Alden Chodash

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  Fight Report: Crawford vs Benavidez

  The Event For his first defense of the welterweight title that Terence Crawford had annexed from Jeff Horn last June, the budding superstar from Omaha took on Jose Benavidez ...

  On October 14, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  The Weekend That Was

  It was a pretty wild couple of days for combat sports fans, both with boxing and with the huge Khabib vs Conor UFC showdown. So let’s get to ...

  On October 7, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Fight City Legends: Gentleman Jim

  “From my first fight I started to run away.” James John Corbett, often referred to as “Gentleman Jim,” never cared much for the brutish nature of the sport ...

  On September 26, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Joshua vs Povetkin: Worth The Risk?

  This Saturday, boxing fans get yet another heavyweight title fight that is not the battle that everyone wants to see. Instead of taking on Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua, ...

  On September 20, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Fight Report: Golovkin vs Alvarez II

  The Event: One year ago, the world awaited Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s 19th defense of his middleweight title against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. The fight had it all: two pound-for-pound ...

  On September 16, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Fight Report: Porter vs Garcia

  The Event: Even though the Barclay’s Center has become one of boxing’s hottest venues, you seldom see two fighters square off against each other that have each given ...

  On September 9, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Too Many Belts, Not Enough Champions

  Believe it or not, there are a total of 102 recognized ‘world’ championships in existence in professional boxing today. Discounting the 34 champions which may be of an ...

  On August 26, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  The Weekend That Was

  From Belfast to Atlantic City, the boxing world got a sample of talent from all levels of the scale. The most noteworthy event, while not the most crowd-pleasing ...

  On August 19, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Fight Report: Alvarez Upsets Kovalev

  The Event: Going into Saturday’s pivotal light-heavyweight affair, many questions loomed regarding Sergey Kovalev’s viability as an elite light-heavyweight following back-to-back losses to Andre Ward in 2016 and ...

  On August 5, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Fight Report: Usyk vs Gassiev

  The Event: Since Marvin Camel became the first man to win the cruiserweight championship of the world in 1980, only one man has ever fully unified the division: ...

  On July 22, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Fight Report: Pacquiao vs Matthysse

  The Event It is easy to forget that Pacquiao vs Matthysse is a match that fight fans have been waiting for since 2013. Before Lucas Matthysse’s trail of ...

  On July 15, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  July 12, 1986: Holyfield vs Qawi

  You rarely see fighters who love the sheer brutality of boxing as much as Dwight Muhammad Qawi did. Fighters who smile when they take punches. Fighters who literally ...

  On July 12, 2018 / By Alden Chodash