Robert Ecksel
752 articles · The Sweet Science
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Patrick Day is comatose?and the world turns
I?m sorry about what happened to Benny. I?m sorry I?m a boxer. But I will fight again.??Emile Griffith I began watched boxing when I was four years old in the mid-1950s. Born…
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Usyk TKOs Gassed Witherspoon
Saturday night at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois, 32-year-old Oleksandr Usyk (17-0, 13 KOs), the former unified cruiserweight champion from Kiev, Ukraine, in his heavyweight debut, forced 38-year-old Chazz Witherspoon (38-4, 29…
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The Wrestler, Tyson Fury
Boxing and wrestling have always had an uneasy relationship. Comparisons don?t come easily, as their differences exceed their similarities, but there are enough crossover elements for fans of one to sometimes be…
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And the winner is?Thuggery
Tonight?s main event on Showtime between Claressa Shields and Ivana Habazin has been cancelled after the latter?s veteran trainer, James Ali Bashir, was hospitalized after being sucker punched by a member of…
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The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Saturday?s pay-per-view card at the Staples Center in LA was exceptional in many respects, especially when compared to the mismatches to which we?ve grown accustomed. The main event delivered, beyond our wildest…
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Jack Johnson vs. Arthur Cravan: Who?s your Dada?
?I am perhaps the king of failures, since I must surely be the king of something.??Arthur Cravan When Jack Johnson fought Arthur Cravan on April 23, 1916, at Plaza del Toros Monumental…
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Fury Picks Ruiz to Repeat
Tyson Fury is a man of faith, but when it comes to Anthony Joshua, he has never been a believer. Even when he was riding high, prior to his defeat at the…
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Andy Ruiz Rejects Saudi Arabia
During a live chat with his fans, the WBA/IBF/WBO heavyweight champion put the kibosh on the recently announced plans of Eddie Hearn, Anthony Joshua?s promoter, to stage their rematch in the Kingdom…
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Eddie Hearn, bomaye!
In a vain attempt to put woke minds back to sleep, Matchroom Boxing?s Eddie Hearn, taking no questions yesterday at a hastily assembled press conference at which neither Andy Ruiz Jr. nor…
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Investigate Dadashev?s Death? Da!
No matter how heartfelt the thoughts and prayers extended to Maxim Dadashev and his family following his death from the beating he endured Friday night, the Russian Boxing Federation, unwilling to give…
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Speak, Memory
He is a credit to his race, the human race.??Jimmy Cannon on Joe Louis In the wake of Manny Pacquiao?s split decision victory over Keith Thurman last week in Las Vegas, we…
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Maxim Dadashev Update
Friday night?s co-main event at The Theater at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland between Subriel Matias and Maxim Dadashev ended in tragedy. After taking a wicked beating and trailing by…
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Reevaluating Floyd Mayweather
Anyone who anoints themselves ?The Best Ever,? whether it?s in boxing, another sport, or any other endeavor, as wily Floyd Mayweather has done, is undeserving of the title. When Mayweather made that…
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Mike Tyson: Turn on, tune in, drop by
No one dreamed he?d reach the half century mark. With his meteoric rise, followed by his precipitous fall, he embodied the live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse ethos. His…
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Andrade Shuts Out Sulecki in Dispiriting Mismatch
Saturday night at the Dunkin? Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, in a fight streamed live in the US on DAZN, reigning and defending WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade (28-0, 17 KOs),…
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Cheap Trick: Briedis Stops Glowacki
In the WBSS cruiserweight semi-final streamed live in the US on DAZN from Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia, Saturday night, Riga?s favorite son, Mairis Briedis (26-1, 19 KOs), in an appalling excuse…
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Film Buff Tyson Fury
This month?s Men?s Health magazine is not substantially different than the Men?s Health magazines that preceded it. In addition to the requisite celebrity fluff, there are articles devoted to such arcane subjects…
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Golovkin KOs Rolls
Saturday night, in a fight streamed live on DAZN from New York?s Madison Square Garden, Gennady Golovkin (39-1-1, 35 KOs), the former unified middleweight champion from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, knocked out two-time Canadian…
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Jericho Calling: Ruiz Crushes Joshua
?If there?s a good loser in boxing, I?d love to fight him every week.??Former middleweight champion Gene Fullmer Saturday night at New York?s Madison Square Garden, in one of the biggest upsets…
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Wilder vs. Ortiz II
Just when it appeared that boxing?s marquee division was going nowhere fast, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs), the knockout artist from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, pulled a proverbial rabbit out of…