Fox Doucette
52 articles · Boxing Tribune
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Will Keith Thurman Ever Find Legitimacy?
By Fox Doucette
With the boxing world's attention turning to the next big fight weekend two weeks from now, it's time to start examining whether Keith ?One Time? Thurman (26-0, 22 KOs) has made any…
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Pacquiao-Bradley: Bob Arum’s No-Win Situation
By Fox Doucette
Boxing is unique among the sports in that the outcome of a fight is less about the combatants in the ring and more about the cloak-and-dagger going on behind the scenes. Sure,…
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Miguel Cotto-Saul Alvarez: The Only Preview You Need
By Fox Doucette
In the classic NES game Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, an NPC famously gave the advice ?If all else fails, use fire.? All else has failed in the boxing pay-per-view universe…
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Historical Fight Night: Gatti-Arguello II, Edwin Valero vs. Salvador Sanchez
By Fox Doucette
Three weeks ago, controversy erupted at the Historical Fight Night Arena in San Dimas, California, as Arturo Gatti defeated Alexis Arguello by 8th-round knockout at junior welterweight. Surely, the fix had to…
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Vic Darchinyan, Retire Before You Get Killed
By Fox Doucette
Vic Darchinyan (40-7-1, 29 KOs) takes on Jesus Cuellar (26-1, 20 KOs) from the StubHub Center in Carson, California on Saturday night in what NBC is implying will be the off-air undercard…
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The Day the NBA Murdered Boxing: On Chris Paul and Pacquiao-Mayweather
By Fox Doucette
By itself, boxing could probably have survived the all-hype, no-substance boring fight that happened last night between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. Really, anyone with an ounce of sense knew exactly…
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PBC: Possible Business Catastrophe: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette
Well, the initial fight card for Al Haymon?s Premier Boxing Champions has come and gone, and?meh. Sure, it drew three million viewers, but then again, it was advertised to hell and back?even…
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What If Manny Pacquiao Stayed At Featherweight?
By Fox Doucette
Just a notch under two months from now, Manny Pacquiao takes on Floyd Mayweather to finally settle the argument of which long-past-his-prime fighter has the most left in the tank to win…
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Floyd Mayweather Will Beat Manny Pacquiao: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette
I wish I could say I had news to report in this column, a fresh perspective, something that would blow the doors wide open on the Pacquiao-Mayweather discussion now that the fight?s…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao: Hulkamania Vs The Ultimate Warrior
By Fox Doucette
Last night WWE: Monday Night Raw rolled into my hometown of Denver, Colorado. As a youth, there was nothing better then Saturday morning wrestling. This was before there was a Monday Night…
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Matthysse-Provodnikov, 2015 Fight of the Year: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette
Rumors have begun to float around the edges of the boxing world that Lucas Matthysse (36-3, 34 KOs) may be set to fight Ruslan Provodnikov (24-3, 17 KOs) later this year, and…
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Karma?s A Bitch, Mauricio Herrera: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette
In the words of John Riggins, ?I?m bored, I?m broke?and I?m back.? Welcome back to The Southpaw, the column with a better strength-of-schedule than Deontay Wilder: When the guys at the Tribune…
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Mayweather-Maidana Mayhem: The Only Preview You Need
By Fox Doucette
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KOs) and Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) square off at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada Saturday night on pay-per-view for the WBC welterweight title, the…
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What If Oscar De La Hoya Beat Floyd Mayweather?
By Fox Doucette
On May 5, 2007, in front of a sold-out crowd in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr. put an end to the championship run of the legendary ?Golden Boy?, Oscar De La Hoya,…
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Manny Pacquiao: Why Floyd Mayweather Is A Better Champion
By Fox Doucette
What makes a great champion? If you?re Manny Pacquiao, it would seem to be collecting belts and making up false achievements for yourself. If you?re Floyd Mayweather, Jr., who fights Robert Guerrero…
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Manny Pacquiao, All-Time Great Con Man: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette
Rumors floating around the magical Intertubes would have you believe that Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2, Give Or Take Three Or Four Gift Decisions) is going to fight Juan Manuel Marquez for a fourth…
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Punching Your Sister in the Face: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette
Last week, on the official ESPN Friday Night Fights Facebook page, the question came up of how meaningful the performance of the women?s team in London was at removing some of the…
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Nonito Donaire-Toshiaki Nishioka: Small Men, Big Stakes
By Fox Doucette
Did we, in the past year, forget that Nonito Donaire (29-1, 18 KOs) was a top-ten pound-for-pound fighter? To hear the boxing media tell it, you?d think Donaire had just been knocked…
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FNF Year End Awards: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette
How do you give awards to a year that was so completely disappointing from start to finish that award-winning performances were few and far between? Last year, ESPN2′s Friday Night Fights series…
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?To Hell With Professional Objectivity?: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette
Last year, I took a slow news week to examine the fighters who, even though my job requires me to be objective and stick to covering the facts of the matter in…