Steve Kim
886 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Pacquiao’s Last Stand
On April 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the rematch between WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley and Manny Pacquiao arrives. They first met in June of 2012, with Bradley winning…
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Business Before Pugilism
2014 is off to a rather slow start in boxing (basically taking the next month off as HBO and Showtime go dark in February for whatever reason) but starting in early March,…
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The Biggest Battle Ever in Montreal?
Yvon Michel, whose company, GYM is staging this tomorrow night?s contest between Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute, has had a full itinerary the past several weeks and days leading into this promotion,…
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Pay-Per-View Worthy?
-- By Steve Kim Last week, Golden Boy Promotions announced that on March 8th from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Saul Alvarez will return to the ring (following his defeat at…
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What Goes Around Comes Around (for Everybody)
Well, we found out why Robert Guerrero had suddenly disappeared - y? know, like a Ghost - in the wake of his lopsided loss to Floyd Mayweather in May. It turns out…
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GGG on HBO2?
On February 1st in Monte Carlo, WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin will be defending his title versus Osumanu Adama. What?s not clear yet is if this fight will be televised in the…
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Decisions, Decisions
There were multiple reports that an announcement was forthcoming this past weekend as to whom Manny Pacquiao would face on April 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Top Rank Promotions…
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2014 Boxing Resolutions
It never fails; does it? The first month or so into the New Year, you see people you?ve never seen working out at the gym. They are the ones who make New…
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The 2013 ?K9 Awards?: Part 1
2013 is now in the books and it was a banner year for the sport of boxing. While we had the lingering ?Cold War? between Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank Promotions…
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The Soapbox: Dec. 26, 2013
Hope everyone out there had a good Christmas. OK, now that the niceties are out of the way, it?s time for another edition of ?The Soapbox.? This submission comes in from a…
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14 for ?14
A new year is upon us and as the calendar turns, we look forward to a fresh slate of fights on the horizon. Already the schedule is being set for the spring…
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Schaefer Sees no Thaw in the Cold War
Another year in boxing has come and gone and while it was very eventful, it saw the continued ?Cold War? between its superpowers, Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank Promotions (who -…
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The Fight to Make at 175
In front of a lively and sizable throng at the Colisee de Quebec in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, the duo of Sergey Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson put on a display of power-punching…
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Arum Explains Pacquiao?s Tax Quandary
With the size of his entourage, rivaling that of M.C. Hammer in the early 1990s, and reports of taking sizable advances from Top Rank before his fights, when you hear about possible…
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Manny?s Back
Manny Pacquiao may never again be the whirlwind he was between 2007 and 2009 when he ripped through the likes of Oscar De la Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto. It was…
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The Best Fight of the Weekend?
While there is an overflow of coverage in the States revolving around the fight in Macao between Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios, to those in Jolly Ol? England, that event is a…
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?The Future? in Macao
While this pay-per-view undercard in Macao doesn?t have Butterbean and Mia St. John, it certainly doesn?t have a fight the caliber of Danny Garcia vs. Lucas Matthysse on it. Yeah, this isn?t…
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A Tough Sell?
This upcoming weekend marks the return of Manny Pacquiao, who faces Brandon Rios. But unlike the majority of his outings, it will not emanate from the familiar confines of the MGM Grand…
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Valdez, Left in the Bullpen
Back on the night of September 28th, young featherweight hopeful Oscar Valdez believed he would be entering the ring at the StubHub Center in Carson, California between 6 and 7 p.m. as…
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Father and the ?Flash? Reunite
There has been a familiar face among the training camp of Nonito Donaire leading up to his rematch versus Vic Darchinyan this Saturday night in Corpus Christi, Texas (HBO, 9:30 p.m., ET/PT).…
