long dual reign of…
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Rios – Alavarado Trilogy falls flat
SONAHR: BLOOMFIELD, Colorado - January 25, 2015 - So much for the second coming of the thrill-a-minute trilogy between Micky Ward and the late Arturo Gatti, which had fight fans on the…
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What Time Is It? Wilder Time
SONHAR: January 18, 2015 - It?s a new year, and as of Saturday night there?s a new WBC heavyweight king: Deontay Wilder, ?The Bronze Bomber,? an Alabaman who is now undefeated at…
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Boxing’s Wish List for 2015
SONAHR: Halifax, Nova Scotia - January 4, 2015 - So here we are, halfway into the second decade of the 21st century, and the ancient and beleaguered sport of pugilism keeps on…
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Boxing’s 2014 Highs and Lows
SONAHR: December 21, 2014 - In the realm of pugilism, 2014 was not a spectacular year. But it was a steady one, with luminaries such as Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao…
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Bad draw for Bradley
SONAHR: LAS VEGAS, Nevada - December 14, 2014 - Timothy ?Desert Storm? Bradley is a very good fighter. He may even be a great fighter. Over the past few years, however, he…
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Fury overwhelms Chisora
SONAHR: November 30, 2014 - After a year of postponements, cancellations and pullouts from fights involving everyone from David Haye to Alexander Ustinov, British heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury finally stepped into the…
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Pacquiao pours it on
November 23, 2014 - If Chris Algieri had been able to upset Manny Pacquiao in their Macao bout for Pacquiao?s WBO welterweight title last night, he would have been a shoo-in for…
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Klitschko the Colossus
SONAHR: HAMBURG, Germany - November 16, 2014 - In the heavyweight division, Wladimir Klitschko reigns supreme, as he has for the past several years. For a while, he shared the pinnacle of…
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Kovalev alienates Hopkins
SONAHR: ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - November 9, 2014 - WBO light-heavyweight champion Sergei Kovalev beat the hell out of a 49-year-old man in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Saturday. But the Russian?s…
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Remembering Ali-Foreman ‘Rumble in the Jungle’
SONAHR: October 26, 2014 - October 30, 1974. The day before Halloween, and boxing trick-or-treaters were looking forward to a superfight between fearsome heavyweight champion George Foreman and the bombastic ex-champion, but…
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Golovkin up, Donaire down
Two big fights, one big blowout, one big upset SONAHR: October 18, 2014 - Two of boxing?s biggest names ? middleweight Gennady ?GGG? Golovkin and featherweight Nonito Donaire ? climbed into the…
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New book honors Boxing’s Gods of War
SONAHR: Halifax, Nova Scotia - October 12, 2014 - Springs Toledo writes perceptively about pugilism for thesweetscience.com website. The Gods of War: Boxing Essays is a selection of Springs? articles from that…
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Respect for Boxing’s Cruiserweights
SONAHR: September 28, 2014 - Since its inception back in 1980, the cruiserweight division has been the Rodney Dangerfield of the boxing?s higher weight classes ? it gets no respect. It tends…
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Pound For Pound Today, Boxing Hall Of Fame Tomorrow?
SONAHR Sports: September 21, 2014 - Boxing?s pound-for-pound lists tend to be controversial, if not necessarily relevant to anything other than heated debate. The term was first conceived as a means to…
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Mayweather vs Maidana: No doubts this time
SONAHR: September 13, 2014 - Floyd ?Money? Mayweather Jr.?s ring record now stands at 47-0, with 26 of those wins coming inside the distance. As his career draws to a close, it…