All posts tagged "espn"
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WorldwideNYF Prediction Panel: Junto Nakatani vs. Angel Acosta
This Friday, Top Rank and ESPN head to Tucson, AZ to host a card which is headlined by WBC Super Featherweight Champion Oscar Valdez (29-0) going...
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Jamel Herring, Counting Down To Oct. 23 Shakur Fight, Quite Used To Being Underdog
There will be a press conference held in Atlanta on Thursday, Sept. 9, to hype the October 23 clash between Shakur Stevenson, the 24 year old...
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Bob Arum Says Oscar Valdez Positive Came From Drinking Herbal Tea, Takes Aim At Mike Coppinger
Oscar Valdez is no cheater, his promoter Bob Arum told NY Fights on Tuesday night, when asked if the Sept. 10 match pitting the 130 pound...
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Top Rank/ESPN Undercard Results From The Capn
The results of the rather large undercard of Top Rank’s Josh Franco/Andrew Maloney headliner held in Tulsa, OK Saturday, and televised on ESPN: If you were...
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Vasiliy Lomachenko Looks Revitalized, Like Peak Loma, In Stopping Masayoshi Nakatani
Vasiliy Lomachenko quite obviously hates to lose. The way he handled taking an L against Teofimo Lopez last October is proof positive that his competitive juices...
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Naoya Inoue Matched The Pre-Fight Hype: The Monster Is The New Body Snatcher
Naoya Inoue got THE TREATMENT from Top Rank in the lead-up to his Saturday night fight against Michael Dasmarinas which unfolded at the Virgin Hotel Las...
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Tim Bradley Says Portions Of Shakur Stevenson Fight Almost Put Him To Sleep
His record indicated that he'd maybe have a “punchers' chance” against Shakur Stevenson, the 23 year old New Jersey native who is maybe the best defender...
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Young Gunns on Stevenson vs. Nakathila Undercard Show Out On ESPN+
As we head to the middle of June, Top Rank and ESPN have once again returned to the Virgin Hotels & Casino in Las Vegas for...
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Julian Rodriguez, Facing Jose Pedraza on ESPN, Now Calling It As He Sees It
During a fight week Zoom chat with Julian Rodriguez, my mind drifted back, as I was trying to recall when it was that “Hammer Hands” visited...
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Boxing Betting: Shakur In Against A Power Puncher, Hammer Hands Meets Solid Vet Pedraza
It's that time again…Let's look at the highest profile boxing bouts this weekend, and dive into how they are likely to play out, from a betting...
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Sharp Josh Taylor the Better Ring General, Scores UD12 Win Over Jose Ramirez
It wasn't the war that was predicted by many, because Josh Taylor had too many weapons and a superiority in skills at the Las Vegas Virgin...
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Ramirez vs Taylor: Who Will Be Crowned King?
This Saturday night, live from the Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas and on ESPN, an epic battle between two undefeated fighters will take place. All five...
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Announcements
Mikaela Mayer-Erica Farias & More Added To Inoue-Dasmarinas Card
LAS VEGAS (May 14, 2021) — Mikaela Mayer’s first world title defense is coming on a monster card. Mayer, the 2016 U.S. Olympian from Los Angeles, will...
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Announcements
Jose Ramirez: I’ve Always Been the Underdog!
LAS VEGAS (May 10, 2021) — The countdown is on, and WBC/WBO junior welterweight world champion Jose Ramirez is 12 days away from a legacy-defining undisputed showdown...
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Joe Smith Edges Out Maxim Vlasov In Entertaining Light Heavy Collision
Nope, I had no clue which way it would go as I waited to hear what David Sutherland, Pat Russell and Gerald Ritter thought about the...
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Training Camp Check-In: Joe Smith Jr.
The month of March was a quiet one domestically for Top Rank and ESPN but April will certainly not be. Top Rank has moved out of...
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Jamel Herring vs. Carl Frampton: Desert Storm
Boxing is back this Saturday with an early afternoon treat live from the Rotunda at Caesars Palace Bluewaters in Dubai on ESPN+. WBO Super Featherweight Champion...
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Artur Beterbiev Returns To Ring With Stoppage Win, Finishing Adam Deines in Round Ten
Light heavyweight ace Artur Beterbiev, out of the ring for 17 months, shed the rust and his foe, Adam Deines, in round ten of their clash...
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WBO Feather Champ Emanuel Navarrete Meets Christopher Diaz On ESPN April 24
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (March 15, 2021) — Mexican great Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete, boxing’s busiest world champion, is set to kick off his 2021 campaign by reviving a long-standing...
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Worldwide
I Should Have Known Better Than To Pick Against You, Oscar Valdez
We should have known, like Bob Arum did, that thinking the old adage “a good big man beats a good little man” wouldn't be germane for...
