John Gatling
596 articles · Examiner.com
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LOMA: MASTER
By John Gatling
You know, my father said to me when I was a kid, ?If you are strong, show your weakness. But if you are weak, show your strength.? ? ??-Vasyl Lomachenko, Maestro Roy…
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Canelo Vs Jacobs [Vol.III]: The Blueprint
By John Gatling
Groupies I leave em.. All f∆cked Niggaz, awe struck Ya single?s .99 cents Mine?s was $4 bucks ?-Jay-Z, Imaginary Player I told you in ?[Vol. II]: The Black Album?, in so many…
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Canelo V Jacobs [Vol.II]: The Black Album
By John Gatling
1:53 PM Tuesday, April 30, 2019 So many moments. Inevitable ones linked to Canelo Vs Jacobs for sure. In the auxiliary media section of Barclays Center in October 2017, I?m with a…
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Canelo V Jacobs [Vol.I]: Does PPV Need ?The Miracle Man??
By John Gatling
If he?s anything like his namesake suggests on the Cinco de Mayo night of Saturday, May 4 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, unified middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez (51-1-2, 35KOs) will need…
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Introducing Shakur Stevenson
By John Gatling
?Sit down, you?re supposed to be media!? Jack Hirsch, ex-President of the BWAA, says with patriarchal enthusiasm; exhorting me and my Aaliyah/Notorious B.I.G/2Pac t-shirt wearing and teenage acting self to calm down…
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Told You ?Bud? Would Smoke ?A Mere Con?
By John Gatling
And it wasn?t even good shit. A little over 14,000 abused fans inside of Madison Square Garden saw their pricey ticket go up in smoke. Debo (?You?, The Fan) turned remotes of…
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A Mere Con Ain?t Smoking ?Bud?
By John Gatling
And to put it bluntly, Amir Khan doesn?t really give a fuck what I think. I would if he did. That EverybodyFights in Gotham is beautiful; and on Tuesday, NY Fights goes…
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Loma: The Masters
By John Gatling
When I was 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I was 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned…
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Claressa Shields Vs. Christina Hammer [Vol.I]: The ?Hammer? of Shields
By John Gatling
It?s not exactly like holding The Hammer of Thor and absorbing thunder and lightning from a dark sky with her mighty Shield, but it?s something like that. Saturday night from The Boardwalk…
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?Bud? Smokes A Mere Con
By John Gatling
Ability. Affability. Availability. Over nearly six decades, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum has demonstrated an affinity for all three in what feels like infinity. Perhaps the greatest sports promoter in world history,…
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The Star Wars [Vol.I]: The End of ?Money?
By John Gatling
It is a new dawn in boxing for the glamorous division of welterweight. Instead of making it rain in the darkness of the strip club before re-mastering the art of invisible defense…
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Errol Spence Jr V Mikey Garcia [Epilogue]: ?The Truth? Hurts
By John Gatling
Just think of this as a few pages from my diary? Because it is. Saturday, March 16, 4:27 pm It almost didn?t happen. Scheduled to depart for Dallas on Friday, March 15…
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Errol Spence Jr V Mikey Garcia [Vol. III]: New ?Money Vs Old ?Pac-Man
By John Gatling
It?s Fight Week. I just spoke briefly with Mikey Garcia a few minutes ago and suffice it to say: He?s ready for Errol Spence Jr v Mikey Garcia. I asked him to…
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Dmitry Bivol: ?Fcuk Sergey Kovalev!
By John Gatling
He looks pissed off. Less than an hour removed from leaving Etess Arena inside of the brand new Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City last summer in early August, an…
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Lara?s Shaft
By John Gatling
You?re more arrogant than accurate,? says this woman out of nowhere, whose actual first name would rhyme with the last of Irene Cara, of ?What a feeling? screaming ?Fame!? I think I?ll…
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Canelo v Jacobs: It?s A Hard Rock Fight
By John Gatling
In a boxing week that featured an international spotlight on the middleweight division (including the latest star to sign with DAZN, former middleweight kingpin Gennady Golovkin), superstar Canelo Alvarez and Daniel Jacobs…
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Errol Spence Jr V Mikey Garcia [Vol.II]: ?I See Something?
By John Gatling
?I see dead people.? ?Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense Me too. IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (24-0, 21KOs) should kill (eh, that would be figuratively folks) four-division world champion and…
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Errol Spence Jr V Mikey Garcia [Vol I]: Who Wins Leonard V Spence / Duran V Garcia
By John Gatling
A few weeks ago here at NYF?s, we presented a feature titled: ?The Throwback vs. The Modern Boxer: Do They Make Em Like They Used To?? It is excellence personified and a…
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The Immortals: #19 Rocky Marciano
By John Gatling
The next time you watch a young Al Pacino in ?The Godfather, ? know that his Michael Corleone was inspired by Rocco Francis Marchegiano, more commonly known as the unbeaten heavyweight legend…
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A.J. Vs ?Big Baby?: B.I.G Pimpin
By John Gatling
The British ain?t coming? they?re already here. If London Bridge is falling down, then the sky?s the limit for transcendent generational icon in the making Anthony Joshua (22-0, 21KOs), British unified heavyweight…