John Gatling
596 articles · Examiner.com
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GRJ Vs. JoJo: Tank Rising?
By John Gatling
Before ?Superman? confronts ?The Ripper,? fight night on SHOWTIME begins in Baltimore, as the MGM National Harbor hosts WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr (29-1, 17KOs) in an intriguing match-up with Oscar…
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?Superman? Mugs The Ripper
By John Gatling
The great Andre Ward himself must?ve had doubts he possessed the kryptonite to doom WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis ?Superman? Stevenson (29-1, 24KOs). It would?ve been a nightmare match-up for ?S.O.G?, and…
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Superfight: Vasyl Lomachenko Vs. Mikey Garcia
By John Gatling
?I can stop him. He looks sensational with less quality opponents. When he stepped up against Linares it wasn?t easy. He got dropped. He?s not invincible. He?s not this ?out of this…
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Vasyl Lomachenko V Jorge Linares: Encore
By John Gatling
?Yo, can I get a encore? Do you want more? Cooking raw with the Brooklyn boy so for one last time I need y?all to roar. What the Hell are you waiting…
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Vasyl Lomachenko V Jorge Linares: ?The Matrix? 2018
By John Gatling
?The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they?re exceptional. On the contrary, they become obsessed with improvement. And that improvement stems from an…
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TBE: ?Money? Blue ?Pretty Boy Floyd?
By John Gatling
This past Cinco de Mayo weekend marked the 3rd anniversary of the infamous Superfight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. It was the Muhammad Ali Vs Joe Frazier of my generation and…
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Andre Ward V Tony Bellew: Creed II
By John Gatling
This would be Saturday night at the movies on HBO with a free popcorn ticket. Tony Bellew (30-2-1, 20KOs) smashed David Haye (28-4, 26KOs) via 5th round mugging in the unnecessary sequel…
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Gatling?s Take After GGG v Vanes: Canelo Murders Golovkin
By John Gatling
I remember thinking Julio Cesar Chavez was a shot fighter facing Meldrick Taylor. Not in their 1990 St. Patrick?s Day cult classic, but in their forgettable 1994 rematch. Don King probably remembers…
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Cecilia Braekhus: TBE
By John Gatling
First, they say. The last thing a lady wants to do is open doors for a man unexpected to return the favor. Depending on a view of chivalry, that just might seem…
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Jacobs V Charlo: Daniel Enters The Lion?s Den
By John Gatling
They say you coming to the lion?s den to tame and me handle/ the problem is you don?t look nothing like Daniel Jermall Charlo, who in so many ways told Hugo Centeno…
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Manny knows.
By John Gatling
Sometimes, a pair of Nike swoosh shoes just won?t fit anymore. Perhaps the soul has worn away. People change. Feelings rearrange. Lovers drift or friends have fits. Friends become enemies and lovers…
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Danny ?Swift? Garcia V ?Showtime? Shawn Porter: ?One-Time? Only
By John Gatling
He beat them both by the snip of a ponytail. ?Dat?ll be $8,? said Eddie Murphy?s deranged and gold fangled hot mess of a barber from ?Coming To America? to himself in…
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?The Problem? Vs. AB
By John Gatling
And as you could imagine, that fight ends in a Majority Draw. Don?t blame Jessie Vargas or the judges, just start with Adrien Broner. ?A few years ago, AB mops the floor…
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Adrien Broner V Jessie Vargas: Yuk N Yak
By John Gatling
Making my way downtown/walking fast/ faces pass/and I?m home bound/staring blankly ahead just making my way/making a way through the crowd And I need you And I miss you And now I…
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Defeating Terence Crawford
By John Gatling
Bud Crawford isn?t really the type to come and knock on your door? he?d rather you knock on his. Jeff Horn is more likely to hear, ?Who cares?? rather than ?Who?s there??…
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Gennady Golovkin, 37-1, Is A Loser
By John Gatling
And not because he?s not a winner?he?s just not a draw. It?s always the love affair that begins with the romantic auspicious, that ends with ruinous suspicion. I imagine in Mexico these…
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The Shot Hurd Round Da World
By John Gatling
The shot ?Hurd round da world? was never fired. It almost was. With about :40 hovering around the 12th, a sunkissed Jarrett Hurd (remembering the color scheme he rocked), went Halloween on…
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The Resurrection of ?The Fight?
By John Gatling
?Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man?s eyes was a Sabbath.? ?John 9:14 This will pass over in time, but the real won?t rise until…
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The Superfight II (Canelo V GGG): Politics As Usual
By John Gatling
Actually it?s ?Pah-li-tix [as] Use you Al.? Get cha urban on and throw some flare in that shit. Around this time last year, thoughts of conspiracy surrounded Gennady Golovkin V Daniel Jacobs,…
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Dear Floyd Mayweather:
By John Gatling
You ain?t gotta make your mind up You ain?t gotta make your mind up right now (right now) ? Don?t rush, no pressure ?Justin Beiber, No Pressure from ?Purpose? As the White…