Browsing All Posts 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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Kovalev-Ward Controversy: Good For Boxing?
The Kovalev vs Ward decision has certainly proved to be controversial. And frankly, that doesn’t surprise me. But what does surprise me is how controversial it’s become. Seriously, when was the last ...
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His Own Worst Enemy
I think it’s safe to say that Tyson Fury was not taking his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko as seriously as he should have. As we now all know, ...
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Respect For Brook And Cuadras
Only in boxing can a man be criticized for doing a poor job after fracturing his opponent’s eye socket. Sure enough, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin messed up Kell “Special ...
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No Quick Recovery
Okay boxing fans, let’s step back and look at things objectively. First and foremost, many of our number are very unhappy with the state of our sport right now. ...
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