Brian Wilbur
165 articles · RingsideReport.com
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Manny Pacquiao Vs Floyd Mayweather JR Resolved: Wilbur?s Top 10 Pound For Pound
Boxing eras are judged on two factors. First is the number of superstars. Second is the depth of talent just below the elite status fighters. This generation of boxers has two outstanding…
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Manny Pacquiao: The Truth about his 8th World Title
Manny Pacquiao defeated Antonio Margarito last November in a fight that was billed as Pacquiao attempting to win his eighth world title in as many weight classes. Manny already held the record…
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The Sad Truth of Boxing Rank: Alphabet Soup Bashing
Exposing the ludicrous rankings of the sanctioning bodies has been done before; many times. Max Kellerman did a nice piece for ESPN back when Kellerman was an irresistible and opinionated lightning rod…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of all Time: Final Thoughts
Two months, 10 columns, and 100 great boxers later I finally finished my list of the 100 greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. Making the list was challenging, time-consuming, but very rewarding…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of all Time: Top 10!
Thanks for your patience over the last couple of months as I counted down my list of the 100 greatest heavyweights of all time. The wait is now over as I will…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time: 20-11
We are nearing the end of the countdown, but don?t be sad faithful readers, because the 20 greatest heavyweights of all time are still to come! If you need to catch up…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time: 30-21
Thanks for coming back to read the next installment of my countdown; my homage to the great heavyweight warriors of the past. For those of you just tuning in who need to…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time: 40-31
Hello boxing fans! I hope you are enjoying reading my countdown as much as I have enjoyed writing it. We are moving ever closer to #1, and with each step chronicling the…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights: 50-41
Hello and welcome RSR readers to my chronicling of boxing?s past heavyweight contenders and champions. I hope all of you had a great holiday season and are having a Happy New Year.…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time: 60-51
Hello and welcome again to RSR. We are right in the middle of my list of the top 100 heavyweight boxers ever. I?d like to reiterate and clarify the criteria of my…
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RSR?s 2010 Boxing Awards: Sergio Martinez Beats Out Manny Pacquiao for Fighter of the Year
Before we welcome in the new year of 2011, let us look back to the sometimes exciting but sometimes trying year for boxing that 2010 delivered. We had sensational knockouts, a few…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time: 70-61
Thanks for checking into RSR as I continue my countdown of the 100 greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. The professional records of the competitors are getting better and better as we…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time: 80-71
Welcome to RSR and my countdown of the 100 greatest heavyweights in boxing history. I should note before we go any farther down the list that today?s active top heavyweights were not…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time: 90-81
Welcome boxing fans and RSR readers to the second installment of my countdown of the 100 best heavyweight boxers of all time. I hope you are ready to take a trip into…
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Wilbur?s 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time: 91 ? 100
Hello readers, I would like to welcome you to part one of a ten part column in which I chronicle, in order, the 100 best heavyweight boxers in history. For each fighter,…
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Wilbur?s Top 10 New York Boxers of All Time
A few weeks ago I took my first trip to New York. The entire trip was a drunken haze, Hunter S. Thompson style. Most of the trip consisted of bar hopping and…
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RSR Book Review: The Ultimate Tough Guy: The Life & Times of James J. Jeffries
The late 1880?s and the early 1900?s are considered the pioneer years of the modern fight game. That is around the time when the Marquess of Queensbury rules (which are still used…
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Brian?s Final Mailbag: Floyd Mayweather Ruined Boxing
Last week I stated that if Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather did not happen that I would quit being a boxing writer. Talks broke down in the two fighter?s most recent negotiations…
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Team RSR Fight Picks: Shane Mosley Vs Sergio Mora
This Saturday, former three division world champion ?Sugar? Shane Mosley will test his 39-year-old legs against Sergio ?The Latin Snake? Mora. This is Mosley?s first fight since dropping a decision to Floyd…
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Brian?s Boxing Mailbag (Wladimir Klitschko Cleaning Out Division, Is Bernard Hopkins Really Fighting Jean Pascal? & I?ll Retire If No Floyd Mayweather Vs Manny Pacquiao)
Call me the observer. I am in a unique position of being able to hear the opinions of a wide variety of boxing fans since I am a boxing writer with a…
