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Looking For The Heart Of Saturday Night And Finding It In Minneapolis
The big fight in the world of boxing was supposed to take place near the bottom of the world in the land of Oz last night....
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David Lemieux Should Stop
I’m not telling anyone anything they don’t already know when I say boxing is a dangerous sport. For all the beauty, grace, math, and science loaded...
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Should Amir Khan Receive Flowers For His Career In The Ring?
Just ahead of this weekend’s fights, Olympic medalist and multi-world champion Amir Khan called it quits at 35. Khan last fought in February, losing to rival...
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Canelo-Bivol: Is A Rematch Necessary?
“A boxing robot.” That’s what Todd Grisham, the play-by-play announcer for DAZN called Dmitry Bivol last night, and for all my issues with DAZN’s often barely...
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Boxing In Cinema: The Survivor
There is a great movie to be made about Hertzko (Harry) Haft, a Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz by fighting other concentration camp prisoners in what...
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Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano: When The Fight Lives Up To The Hype
They are who we were told they were: the two greatest female boxers ever. Last night, in a jam-packed Madison Square garden—that venue, which had never...
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Ryan Garcia Returns With A Dominant Decision Victory In San Antonio
After a considerably fraught 14-month layoff that included questions about his work ethic, the stability of his camp, his willingness to fight Devin Haney, and even...
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The Brothers Klitschko Endure a Season in Hell
You would be hard-pressed to find someone who enjoyed watching the fights of Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko less than me. Their play-it-safe, pawing jabs drove me...
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NYF Exclusive Q&A With Kali Reis: Champion, Activist & Now Actor
I was lucky enough to draw an interview assignment with Kali Reis and Josef Kubota Wladyka, the director of her film Catch The Fair One at...
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If Amir Khan Retires, How Will He Be Remembered?
What do we make of the career of Amir Khan? I’m not saying we should assume Khan is done fighting after his sixth-round KO loss to...
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NYF Special: Vinny Paz-Overcoming Adversity, Revisiting Bleed For This & The Future
It’s been a little over five years since Miles Teller played the accomplished, combative, and oh so colorful 5-time world champion Vinny Pazienza in the excellent...
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Joe Smith Keeps Hope Alive With a TKO Win Over Steve Geffrard; Calls For Beterbiev Fight Next!
Facing a man who lost his first two professional fights before going on an 18-fight winning streak (albeit against less than extraordinary opposition), WBO Light Heavyweight...
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Derek Chisora Has Not Always Made It Easy To Root For Him, But….
I imagine some years ago when the record of Derek Chisora stood at 14-0, he saw his career going in a much different direction than it...
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The Beatles: Get Back
You may be asking yourself, what’s an article like this doing in a place like here? Well, when my editor (“Sweet Woodsy,” as my wife calls...
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Let Them Fight Three
What is it with men? Let’s face it—they (or we, yes, I’m a guy) control most of the levers in politics, business, and certainly sports. In...
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You Hate To See It
You hate to see it. Two warriors go in the ring on a given Saturday night and give their all in a scrap that would redefine...
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Build A Wing In the Hall of Very Good For Shawn Porter
Maybe it shouldn’t have come as as a surprise. Perhaps to some, it didn’t. After all, Shawn Porter is 34-years-old and has been plying himself in...
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What If This Canelo Fought That Mayweather?
Now that Canelo Alvarez is firmly ensconced in the discussion of the pound for pound best fighter in the world, and Floyd Mayweather Jr. is “fighting”...
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RINGSIDE REPORT: Down and Dirty Series Hits Melrose, Mass
On Friday night, Reyes Boxing aired its second “Down & Dirty” installment via PPV at ThrowdownSports.com. “Down & Dirty” which made its debut in Portland, Maine...
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You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory
For 25 years, I’ve been telling the story of how I spent a day with Muhammad Ali when I worked at Barnes & Noble back in...