Matt McGrain
55 articles · Boxing.com
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The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Seven: 40-31
By Matt McGrain
We?re starting to meet with great heavyweights now. But for me, we won?t encounter any true giants among giants until part nine? Squint and we?re starting to meet with great heavyweights now.…
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Rodriguez Edges Takayama in Fight of the Year
By Matt McGrain
Rodriguez harassed and brutalized Takayama and only one of the best engines in the sport kept him in the battle? The likely Fight of the Year was fought in Mexico last night…
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Rodriguez-Takayama: Fight of the Year Potential?
By Matt McGrain
In terms of both punch output and mobility he is Muhammad Ali, throwing caution to the wind and banking upon the innate dog within? Katsunari Takayama, as well as being the #2…
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The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Six: 50-41
By Matt McGrain
Something for everyone might as well mean something for everyone to complain about as far as a list such as this goes? There were more active heavyweights in the 1940s than there…
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The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Four: 70-61
By Matt McGrain
A strategy that literally calls for you to be hit often in order that you might triumph isn?t an easy one to adopt at the very highest level? Face first is how…
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The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Three: 80-71
By Matt McGrain
You see it in other weight divisions but you see it most of all up at heavyweight. One single punch can change the fortunes of a fighter forever? One punch ? that?s…
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IBF Orders Klitschko-Pulev
By Matt McGrain
Rather than being an embarrassment, Klitschko should post a dominant performance that underlines his inherent superiority? Wladimir Klitschko?s reasoning for meeting the hopeless Alex Leapai in defense of the legitimate and lineal…
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Wladimir Klitschko Thrashes Alex Leapai
By Matt McGrain
The lesson here is that a good back story and a victory over the broadly untested Denis Boytsov does not a heavyweight contender make? An embarrassingly one-sided heavyweight title fight fought in…
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Naoya Inoue Crushes Adrian Hernandez
By Matt McGrain
Hernandez struggled to his feet ? then turned his back in the universal signal of surrender. He had had enough. Naoya Inoue had broken him? Today?s deeply stacked Ring Diamond card from…
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Why You Should Not Watch Bradley-Pacquiao II
By Matt McGrain
There was a sense, I think, that boxing had morphed from a tortured and constricted snake into one that was actually consuming itself? ?Not to help justice in her need would be…
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Shannon Briggs Rushes Wladimir Klitschko
By Matt McGrain
Wladimir remained admirably professional with one exception. He called Briggs ?punch-drunk,? although the American fortunately didn?t hear him? David Haye successfully hustled his way into the ring with Wladimir Klitschko back in…
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Laurence Cole Is an Idiot
By Matt McGrain
Few referees have turned in a performance as bad as that which Laurence Cole blessed us with Saturday night in, inevitably, San Antonio, Texas for Vasyl Lomachenko?s much hyped shot at Orlando…
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Seven Things Lomachenko Needs to Do Right Now
By Matt McGrain
What has been proven, almost beyond reasoned argument, is that an amateur pedigree is absolutely no replacement for professional experience? A strange pantomime indeed was played out this weekend in San Antonio,…
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Ioka Makes Flyweight Deeper
By Matt McGrain
Kazuto Ioka today announced that he would be revoking his alphabet strap and moving from light-flyweight up to the uber-stacked 112-lb. division in pursuit of honors at a third weight?all before he…
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Crawford UD12 Burns
By Matt McGrain
I think I would like to see the inexperienced Crawford, who climbs to 23-0, next time out regardless of who the opponent might be? Ricky Burns refused to use the brutally broken…
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Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora Win at the Copper Box
By Matt McGrain
?Johnson?s done shit all the way through, I?m falling asleep over there,? Fury advised British television between rounds. ?These two are useless?? Involuntary inactivity reveals the work ethic of a fighter. When…
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A Mythical Top Ten Pound-for-Pound
By Matt McGrain
Every mode of fiction lends itself to boxing. Boxing is absolutely fundamental in a way no other sport is, but it is also combative and bloodthirsty? If you get the wrong person…
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Gennady Golovkin TKO7 Osumanu Adama
By Matt McGrain
Golovkin scored yet another stoppage tonight in Monte Carlo, Monaco, in a surprisingly absorbing contest with Ghanaian Osumanu Adama? Gennady Golovkin scored yet another stoppage tonight in Monte Carlo, Monaco, in a…
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We Be Crooks
By Matt McGrain
The passing of Jose Sulaiman, the lapdog of Don King and the man who has run the WBC for the past two-hundred years was a terrible tragedy for his family. He was…
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Five For 2014
By Matt McGrain
The first article I ever penned for Boxing.com was about Mago. I predicted he would one day hold an alphabet belt. My heart breaks for what he got instead? New Year is…