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Turning Defeat Into Victory

“A rose is a rose is a rose,” writer Gertrude Stein once famously claimed. Likewise, a loss is a loss is a loss. Nothing more. Nothing less. One ...
On May 17, 2019 / By Sean Crose
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Enigmatic To The End

Amir Khan may be the nicest man I’ve spoken to in the entire fight game. If I had to consider all the people I’ve shared a few words ...
On April 22, 2019 / By Sean Crose
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Dempsey vs Wills: The Superfight That Never Was

Back about a few years ago, when it seemed Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would never actually meet in the ring, pundits and historians started to wonder if ...
On April 4, 2019 / By Sean Crose
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Yo, Adrian! Here We Go Again!

And so I’ve now seen Creed II, the successful sequel to the surprisingly effective and popular 2015 film, Creed. In this second installment, Adonis Creed, son of deceased ...
On January 10, 2019 / By Sean Crose
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Adonis Stevenson: How Did It Happen?

The long and controversial reign of WBC and lineal light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson ended in brutal fashion Saturday, after an onslaught of punches from decorated Ukrainian contender ...
On December 4, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Floyd vs Tenshin: Enough With The Novelty Fights

Here’s the thing: No one really knows why Floyd Mayweather abruptly made it clear that he would not be facing kickboxing and MMA phenom Tenshin Nasukawa in Japan ...
On November 10, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Saucedo vs Zappavigna: Fight Of The Year?

First things first: even as it goes through a current resurgence in popularity, boxing still doesn’t often find itself atop Twitter’s trending list very often. But that’s where ...
On July 2, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Explosive Potential: 147 Should Be Boxing’s Hottest Division

It was, until recently, the premier division in boxing, the weight class with the most elite-level talents and the most tantalizing match-ups to be made. Over the decades, ...
On June 1, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Confidence Game: Can Linares Shock “Hi-Tech”?

And so Vasyl Lomachenko will once again fight a top-tier opponent when he faces Jorge Linares on Saturday for lightweight supremacy. Linares undoubtedly deserves that status, having scraped ...
On May 10, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Hagler: On His Own Terms

It remains to this day one of the more controversial fights in boxing history. No, there was no long count. Nor was there the sudden appearance of a ...
On April 6, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Canelo vs Golovkin II: Stuck In Limbo

No one saw this coming. Seriously, who really expected to the Nevada State Athletic Commission to temporarily suspend Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, a man widely regarded as the favored ...
On March 28, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, And The Round That Went On Too Long

“My writing is nothing. My boxing is everything.” So said the one and only Ernest Hemingway, one of the 20th century’s most captivating and revered writers. Literary titan. Best seller. ...
On March 14, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Dangerous Enough: Canelo Must Pay The Price

I’ll never forget watching the Ray Mancini vs Duk Koo Kim match on live television as a child. Mancini was a favorite boxer of mine and on that ...
On March 7, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Yes, Roy Really Was That Good

By the mid-90’s, the question was being asked: was he the best ever? Certainly there had been no one quite like him in recent memory, no one who ...
On February 17, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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New Breeds: Boxing’s Weirdest Fans

Some call them “fanagers.” Others just call them annoying. I’ve always referred to them as boxing’s “new breed of fan.” No matter, it all means the same thing. ...
On January 23, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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2017 Fight Of The Year

Nominations: James DeGale vs Badou Jack Miguel Berchelt vs Francisco Vargas Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko Roman Gonzalez vs Srisaket Sor Rungvisai I Gennady Golovkin vs Canelo Alvarez ...
On January 6, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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Confessions Of A Rigondeaux Fan

Yup, I’m one of them, a Guillermo Rigondeaux fan. A Guillermo Rigondeaux defender. A Guillermo Rigondeaux supporter. Not that long ago, when I was just starting off in ...
On December 10, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Winning Isn’t Everything: Cotto Exits With Class

On Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, Miguel Cotto proved the truth of the old cliché, winning isn’t everything. After being soundly beaten by the younger, faster Sadam ...
On December 5, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Sergey Kovalev, Act II

Sergey Kovalev says he’s a new man. In a fascinating Sports Illustrated article, Kovalev makes it clear that he had a religious experience after the disastrous rematch with Andre ...
On November 23, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Can Dana White Shake Up Boxing?

So, guess what: Dana White is making the move to boxing. The UFC head honcho has made it known he’s going for his boxing promoter’s license, a fact ...
On November 9, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Anthony Joshua: Far From Invincible

First, make no mistake: heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is one hell of a fighter. The guy’s not only defeated every one of his opponents inside the distance, he ...
On October 31, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Waiting For The End

Something that will always stick in my mind: a high school classmate of mine, someone I hadn’t spoken to in years, contacted me on Facebook a few years ...
On August 25, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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On Eddie Futch

Perhaps it’s just me but I get the feeling Eddie Futch , who would have turned 106 yesterday, wouldn’t be too comfortable in today’s boxing world. I remember way ...
On August 10, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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The Big Mouth Factor

I’m not going to bullshit you. I’m going to tell it like it is. I don’t hold back. I don’t pull my punches. Here’s what I think. This ...
On July 11, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Jean Pascal: The End Of The Road?

Here’s the truth: the Jean Pascal vs Carl Froch fight for the vacant WBC super middleweight championship is an absolute, under-the-radar classic. Not many talk about it today, ...
On June 2, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Canelo vs Chavez: Junior Grows Up

Okay, I admit it: I’ve always had something of a soft spot for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Yes, I know, he’s acted like a punk sometimes, but to ...
On April 13, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Brook vs Spence: Boxing Moves On

What a difference a year makes. Truly, in 2016 I was genuinely worried about the state of pro boxing. There were times last year when it just seemed ...
On February 17, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Frampton vs Santa Cruz: Act Two

Okay, now that it’s clear the chances of Carl Frampton or Leo Santa Cruz ever facing one Guillermo Rigondeaux are getting slimmer and slimmer (if they haven’t evaporated ...
On January 27, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Canelo vs Chavez: Why The Outrage?

Just imagine for a second how big this fight would have been a few years ago. Julio Caesar Chavez Jr., son of a Mexican boxing icon, going head-to-head ...
On January 19, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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Long Odds In Omaha

Not that long ago people were wondering just how good Omaha’s Terence Crawford really was. Sure, he was a top level lightweight and junior welterweight, but his best win, ...
On December 8, 2016 / By Sean Crose

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