Browsing All Posts By Eliott McCormick
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The Fight City 1
The Third Act Of “The Boss”
Most fighters get only one act. Their careers rise and fall like a dramatist’s plot structure, with a chosen few enjoying a longer arc than their peers. Rarely, ...
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On Not Getting Your Money’s Worth
After an impotent end to a one-sided fight, it was an exasperated bunch that filed out of Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. The main event, which concluded ...
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Features 5
The Journey Of El Chacal
Author and director Brin-Jonathan Butler is an expert on Cuban boxing. A former amateur fighter, Butler traveled to the island nation more than once and even trained under ...
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In Search Of Lost Time: Adrien Broner Gets Serious
“I’m trying to be the best boxer there ever was. Ever. Ever.” – Adrien Broner, being interviewed by Roy Jones in 2012 “It’s time to take boxing more ...
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The Appealing Ruthlessness Of Andre Ward
The central premise of this article — that Andre ‘S.O.G’ Ward is a smarter, more obdurate fighter than Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev, meaner, dirtier, surpassingly vicious, constituted by sturdier ...
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What To Make Of Wladimir?
He was still upright when the referee signalled his end. As Anthony Joshua launched himself at Wladimir Klitschko late in the eleventh round of their battle at Wembley ...
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Joshua vs Klitschko: It Could Be Cinematic
The narrative has never been easier. This Saturday, London’s Anthony Joshua will fight Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium for a triumvirate of heavyweight titles. He will draw over ...
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The Fight City 1
Dierry Jean Goes To Prison
On Monday, a judge sentenced Montreal boxer Dierry Jean to 15 months in prison for violently robbing a woman in search of drug money. In the incident, which occurred ...
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Powerless Before A Myth
Judging by the reaction to his win over Daniel Jacobs this past Saturday night, one might think Gennady Golovkin had failed in his obligation to boxing fans. Rather ...
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The Fight City 0
Drowning in Deep Water: Beterbiev Destroys Prieto
Last night at Casino du Lac-Leamy in Gatineau, Quebec, Artur Beterbiev took one round to drown Isidro “El Guerrero” Prieto in some very deep water. What was meant to be a ...
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The Fight City 0
Montreal’s Golden Age?
Last Thursday, promoter Yvon Michel held a press conference at Casino Lac Leamy in Gatineau to announce a December 23 card featuring Artur Beterbiev and Custio Clayton. Both fighters ...
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The Fight City 0
“I Was Always a Fighter”
Montreal super featherweight Golden Garcia is a born fighter. His professional career, still in its infancy, has begun with a suitably concussive boom for someone who steps into the ...
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The Fight City 0
Joël Thériault: The Last Alpha
“Joël Thériault, he’s probably the toughest guy I’ve ever seen. NHL, AHL, it doesn’t matter. He’s not only a good fighter, he’s intimidating, with his eyes, with everything. Everybody’s ...
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The Fight City 0
Dwayne Durel: The Thrill Of Danger
“I took a chance,” Dwayne Durel says, describing the move he made five years ago when he left his native France and brought his wife and young family ...
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Fight Reports 0
Victory In A Vacuum: Stevenson Crushes Williams
The travelling roadshow known as Premier Boxing Champions came to Quebec City’s Videotron Centre last night, the main attraction a showdown for the lineal light heavyweight crown between ...
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The Fight City 0
Fight Report: Butler and Batyr Shine
The Event Last night at the Claude Robillard Sports Complex in Montreal, Eye of the Tiger Management staged a pro-am card comprised of six amateur and four pro ...
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Mist And Glitz: Montreal Casino Card
The Montreal Casino’s Cabaret Room was awash in dark tones last night. The violet, blue, and fuchsia pouring from the stage lights were offset by a constellation of flickering white on both ...
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Custio Clayton: Global Ambition
Whether in Canada or elsewhere, there are few welterweight prospects whose talents match those of Custio Clayton. The Dartmouth, Nova Scotia native, who trains out of Club de Boxe de ...
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Jennings vs Ortiz: Crossroads Collision
A heavyweight match of serious implication goes down at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York tomorrow when Luis “King Kong” Ortiz faces Bryant “Bye Bye” Jennings. The winner ...
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London Feud: Joshua vs Whyte
In Essex, just outside of London, there lives a boxing promoter prone to the most fantastic commentary. The scion of a sports empire forged in billowy snooker halls, ...
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Not A Lie If You Believe It
In September Tyson Fury showed up late to a press conference with Wladimir Klitschko dressed as Batman. After circling the room to awkward laughs, he then scuffled with someone ...
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Columns 2
Rigondeaux Returns
If boxing were an organism, talent would be the marrow strengthening its bones. Beneath the pageantry, in a place untouched by politics and careerism, a firm structure exists without which boxing ...
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The Cuban Sphinx Sits and Waits
Sphinx-like and solitary, Guillermo Rigondeaux sits in repose on his desert throne. Despite his bleak environs he has ample supplies and is impressively ornamented. In one sense, Rigondeaux ...
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A Brief Glimpse of Future Promise
The fights went as we expected, but optimism holds that Saturday was but a brief glimpse of the future’s promise. Headlining on pay-per-view for the first time, Roman Gonzalez and Gennady ...
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From Managua to Manhattan
Once Floyd Mayweather decided to ‘retire’ this September and retreat further into his sealed bubble of self-exaltation, Nicaragua’s Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez gained widespread recognition as the world’s best boxer, pound for pound. On Saturday night ...
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Anna Reva: “I’ll Never Quit”
“I never thought that something like this would happen between me and Artur,” Montreal boxing manager Anna Reva says over the phone. She is speaking, of course, about ...
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Kingmakers of the Queen City
Premier Boxing Champions, that prizefighting cruise ship steered by an invisible captain, docked on the shores of Lake Ontario Friday night. It was the first card of significance ...
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Becoming The Baddest Man On The Planet
On Friday night, Madoc, Ontario’s Dillon “Big Country” Carman will defend his Canadian heavyweight title against Donovan “Razor” Ruddock. The fight, which will occur on the Adonis Stevenson ...
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Fight Reports 2
Fight Report: Thurman vs Collazo
Keith Thurman defended his WBA welterweight title in his home city of Tampa, Florida, last night, retiring Brooklyn’s Luis Collazo on cuts after the seventh round. It was ...
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Columns 2
The Gypsy King Gets His Chance
It’s official: on October 24, Tyson Fury, the heavyweight division’s ‘Gypsy King’, gets the chance he’s longed electioneered for. He will fight Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf for WBO, ...
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