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Humiliation is more frightening than pain

Friday’s super middleweight fight was awful. Saturday’s welterweight fight should be excellent. Saturday’s heavyweight farce wasn’t bad at a…

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

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Teofimo Lopez takes over

Saturday in The Bubble in the long-anticipated mainevent of a long ESPN card Brooklyn’s Teofimo Lopez conclusively decisioned Ukrainian Vasy…

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

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WBSS: At long last, something true

Saturday in Scotland the World Boxing Super Series held the final semifinals matches in its bantamweight and super lightweight divisions, an…

Tue, 21 May 2019

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Lomachenko and Crolla are not El Paso club pros, and it?s too bad

Saturday in Los Angeles once-defeated Ukrainian lightweight titlist Vasyl ?Hi-Tech? Lomachenko will successfully defend his title against Br…

Mon, 08 Apr 2019

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The Truth will set you expensive: Spence edges Crawford at Purses Collide

?It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books ? setting out in five hundred pages an idea that ca…

Mon, 25 Mar 2019

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Preview of Spence-Garcia, part 1 (of one)

Soon undefeated welterweight Texan titlist Errol Spence will defend his IBF belt against undefeated lightweight Californian titlist Mikey Ga…

Tue, 05 Mar 2019

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The Truth is . . .

SAN ANTONIO ? Almost exactly 300 miles north of here Saturday welterweight titlist Errol ?The Truth? Spencer strolled through an overmatched…

Mon, 18 Jun 2018

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Terence Crawford is wonderful

Saturday on ESPN+ Nebraska?s Terence Crawford won his first welterweight title the right way. He beat to relenting titlist Jeff Horn, the Au…

Mon, 11 Jun 2018

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To the edge of panic: Sor Rungvisai decisions Estrada

Saturday in Los Angeles, Thai super flyweight world champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai majority-decisioned Mexican Juan Francisco Estrada in a …

Mon, 26 Feb 2018

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Gilberto Ramirez looks beautiful in South Texas showcase on ESPN

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas ? Saturday?s mainevent at American Bank Center was intended to be a coming-out party for undefeated Mexican super midd…

Mon, 05 Feb 2018

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Terence Crawford: The thrill is gone

Saturday at Madison Square Garden, Nebraska junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford beat Dominican Felix Diaz by corner stoppage after…

Mon, 22 May 2017

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Say what you will about Broner, but . . .

Saturday on Twitter @ShowtimeBoxing American bronerweight silver titlist Adrien Broner decisioned Adrian Granados by majority scores at Cint…

Mon, 20 Feb 2017

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Son of the Legend to be Cinnamoned: Alvarez-Chavez is on

Friday brought what announcement boxing craves ? a superfight! And here it is: May 6 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Mexican cinnamonweight c…

Mon, 16 Jan 2017

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Killing pay-per-view: An (unauthorized) oral history

Twenty months after a fight that put boxing pay-per-view in a death spiral, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao ? along with their handlers …

Mon, 09 Jan 2017

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Not-missing Bernard Hopkins already

Saturday at a 1/3-full Forum in Inglewood, Calif., handpicked American light heavyweight opponent Joe Smith retired Bernard Hopkins just bef…

Mon, 19 Dec 2016

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Thurman-Porter: Trying for enthusiasm

Saturday in Brooklyn in what remains of an anticipated title match for an expiring sport Ohio welterweight ?Showtime? Shawn Porter will squa…

Mon, 20 Jun 2016

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Errol Spence: A good fighter with much potential

Saturday at Barclay?s Center in a PBC match televised by NBC, Texas welterweight southpaw Errol Spence stitchripped New York?s Chris Algieri…

Mon, 18 Apr 2016

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Goodbye till the next time, Manny

Saturday at MGM Grand in the first retirement match of his career and second rematch with California?s Timothy Bradley, Filipino welterweigh…

Sun, 17 Apr 2016

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Kovalev krushes Koach Freddie, et al

Saturday at Montreal?s Bell Centre, Russian light heavyweight champion Sergey ?Krusher? Kovalev beat Haitian-Canadian Jean Pascal till Pasca…

Mon, 01 Feb 2016

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Chasing heavyweights

Among the very few benefits of the PBC?s 2015 emergence is this: We now know clarity in prizefighting?s flagship division ? heavyweight, acc…

Mon, 21 Dec 2015