Jonathan Snowden
10 articles · BleacherReport.com
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If You Liked Mayweather vs. McGregor, You’re Going to Love Canelo vs. GGG
There was something thrilling about Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather's fight last month, a loud, garish, irresistible spectacle that delivered exactly what it promised?complete and utter chaos. The two battled fiercely outside…
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How I Learned to Stop Hating and Admit Floyd Mayweather’s a Boxing Revolutionary
Floyd Mayweather is really rich. You may have heard that already. Probably from him. Money, for the famously undefeated boxer, is not just something he makes?it's a lifestyle, nickname and friend. It…
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Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin: Boxing’s Biggest Fight at the Perfect Time
It's hard to bring a crowd back once you've lost them?and if the boos echoing around Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena were any indication, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez no longer had the people in…
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The Real Mexican Holiday: Canelo vs. Chavez Is for More Than Title Gold
You can hear it in his voice, in the way he dives into answers before his translator can even begin to turn English into Spanish. For Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, known to most…
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Boxing Virtuoso Vasyl Lomachenko Might Really Be Inside the Matrix
Vasyl Lomachenko is in The Matrix. That's the premise posited in a YouTube video that spread across the boxing internet this summer. Despite being absurd on its face, it begs some serious…
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Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev Deliver Drama, Controversy and an Instant Classic
LAS VEGAS ? On the Las Vegas strip you're constantly being sold something. Everywhere you go, there's a cacophony of noise, lights and creepy men trying to convince you that they have…
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Last Week in Boxing: Nietes and Linares Deserved More Than Obscurity
The decline of boxing can be seen in ways both big and small. While the big flaws get the big press, it's the little things that make prognostications of doom feel a…
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Canelo Alvarez Battling His Critics and Liam Smith in Quest for Boxing’s Crown
Saul "Canelo" Alvarez should be sitting on top of the world. He's unspeakably rich, handsome and successful, heir to the Mayweather throne as the king of boxing. In his last two fights,…
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The End of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Era Can’t Come Soon Enough
On Saturday night, 37-year-old Manny Pacquiao will walk into the ring for the 66th time when he faces Timothy Bradley. It's the rubber match of the least compelling trilogy in modern boxing…
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What Mayweather-Pacquiao Could’ve Been: Duran-Leonard I 35 Years Later
When Manny Pacquiao finally stepped into the ring with Floyd Mayweather Jr., a bout five years in the making, it was widely proclaimed the Fight of the Century, a throwback to the…