Ryan O'Hara
72 articles · Boxing Insider
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Canelo Álvarez vs. Jaime Munguía: Keys to victory, prediction, what to expect in Mexican showdown
By Ryan O'Hara
It's an all-Mexican showdown of youth vs. experience on Cinco De Mayo weekend for all the marbles. Canelo Álvarez will look to defend his undisputed super middleweight title for a fourth straight…
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Mercito Gesta v William Zepeda Next?
By Ryan O'Hara
Mercito Gesta and William Zepeda could be on a collision course. Gesta (34-3-3, 17 KOs) upset former junior lightweight titlist Jo Jo Diaz (32-4-1, 15 KOs) in their 10-round, 135-pound main event…
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Spence-Crawford Won’t Draw As Much Money As Canelo-GGG 3, But It’s The Better Bout
By Ryan O'Hara
We can support major boxing events globally without resorting to nonsensical hyperbole. Let's start with Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennadiy Golovkin III and Errol Spence vs. Terence Crawford. Both of these fights are…
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Naoya Inoue & Nonito Donaire: What’s Next For Both Men?
By Ryan O'Hara
When it’s time to pass the torch, it can result in someone getting torched. That’s what happened to future first-ballot Hall of Famer Nonito Donaire on Tuesday when Naoya Inoue, in perhaps…
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Dmitry Bivol Is Zeroed In On Defeating Canelo Alvarez
By Ryan O'Hara
The unbeaten WBA light heavyweight champion will face boxing's biggest star on May 7th at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, where Alvarez will attempt to become a two-time 175-pound world titlist. Bivol…
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Canelo Is Boxing’s Boss, Other Fighters Should Listen And Follow His Advice
By Ryan O'Hara
On September 20, 2020, Canelo Alvarez finally got tired of other people telling him what to do. Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KOs), boxing’s biggest star, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Federal Court…
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Golovkin-Derevyanchenko staff predictions: Who will win?
By Ryan O'Hara
Who will win Saturday night's middleweight world title bout between Gennadiy Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko at Madison Square Garden in New York? Golovkin (39-1-1, 35 KOs) is coming off a fourth-round knockout…
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Adrien ?The Retired? Broner retires again
By Ryan O'Hara
It is official. Adrien Broner has retired more times this year than he has fought Broner confirmed his fourth retirement following the the Errol Spence Jr.-Shawn Porter welterweight world title unification fight…
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Errol Spence Jr. vs. Shawn Porter Predictions: Who will be victorious?
By Ryan O'Hara
Who will win Saturday night's welterweight unification title bout between IBF titleholder Errol Spence Jr. and WBC champ Shawn Porter at Staples Center in Los Angeles? Spence (25-0, 21 KO?s) is coming…
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Arum to Pacquiao: Fight Mayweather or retire
By Ryan O'Hara
If Bob Arum were Manny Pacquiao, he would strongly consider retirement. On July 20, Pacquiao became the oldest welterweight world champion in the history of boxing after beating previously unbeaten Keith Thurman…
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Adrien Broner makes history, retires for the second time in 2019
By Ryan O'Hara
Adrien Broner said back in January that he may have ended Manny Pacquiao's legendary career. Fast forward six months and the opposite may have taken place. Broner, a former four-division world champion,…
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Pacquiao-Thurman Prediction
By Ryan O'Hara
Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman are both brimming with confidence, as we are only a week away from their welterweight world title showdown. The fight is set for July 20 on FOX…
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Shawn Porter has verbally agreed to face Errol Spence in future unification fight
By Ryan O'Hara
Welterweight world titleholder Shawn Porter has verbally agreed to a future unification fight against unbeaten welterweight world titleholder Errol Spence Jr. That is according to his father and trainer, Kenny. Porter is…
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Errol Spence is all wrong for Manny Pacquiao
By Ryan O'Hara
Manny Pacquiao wants to fight for three more years, but those plans might get wrecked permanently if he fights Errol Spence Jr. Thankfully, Pacquiao does not appear to want any part of…
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Thurman on Broner fight: Dumbest rumor that’s popped up all week
By Ryan O'Hara
WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman has rejected the rumor that he is considering giving a world title shot to Adrien Broner. Prior to his majority decision victory against Josesito Lopez last month…
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Why Cicilio Flores could be the next strength & conditioning coach for Mikey Garcia
By Ryan O'Hara
Cicilio Flores has been a strength and conditioning coach to some of the biggest names in the sport including Sergio Martinez, Kelly Pavlik, Marcos Maidana, Evgeny Gradovich, Manny Pacquiao, and more recently,…
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Canelo vs. Golovkin II: Round-by-Round Prediction
By Ryan O'Hara
Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will fight again on Sept. 15 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. It's the only question worth asking: Who will win? The first fight lived up to…
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Prediction: Mikey Garcia stops Robert Easter inside eight
By Ryan O'Hara
Seven years have passed since Mikey Garcia last fought in front of his family and friends in Los Angeles, but that will change Saturday night when he takes on Robert Easter in…
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Canelo-Golovkin Saga Continues: Both sides deserve blame for negotiation breakdown
By Ryan O'Hara
Golden Boy recently walked away from negotiations for a long-awaited rematch between Canelo Alvarez and unified middleweight world titleholder Gennady Golovkin, but the fight was probably not going to happen in September…
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Jerwin Ancajas retains 115-pound world title with dominating unanimous decision over Jonas Sultan
By Ryan O'Hara
FRESNO, California ? Although it may be shocking, it took nearly a century for all-Filipino world title fight to materialize. But Jerwin Ancajas-Jonas Sultan did not live up to to the hype…