Charles Saunders
208 articles · Boxscorenews.com
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LIKE IT OR NOT, MAYWEATHER?S THE MAN
Society of North American Sports Historians & Researchers - HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA - May 5, 2013 - Boxing fans who are eager to witness the decline and fall of Floyd ?Money? Mayweather…
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Big Boxing Weekend
For a sport that is supposed to be dead, boxing sure makes a lively corpse. This weekend saw a slew of meaningful bouts featuring some of the cream of the fistic crop,…
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Canelo is for Real
Even though he didn?t lay out his opponent on Saturday, rising star Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez laid to rest all but the most stubborn misgivings about his shining 42-0-1 (30 KOs) record. As…
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The Downfall of Donaire
Guillermo Rigondeaux stole the show at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Saturday as he won a unanimous decision over Nonito Donaire. Donaire just happened to be Fighter of…
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Rios-Alvarado II: The Big Bang Theory
If the fiscal year is divided into quarters, why not the fistic year as well? In the case of the boxing business, the first quarter of 2013 ended with a bang on…
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?King? Arthur Loses Boxing Crown
?King? Arthur Abraham made like Elmer Fudd when he defended his WBO super-middleweight crown against Robert Stieglitz, the man from whom Abraham had lifted the bauble in August of last year. Abraham…
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Bernard Hopkins: Boxing’s New Mongoose
Bernard ?B-Hop? Hopkins added another chapter to his book of legendary achievements when he soundly outpointed previously undefeated Tavoris Cloud Saturday night. In the process, B-Hop annexed Cloud?s IBF light-heavyweight crown, and…
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Welcome Back Tim Bradley
Timothy ?Desert Storm? Bradley, also known as the Invisible Man of boxing, is scheduled to reappear in the ring on March 16. Bradley will be defending his WBO welterweight title against that…
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Thoughts From Boxing’s Neutral Corner
I may be wrong, but ? The proposed fifth bout between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez could well turn out to be the least exciting of the series. Pacquiao will be…
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A Fitful New Year Start For Boxing
The new year in boxing is off to a somewhat slow start, with the first major match ? Orlando Salido?s defense of his WBO featherweight title against undefeated challenger Mikey Garcia ?…
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Boxing’s 2012 Highs and Lows
This past year marked the turning of a corner for boxing fans. The corner was the waning prospects for a superfight-to-end-all-superfights between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., who had traded places…
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Adamek: King of Boxing’s Small Heavies
Amid boxing?s stupefying array of weight divisions and ?super?/?interim?/?silver?/ ?diamond?/ ?emeritus?/?recess? championships, there is a division that is neither recognized nor named, yet exists in a de facto manner. Let?s call this…
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Donaire is the One
For boxing fans in the Philippines, the past several days have been something of an emotional bungee jump. First, the plunge: On December 8, Filipino idol Manny Pacquiao suffered a shocking, one-punch…
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Pacquiao Era Ends
Manny Pacquiao?s run as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world ended Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It ended not with a whimper, but a bang ? the…
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Pacquiao-Marquez: Now and 4-Ever
?Should old acquaintance be forgot ?? Even though New Year?s celebrations are still less than a month away, on this coming Saturday, the ?old acquaintance? between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez…
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Boxing Stars Shine
The waning months of 2012 are producing fistic fireworks of the finest order as current stars shine, others rise and new ones are born. This past Saturday?s fight cards provided some excellent…
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Lucian Re-Butes
When a highly-touted fighter receives a comprehensive and humiliating drubbing like the one super-middleweight Lucian Bute absorbed at the hands of Carl Froch in May, the question always arises: Can he come…
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Wladimir Klitschko meets “The Legends”
Whenever a boxing champion reaches a point at which he totally dominates his division, speculation begins on how he would have fared against the great fighters of the past. Wladimir Klitschko, who…
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20 Boxing Questions
Most of us have had fun playing the game ?20 Questions? at some point in our lives. Here are 20 questions relating to the state of boxing as the year 2012 draws…
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Grading Saturday’s Boxing Stars
Thus far, a sensational September is more than making up for what turned out to be an anemic August in the world of boxing. First, Andre Ward put a beatdown on Chad…
