Tom Donelson
28 articles · BoxingScene.com
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Match Them And They Will Come
IOWA CITY -- Match them and they will come -- to paraphrase a popular saying. The recent Marquez-Diaz fight is an example of what happens when boxing promoters match up good fighters…
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Golden Boy No More
IOWA CITY -- Oscar De La Hoya's days as a fighter are over. Oscar De La Hoya as a boxing promoter is in its infancy. Saturday night, the Golden Boy showed that…
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Enhancing Their Legacies<br>“Pac Man”, Casamayor on a possible collision course
IOWA CITY, Ia.-- In reviewing the replay of the Juan Manuel Marquez-Manny Pacquiao bout, one gets whimsical over the end of a generation of great featherweights. For the past decades, we have…
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Is Golden Boy The Future Of Boxing??
IOWA CITY, Ia. -- Shane Mosley fought a great fight against a younger champion and came up oh so short. His fight against Miguel Cotto could have easily gone the other way…
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De La Hoya: The Win Mayweather Needs Most
During his ventures through various weight divisions in the last decade, Oscar De La Hoya has fought most of the elite fighters in each respective weight. With the exception of Shane Mosley…
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Globalization of Boxing
Joe Calzaghe is the world recognized best Super Middleweight fighter and he is from England. One of the Heavyweight division's leading contenders is a Nigerian fighter named Samuel Peters and Mexican fighters…
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Donelson: A Few Thoughts
Highlights on Three Journalists I found myself sitting next to Pedro Fernandez last fall during the Judah-Spinks fight. Pedro jokily told me that I maybe shouldn?t get too close ?in case any…
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PACMAN and Marquez: A few final thoughts
I remember a sport pundit quipping that a tie was like kissing your sister. Well, last Saturday, we were treated to the boxing version of a tie- the draw. Manny ?the Pac…
