Dennis Taylor
36 articles · RingTV.com
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The Ring?s Turdnado
The Ring magazine took a big dump on journalism a decade ago when it sold its soul?literally?to Golden Boy Promotions? The Ring magazine took a big dump on journalism a decade ago…
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House of Dracula
He?s polite, respectful, smart, relentlessly ambitious, and perpetually smiling, even when his stomach is growling as he?s trying to make weight? You might already be learning about him as a fighter. Ruben…
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Sergey Kovalev?s journey back in the cruelest game of all
In ?The Sweet Science,? a loss isn?t a pimple that vanishes in a few days?it?s a scar that people notice forever? When Sergey Kovalev rolled out of bed on the morning of…
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Boxing?s greatest trilogy: The aftermath
They move to larger homes, drive sexy cars, stay in expensive hotels on the promoter?s dime. When the money starts to run out, they fight again? Written in conjunction with John J.…
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Son of a Gunn
Bobby Gunn has broken his hands in boxing, but says he?s never suffered more than a small fracture in a bare knuckle bout? In a private mansion in an East Coast city,…
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Gleason?s and The Garden: Randy Neumann Remembers
Gleason?s sat in the Fort Apache section of the South Bronx, streets so violent and depraved that Hollywood made them into a movie? Before he became one of the best-known refs on…
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The Flame and The Blade
?You have to do exactly what I tell you to do,? he told the former champ. ?If you do that, I?ll make you a world champion again?? It was noon in Las…
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Bad boys, bad boys?
Santa reports that boxers had a big, bad year in 2015 in the categories of crime, courts, and general misbehavior? There was a coal shortage this year at the North Pole, where…
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Boxing in 2015: Strange Brew
Somewhere in Hell, Fritzie Zivic, The Croat Comet, is probably cussing a blue streak, but it?s a brave, new world? Another memorable year in the sport we love. A big-time boxing promoter…
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God Help Boxing
Fury might be the guy who gives the heavyweight division the goosing it?s needed since Tyson and Holyfield got old? Only a possibly-intoxicated dime store novelist could dream up the character that…
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Beautiful Dreamer: Ray Mancini
Ray Mancini was a 15-year-old dreamer in a very depressed Midwestern city who became a national folk hero? Ray Mancini was a 15-year-old dreamer in a very depressed Midwestern city who became…
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Al Bernstein: Falling in Love Again
He remembers eavesdropping on Don Dunphy?s broadcasts of ?Friday Night Fights? when he was supposed to be in bed? Al Bernstein fell in love with boxing as a 10-year-old kid, sitting at…
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Jack Reiss: Coney Island Baby
He is the third man in the ring for many of the biggest fights in boxing ? most recently Postol?s KO of Matthysse? If you?ve never trained for a fight, and if…
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The British Are Coming!
Is British boxing going through a renaissance, or has the Internet simply made the world a smaller place for fight fans? Is British boxing going through a renaissance, or has the Internet…
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Mosley vs. Mosley II: Worthy of PPV
If Jin was somebody else?s wife when she married Shane, then how could their marriage have been legal? Shane Mosley is fighting mad and jumping for joy, all at the same time…
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?TBE? isn?t about risk management
I am willing to cut Mayweather some slack if he admits, immediately or sooner, that this isn?t his final fight? Maybe we should call him ?Easy Money.? Floyd Mayweather Jr. just sent…
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Tony Thompson: Let?s all get dirty!
Forcing every young boxer to transform himself into a synthetic superman would be one way to level the playing field? Heavyweight Tony Thompson, who tested dirty for performance-enhancing drugs after beating David…
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The Mercurial Life and Career of Jeff Fenech
?To be honest, if I wanted something when I was growing up, I usually had to get it the hard way?? At age 17, boxing was nowhere on the radar of Jeff…
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DiBella Takes a Bullet for Haymon
Lou DiBella?s dealings with Al Haymon have put him in the line of fire of rival promoters, who have called him a puppet? Some of roughest action in the sport is occurring…
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Team Caballero will protest split-decision loss
Representatives for Celestino Caballero intend to file an official protest with the World Boxing Association and demand an immediate rematch with featherweight champion Jonathon Barros in the wake of a controversial, split-decision…