Jason Keidel
26 articles · CBS New York
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Keidel: Who Does Deontay Wilder Need To Fight?
By Jason Keidel
You may hear a boxing wakeup call when Deontay Wilder fights Luis Ortiz next weekend at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Boxing has been kept afloat by the stable of wildly gifted fighters…
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Keidel: Pacquiao-Horn Decision Another Black Eye For Boxing
By Jason Keidel
Most sports fans who aren?t hardwired into boxing think that the sport knocked itself out years ago, because of corruption and poor ringside decisions. The answer is more layered than that. But…
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Keidel: Everyone Will Watch Mayweather-McGregor, And That?s The Point
By Jason Keidel
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor? the fight no one wants, but everyone will watch. For all the lamentations from the media, masses and Oscar De La Hoya, we have a staggering…
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Keidel: Thurman-Garcia Fight Could Be A Step Toward Rescuing Boxing
By Jason Keidel
When Keith Thurman squares off against Danny Garcia on Saturday at Barclays Center, it will represent a rare confluence of timing and talent. Indeed, Saturday night will be the first time since…
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Lennon Warns of Danger if Mayweather Looks Past Berto
By Jason Keidel
In an attempt to surround Mayweather?s career from a myriad of expert angles, CBS Local Sports chatted with Jimmy Lennon Jr ? the Hall-of-Fame ring announcer whose signature voice and trademark calls…
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Boxing Analyst Steve Farhood: ?I?d Put Floyd Between Top Ten And 15 All Time?
By Jason Keidel
Steve Farhood, whose career as a boxing pundit goes back to cigars and fedoras, has been a writer, editor, and ringside reporter for nearly four decades. Having been a boxing analyst on…
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Keidel: Pacquiao Was Simply Awful In Ugly Loss To Mayweather
By Jason Keidel
Though it?s my job to sprinkle faerie dust on the sweet science, to assure you that boxing is still indeed the sport that drains the adrenal gland like no other endeavor, you…
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Floyd Mayweather is far from perfect, except inside the ring
By Jason Keidel
Texas Station sounds like a college football outpost, or a 19th Century army base, where we once prepared our troops to fight Santa Anna. It doesn't sound like the womb of the…
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If Pacquiao is going to beat Mayweather, he’d better get busy
By Jason Keidel
In most sports, numbers often tell a large part of the story. Look at a baseball box score and if a team only had two hits and struck out 14 times, that…
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Keidel: Money, Mayhem And Madness
By Jason Keidel
So seven days from now, a seismic sporting event will take place in Las Vegas ? a place prone to hyperbole. And while countless people ? pundits, cable executives, media and the…
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Keidel: Freddie Roach Is Pacquiao?s Trainer, Mentor, And Mouthpiece
By Jason Keidel
Here we are, a fortnight until fight night. And the palpable pomp is only building. There are so many physical and metaphysical factors that go into a big boxing match. And the…
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Q&A: 30 years later, Hagler recalls bloody battle with Hearns
By Jason Keidel
Rarely can you recall a moment or two that literally altered your life, your consciousness, or your belief in beauty. Unless you were alive and lucid on April 15, 1985, when millions…
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Pacquiao, trainer Roach have taken each other to new heights
By Jason Keidel
Nearly 15 years ago, a pixie popped into a Las Vegas gym. No one stared, cared, or even blinked. The gym's owner, curator, and avatar thought the young man was more ready…
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Bernard Hopkins: Mayweather beats Pacquiao by ‘controversial’ decision
By Jason Keidel
Bernard Hopkins, the sophist of the sweet science, who fought well past the maxims of logic and physics, spoke with CBSSports.com on a montage of topics, including the epic bout between Floyd…
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Q&A: Heavyweight champ Wilder: Pacquiao can win close decision
By Jason Keidel
Deontay Wilder may not sound like the latest in a list of luminaries to win the heavyweight title, but after beating Bermane Stiverne, he became the first American to win some iteration…
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Keidel: Boxing Needs Mayweather-Pacquiao Bout
By Jason Keidel
In case you?ve been comatose the last week, a boxing match was announced last Friday. The tectonic bout, pitting Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao ? or at least the possibility of…
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Keidel: Final Round For Manny And Mayweather
By Jason Keidel
Enough. A report just crawled across my flatscreen, with Bob Arum asserting that the dueling networks, HBO and Showtime, have basically agreed on broadcasting rights for a Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny…
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Keidel: Perfect Confluence Of Timing, Talent, History For Mayweather
By Jason Keidel
If you?ve read this column with any regularity, you know I?m hardly a Floyd Mayweather, Jr apologist. Nor am I a company shill. Neither my boss nor my editor has ever forced…
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Keidel: Will Mayweather Accept Terms For Pacquiao Bout?
By Jason Keidel
Let us dissect the nth iteration of the Manny ? Mayweather contract squabble. Unlike other versions of boxing?s Hatfields and McCoys, the differences and deferences are clearer than ever. By every account,…
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Keidel: Until Floyd Takes On Manny, We?ll Have To Continue Dealing In Symbolism
By Jason Keidel
Sure, boxing is largely buried in the back alleys of the sports pages and the moonlit hours of Tony Paige?s program. Unless, of course, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. or Manny Pacquiao is fighting.…