Robert Ecksel
752 articles · The Sweet Science
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Nicholas Walters: The Axe Man Commeth
?Growing up in Jamaica I wasn?t in neglect of anything. I was introduced to pretty much anything because where I grew up was definitely in the ghetto?? ?Truth is everybody is going…
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Class Act: Cotto Schools Geale
If ever the old adage, ?The bigger they are, the harder they fall? had meaning, it was when Cotto destroyed Geale in Brooklyn? Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New…
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Oscar Don?t La Hoya
If De La Hoya really wants to fight someone who?s going to fight him back, he might try calling out Al Haymon? Former six-division champion Oscar De La Hoya is 42 years…
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Middleweight Hopes and Dreams: Cotto vs. Geale
Miguel Cotto is not focused on Gennady Golovkin. He is focused on Daniel Geale, which is as it should be? On Saturday, June 6, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York,…
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Rocky Road
I didn?t major in Rocky Studies at the New School for Social Research. I?ve never been able to sit through a Rocky movie? I am not a Rocky expert. I didn?t major…
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Jayson Velez vs. Daniel Ramirez Preview
?The division is full of great fighters. Lomanchenko is a great fighter and someone I would like to fight. I am not afraid of anyone?? On Thursday, June 4, at the Belasco…
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Robert Guerrero and the Art of the Deal
Not every fight is going to be competitive. Matchmaking is an art, and sometimes a dark art at that? The last time former four-division champion Robert Guerrero (32-3-1, 18 KOs) fought, less…
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Diamond Jim Mayweather
While trying to avoid being judgmental, I swing back and forth like a pendulum in an Edgar Allan Poe short story? ?Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.??Confucius Diamond…
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Land of the Rising Prodigy
Tanaka broke the record of Naoya Inoue, who won the WBC junior flyweight title in April 2014 in only his sixth pro fight? Saturday night at the Park Arena, in Komaki, Aichi,…
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Vasquez-Fortuna: WBA Live Scoring
The WBA has hired five professional judges to score tonight?s title fight between Bryan Vasquez and Javier Fortuna? Tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, the WBA has hired five…
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Tale of Two Buffers
I wanted an excuse to put Bruce Buffer in a headlock and run him head-first into the nearest Cadillac Escalade? Are two Buffers better than one? It depends. One Buffer made his…
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Dubai or Bust
?The revenue from that fight was well over half a billion US dollars. It just shows the popularity of boxing is still there?? If they can play soccer in Qatar, who?s to…
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Triple G and The Cobra
?Carl doesn?t need this fight. But he says he is intrigued by how he would deal with him. He?s crazy that way?? Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs), the knockout artist from the…
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.357 Magno
The BWAA?s credibility or lack thereof notwithstanding, Santoloquito has a point. Too bad it?s at the top of his head? Boxing has always attracted serious writers. A serious sport with a serious…
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Boxing and the Black/White Divide
He?s crass. He?s materialistic. He?s megalomaniacal. None of which makes him bad, per se. None of which even makes him different? ?The only color Don King cares about is green.??Larry Holmes I…
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James DeGale: Buzz Fire
Saturday afternoon at the Agganis Arena in Boston, James DeGale fights Andre Dirrell for the vacant IBF super middleweight title? Saturday afternoon at the Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts, in a fight…
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Sayonara ESPN2 Friday Night Fights
ESPN?s relationship with boxing was spotty, but it was dependably spotty. That dependable spottiness, alas, is ending this week? ?A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.??Jimmy Cannon I understand ESPN, but…
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Golovkin-Monroe Jr. Preview
During a recent teleconference call in anticipation of the fight, Golovkin was asked about fighting Floyd Mayweather? Saturday night at The Forum in Inglewood, California, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (32-0, 29…
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Viva Mexico: Canelo Crushes Kirkland
The fight was, as promised, an old-school Texas shootout. It looks like it?s High Noon again in Boxing? HOUSTON, Texas?Saturday night at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, former WBA/WBC super welterweight…
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Bernard Hopkins Inquest into Mayweather-Pacquiao
?Let?s not get fooled, bamboozled and hoodwinked about the window dressing. I see this from afar, from experience. Game recognize game?? HOUSTON, Texas?Thursday afternoon in the Picasso Room at Houston?s downtown Marriott,…