Steve Kim
886 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Alvarez and Chavez Jr. are Great…for Boxing
This Saturday night in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saul Alvarez defends his WBC junior middleweight title against Ryan Rhodes, just a couple of weeks after Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. captured the WBC middleweight title…
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Must Be in the Front Row
On the night of April 17th, just one day after the entertaining back-and-forth battle between Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto, I asked this question on Twitter: ?Do you ever watch a fight…
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It’s True. The Good Indeed Die Young
For the last several years, former two-time super featherweight champion Genaro Hernandez had battled a rare form of cancer that had plagued his neck and head. It was thought to be in…
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Did Zbik Get Sturm’d?
In the aftermath of his first professional loss in 31 bouts, the now-former WBC middleweight champion, Sebastian Zbik, walked into the Chick Hearn Press Room at the Staples Center and immediately addressed…
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Is There Passion to Go with Garcia?s Precision?
Back on March 26th in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in a match-up of two young, undefeated featherweights, Miguel ?Mikey? Garcia made his HBO debut by stopping Matt Remillard in ten rounds. It…
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Carl the Constant
As the ?Super Six? has gone through an array of mysterious pull-outs and various other snafus, perhaps the most constant aspect of this Showtime-created super middleweight round-robin tournament has been Carl ?The…
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Johnson’s Fountain of Youth
As Showtime?s ?Super Six? was disintegrating this past fall with the rather dubious pull-outs of Mikkel Kessler and Andre Dirrell, a call was made to the bullpen to bring in Glen Johnson…
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Hopkins-Jones: The Debate Continues
"Do you rate Jones above Hopkins for what they were at their respective apexes or do you flip them for the overall scope of their careers?" I asked this question for my…
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Judah Says, “50/50, No U.K. Rights?We Have a Fight”
As Tim Bradley passed on the opportunity to face Amir Khan on July 23rd, the search was on to find a replacement for the ?Desert Storm.? Zab Judah, who holds the IBF…
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Bradley Speaks
It was widely believed that Tim Bradley was going to put his WBC and WBO junior welterweight titles on the line against WBA beltholder Amir Khan this summer on July 23rd. After…
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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Way back on May 22nd, 1993, Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins got into a boxing ring at the old home of the Washington Redskins, RFK Stadium, for the vacant IBF middleweight crown.…
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Raymundo Beltran: More than Just a Sparring Partner
It?s a double-edged sword becoming a regular sparring partner for Manny Pacquiao. On one end, you get some great work and just with the periphery association with the ?Pac-Man,? you gain a…
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?Mayhem? on ShoBox
Heavyweight Seth ?Mayhem? Mitchell, who lettered in football at Michigan State between 2002 and 2004, is amused to hear that various players in the NFL, who are in the midst of the…
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Has the ?Super Six? Lost its Mojo?
The ?Super Six World Boxing Classic? on Showtime resumes this week from the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, as Andre Ward faces Arthur Abraham. When this round-robin super middleweight scrum- originally…
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Sometimes When They Touch (Gloves, Over and Over Again)
On Saturday night at a packed MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, we saw the rarest of fights involving Manny Pacquiao, who easily dispatched Shane Mosley over 12 rounds. It was…
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The View from the Corners
There was a time when Freddie Roach and Naazim Richardson were in the same corner. Back a few years ago, they worked together in training Bernard Hopkins. This Saturday night at the…
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Pacquiao-Mosley Can be Purchased Online
Watching boxing online isn?t a new phenomenon. Various websites have streamed fights (legally and illegally) for some time now and some smaller shows have been offered via pay-per-view. For this weekend?s bout…
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Anyone Else Believe in Mosley?
Sugar Ray Robinson once famously said that part of being a great champion is believing in yourself when nobody else does. That?s the position that Shane Mosley finds himself in as he…
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The Intervention of Frankie Gomez
This Thursday night is the NFL Draft, where teams will shower prospective players with millions upon millions of dollars to play for their franchises. It?s a crap-shoot where teams hope to build…
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Random Thoughts from the Nokia Theater
The beginning of last week started with great anticipation as the boxing world looked forward to the finals of the Showtime bantamweight tournament between IBF titlist Joseph ?King Kong? Agbeko and Abner…
