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Holyfield and WBC Teaming Up For Welter Tourney
NEW YORK CITY (December 22, 2017) Evander Holyfield’s The Real Deal Boxing has announced a World Boxing Council Welterweight Tournament over three spectacular events in 2018...
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Nobody Plays The Media Better Than Floyd Mayweather!
Is there any athlete currently active, in any sport, who better plays the media, to insert themselves into debate, conversation, and remain relevant, even during low...
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Vasyl Lomachenko Is 2017 NYFIGHTS Fighter of the Year
Here is the definition of art, and, also, I offer, the fighting style of NYFIGHTS’ fighter of year for 2017, Vasyl Lomachenko: Something that is created...
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Luis Ortiz Aiming For March 3 Wilder Fight Re-Set
Luis Ortiz is counting down to his next fight and in fact has not stopped training, according to his training, even as he was dealing with...
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Drama At Lemieux-Saunders Weigh In
FRIDAY LATER AFTERNOON UPDATE: A previously unseen camera angle shows BJ Saunders’ promoter, Frank Warren, looking down at the scale when David Lemieux stepped on it...
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Canada
Mayweather v McGregor Final PPV Tally Is In
SHOWTIME SPORTS confirmed today that the SHOWTIME PPV presentation of Mayweather vs. McGregor on August 26, 2017 generated 4.3 million pay-per-view buys in North America. This...
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Robert Easter Needs Dance Partner, Javier Fortuna Gets The Gig
THURSDAY UPDATE: Javier Fortuna will attempt to take the 135 pound strap away from Robert Easter Jr. on Jan. 20 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, a...
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NYF PROSPECT WATCH: Elena Saveleva
For the women’s boxing sphere to truly flourish in the US, there has to be international cooperation. A United Nations, of sorts, needs to be established,...
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Claressa Shields Aims For KO By RD 7
DETROIT (Dec. 13, 2017) – Unified Women’s Super Middleweight World Champion Claressa Shields met with local members of the media and took part in an open-to-the-public...
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Australia
Jeff Horn Stops Gary Corcoran To Retain WBO 147 Crown
Jeff Horn took out Gary Corcoran in a quite spirited battle Wednesday and sent a ripple of joy through a growing fanbase in Horn’s native Australia....
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Ring 8 (NY) Awards Gala Runway Success; Loma Attends Sunday Bash
NEW YORK (December 11, 2017) – Less than 24 hours after he defeated previously undefeated Guillermo Rigondeaux, WBO Junior Lightweight World Champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Vasyl...
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Canada
DiBella Has Boxing in NYC on THURSDAY
DIBELLA ENTERTAINMENT’S STACKED “SEASON’S BEATINGS” BROADWAY BOXING EVENT HITS B.B. KING BLUES CLUB & GRILL IN NEW YORK CITY THIS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 OUTSTANDING CARD FEATURES...
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Loma vs Rigo Ratings Are In
Last night’s fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko (10-1-0, 7 KO) vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-1-0, 11 KO) delivered big on ratings, making it the second highest-rated boxing telecast...
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PR’s Diaz, BY Jennings, Mikaela Mayer, Stevenson Get Wins on Loma-Rigo Undercard in NYC
The Bryant Jennings second act continued, with the Philly fighter getting his third win in 2017, at the Madison Square Garden’s Theater on Saturday night, before...
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This Trainer Likes Loma Over Rigo, 60-40….WHAT DO YOU THINK?
“I got Lomachenko winning, but I got it 60-40,” said the trainer Don Saxby (pictured above), who has a stable of young gun up ’n comers,...
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Hector Roca of Gleason’s To Receive RING 8 (NY) Trainer of the Year Award At Sunday Gala
On Sunday in a New York ballroom, one of the certified good guys in the sport, trainer Hector Roca, a fixture at the famed and fabled...
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Results From CES RI Show/Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Stream; Marsella Jr. Assesses W
Khiary Gray didn’t NEED a win Thursday night at Twin River Casino in Lincoln, RI, but he kinda sorta did. He came in losing two straight,...
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TONIGHT! Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Streams Free, 7:55 PM ET!
Hello NYF Readers: Publisher Michael Woods here! Check it out…the CES folks in Rhode Island are tonight (Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017) celebrating their 25th anniversary as...
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Promoter Salita Signs BJ Flores, Now At Heavyweight
Promoter Dmitriy Salita has beefed up his stable in the heavyweight class, with word coming that he has signed BJ Flores, coming up from cruiserweight, now...
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Elbiali Thinking BIG; Wants Pascal W, Then Targets Names Like Kovalev
Make no mistake about it, this is how this fight is being looked at by the crafters. Jean Pascal is the A side, the boldface name,...