Steve Kim
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Hopkins to Face Shumenov on April 19th
By Steve Kim
The long, winding and seemingly never-ending career of 49-year old Bernard Hopkins continues on April 19th and he will be adding to look to his already vast collection of title belts. Golden…
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Shiming on the Fast Track?
By Steve Kim
While Zou Shiming - who is preparing for his fourth professional outing this weekend in Macao, China - is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, he isn?t exactly Vasyl Lomachenko or Guillermo Rigondeaux…
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Golovkin Moves Ahead in 2014
By Steve Kim
After his annual appearance in Monaco versus Osumanu Adama (a seventh round stoppage win) on February 1st, Gennady Golovkin is heading back to the familiar setting of the Theater at Madison Square…
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Requiem for a Repeat
By Steve Kim
I have to be honest; I had no clue whatsoever that Vivian Harris was scheduled to fight this past weekend in the U.K. I was more than relieved to find that his…
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The Soapbox: Thawing the Cold War
By Steve Kim
A few days ago I was tweeting (which I do quite a bit) on the recent situation regarding Erislandy Lara?s calling out of Gennady Golovkin. It?s certainly a solid match-up. Lara is…
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Magdaleno Makes Changes
By Steve Kim
This Saturday night from the C. Robert Lee Center in Hawaiian Gardens, California, Diego Magdaleno faces Jorge Pazos to kick off his 2014 campaign. Last year at this time, Magdaleno was preparing…
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Hard-Earned Respect for Bradley
By Steve Kim
At this time last year, Tim Bradley was in a rather dark mood. Coming off what should?ve been a career-changing victory over Manny Pacquiao in June of 2012, he became a boxing…
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The American Stream
By Steve Kim
As a law-abiding citizen and someone who certainly doesn?t want to catch the ire of my good friend and press row colleague, Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports, I was in a bit…
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Ramirez Hits the Road to Laredo
By Steve Kim
This winter chill has affected many people in a multitude of ways this past week. Whether stranded on frozen highways or staying overnight in high school gyms or the nearest convenience store,…
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Is It 2013 All over Again for GGG?
By Steve Kim
All across the globe, boxing fans will be able to see Gennady Golovkin?s latest defense of his WBA middleweight title versus Osumanu Adama. Well, that is except in the good ol? U.S.…
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Welcome to Los Vargas
By Steve Kim
The reality television genre has brought us the likes of ?Puck,? ?Snooki? and ?The Situation? throughout the years. Now it brings us one Fernando Vargas, the former junior middleweight champion of the…
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Garcia on the Fast Track
By Steve Kim
After a productive 2013, WBO junior lightweight champion Mikey Garcia makes his 2014 debut in defense of his title against Juan Carlos Burgos from the Theater at Madison Square Garden (HBO, 9:45…
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A Complicated Legacy
By Steve Kim
News spread on Thursday evening that after a long illness, longtime World Boxing Council President Jose Sulaiman passed away at the age of 82. His death left a myriad of responses ranging…
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Is the Bute Bubble About to Burst?
By Steve Kim
Tonight at the Bell Centre, a Montreal showdown takes place between Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute. And for Bute, much more than the NABF light heavyweight title or city bragging rights are…
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The 2013 ?K9 Awards?: Part Two
By Steve Kim
OK, after a short intermission, we resume our highly unofficial - and quite frankly, not all that important ? year-end awards and look back at 2013. For those who missed it (first…
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The Ratings Game
By Steve Kim
As boxing?s ?Cold War? shows no signs of thawing, those who cover boxing are now subjected to various spin-doctoring from the two major networks (HBO and Showtime) facilitating this blood feud between…
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Problem Solver
By Steve Kim
By nature, Adrien Broner, who came into the weekend as the undefeated WBA welterweight beltholder, is a brash and cocky sort. To his fans, he?s a fun and colorful personality with transcendent…
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Have We Learned Nothing?
By Steve Kim
After the fourth round of what was becoming more and more of a one-sided drubbing of Glen Tapia at the hands of the hard-charging James Kirkland, HBO?s Jim Lampley stated to the…
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Ranking the Weekend Fights
By Steve Kim
As you?re probably fully aware of, this weekend, there are fight cards broadcast on both Showtime and HBO. But unlike past conflicts, the starting times of the two shows are separated to…
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Malignaggi vs. the Fanboys
By Steve Kim
At the opening press conference to formally announce this weekend?s bout at the Barclays Center (Showtime, 8 p.m., ET) in Brooklyn between Paulie Malignaggi and Zab Judah, the always talkative Malignaggi let…