Steve Kim
886 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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The Pay-Per-View Soapbox ? Aug. 8, 2013
In five weeks the most highly-anticipated pay-per-view card of 2013 takes place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas when Floyd Mayweather faces Saul Alvarez. What has added to the anticipation of…
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Nothing Easy for ?El Loco?
After last week?s edition of ?Friday Night Fights,? a certified snoozer, ESPN2 looks to have a much more entertaining card this week from the Morongo Casino Resort and Spa when lightweights Jose…
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Chambers is Now Cruisin?
For much of his career, Eddie Chambers has been a ?small? heavyweight. In the land of giants, Chambers was always small by the standards of today?s behemoths, many of whom are the…
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Fight Night Provides Springboard
This Saturday night from the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, the latest installment of the ?Fight Night? series on the NBC Sports Network (10:30 p.m., ET) takes place. It?s a tripleheader featuring middleweight…
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Azad Championship Report – Fight Card of the Year
The Showtime tripleheader from San Antonio, Texas on Saturday night was largely overlooked coming into this past weekend. More than taking place in the midst of a summer slumber from the boxing…
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Soto Karass Meets Berto (Again)
On the night of June 8th at the StubHub Center in Carson, California a rather uneventful (to say the least) fight was taking place inside the ring between junior middleweights Jermell Charlo…
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He May not Be Good but He?s Important
This Saturday from the Venetian Casino and Resort in Macao, Zou Shiming faces Jesus Ortega in his second professional outing. There is some derision over Shiming being showcased by HBO2 (5:30 p.m.,…
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Golden Boy Prospects on Display
Tonight from the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California, a card staged by Golden Boy Promotions will feature a quartet of young prospects, three 2012 U.S. Olympians and a local fighter on…
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Azad Championship Report – It?s Done for ?The One?
H1-Floyd-Saul-TheOne.jpg After weeks of speculating, Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions made a long-awaited announcement on Thursday afternoon: the junior welterweight showdown between Lucas Matthysse and titleholder Danny Garcia is signed, sealed…
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Reid Pushes Scott
It was the last sparring session for heavyweight Malik Scott this past Friday afternoon before departing for London where he faces Dereck Chisora at the Wembley Arena this upcoming weekend. And as…
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Exiled?
Last month, a press conference was held at the Beverly Hills Hotel to announce the October 12th pay-per-view match between Juan Manuel Marquez and Tim Bradley. Before the official proceedings started, this…
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Setting up a Showdown?
It was announced on Thursday afternoon at the El Paseo restaurant at Olvera Street in Los Angeles that Golden Boy Promotions will stage a card on August 24th featuring WBC featherweight champion…
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Perez Starts a New Chapter
Coming off back-to-back wins over Derrick Wilson and Art Hovhannisyan, Alejandro Perez, who for years toiled as an independent, now finds himself under the Top Rank banner as he faces Edgar Riovalle…
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Summer Snooze
If you?re a boxing fan, right now, you?re pretty much like a football fan - you can?t wait for September. Because from that point on, boxing has a strong slate of fights…
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Azad Championship Report – Is the Price Right?
You may have heard there was this little nationwide press tour to promote the September 14th pay-per-view battle from Las Vegas between WBC/WBA junior middleweight titlist Saul Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather. This…
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Relocation and Vindication in Youngstown
This Saturday night from the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Resort (9:45 p.m., ET), rising junior middleweight Willie Nelson makes his HBO debut versus Luciano Cuello. The first time the boxing public got…
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Azad Championship Report – Time to Walk the Walk for Malignaggi
The verbal sparring between WBA welterweight titlist Paulie Malignaggi and Adrien Broner, who face each other this Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, has seemingly been never-ending and actually began…
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Jennings Is in a Hurry
Tonight from the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, heavyweight hopeful Bryant ?By-By? Jennings faces Andrey Fedosov on the NBC Sports Network (8 p.m., ET/5 p.m, PT) main event. If he had…
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Garcia and Hudson on the Fast Track
For nearly a full century, most conditioning programs associated with the sport of boxing consisted of fighters waking up in the early morning to go running. Road work has been around in…
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Azad Championship Report – Rebirth or Sacrifice for ?JuanMa??
This Saturday night at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas (10:45 p.m., ET/PT), Juan Manuel Lopez challenges WBO featherweight titlist Mikey Garcia. There was a time not too long ago when…
