Marty Mulcahey
79 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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American heavyweights: From dominant to afterthought
As we head into Saturday?s matchup between Bermane Stiverne and Deontay Wilder, The United States? yearning for a heavyweight champion has surfaced once again. As Wilder, an undefeated knockout artist from Alabama,…
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Azad Championship Report: The Weekend TV Cheat Sheet ? Feb. 22, 2013
Boxing fans are spoiled for choice this weekend with seven televised shows if widely available Spanish television networks are included in their viewing habits. This excess of action motivated me to try…
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The Showtime Championship Boxing TV Cheat Sheet ? Jan. 26, 2013
Tonight?s Showtime card is about excitement and how that word possesses redemptive qualities with fighters. Headliner Lucas Matthysse is proof that a boxer who takes a chance fighting the best but loses…
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The HBO Boxing After Dark TV Cheat Sheet ? Jan. 19, 2013
HBO is stepping up to host the first major fight card of the year - a tripleheader world title bill no less ?providing added luster by staging the event at the revered…
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I Said That? A 2012 Preview Review: Part Two
In Part One of the annual ?Preview Review,? I lamented journalists making predictions in 2012 certain in the knowledge that few readers will remember what was penned 365 days ago. To write…
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I Said That? A 2012 Preview Review: Part One
It is that time of the New Year for me again, my yearly ritual of evaluating predictions made over the previous year. It is an annual act which fluctuates wildly between self-abuse…
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Ten Figures on the American Heavyweight Horizon
Last Saturday, a national television audience - on NBC for the first time in two decades no less ? witnessed everything wrong with American heavyweights. In four rounds, European heavyweight prospect Vyacheslav…
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The 25 Days of Boxing Books
Boxing reaches further into history than most any sport and as such, deserves the rich legacy of literature it has inherited over the course of time. Abraham Lincoln said, ?The things I…
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The HBO and Showtime TV Cheat Sheet ? Dec. 15, 2012
A last-second cancelation of the Guillermo Rigondeaux-Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym bout compelled me to combine the two main events from tonight?s marquee bouts at HBO and Showtime. I was going to concentrate solely on…
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The PPV Boxing TV Cheat Sheet?and Other Predictions ? Dec. 8, 2012
Yes, we have seen this main event before but who among us does not like watching a true classic over and over again? Will it be fourth time-lucky for Juan Manuel Marquez?…
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The Price of Fury
Tyson Fury and David Price have eyed each other like rival lions since their days as elite amateurs, knowing the other would be the biggest hurdle to winning a world heavyweight title…
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The HBO World Championship Boxing TV Cheat Sheet ? Nov. 24, 2012
Pity the boxers who had to skip Thanksgiving dinner in order to make weight and the inferior fighter a lot more since only one is able to take out his holiday frustrations.…
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The Hardest Fight
One of sports? famous axioms states a loss does not define the person but how they bounce back from a defeat will. Very few champions ? most famously Rocky Marciano, Joe Calzaghe…
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First Openly Gay Boxer Answers Bell for Whole New Fight
An openly gay athlete actively competing in his or her chosen sport is exceedingly rare. It takes a person tough enough to box to be man enough to declare his homosexuality in…
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The HBO World Championship Boxing TV Cheat Sheet- Oct. 12, 2012
It takes two exceptional boxers to turn a fight between a pair of little men into a big event; I believe HBO has such a feature tomorrow night. The Nonito Donaire -…
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The 10 Greatest Middleweight Fights of All Time
The middleweight division is suddenly bursting with excitement. Australian Daniel Geale unified two titles in Germany; Gennady Golovkin?s called out everyone from 154 to 168 pounds with his fantastic American debut and…
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The ESPN2 Friday Night Fights TV Cheat Sheet ? Aug. 3, 2012
Tonight, two undefeated boxers try to tip the scale of importance in their favor at Top Rank Promotions, needing to impress against beatable foes to confirm their elite status. At the same…
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Haye vs. Chisora: Epic Build-Up, EPIX Throwdown
Usually in boxing, a promotion or fight has the potential to turn into a train wreck. The David Haye-Dereck Chisora fight started as a train wreck. Five months ago, Haye and Chisora…
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The HBO World Championship Boxing TV Cheat Sheet- July 7, 2012
The offering on HBO tonight is a bit of a mixed bag, featuring a pound-for-pound entrant against a capable challenger and one-time star trying to regain his luster against a gritty opponent.…
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The Top 10 Junior Middleweight Title Fights of All Time
Showtime features two of the 10 best fighters at junior middleweight tomorrow night; the only problem is that they are not fighting each other. Cornelius ?K9? Bundrage takes on once formidable Cory…
