Robert Ecksel
752 articles · The Sweet Science
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Won?t Get Fooled Again?
I?ll get on my knees and pray. We won?t be fooled again.??Pete Townshend ?Won?t Get Fooled Again? was first released as a single in 1971 and was immediately enshrined in the rock…
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Is Pay-Per-View Dead?
?The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.??Mark Twain It was only a few months ago, during a Manhattan presser preceding the fight between Canelo Alvarez and Rocky Fielding, that Golden Boy…
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Tyson Fury has an opponent
Tyson Fury has an opponent. He holds no title. He?s not one of the Big Three. But he?s a serious fighter with a serious punch, plus he?s got a name to go…
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The Good Fight and Patricio Manuel
?Boxing is for men, and is about men, and is men. A celebration of the lost art of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.??Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates…
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Dirrell Defeats Yildirim by Controversial Technical Split Decision
Saturday night at the Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the fight of the night in a crowded night of fights was ruined when Anthony Dirrell (33-1-1, 24 KOs), the former WBC super middleweight…
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Eubank outpoints DeGale in ugly wrestling match
Saturday night at the O2 Arena in East Greenwich, London, England, Chris Eubank Jr. (28-2, 21 KOs), the former IBO super middleweight champion from Brighton, Sussex, outpointed former two-time world champion James…
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Joshua-Miller MSG Presser
If words won fights, we?d be covering spelling bees. But the tattoos, body piercings and Mohawk haircuts, not to mention the shouting, pushing and shoving, suggested this ain?t no spelling bee. At…
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Fury co-signs with Top Rank/ESPN, jeopardizing Wilder rematch
Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and his Hall of Fame promoter, Queensberry Promotions? Frank Warren, have signed a co-promotional deal with Top Rank and its network of choice ESPN. Whether or not…
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Former French champion hailed as Yellow Vest hero
?I cannot prevent the French from being French.??Charles de Gaulle An angry mob is always a concern, but a citizenry that fights back is a citizenry worthy respect. Here in the U.S.,…
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?Tank? Davis vs Tenshin Nasukawa?!?
However talented he may be, Gervonta Davis, who fights under the Mayweather Promotions banner, appears to be taking his cues from the master of foregone conclusions. No sooner had he destroyed Hugo…
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Krusher Kovalev Blues
With cries of ?fake news? ringing in my ears like the worst case of tinnitus known to man, I regret having to report that former light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev is facing…
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Pacquiao humbles Broner. Mayweather next?
Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, in a fight televised live on Showtime PPV, WBA World welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (61-7-2, 39 KOs), the sensational southpaw…
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Dr. Steelhammer: Fake News
There?s no definitive answer as to who started the latest rumor about Wladimir Klitschko coming out of retirement at the age of 42, but the lemmings have taken the ball and run…
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Rise of the Boxing Trainer-Robot
Technology will be our salvation or doom, whichever comes first. While waiting for the future to put its cards on the table, when we?re either saved or eternally cursed, we can savor…
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Rumormongers Unite!
?I never lie. I may not tell the truth, but I never lie.??Richie Giachetti Tom Loeffler isn?t like most promoters. He?s not a crook. He?s not a twit. He?s not arrogant. He?s…
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Is Manny Pacquiao a Hater?
Hater is one of the most overused words in boxing. Part of its overuse is due to a lack of imagination, when it?s not simply parroting whatever word or catchphrase happens to…
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Canelo Ruins Rocky?s Reign
?I love tall dudes. I always like to chop down big trees.??Marvelous Marvin Hagler Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez (51-1-2, 34 KOs), the WBA/WBC…
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Adonis Stevenson: The Sound of Silence
Mauricio Sulaiman, President of the WBC, paid a visit to its former light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson in Quebec City earlier this week. Under normal circumstances there might have been much to…
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Lomachenko Outclasses Pedraza
Saturday night at the Hulu Theater in New York?s Madison Square Garden, in a fight televised live on ESPN, WBA lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs), the southpaw savant from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi,…
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Heavyweight Picks on Wilder/Fury
There is no shortage of former heavyweight champions and contenders roaming the face of God?s earth. In advance of Saturday?s heavyweight pay-per-view championship between reigning and defending WBC champion Deontay Wilder and…