Ron Borges
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LOUIS-SCHMELING II, 85 YEARS LATER, REMAINS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SPORTING EVENT OF THE 20TH CENTURY
By Ron Borges
By 10 p.m. on the night of June 22, 1938, the streets of America were deserted. Over 60 million Americans, more than half the population of the country at the time, sat…
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CALLUM WALSH STOPS WESLEY TUCKER IN TWO, DANNY O’CONNOR WINS IN EMOTIONAL BOSTON HOMECOMING
By Ron Borges
BOSTON – Young Callum Walsh came to Boston intending to fight his first 10-round main event. It didn’t last ten minutes. The undefeated junior middleweight dropped Wesley Tucker three times in the…
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FREDDIE ROACH SAYS CALLUM WALSH IS READY FOR CONTENDERS, WHITE AND LOEFFLER SEE A FUTURE STAR
By Ron Borges
People say lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place. Freddie Roach hopes those people are wrong. Roughly 22 years ago, a skinny young kid from the Philippines wandered into Roach’s Wild…
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Borges: Heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder now waits for one man
By Ron Borges
BROOKLYN, N.Y. ? Deontay Wilder knew what he had in mind Saturday night when he walked into the Barclays Center to defend his portion of the heavyweight title for the sixth time.…
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Borges: Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor will benefit boxing not besmirch it
By Ron Borges
There are many reasons to look down on the Aug. 26 showdown between unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC champion Conor McGregor, but one of them is not that this circus act…
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Borges: Buy into McGregor-Mayweather clown show at your own peril
By Ron Borges
It is unlikely, were he alive today, that Plato would be paying much attention to Conor McGregor, but he once wrote an apt description of what the young Irish conman has been…
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Boxing notes: Jolted Kovalev is fighting mad, cites animosity for Ward in rematch
By Ron Borges
In two weeks, former unified light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev will get his wish. He will have the opportunity to avenge his hotly and highly disputed points loss to Andre Ward. Frankly…
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Borges: Canelo Alvarez respects legendary Julio Cesar Chavez, but not his son
By Ron Borges
LAS VEGAS ? As Canelo Alvarez awaits what he says will be the biggest fight of his career tomorrow night against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., one wonders if, given his druthers, he…
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Borges: For Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., pride on the line in bout with Canelo Alvarez
By Ron Borges
LAS VEGAS ? There is no sporting tradition more deeply embedded in the soul of Mexico than boxing. It is a country created by warriors and sustained by them today inside the…
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Borges: Keith Thurman?s split decision win vs. Danny Garcia lacks punch
By Ron Borges
NEW YORK ? When Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns fought to unify the welterweight title Sept. 16, 1981, nobody booed. When Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia went about the same hard…
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Borges: Gritty Danny Garcia tough matchup for favored Keith Thurman
By Ron Borges
NEW YORK ? Danny Garcia is the most difficult of boxers to quantify because unlike many popular fighters today he is not less than what he appears to be. He is more.…
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Cards flopped: Andre Ward, Sergey Kovalev decision all wrong
By Ron Borges
Sometimes an eye test tells more about what happened inside a boxing ring than the scorecards of three judges with apparent astigmatisms. That was the way you came to understand who won…
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Andre Ward bracing for Sergey Kovalev ? and more dissatisfied fans
By Ron Borges
A week from today perhaps the best pure boxer in prizefighting knows what many people will be hoping for him when he steps into the ring to face a unified light heavyweight…
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Borges: Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter take friendship into ring
By Ron Borges
NEW YORK ? They both knew this night was coming for years. If they each became what they thought they might, there was no avoiding it. They had boxed on amateur teams…
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Borges: AIBA?s ill-advised decision to allow pro boxers in Rio Games full of peril
By Ron Borges
There is a reason that when young fighters turn professional they begin by boxing nondescript opponents in four- and six-round fights. The reason is the newly turned professional has much to learn…
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Borges: Amir Khan takes a risk in championship bout
By Ron Borges
LAS VEGAS ? Amir Khan is willing to put his chin where his mouth is. For that alone, boxing fans should be rooting for him Saturday night. That?s when the former junior…
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Jose Ramirez?s fight for water
By Ron Borges
For every prizefighter, water is a most essential nutrient. It cools the body, calms the soul and, at times, revives a flagging mind knocked half unconscious. Without water, no fighter, no matter…
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Borges: Alvarez match aim of Mayweatherslam
By Ron Borges
There are a lot of ways to look at Oscar De La Hoya?s open letter to Floyd Mayweather in the latest issue of Playboy magazine, but the one that makes the most…
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Borges: Tim Bradley looks to Atlas
By Ron Borges
Retired boxers aren?t the only guys who can?t stay out of the gym. Teddy Atlas has retired from training fighters at least three times, the most recent three years ago after directing…
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Borges: Brain, brawn with Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux
By Ron Borges
NEW YORK ? Abel Sanchez is in the minority when he observes the man who will stand in front of unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin tonight at sold out Madison Square Garden.…