Steve Kim
238 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Mares Builds More Momentum
For WBC featherweight champion Abner Mares - who defends his title against Jhonny Gonzalez this Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California (Showtime, 10:30 p.m., ET/7:30 p.m., PT) - 2013…
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Diaz and Top Rank Dating?
Tonight from the Laredo Energy Center in Laredo, Texas, Juan Diaz makes the second start of his ?new? career. He faces Adailton DeJesus on a card promoted by Top Rank. But for…
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Left at the Altar Again
The news spread quickly throughout the Twittersphere on Monday night that Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. had suffered a cut during training (http://www.maxboxing.com/news/promo-lead/chavez-jr-cut), which eventually caused a postponement of his September 7th appointment…
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Golden Boy Schedules Fall/Winter Slate of Fights
-- Last week, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer returned to the office after a well-earned vacation that saw him travel across the country on the Saul Alvarez-Floyd Mayweather press tour and…
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Is Pacquiao-Rios a Tough Sell?
On November 23rd in Macao, Manny Pacquiao faces Brandon Rios in a fight distributed by HBO Pay-Per-View. The press tour for this fight that began in Asia concluded on Thursday afternoon at…
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Golovkin?s Immediate Future
In the last 12 months, WBA middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin has been as active as any world-class boxer. From last September to now, he has notched four impressive victories (three of them…
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Figueroa Goes to the Desert
Lightweight Omar Figueroa, who is part of Showtime?s tripleheader from the AT&T Center in San Antonio, is a young man from the small Texas town of Weslaco. But as he has for…
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Azad Championship Report – Has the “Good Boy” Arrived?
What was thought to be a relatively tough test for WBA middleweight beltholder Gennady Golovkin, this past Saturday night at the Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Connecticut, was instead a one-sided demolition. With one…
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Azad Championship Report – Can Golovkin Be a Star?
Tonight, Gennady Golovkin faces the respected Matthew Macklin at the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort as the main event on HBO?s Boxing After Dark (9:45 p.m., ET/PT). It?s a cozy setting…
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Azad Championship Report – Golovkin Builds His Case
There are those who believe Gennady Golovkin is the most dangerous middleweight in the world. They go so far as to state that he is currently the best 160-pounder period (with all…
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Golden Boy and Top Rank Move Forward (Separately)
Boxing is a fluid business; just as quickly as fights take place, new fights are planned months ahead. Such is the case for the two promotional titans of the United States, Golden…
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Back to Business for Banks
The first time Johnathon Banks faced Seth Mitchell back in November, there was quite a bit going on in his life. With the sudden passing of legendary trainer Emanuel Steward in October,…
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A Beautiful Site/Sight
In front a record-setting crowd of 8,629 at the StubHub Center (formerly known as the Home Depot Center), a memorable night of action was capped off by Marcos Maidana steamrolling the game-but-outgunned…
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Lopez Gets Back to Work
How fast time flies. Josesito Lopez is just a few days away from facing the heavy-handed Marcos Maidana at the StubHub Center (geez, that feels funny typing that out) in Carson, California…
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Only the Ring Was Square: The Legend of Teddy Brenner
Last summer, I was given an offer I couldn?t refuse by friends who were moving into a new home and packing up their belongings, not all of which they felt like taking…
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Azad Championship Report – The Right Fight (for Everyone Involved)
On early Wednesday evening, Floyd Mayweather sent out an announcement on his Twitter feed (@FloydMayweather) that he had chosen his next foe, Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez, and that this eagerly anticipated match-up would…
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Mayweather-Alvarez, Signed, Sealed, Delivered
What was first announced on Floyd Mayweather?s Twitter page (@FloydMayweather) that a fight between he and the unified junior middleweight champion Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez, tentatively scheduled for September 14 in Las Vegas,…
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Azad Championship Report – A September to Remember for Golden Boy
We haven?t even hit the summer months yet but the focus is already on September, when an exciting slate of fights could be on the docket. Golden Boy Promotions has plans on…
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This Machine is no Myth
If we learned one thing this past weekend, it?s this: men might be affected by jetlag but wrecking machines certainly aren?t. And though he got in late this past week prior to…
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Can Peterson Dismantle ?The Machine?? (Part Two of Two)
There is a bit of mythology regarding Lucas Matthysse, who is Lamont Peterson?s foe this Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City (Showtime 9 p.m., ET/PT). Yes, he is certainly…
