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Canelo Christmas: He Is A Gift To the Sport
For a guy who has stayed out of trouble, had very little controversy (the 6-month PED suspension in 2018, notwithstanding) in his career, has a ton...
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Boxing Writer Ready To Dump the Sport….Almost
I was ready to leave boxing as a writer. I had turned in my pained, heartfelt resignation, said my goodbyes and everything. But Sunday morning, in...
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Sorry, Sly: Creed III Belongs To Michael B Jordan
There are two ways to look at this latest (and possibly final) installment of the Rocky cinematic legacy: You can see it as the third film...
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O’Shaquie Foster Accomplishes Goal Of Becoming A World Champion
O’Shaquie Foster probably wasn’t supposed to be in a ring fighting for a world title on Saturday night. The once-promising fighter from Orange, Texas, nearly threw...
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Boxing In Cinema: The Hurricane
While it wasn’t covered much at the time, director Norman Jewison’s film, The Hurricane, about the railroading to a life sentence of the boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’...
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Is Vasiliy Lomachenko Overrated?
Yes, I’m aware that the title of this article may look like clickbait, but let me make something clear, I am deadly serious. The thought that...
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Where to now Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez?
In the third fight of their pitched and increasingly legendary trilogy, Roman “Chocolatito,” Gonzalez found himself for the second straight time suffering a brutally close loss...
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Juan Francisco Estrada vs. Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez 3 Preview
Juan Francisco ‘Gallo’ Estrada takes on Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez for the third time this Saturday live on DAZN. For reasons too tedious, obvious, and silly to...
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How To Ruin A Great Boxing Year In Three Easy Steps
It was all going so swimmingly wasn’t it? For the first 9-10 months of this boxing year, 2022 we were treated to numerous quality matchups and...
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Katie Taylor vs. Karen Carabajal Fight Results: Taylor Earns Dominant UD
Coming off her thrilling, but notably taxing, split decision victory over Amanda Serrano (still my vote for fight of the year) at April’s end, Irish icon...
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Creed III Trailer Released Starring Michael B. Jordan
It may not seem like it now, but the first Creed film (released in 2015) was no sure thing. Sylvester Stallone had already signed off on...
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A Jam For The Ladies
“This is a jam for the ladies, the superstars.”—Moby On an evening when Deontay Wilder announced his return to the ring with authority, and Devin Haney...
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Deontay Wilder vs. Robert Helenius: Fight Preview, Betting Odds
Next Saturday, when Deontay Wilder and Robert Helenius meet in the ring at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, both men will be fighting for the same...
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NYF Series Review of Hulu’s ‘MIKE’: I Don’t Wanna Be Like ‘MIKE’
When I first saw that Craig Gillespie, the director behind I, Tonya, was going to be the driving force of a Mike Tyson series on Hulu,...
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Mikaela Mayer vs. Alycia Baumgardner: Preview & Betting Odds
This Saturday at the O2 arena in London, Mikaela Mayer and Alycia Baumgardner will meet in a Super Featherweight unification bout on ESPN as part of...
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Boxing in Cinema: The Harder They Fall
It had been many, many years since I had first seen Humphrey Bogart’s cinematic swan song, The Harder They Fall; just one year after the film’s...
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Just How Great Is Oleksandr Usyk?
He’s not supposed to be here, is he? Oleksandr Usyk, a puffed-up cruiserweight who, by today’s massive extra plate of carbs standards, is a tiny fella....
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If Arturo Gatti Is Hall Of Fame Worthy, Danny Garcia Is DEFINITE Yes
It’s a conundrum and a half for the International Boxing Hall of Fame, isn’t it? Every year, a slew of possible candidates for induction come forward...
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Danny Garcia, Me and Anxiety Makes Three
I can’t even remember when it started anymore, I just know that it was more years ago than I care to count back. For decades now,...
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New Tyson Series Called ‘Mike’ Premieres August 25 on Hulu
On August 25th, Hulu will drop an 8-episode miniseries on the life and career of the former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Simply titled “Mike,” the series...