Steve Kim
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Azad Championship Report: Smith Lives and Fights On
By Steve Kim
Ishe Smith finally gets his long-awaited title shot when he takes on IBF junior middleweight beltholder Cornelius ?K9? Bundrage in Detroit on Saturday night (Showtime, 9 p.m., ET/PT). It?s been a frustrating…
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Azad Championship Report: Smith Lives and Fights On
By Steve Kim
Ishe Smith finally gets his long-awaited title shot when he takes on IBF junior middleweight beltholder Cornelius ?K9? Bundrage in Detroit on Saturday night (Showtime, 9 p.m., ET/PT). It?s been a frustrating…
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Escobedo Makes a Business Decision?
By Steve Kim
This much is for sure; unlike in his last outing, Vicente Escobedo knows the night before that he will be fighting against an opponent who weighed in under the stated limit. On…
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The Rebuttal
By Steve Kim
So will we finally see the anticipated bout between junior featherweight stalwarts Nonito Donaire and Abner Mares? On Friday, Top Rank was sent a written proposal for a provision of services agreement…
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Golovkin Just Wins
By Steve Kim
In a contest that started resembling something more of a blood drive sponsored by the Red Cross than a prizefight, WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin scored a seventh round stoppage over the…
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The Battle vs. the Flu Bug in New York
By Steve Kim
If you haven?t heard, there?s a severe flu bug ravaging the East Coast, specifically New York. ?Nightline? recently opened its broadcast talking about this outbreak (and by the way, am I the…
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Golden Schedule
By Steve Kim
Last year, Golden Boy Promotions was as busy as any promoter in the world. It wasn?t unusual for them to have a card featured on HBO or Showtime and promotions televised on…
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Can Boxing Continue to Network?
By Steve Kim
In what is even more mounting evidence that boxing is not dying or being overtaken by the UFC, NBC scored very strong ratings for their December 22nd broadcast featuring the heavyweight contest…
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Fights I?d Like to See in 2013
By Steve Kim
So 2013 is officially upon us. And the hope for all boxing fans is that this year is as fun and entertaining as the past year where there was no shortage of…
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The First Quarter
By Steve Kim
There is a big multi-title fight card in Japan taking place today but for the most part, we can turn the page on 2012 and look ahead to the New Year. And…
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Pavlik Needs an Opponent
By Steve Kim
It was officially announced on Thursday that Andre Ward?s shoulder, injured last month during training, would keep him from performing on March 2nd. By this time, Ward had already pushed back his…
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The 2013 K9 Awards: Part One
By Steve Kim
Another year has come and passed and it was another 12-month period where we didn?t see Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather square off. And guess what? It was actually still a very…
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?The Future of Boxing? a Passion Project for Choko
By Steve Kim
You hear boxers talk all the time about becoming promoters and/or promoting their own events. In fact, all they are doing is living off the largesse of television money and are, in…
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USS Takes Second Voyage Against Adamek
By Steve Kim
The first time Steve Cunningham (then the reigning IBF cruiserweight titlist) faced Tomasz Adamek back in December of 2008, he figured that with the fight being not too far from his home…
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Random Thoughts from the Sports Arena
By Steve Kim
For a boxing writer in the Southern California/Los Angeles area, it was a bit of nirvana this past Saturday as a day-night doubleheader was staged by Golden Boy Promotions at the L.A.…
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Boom Goes the ?Dinamita?
By Steve Kim
As a torrent of Tecate was being thrown in celebration around the rafters of the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, a delirious crowd of nearly 17,000 (mostly Mexican partisans) was…
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The Future on Display
By Steve Kim
While most of the focus of the boxing world will be centered on the fourth chapter of the Manny Pacquiao - Juan Manuel Marquez rivalry at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas…
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Packing a Hawaiian Punch
By Steve Kim
Capping off what was an entertaining night at the L.A. Sports Arena, Brian Viloria not only unified the WBO and WBA flyweight belts by impressively dispatching Hernan ?Tyson? Marquez over 10 heated…
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Azad Championship Report: Abner Mares Makes It Clear
By Steve Kim
After a hard fought and well deserved victory over Anselmo Moreno on Saturday night at the Staples Center, the reigning WBC junior featherweight champion, Abner Mares, wasn?t in the mood to entertain…