Steve Kim
238 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Business As Usual
By Steve Kim
On Tuesday morning a press release was sent out by Top Rank announcing that Manny Pacquiao had signed a contract extension with the company that will expire on Dec. 31, 2016, at…
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Boxcino Finals on FNF, More to Come?
By Steve Kim
It can be argued that the best fight of the weekend is the ?Boxcino? lightweight final between Petr Petrov and Fernando Carcamo from the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New…
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Golovkin Moves on Without Chavez Jr.
By Steve Kim
On Saturday afternoon in a small conference room at the LAX Marriott, WBA middleweight beltholder Gennady Golovkin held a media roundtable with a select handful of boxing scribes. If it were up…
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Golovkin Moves on Without Chavez Jr.
By Steve Kim
On Saturday afternoon in a small conference room at the LAX Marriott, WBA middleweight beltholder Gennady Golovkin held a media roundtable with a select handful of boxing scribes. If it were up…
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Do We Plead for a Fifth?
By Steve Kim
It was a successful Forum homecoming for future Hall-of-Famer Juan Manuel Marquez as he defeated the rugged Mike Alvarado in front of 12,090 mostly Mexican partisans who cheered his every move. He?s…
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Marotta?s Favorite Forum Memories
By Steve Kim
This weekend, the newly refurbished and renovated Fabulous Forum in Inglewood (once the home of the Lakers and Kings) re-opens its doors as a boxing venue, welcoming back its prodigal pugilist son,…
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The Man Who Nearly Beat Mayweather
By Steve Kim
Floyd Mayweather makes his first appearance of 2014 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday against the rugged and hard-hitting Marcos Maidana, who despite a solid pedigree is a prohibitive…
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Against the Odds
By Steve Kim
If you haven?t heard, Marcos Maidana, who faces Floyd Mayweather this Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, is a heavy underdog. Some books have ?Money? as high as a…
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Puncher?s Chance
By Steve Kim
Coming into March, John Molina believed he would be facing Adrien Broner on the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana undercard, May 3rd in Las Vegas. It turns out Broner?s team didn?t want to face…
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Showtime Showcases
By Steve Kim
HBO hasn?t had a very good year when it comes to its boxing programming. This was highlighted on March 29th when the network broadcast a main event that featured Sergey Kovalev defending…
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The Soapbox ? March 28, 2014
By Steve Kim
Good Friday to everyone and we return with another installment of ?The Soapbox,? in which some of the most intelligent and knowledgeable fans in the sport get to sound off. And once…
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Perez, a Man with a Plan
By Steve Kim
As he headlines this weekend?s ?Solo Boxeo? (on UniMas) card from the Texas Station Casino in Las Vegas, featherweight Alejandro Perez isn?t working any harder than he usually does. Perez, one of…
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A Prelude to Nothing?
By Steve Kim
HBO has one live card scheduled between March 8th and May 17th and it takes place this upcoming weekend in Atlantic City, New Jersey when WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev faces…
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A Golden Rift?
By Steve Kim
In lieu of any real meaningful fights taking place this month, the biggest scuttlebutt in the boxing business centers on the relationship between Golden Boy Promotions Founder Oscar De la Hoya and…
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Garcia vs. TBA on HBO
By Steve Kim
After his victory over Juan Carlos Burgos on January 25th at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, talk turned immediately of having Mikey Garcia face the undefeated Cuban…
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Ponce de Leon Looks to Even the Score
By Steve Kim
?I lost. That?s all,? is what Daniel Ponce de Leon says when you ask him about his initial match-up versus Juan Manuel Lopez in June of 2008 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic…
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Pay-Per-Canelo
By Steve Kim
The bill being offered up at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas this weekend has IBF junior middleweight titlist Carlos Molina facing Jermall Charlo, WBC junior featherweight beltholder Leo Santa Cruz taking…
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Don?t Crown Him Just Yet?
By Steve Kim
What was supposed to be the coronation of Vasyl Lomachenko this past weekend at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas instead became a harsh lesson - both in and out of the…
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Vera Still Has Doubts
By Steve Kim
The last time Bryan Vera fought Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., it was originally designated a super middleweight contest. As we all know, a specially created weight was ultimately created at 173 pounds…
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Do We Believe Chavez Now?
By Steve Kim
This weekend, HBO gets back into the boxing business as it broadcasts the rematch between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Bryan Vera from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The last time…