Cheekay Brandon
9 articles · Boxing.com
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Requiem for a Legend: Joe Smith Jr. Stops Bernard Hopkins
In the end, we witnessed the sun setting on the career of one of the best pound-for-pound fighters to ever live, and one of the great sports stories of our time? INGLEWOOD,…
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Bernard Hopkins vs. Joe Smith: Father Time?s Last Stand
The magnificence of his accomplishments is every bit as marvelous as the chess playing computer or the self-driving car? How marvelous are those marvels so that are so much a part of…
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Show me a hero: Crawford rolls into boxing?s elite
It remains to be seen whether Crawford?s deliberate, neck-up style generates buy-in from the common fan? Las Vegas, NV?The bout was labeled ?Unification,? and pitted Terence Crawford of Omaha, NE (28-0, 20…
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Crawford-Postol Preview: Pacquiao and the Power Vacuum
Crawford vs. Postol is a key battle in the war to fill boxing?s power and fame vacuum, now vanishingly occupied by legends of old? Manny Pacquiao?s recent announcement of a return to…
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Boxing by the Book: ?In the Ring with Jack Johnson, Part II: The Reign?
Adam Pollack doubles down on the compound historical microscope that made the first book so remarkable? ?As I look back on life?I feel mine has been a full life, and above all,…
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A Humble Farewell to Mayweather
His professional legacy now forever secure, I wish him the best in what I hope is a long quest ahead towards becoming a better human? As the Mayweather era comes to an…
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Is it getting more difficult to defend your love of boxing?
We fans of the sport can reengineer boxing as the sport of tastemakers: the sport of thinkers, history buffs and scribes, rather than the bloodthirsty? The conversations that require fans to justify…
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Floyd Mayweather and Boxing?s Millennial Generation
One might argue, in fact, that boxing?s individualistic nature and history of colorful characters were a sitting duck for millennial influence? In the spring of 2011, a news story broke about how…
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Why Mayweather Must Lose
Boxing is in need of a seismic event, something to add a legitimate jolt to the power structure, force the sport to reevaluate the way it does business? ?Look back over the…