Thomas Hauser
148 articles · SecondsOut.com
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Miguel Cotto: The professional
Thomas Hauser was in Miguel Cotto?s dressing room in the hours before and after his encounter with Canelo Alvarez and viewed fight week through the prism of Team Cotto. Here is his…
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Ronda Rousey-Holly Holm: What It Means
Sports, unlike most forms of entertainment, have no script. Sometimes the narrative unfolds as expected. Sometimes it doesn?t. Once the competition begins, what an athlete has done in the past isn?t outcome…
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Inspectors shouldn?t judge
On Saturday, Oct. 17, Lamont Peterson fought Felix Diaz in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card televised by NBC. The fight was closely contested. Peterson was widely regarded as…
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The case to keep boxing in the service academies
The United States Military Academy at West Point, the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs have boxing courses that are required for…
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Can Boxing Trust USADA? Questions Surround Drug Testing for Mayweather-Pacquiao and Other Bouts
Shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday, May 1, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao weighed in for their historic encounter that would be contested the following night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena…
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In Celebration of Miguel Cotto
Miguel Cotto entered his dressing room at Barclays Center on the night of June 6 at 8:25 PM. He was casually dressed, wearing faded blue jeans, a well-worn gray T-shirt, a blue…
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The Hauser Report: Khan-Algieri
The May 29, 2015, fight between Amir Khan and Chris Algieri at Barclays Center surprised a lot of people. Khan made his mark in boxing as a 17-year-old silver medalist for the…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao: How Big a Winner Was Haymon?
By the start of 2015, it appeared that Al Haymon, not HBO or Showtime, was the industry leader in boxing. A recent article by Bill King in Sports Business Journal suggested that…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao and The Media
There?s a famous 17th-century carving above the door of a temple in Nikko, Japan. In recent centuries, it has been popularized in the form of three monkeys who, respectively, are covering their…
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The Big Lie
Sometime prior to fighting Floyd Mayweather on May 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Manny Pacquiao suffered a torn right rotator cuff. In mid-April, his condition was evaluated at the…
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The Hauser Report: Alvarez-Kirkland and More
On September 30, 2014, Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez attended a luncheon at HBO to announce a multi-fight contract with the network. His red hair and green pullover shirt gave the impression of an…
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A Look Ahead at Holyfield-Romney
On March 16, it was announced that Mitt Romney and Evander Holyfield will square off at a charity fundraiser to be held at the Rail Event Center in Salt Lake City on…
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The Hauser Report: January Notes
The most interesting action in boxing often takes place outside the ring. There have been developments on both sides of the ropes in January 2015 that are worthy of comment. * *…
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Does Pacquiao Listen to Katy Perry When He Thinks About Mayweather at Night?
In today?s world of eCommerce, the prevailing currency is tweets and hits. With that in mind, writers for boxing websites are instructed to get Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather into as many…
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Golovkin-Rubio and Other Notes
There was a standing room only crowd of 9,323 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, for Saturday night?s fight card featuring Gennady Golovkin vs. Marco Antonio Rubio and Nonito Donaire vs.…
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Floyd Mayweather, Showtime, and the Nevada State Athletic Commission
Les Moonves has a domestic violence problem. As president and CEO of CBS Corporation, he oversees a vast media empire that includes, among other properties, CBS and Showtime. CBS is one of…
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Notes on Ali, Mayweather, and Others
Lloyd Price was at the Belvedere Hotel in Manhattan this week to tape an interview for a PBS documentary about Muhammad Ali that will air in early-2015. Price, who was inducted into…
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Tina and Manny Redux
Millions of words have been written about the adoration that the Filipino people feel for Manny Pacquiao. Five years ago, I put a face on that adoration in the person of Tina…
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Impressions: Martinez, Cotto, Combat, and Sport
At 9:15 on the night of June 7, Sergio Martinez entered dressing room #5 at Madison Square Garden with trainer Pablo Sarmiento, cutman Roger Anderson, and physical therapist Raquel Bordons. Cornerman Russ…
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Floyd Mayweather, Donald Sterling, and TMZ
Now that Floyd Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana is over, boxing fans can refocus their attention on the story that the sports media has fixated on for the past ten days. On Friday,…
