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Top 12 All-Time Greatest All-Mexican Fights

As we get set for the Cinco de Mayo extravaganza of an all-Mexican showdown tonight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., what better time could ...
On May 6, 2017 / By Rafael García
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Canelo vs Chavez Jr.: A Question of Value

“Nobody knows what a dollar is, what the word means, what holds the thing up, what it stands in for. And that’s also what my work is about. Look ...
On May 3, 2017 / By Rafael García
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The Greatness Of Gonzalez

Allegedly, 60% of Roman Gonzalez is plain water, just like the rest of us. It begs the question: does that leave enough room in his compact 5’3″ frame ...
On March 20, 2017 / By Rafael García
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PBC’s Hard Lessons

Last week two high profile articles hit the web describing in almost grotesque detail the way Premier Boxing Champions—Al Haymon’s infamous boxing league—has been bled nearly dry. The ...
On October 3, 2016 / By Rafael García
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Live To Fight Another Day

Reporting on a Gennady Golovkin fight mostly requires writing about why that fight came to be, with lots of speculation–most of it pointless–about what could possibly come next. ...
On September 11, 2016 / By Rafael García
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Crawford vs Postol: The Fight City Picks

Saturday night in Las Vegas, 28-year-old Terence Crawford and 32-year-old Viktor Postol will headline what could become a memorable PPV show at the top of the junior welterweight division. Bud ...
On July 22, 2016 / By Rafael García
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The Middleweight Mess Redux

In February of last year The Fight City staffers engaged in a no-holds-barred conversation about the sorry state of the middleweight ranks. The division in which such names as Sugar Ray ...
On July 14, 2016 / By Rafael García
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A Tweet Is Worth A Thousand Words

Many fight fans have learned their lesson regarding big fights and thus refuse to believe Andre Ward will face Sergey Kovalev before 2016 comes to a close. However, ...
On July 3, 2016 / By Rafael García
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On Canelo, Golovkin, Marinating, And Other Mamadas

“Como decimos en Mexico, vamos a dejarnos de mamadas” –Canelo Alvarez In Spanish, mamada is a noun derived from the verb mamar, which literally means ‘to suckle’. Being ...
On May 26, 2016 / By Rafael García
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A Question No One Asked

Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan meet tonight at the Strip’s brand new T-Mobile Arena for a contest that on the surface looks like a can’t miss Vegas extravaganza. ...
On May 7, 2016 / By Rafael García
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A Futile Waiting Game

“You don’t want the fight, I understand, you’re 100% a businessman. But I wait, I’ve been waiting… let’s go fight.” –Gennady Golovkin No matter the circumstances surrounding Gennady ...
On April 22, 2016 / By Rafael García
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#PacNelo Is Coming

“Boxing is a business” is the phrase fighters, promoters, managers, and even fight fans use to justify about 85% of the matches that we get to see on ...
On April 15, 2016 / By Rafael García
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Pacquiao Off His Pedestal

Comparing disfavorably a significant subset of the human population to animals is not a good way to win friends, especially when the one speaking had for so long ...
On March 1, 2016 / By Rafael García
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Dinamita’s Last Stand?

It’s been almost two years since Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez stepped into a boxing ring and got paid for it. The last occasion in which that happened ...
On February 13, 2016 / By Rafael García
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#CaneloKhan: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

The boxing kingpin of the post-#MayPac era, and the fighter to whom HBO and Golden Boy Promotions have entrusted their minting operations, has finally announced his first engagement ...
On February 3, 2016 / By Rafael García
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The Mercenary and The Believer

Try as hard as you can and you’ll still fail to find a professional boxer who embodies the definition of “mercenary” better than Miguel Cotto does. While by ...
On November 19, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Going All-In: Bradley vs Rios

Timothy Bradley and Brandon Rios are, by almost any measure, highly successful pugilists. They know seven-figure paydays and what it feels like to fight in glitzy venues in ...
On November 7, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Regarding Mismatches

Remember when you were a kid and you’d be all alone in your room because your parents wouldn’t let you go outside and then you’d hear all your ...
On October 22, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Don’t Buy It!

September 12 is mere hours away and the boxing world is just thrilled out of its mind in anticipation of… okay, scratch that. There’s so little buzz surrounding Mayweather ...
On September 11, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Rivalry or Obsession?

No matter how you look at it, the second half of the career of Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez has been defined by his rivalry with Filipino legend ...
On August 29, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Erik Morales: First Mexican to Win 4 in 4

In celebration of #MexicanStyle week we bring you Rafael’s write up of Erik “Terrible” Morales’ historic title-winning effort of September 17, 2011, when he defeated Pablo Cesar Cano ...
On August 28, 2015 / By Rafael García
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#CottoCanelo: Twitter Shows Its Love

A fight years in the making has finally come to fruition, as it was announced today that lineal middleweight champ Miguel Cotto will fight Mexico’s wunderkind Saul “Canelo” ...
On August 13, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Twitter Ain’t Impressed

TMZ broke the news weeks ago, but Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the various stakeholders of his September 12 PPV match announced only today that he will, indeed, officially ...
On August 5, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Something from Nothing: the Unlikely Rise of GGG

There’s something about Gennady Golovkin that not only inspires a sense of wonder in his ever-growing following, but was actually instrumental in amassing such following in the first ...
On July 29, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Golovkin vs Lemieux is on!

After days of speculation, it is now official that WBA middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin will face IBF beltholder David Lemieux in what promises to be a thrilling and violent spectacle. The ...
On July 26, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Thurman vs Collazo: What’s The Point?

The most difficult challenge one encounters when trying to write about a PBC card is resisting the temptation to discuss all the associated politics and machinations. This Saturday’s welterweight ...
On July 10, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Canelo vs Kirkland: Estamos muy contentos!

“Estamos muy contentos!,” is an expression Canelo Alvarez keeps at hand in his bag of media-friendly phrases, saying it over and over in interviews and press conferences. It ...
On May 11, 2015 / By Rafael García
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Canelo vs Kirkland: Reasons to Watch

If you’re tired of forking out for PPVs in which the number of pre-fight hype shows and “documentaries” dwarfs the number of punches thrown in the ring, you’re in ...
On May 8, 2015 / By Rafael García
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#MayPac for Newbies

Have you been invited to a Mayweather vs Pacquiao viewing party? Are you nervous because you know squat about boxing and you’ll have to pretend otherwise in front ...
On May 2, 2015 / By Rafael García
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The True Significance of #MayPac

A fight that needs no introduction or build-up and has been in gestation for over five long years will finally hear its opening bell this Saturday night. It ...
On April 30, 2015 / By Rafael García