John Gatling
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Jarrell ?Big Baby? Miller Will Eat Up Mariusz Wach
By John Gatling
I?m from where the hammers is rung/newscameras won?t come/You and ya man hung on every verse in a rhyme/Where the grams was slung/N*ggaz vanished every summer/When the blue vans would come, we…
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Jacob?s Ladder
By John Gatling
First it must be scaled, followed by a storm that awaits. For any man that desires to be champion, he must ascend through fire while ignoring the broken rungs along the way.…
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Deontay Wilder Declares U.S. War On U.K. Star Anthony Joshua
By John Gatling
BROOKLYN: He wanted a body and he got it. 48 hours after threatening to commit homicide in front of 10,924 shocked fans at an electrified Barclays Center, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder…
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Deontay Wilder Wants To Kill Bermane Stiverne
By John Gatling
Funeral attire and dark glasses may be in order. A little over a month ago at the Dream Hotel in Manhattan, an unsuspecting cadre of media and fight officials were unaware of…
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Defeating Vasyl Lomachenko
By John Gatling
?The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.? ? Mikhail Baryshnikov They only color their thoughts in beauty and can?t decipher codes of trade with cheap booty. Draped…
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GATLING: Mike Tyson Was NOT That Good!
By John Gatling
As WBA/IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua was rescued from stopping a tough Carlos Takam this past Saturday in Cardiff, Wales, an interesting debate ensued that nearly lead to an altercation or two.…
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The Book on Joshua
By John Gatling
He ain?t Moses y?all. And he?s certainly not about to walk on water. What we have in IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is a bigger, better looking Frank Bruno of magnetic charisma…
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Defeating Guillermo Rigondeaux
By John Gatling
?Be realistic. [Demand] the impossible.? Che Guevera The art of resistance is not in compliance with today?s apex non-neoconservative. Offensive though it may be, for Cuban great Guillermo Rigondeaux, defense not only…
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GGG V Canelo: The Byrdwatch Continues
By John Gatling
Lying is the new honesty. At the post fight presser following egregious scoring for what was a solid showdown between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez, a bewildered media was giving NSAC boss…
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The Heart Of Heather Hardy
By John Gatling
If she was never punched in the stomach by boxing, she would?ve never been kicked in the face of MMA. Only the rare leave a cage of violets to confront a ring…
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Murat Gassiev Hammers Wlodarczyk in NJ
By John Gatling
Last week we saw Iron-Man, last night we saw an iron version of Thor. A new star emerged in boxing as IBF cruiserweight champion ?Iron? Murat Gassiev leveled an overwhelmed Krzysztof Wlodarcyzk…
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MORE MAYWEATHER???Sugar Ray Leonard V vs. Marvelous Marvin Hagler II
By John Gatling
?I see something?? ?A retired Sugar Ray Leonard at ringside, witnessing an aging Marvelous Marvin Hagler chop down John ?The Beast? Mugabi via 11th round TKO in March 1986 *** *** ***…
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Re: GGG 1.90: Termination
By John Gatling
?He will lose.? ?IBF cruiserweight champion ?Iron? Murat Gassiev, on what will happen to former IBF/WBC cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Wlodarcyzk at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ this Saturday night. *** ***…
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Miguel Cotto Ducks Into HOF
By John Gatling
?AFLAC!!!! OMG? AFLAC!!!? My own honest reaction to Golden Boy Promotion?s announcement of Miguel Cotto V Sadam Ali on December 2 at Madison Square Garden. *** *** *** To be sure, the…
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Keith ?One-Time? Thurman V Errol ?The Truth? Spence (And A Guy Named ?Bud?)
By John Gatling
On top of the boxing world in the sport?s glamour division after climbing Danny ?Swift? Garcia in March, Keith ?One-Time? Thurman took a long sabbatical after elbow surgery by literally scaling the…
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Charlo Blasts Lubin! YA HURD?
By John Gatling
He entered the arena like something out of ?Gladiator?. When Erickson Lubin made his way to the ring Saturday night at Barclays Center, he looked like a young Marcus Aurelius reborn. The…
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The Super Welters Invade Brooklyn
By John Gatling
Premier Boxing Champions will feature the 154 lb division on SHOWTIME (9PM ET), with a few fire fights that should heat up Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Now that all the hype and…
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Being Deontay Wilder
By John Gatling
?He probably didn?t want to fight him anyway? He?s a creation.? ?An anonymous female fan of boxing Oh the fame of female intuition. A woman?s guess is usually much more accurate than…
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The Underground GGG V Canelo Superfight
By John Gatling
Saturday night, October 14 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Erislandy Lara will receive top billing facing Terrell Gausha, while upstart Jarrett Hurd will battle savvy vet Austin Trout. But for those of…
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Wilder v Ortiz: WTF Is Going On?
By John Gatling
The sizzle that was Deontay Wilder V Luiz Ortiz, expected to produce Grade A beef in the ring on November 4 @ Barclays Center in Brooklyn, is dangerously close to being off…