Marquis Johns
67 articles · Big Fight Weekend
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Views From The Couch: End Of The Year Edition
If you came here looking for my “Fighter of the Year” and other stock award discussions done around this time of the year, I'm going to let you down. It's the same…
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Views From The Couch: State of Boxing
When I started this piece, I had thought about what was wrong with boxing and what my “hot take” was to fix it. The reality is its way beyond pointing out a…
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Hannah Rankin Talks Sparring Claressa Shields, Training in Miami & More
Hard not to mention women's boxing and not WBA and IBO Super Welterweight champion Hannah Rankin. Rankin(12-5, 3 KOs) looks to retain this weekend again familiar challenger Terri Harper (12-1, 6 KOs)…
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Canelo v GGG 3: Just Say It Sucked
Last weekend removed all doubt that Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin 3 was nothing more than past-due leftovers. Tasty leftovers, posted up in front of the fridge, only to turn stale from just sitting…
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Can Mark Magsayo Hit The Jackpot In Atlantic City On Saturday Night?
This Saturday, Mark Magsayo (23-0, 16 KOs) has a chance to pull off the first upset of 2022 as he is the mandatory challenger against current WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr.…
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The Month Of January & Boxing: A Recipe For Disaster
The new year is almost two weeks old, and the boxing world has just now decided to hit the alarm clock and begin entering the real world like the rest of us.…
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Gary Russell Jr – “Life Is Like Boxing”
Long reigning WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. is back in action on January 22nd, taking on Mark Magsayo. The focus of yesterday’s media call was the universal question we ask every…
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Boxing’s Worst of 2021: Rigondeaux-Casimero
Boxing’s worst of 2021 in-ring action was really a one-fight race for most of the year until that one night in August from the Dignity Health Sports Complex in Carson, California. Guillermo…
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Anybody Want a WBO Bantamweight Belt?
John Rel Casimero is currently the WBO Bantamweight champion but within the next 15 days, we’ll know if that will hold up. In a follow-up to the “Show Cause” letter that the…
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Nonito Donaire Drops Gaballo In Four
Nonito Donaire is on a quest for history, and fellow countrymen Reymart Gaballo tried to stand in his way from the Dignity Health Sports Complex in Carson, California. That resulted in Donaire…
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Donaire on Gaballo- ‘He Has A Big Dream”
One of the many good fights taking shape this weekend is the latest title defense for WBC Bantahamweight titleholder Nonito Donaire as he squares off against Reymart Gaballo live Saturday night on…
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Golovkin-Murata Off Due To Covid In Japan
The Big Drama Show premiere in Japan will start next year as COVID found another way to delay IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and WBA Super champion, Ryota Murata. Mike Coppinger over…
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George Kambosos Upsets Lopez For Lightweight Title
A fight that has been rescheduled nine times finally resulted, at the end of Teofimo Lopez’s title reign as George Kambosos Jr. wins by split decision to close out the Hulu Theatre…
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Terence Crawford Leaving Top Rank Boxing
When Terence Crawford resigned his deal back in 2018 with Top Rank Boxing, many at the time wondered if he would be able at his point in his career be able to…
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Canelo Alvarez Stops Caleb Plant To Become Undisputed
We have for the first time in the four-belt era an undisputed champion at Super Middleweight as Canelo Alvarez defeated Caleb Plant by eleventh round stoppage decision Saturday night. The official time…
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Shakur Stevenson Dethrones Jamel Herring
The WBO Jr. Lightweight title was on the line, and Shakur Stevenson delivered his best performance to date as he dethrones reigning champion Jamel Herring, by tenth-round stoppage Saturday night. The official…
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Tyson Fury Outslugs Wilder In A Wild Trilogy
Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder created bedlam Saturday night as both slugged it out for eleven rounds for the WBC Heavyweight title with Fury retaining by stoppage. 1:10 in the eleventh round…
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New Champ! Oleksandr Usyk Dethrones Anthony Joshua
A fight that lived up to its anticipation, as Unified Heayweight Champ Anthony Joshua was upset Saturday night by Oleksandr Usyk by unanimous decision to crown a new champion in the landscape…
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Canelo-Plant: The Most Talked About IBF Mando Ever
The whole world of boxing spent yesterday talking about the upcoming Undisputed Super Middleweight matchup between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant as both had action started early at the press conference. What…
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Tix for Canelo-Plant, Lopez-Kambosos On Sale Sept 15
Mexican superstar and unified WBA/WBC/WBO Super Middleweight World Champion Canelo Álvarez and undefeated IBF Super Middleweight World Champion Caleb “Sweethands” Plant will battle to crown an undisputed 168-pound world champion on Saturday,…