John Hively
4 articles · BoxingScene.com
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Is Manny Pacquiao The Fighter of The Decade?
By John Hively
With the retirement of Floyd Mayweather, Manuel Pacquiao is clearly the world?s best pound-for-pound fighter. What?s more, so far he is arguably the greatest fighter of the first decade of this century.…
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Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather, Jr: The Road to Greatness Now Begins
By John Hively
Boxing will experience a somewhat over-hyped event this coming May in the form of a fight between a prime Floyd ?Pretty Boy? Mayweather and a gracefully aging yet far from his peak…
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Erik Morales: An All Time Great at the End of the Road?
By John Hively
Erik ?El Terrible? Morales is finished and this was apparent even before he entered the ring to face Manny Pacquiao on November 18, 2006. His skills had been slipping slightly before his…
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Hopkins and Pacquiao: Different Roads to Greatness
By John Hively
I disagree with those who place Bernard Hopkins up there among the top five or six middleweights of all time. Hopkins was an alphabet champion for six years, unified the title eventually,…