Browsing All Posts By Zachary Alapi
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Butler Shines On Night Of Knockouts
Eye of the Tiger Management’s first foray into staging fight cards at the Montreal Casino produced a slew of explosive first round knockouts, not to mention a pair ...
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Srisaket Sor Rungvisai: Challenger At Heart
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai enters tomorrow night’s “Superfly 2” card as the “A-side” of a marquee, HBO-televised main event, something that, a year ago, would have been unthinkable. But ...
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The Fight City 0
Blood And Guts At The Casino
Steve “The Boss” Bossé may have been the headliner on last night’s Montreal Casino card, but rebounding super welterweight Mikael Zewski, eager to vault back to contender status, provided ...
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Features 1
“JonFer”: Spain’s Budding Star
Although Spain has never been exactly a hotbed for professional boxing, emerging prospect Jon Fernandez appears poised to take up the prizefighting torch for his homeland. Indeed, the mantle ...
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Daniel Franco: Always A Fighter
This time last year, Daniel “Twitch” Franco was eyeing an ascent to contender status in a competitive featherweight division. Backed by fledgling promoter Roc Nation Sports, the affable ...
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Tevin Farmer: The Long And Winding Road
To say that Tevin Farmer‘s IBF super featherweight title shot against Japanese contender Kenichi Ogawa on Saturday is an improbable opportunity redefines the word “understatement.” Farmer (25-4-1), a ...
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The Fight City 0
Ulysse vs Claggett: Rematch, Please!
On a night where Eye of the Tiger Management’s burgeoning stable of prospects impressed with dramatic and explosive performances, three of the Montreal outfit’s crown jewels — Yves ...
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The Journey Of Tony Luis
To say that Tony “Lightning” Luis has been twice resurrected is both accurate and unfair. Resurrection implies the miraculous, but divine intervention did not rescue Luis after Jose Hernandez ...
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Antonio Nieves Will Let You Worry About “The Monster”
It’s almost shocking to hear super flyweight contender Antonio Nieves (17-1-2) admit that he’d never heard of Japanese superstar Naoya Inoue (13-0) prior to signing on to challenge the ...
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Columns 1
Crawford Defeats Indongo: Case Closed
As it was with the infamous knockout streak which defined Gennady Golovkin’s prime, the failure to revel in the present with Terence Crawford is tempting. Last night, Crawford ...
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Pacquiao vs Horn: Controversy Be Damned
Amidst the cries of “robbery” that have overshadowed the compelling and competitive contest waged last night by fading legend Manny Pacquiao (59-7-2) and former Olympian and upstart Jeff ...
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Daniel Franco: Anatomy Of A Comeback
The last time The Fight City spoke with featherweight Daniel Franco, the affable prospect was on the precipice of transitioning to genuine contender status. Franco then sported a ...
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Cecilia Braekhus: The Battle of Bergen
If boxing– a proverbial old boys club of backroom deals, political maneuvering, and promotional cold wars — tends to be slow to adapt to the winds of change, ...
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Shootout In Fredericton: Brewer Defeats Davidson
In front of a raucous crowd at the University of New Brunswick’s Aitken Centre that turned the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick into a Canadian boxing mecca for ...
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Brook vs Spence: The Fight City Picks
As 2017 continues to be a stellar year for professional prizefighting, we come to one of the best possible match-ups in the welterweight division: Kell Brook vs Errol ...
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Brandon Brewer And The Rise Of The Plaid Army
If you ever feel anxious about the quality or abundance of Canadian forests, drive through the bucolic hills that populate the province of New Brunswick. The perfectly paved highways, ...
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Porter Defeats Berto: Time For Thurman vs Porter II
Multiple cuts and myriad head clashes couldn’t discourage Shawn Porter’s relentless onslaught against Andre Berto, resulting in a ninth-round stoppage win for “Showtime” that should lead to an anticipated ...
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The Fight City 1
Bazinyan Returns With Emphatic Stoppage
Montreal’s TOHU is indeed a facility specially built and designed to accommodate the circus arts, but thanks to Rixa Promotions and Grant Brothers Boxing, the venue is now ...
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Aleksandr Usyk: Fighter Of Few Words
A few weeks ago, two of the very best prizefighters in the world, Gennady Golovkin and Roman Gonzalez, were again featured together by HBO in matches which promised to be triumphs. ...
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Shakeel Phinn Dominates At Montreal Casino
If Shakeel Phinn was going to be truly tested in his first main event, it seemed likely — after a heated face off following the weigh-in — that it ...
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Daniel Franco On The Rise
The location of Daniel Franco’s most important fight in a brief but promising professional career came in a venue shrouded in cigar smoke. While this would have been commonplace during ...
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GGG Edges Jacobs: No Need To Panic
Gennady Golovkin‘s 23-fight knockout streak and aura of menacing invincibility left him mired in a catch-22 with boxing fans: continue to win in dominant, punishing fashion and hear ...
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Travis Kauffman Fights For Family
Heavyweight contender Travis Kauffman isn’t one to make excuses, even when he’s on the wrong end of a controversial decision. In December of 2015, Kauffman (31-1) fought former ...
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The Fight City 0
Montreal Invasion On HBO
David Lemieux’s compact, cannonading left hook that detonated off the chin of fellow top contender Curtis Stevens will be replayed, relished, and winced at for the rest of ...
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The Fight City 0
Can David Lemieux Reinvent Himself?
It’s easy to forget that former IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux is only 28 and firmly in the midst of his athletic prime. The narrative arc of Lemieux’s ...
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Manny Montreal 0
Manny’s Thoughts! No. 120
Welcome back to Manny’s Thoughts! From Manny Montreal! Congrats to Paulie Malignaggi on a great career! The former two-division champion may have lost his last fight, but he ...
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Thurman Beats Garcia: What Might Have Been
It was a fight that took far too long to make, and when it actually happened — with Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia finally alone in the ring ...
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Thurman-Garcia: The Fight City Picks
Saturday night in Brooklyn, WBA champion Keith Thurman and WBC boss Danny Garcia will unify the same welterweight titles Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns fought over in ...
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The Fight City 0
Storm Makes A Statement
Lucian Bute vs Eleider Alvarez was a fight no one saw coming and one that promised to provide answers to a pair of burning questions: Could Alvarez finally ...
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Gerald Washington: Exclusive Interview
Whenever a replacement opponent is needed for a significant fight, fans and pundits are usually left grasping for narratives to justify the selection and imbue what’s regarded as a ...
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