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“Iron” Murat Gassiev V Oleksander Usyk: “The Code War”
The glamorous World Boxing Super Series returns on July 21, as Russian pulverizer and WBA/IBF cruiserweight champion “Iron” Murat Gassiev (26-0, 14KOs) goes to war...
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Manny Knows
Eight division world champion and Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38KOs) looks to jump up and down and all over WBA welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (39-4-1,...
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Errol Spence Jr Son’s Carlos Ocampo
On the eve of Father’s Day, the homecoming IBF welterweight champion literally bodied the unheralded Mexican at 2:59 of the first round on SHOWTIME. And...
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Canelo V GGG 2: First Take
No, this isn’t an ESPN take involving an Oreo dipped in an embellished glass of casual fan milk. Or, the perspective of an entitled elite mouthpiece...
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Terence “Bud” Crawford V Errol “The Truth” Spence
To hell with Keith Thurman. After ‘whacking a welterweight’ and yanking the WBO belt from Jeff Horn to prove a superior yang to yin, it’s...
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Can Jeff Horn Smoke Bud?
“He fight’s like he’s horny.” I’ve just read David Phillips’ sublime “My Day With Muhammad Ali,” an ensemble of stoic grace written with a...
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The Great White Nope
To pardon the corruption of his White House under a black cloud, President Trump granted clemency to heavyweight great Jack Johnson. And it’s better never than...
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‘The Matrix’ Vs ‘Hands of Drones’
“I can stop him. He looks sensational with less quality opponents. When he stepped up against Linares it wasn’t easy. He got dropped. He’s not invincible....
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Superman v Krusher? Getting Closer to Kovalev v Stevenson?
There’s a “Storm” coming to the shores of Atlantic City, but not before a thief in the night fashioned after “Jack The Ripper” looks to rob...
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Vasyl Lomachenko V Jorge Linares: Encore
“Yo, can I get a encore? Do you want more? Cooking raw with the Brooklyn boy so for one last time I need y’all to roar....
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Vasyl Lomachenko V Jorge Linares: ‘The Matrix’ 2018
“The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they’re exceptional. On the contrary, they become obsessed with improvement....
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Andre Ward V Tony Bellew: Creed II
This would be Saturday night at the movies on HBO with a free popcorn ticket. Tony Bellew (30-2-1, 20KOs) smashed David Haye (28-4, 26KOs) via 5th...
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Gatling’s Take After GGG v Vanes: Canelo Murders Golovkin
I remember thinking Julio Cesar Chavez was a shot fighter facing Meldrick Taylor. Not in their 1990 St. Patrick’s Day cult classic, but in their forgettable...
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Jacobs V Charlo: Daniel Enters The Lion’s Den
They say you coming to the lion’s den to tame and me handle/ the problem is you don’t look nothing like Daniel Jermall Charlo, who in...
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Danny ‘Swift’ Garcia V ‘Showtime’ Shawn Porter: ‘One-Time’ Only
He beat them both by the snip of a ponytail. “Dat’ll be $8,” said Eddie Murphy’s deranged and gold fangled hot mess of a barber from...
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“The Problem” Vs. AB
And as you could imagine, that fight ends in a Majority Draw. Don’t blame Jessie Vargas or the judges, just start with Adrien Broner. “A few...
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Adrien Broner V Jessie Vargas: Yuk N Yak
Making my way downtown/walking fast/ faces pass/and I’m home bound/staring blankly ahead just making my way/making a way through the crowd And I need you...
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Gennady Golovkin, 37-1, Is A Loser
And not because he’s not a winner—he’s just not a draw. It’s always the love affair that begins with the romantic auspicious, that ends with ruinous suspicion....
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The Shot Hurd Round Da Ring
The shot ‘Hurd round da world’ was never fired. It almost was. With about :40 hovering around the 12th, a sunkissed Jarrett Hurd (remembering the color scheme...
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The Shot HURD Round Da World
And so it was…a nightmare. There was nothing “American Dream” about being blasted by a completely solar free WBA super welterweight champion Erislandy Lara (25-2-2, 14KOs)...