All posts tagged "sugar Ray Leonard"
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BoxingCanelo, Crawford, and Boxing History: When Titans Collide
On a mid-September night in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium, boxing history will be made as two of the sport’s modern titans collide: Canelo Álvarez and...
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WorldwideWith ‘Day Of Reckoning Beckoning, One Guy’s 12 Best Fight Cards
This is a generation that seems blown away by modest doings. It almost seems the more access it has to information, the less appreciative it is...
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WorldwideMatthew Hilton Fight Hooked Him, Boxing Got Him
It’s 1986, I’m 9, I’m about to witness something that will ultimately save my life and restore hope to a soul that had been broken into...
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WorldwideLike Leonard & Duran, Canelo & GGG Took A While To Complete A Bitter Trilogy
When Roberto Duran waved his hands in resignation and quit in the rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard 42 years ago, it appeared the rivalry with the...
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WorldwideRoy and Paulie of ProBox TV Weigh In On Gervonta Davis Maybe Splitting With Mayweather
One of boxing’s most prominent stars will return to the squared circle this weekend. Gervonta Davis will headline his fourth straight pay-per-view when he puts his...
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WorldwideLooking Back At Leonard-Hearns, 40 Years Later
It’s been 40 years. Unbelievable! On September 16, 1981, in a makeshift arena that was the parking lot of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, “Superfight”...
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WorldwideThe Kings Director Mat Whitecross Shares Behind the Scenes Process, Part 1
At first, director Mat Whitecross may seem like a surprising choice for a project like Showtime’s The Kings. Whitecross admits that he is at best a...
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AnnouncementsShowtime Examines “Four Kings” Legacy With Doc Premiering June 6
NEW YORK – April 12, 2021 – In boxing, it is said that styles make fights. From 1980 through 1989, it was the style of four...
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WorldwideMarvin Hagler Has Died, Let The Earth Shake
There’s a relatively small list of athletes who everyone accepts as being great and yet to me, they still feel a bit undervalued. In baseball, it’s...
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WorldwideNY Fights Crew Shares How The Death of Marvin Hagler Hit Hard
Deaths of legends, of icons, those can hit harder than when people you actually know die. It’s because you have strong associations with those legends, usually...
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WorldwideMaybe Mike Tyson Can Come Back, Make Some Noise In the Heavyweight Division
The Clip, tantalizing and provocative, has been clicked on Instagram ten million times. No telling how many people said, “Hey, look at this, Mike Tyson hitting...
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WorldwideCommissioner’s Corner: Down Memory Lane For That Sugar Ray Leonard 7-Up Commercial
Anniversaries and birthdays. They’re the bookmarks of life. They are used to commemorate and remember important events. Happy ones. Sad ones. Patriotic ones. Memorable ones. Exciting...
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WorldwideThis Is The Message Sent By Ryan Garcia To The Powers That Be
The sport of boxing like anything else has seen its ups and downs throughout the years, and that included the sport evolving whether through rules or...
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WorldwideErrol Spence Jr V Mikey Garcia [Vol.II]: ‘I See Something’
“I see dead people.” –Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense Me too. IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (24-0, 21KOs) should kill (eh, that would be...
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CanadaDAZN Announces Broadcast Team, Led By Sugar Ray Leonard
SUGAR RAY LEONARD, BRIAN KENNY, KAY ADAMS, CHRIS MANNIX & LZ GRANDERSON JOIN DAZN BOXING BROADCAST TEAM First Assignment: World Heavyweight Title Fight Between Champion...
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Worldwide10 Best Fighters Ever
“They take the greats from the past and compare us/ I wonder if they’d ever survive in this era?/ In a time where it’s recreation to...
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Worldwide“Hands Of Stone” Reminds Us Of What Boxing Was and Can Be
It was a bold time. It birthed the iconic, movie star- like presidency of Ronald Reagan– just as we gave the USSR a stiff middle finger...