Matt McGrain
55 articles · Boxing.com
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Bryant Jennings TKO 10 Artur Szpilka
By Matt McGrain
There is talk of a match with Wladimir Klitschko; that would be grossly premature and an enormous waste of America?s best heavyweight talent? Bryan Jennings became just a little bit more interesting…
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Another Strange Month for British Heavyweights
By Matt McGrain
When our heavyweights go bad it is in the smallest and saddest of ways, as shown by Herbie Hide?s depressingly needless fall from grace? British heavyweights don?t go bad like American heavyweights.…
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Wladimir Klitschko: The Case for the Defense
By Matt McGrain
I rank Wladimir as a great heavyweight, one of fifteen that have ever lived, but I think Dempsey might have beaten him with that elusive, rhythm-breaking style? Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko have…
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Boxing?s Five Greatest Moments: 1970-1979
By Matt McGrain
It was an ending only Muhammad Ali could have given us and the greatest jewel in the shining crown of the greatest heavyweight of all time? Here are my pick of the…
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Brutality Delivered: Giovani Segura KO12 Hernan Marquez
By Matt McGrain
Saturday night in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Marquez sustained a beating and brutal knockout wrapped up into one acrid ball of hurt? Boxing was spoiled last night. Gennady Golovkin took another step towards…
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Brutality Guaranteed
By Matt McGrain
Segura-Marquez promises as much as it is possible for a fight to promise. It would be astonishing if it failed to deliver? ?The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy…
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A King Will Be Crowned
By Matt McGrain
When Wladimir recently compared Povetkin?s style to that of Mike Tyson, it was hard to hear him over the stifled guffaws of the pressmen retyping it? ?The mission I set out on…
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Canelo is Easy Money for Mayweather
By Matt McGrain
Tony Curtis once said that no matter what you achieve in Hollywood, you have to live with the fact that the only reason you?re there in the first place is because of…
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Segura Derails Gonzalez
By Matt McGrain
Another puncher detonated another fine boxer last night, Giovani Segura of Mexico traveling to Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, and derailing top prospect Jonathan Gonzalez just hours after Sergey Kovalev destroyed Nathan Cleverly.…
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Kovalev Crushes Cleverly
By Matt McGrain
Cleverly is first and foremost an athlete and one who has been given to walking into his opponents punches and machine-gunning when he should snipe? There was a strange occurrence in Cardiff,…
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Boxing?s Five Greatest Moments: 1980-1989
By Matt McGrain
A lot of this happened before I really understood what it all meant?and I didn?t put eyes on #3 until a number of years after the event. Still, as I said in…
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Tony Thompson TKO5 David Price
By Matt McGrain
Tony Thompson was once again booed as he entered Liverpool?s Echo Arena tonight in England, but it seemed to me that the heart of the crowd was not in it this time?rather…
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Marquez Asks $20m to Fight Manny
By Matt McGrain
Juan Manuel Marquez has demanded $20 million to face bitter rival Manny Pacquiao for a fifth time, according to Mexican newspaper Esto. Fresh from his meat-cleaver sixth round knockout of Pacquiao, the…
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Time to Introduce Brian Viloria to Your P4P List
By Matt McGrain
Not that you would have known it based upon press coverage today, but Broner-DeMarco was only the third most important fight to take place last night. More important was Carl Froch?s successful…
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Pacquiao Robbed?Now Nobody Is Safe
By Matt McGrain
In the aftermath, Lou DiBella has described ?a sport now on a respirator.? It was hard to disagree? Someone told me that Bob Arum set this up to cash in on the…