Gabriel Montoya
399 articles · DogHouseBoxing.com
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MAYWEATHER V PACQUIAO THE FIGHT TO KILL BOXING PROMOTERS?
The latest fight to revive boxing may be the fight that changes modern boxing promotion forever. By now you have heard that Floyd Mayweather, Jr and Manny Pacquiao, the only two fighters…
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Can fans afford Mayweather Vs Pacquiao?
The highest grossing fight of all time was 2007′s Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather. Priced at $55, the fight did 2.4 million buys and generated over $130 million in domestic…
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The Future
?There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.…
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Algieri meets the world, outlasts Provodnikov by Split Decision
Coming into Saturday night?s WBO junior welterweight championship at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, NY, the first defense of now deposed champion Ruslan Provodnikov, every pundit in boxing, except for Rick Glaser…
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Is Algieri a new Level of Higher Education for Provodnikov?
Junior welterweight Chris Algieri was born to fight. He?s been doing it his whole life, be it in Kenpo Karate (which he began studying around age nine) to his wrestling background to…
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Cotto makes Puerto Rican History, Stops Martinez
Miguel Cotto had long fought in the shadow of other Puerto Rican greats. Try as he might over the years, Cotto just hadn?t gotten over the greatness hump. Saturday night at Madison…
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Oscar De la Hoya Reflects on His Past, Present and Future
This week, all eyes have been on Oscar De la Hoya for reasons beyond the main. Depending on who you talk to, his company, Golden Boy Promotions, named for his ring moniker,…
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Froch-Groves II: Lesson Learned?
When a boxer reaches the highest echelon of the sport against an experienced, battle-tested champion with a large following and even bigger chip on his shoulder before ten of millions across the…
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Are We all Overlooking Andrzej Fonfara?
Heading into this Saturday?s ?Showtime Championship Boxing? card featuring Adonis Stevenson versus Andrzej Fonfara, the prevailing wisdom is this is a prelude to nothing. Originally, this fight was going to be on…
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Marquez-Alvarado: from Chemical Warfare to Collective Amnesia
I?ve never been into character assassination. I have the highest respect for professional fighters, be the sport mixed martial arts or boxing. Fighters are among the best people I know, open-minded, warm,…
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Stiverne Blasts Life into the Heavies
When newly-crowned WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne walked down the Galen Center?s aisle toward his destiny this past Saturday, he had already walked a long, hard road to get there. Dreams of…
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Bermane Stiverne Emerges
On April 27, 2013, heavyweight contender Bermane Stiverne had a shot at the WBC version of the heavyweight title within his grasp. Three rounds into his fight with Chris Arreola, Stiverne, who…
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Mayweather-Maidana: A Maelstrom of Moments
?Marvelous technology is at our disposal but instead of reaching for new heights, we try to see how far down we can go...how deep into the muck we can immerse ourselves!? -…
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Improving The Fight Game
?To thine own self be true.? Polonius ?Hamlet,? Act I: Scene III The HBO series ?The Fight Game with Jim Lampley? entered its third season this past Saturday night. The show is…
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Capriciousness, Thy Name Is Malignaggi
Over the weekend, I wrote a story in which I compared Paulie Malignaggi to Hamlet when it came to the subject of anti-doping testing beyond what commissions mandate in boxing. http://www.maxboxing.com/news/max-boxing-news/porter-malignaggi-and-the-trouble-with-testing While…
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Spirit, Strategy and Belief Are not Alien to Hopkins
?When you?re young, you overdo things a lot and you get away with it. When you have wisdom and you have understanding, you learn how to not overdo things where you rest…
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Something Wicked This Way Comes; Pacquiao, Bradley and the Endless Search for Respect
?Too late, I found you can?t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.? - Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes…
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Can Fortune Take Pacquiao back to the Future?
When the call came to handle the strength and conditioning duties for Manny Pacquiao before he faced Brandon Rios fight last November, Justin Fortune was couldn?t fully answer. He runs the Fortune…
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Sergey Kovalev: Belt of a Titlist, Hunger of a Contender
At age 30, WBO light heavyweight titleholder Sergey ?Krusher? Kovalev has turned a corner professionally that few fighters ever do. Seemingly, all at once, he is dawning on the public consciousness and…
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Malignaggi no Short Order for Shawn Porter
IBF welterweight titleholder Shawn ?Showtime? Porter, 23-0-1(14), has just passed a crucial test and in the process, entered the toughest phase of any young fighter?s career: ?Keeping the Title.? The 26-year-old Cleveland…