Jake Donovan
676 articles · The Sweet Science
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Weights: Manny Pacquiao 145-Pounds, Joshua Clottey 147
The year’s first big event – aptly named “The Event” is officially under way. Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey both made weight for their welterweight fight at Cowboys Stadium on Saturday evening…
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New Year, First Big Event: Pacquiao in a Familiar Place
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Manny Pacquiao presently serves as the reigning pound-for-pound king, the defending Fighter of the Year, and is set to star in the first truly…
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The Unofficial 140 Lb. Series Begins Tonight
It’s not an official bracket and there’s no guarantee that any of the matchups in the near future lead to the winners facing one another. Nor is it even designed round-robin style…
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Ready For Big Fight Season To Begin
Let the games begin. Not the Winter Olympic games, mind you. Thankfully, that bunch has left the building, with no other major sporting event for the time being posing enough of a…
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Cory Spinks Hires Buddy McGirt As New Trainer
It hasn’t been a kind year for Cory Spinks, though things are finally looking up. The first two months of 2010 has seen the former lineal welterweight king and current junior middleweight…
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No Time Like Next For Donaire-Darchinyan II
He came, he saw, he conquered the fighter put in front of him like the professional that he is. It’s now time to start putting better fighters in front of Nonito Donaire…
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Latest Top Rank PPV Built With The Future In Mind
You can call it Pinoy Power 3. You can call it Latin Fury 13. The folks at Top Rank couldn’t make up their mind, instead deciding to roll with both titles. Whatever…
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Plenty Of Good News To Go Around, For A Change
At last, we have a boxing season to look forward to in 2010. There was no question that things were looking mighty bleak for the sport as we entered the new calendar…
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Sooner, Not Later, is The Best Option For Lopez-Gamboa
At the time of their HBO doubleheader being put together, it was clear that the show was sold as a prelude to an eventual clash between undefeated titlists Juan Manuel Lopez and…
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Vanes Survives Gut Check, And Knockdown: Tops Ouma
Top Rank’s newly developed Fox Sports series “Top Rank Live” saw several changes in its inaugural episode, including changes in its main event and its co-feature falling through at the eleventh hour.…
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Struggle For Super Featherweight Supremacy Continues
The curse of the Fab Four lives on. Years after the departure of (in order) Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera, Manny Pacquiao and eventually Juan Manuel Marquez, the featherweight division continues to…
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For Vanes Martirosyan, Prime Time Begins This Weekend
In July 2006, a brand new boxing series was presented by Top Rank on Outdoor Life Network (which would later become VERSUS). The evening’s main event saw then-undefeated prospect Kelly Pavlik stop…
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Boxingscene’s Best Fights of The Decade (Guess Who’s 1?)
The first ten years of the 2000’s was a decade that saw more unification matches than any other ten-year period since the inception of alphabet titles. It was a decade in which…
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BoxingScene’s 2009 Fighter Of The Year: Manny Pacquiao
If there?s a single item that can help put into perspective how terrific of a year it?s been for boxing, it?s the honoring of 2009?s Fighter of the Year. In most other…
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All That’s Golden Doesn’t Glitter
Once upon a time, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer boasted a reputation for producing the big fight, or at least the big event. He never hesitated to offer this self-congratulatory boast, but…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao Follies: Are We Morons After All?
“We'd all have to be morons to not let this happen.” Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer offered the aforementioned quote when asked about negotiations surrounding the potential superfight between his client, Floyd…
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Sparring Partner No More: Showtime For Shawn Porter
It’s often said that it’s not what you know, but who you know. For the past couple of months, Shawn “Showtime” Porter knew and shared ring space with the sport’s pound-for-pound king,…
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Showtime’s Banner Year Gets To End With A Bang
It’s been a long overdue revival for the men and women part of the entity that refers to themselves as “America’s #1 Boxing Network.” This past year for Showtime was no longer…
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Has Pac-Man Fever Gobbled Up Super Six Momentum?
The right place, at the right time. There was no better place or time for Manny Pacquiao’s destruction of Miguel Cotto to land than in the heart of sweeps month in the…
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Weight Over: Cotto, Pacquiao Ready To Lock And Load
There was no need to pay by the pound, in the weigh-in to tomorrow night’s Vegas superfight between welterweight titlist Miguel Cotto and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao. Faced with the threat of…
