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Pacquiao the convert, Bradley the shameless

Manny Pacquiao can be beaten, but this is not news because any man who ties gloves on his fists and makes combat with large and good enough …

Mon, 04 Jun 2012

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Above a Texas bullring, a reminder about Floyd Mayweather

SAN ANTONIO ? Suspended above a bullring on a wire-mesh floor below a cinema-size screen, one story and 50 yards from where Cowboys Dancehal…

Mon, 07 May 2012

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El Terrible, finalmente

I started to write about boxing because of Erik ?El Terrible? Morales, whose face, along with those of Israel Vazquez and Juan Manuel Marque…

Mon, 19 Mar 2012

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Portrait of a credential to 2011?s biggest fight, Part 2

The day Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez fought their rubber match in November 2011, Las Vegas gazed upon its empty MGM Grand Garden A…

Mon, 02 Jan 2012

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Portrait of a credential to 2011?s biggest fight, Part 1

The day Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez fought their rubber match in November 2011, Las Vegas was in recovery. The city tried to pull…

Mon, 26 Dec 2011

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?20-1 odds are too much?

The quote above belongs to HBO analyst Roy Jones, who said those words Saturday in a context far different from how they deserve to be remem…

Mon, 24 Oct 2011

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And when Mayweather and Pacquiao never do fight?

We are where we were 20 months ago. Floyd Mayweather knows he can beat Many Pacquiao, doesn?t understand why the rest of us don?t, and wants…

Mon, 26 Sep 2011

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Fretting already about Pacquiao-Marquez III

A friend visited me from Mexico last week. Between trips to Austin and strolls along the San Antonio River, we had occasion to watch a numbe…

Mon, 29 Aug 2011

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Unfit for prime time

There is a time of the year in professional golf when the four tournaments collectively known as ?the majors? are finished, the Ryder Cup, i…

Mon, 09 May 2011

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Agbeko-Mares and the pursuit of authenticity

SAN ANTONIO ? Saturday night as the HBO fights were getting under way, an enormous event happened here in the downtown area. Fiesta Flambeau…

Mon, 18 Apr 2011

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A Terrible difference

A suspicion was confirmed Saturday. No, it wasn?t the suspicion we all harbored about Erik ?El Terrible? Morales? shopworn frailty. Morales?…

Mon, 11 Apr 2011

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Solis remembers while Top Rank corners

It was almost four years ago this week that Mexican Jorge Solis sat in Pico de Gallo restaurant, sipping menudo. Pico de Gallo is a colorful…

Mon, 28 Mar 2011

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Few suspicions linger about Donaire, one suspects

Some boxing aficionados were suspicious of Nonito Donaire?s talents during the promotion of the young Filipino?s fight with Mexico?s WBC/WBO…

Mon, 21 Feb 2011

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No cupidity on Valentine?s Day

This will be about Marco Antonio Barrera?s continuing journey through prizefighting, inspired by its form. If you?re no longer interested in…

Mon, 14 Feb 2011

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Los Angeles in April rather than Las Vegas in May

In March we journeyed to Arlington, Tex., to see Cowboys Stadium?s first prizefight, one featuring Manny Pacquiao. In November we returned t…

Mon, 07 Feb 2011

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A mosaicked revisit to last year?s most interesting fight ? Parts 1 & 2

Authors Note ? In previous years, I?ve broken these treatments into two parts because we needed original content. Kyle Kinder and Anson Wain…

Mon, 03 Jan 2011

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A Cobra, a Son of God, and some Dynamite

As Nottinghamshire?s Carl ?The Cobra? Froch made his ringwalk, Saturday, Showtime commentator Steve Farhood recounted Froch?s run of super m…

Mon, 29 Nov 2010

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Good riddance to Margarito, so long to Pacquiao

ARLINGTON, Tex. ? There was a time when Antonio Margarito was my favorite story in boxing. He was humble, friendly, kind to fans and writers…

Mon, 15 Nov 2010

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Mexicans? support of Margarito never quit either

ARLINGTON, Tex. ? In January of 2009, Mexican Antonio Margarito was caught with a plaster-like substance smeared on the knuckle pads of his …

Mon, 15 Nov 2010

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Apologies everywhere at Pacquiao-Margarito undercard press conference

GRAPEVINE, Tex. ? Antonio Margarito is sorry. Brandon Rios is sorry. Robert Garcia is sorry. And all three would now like to move on. Thursd…

Fri, 12 Nov 2010