Browsing Tag Adonis Stevenson
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Ford Fights In Montreal
“I’m the true definition of a prizefighter. This is what I do to feed my family. This is what I do to pay my bills.” So says Ryan ...
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Fight Time In The Fight City
When it rains, it pours. This time last week the skies were clear and quiet in Montreal, maybe a bit too quiet. Then all at once boxing was ...
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Boxing Gods, We Want Some More!
As diehard fight fans, every so often we take a long and thoughtful look at the assemblage of talent in the boxing world, all the top contenders and ...
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Ward vs Stevenson: The Time Is Now
Over the weekend, Andre Ward put an emphatic stamp of victory on his rivalry with Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev, stopping the Russian puncher in round eight and handing him ...
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Ward vs Kovalev II: The Fight City Picks
Given how suspenseful their first encounter was; given that the combatants are, by universal consensus, among the top five boxers on the planet; given that some very real ...
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Boxe Mania At The Bell Centre: Prelude To A Showdown
Last night was not the first time Eleider Alvarez and Adonis Stevenson have shared a ring. With both pugilists under contract to Groupe Yvon Michel, they’ve fought under ...
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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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Yvon Michel: “Adonis Has Never Ducked Anyone!”
Adonis Stevenson vs Andrzej Fonfara II. Eleider Alvarez vs Jean Pascal. Two major showdowns with serious implications, both happening on the same card this Saturday night. A world ...
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The Curious Case Of King Artur
There’s that old tale about Androcles, the slave who fled his master and then pulled the stinging thorn from the lion’s paw. Both were later captured and the ...
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Behind The Smiles: Boxe Mania Press Conference
Boxing press conferences, as many know, often involve a certain degree of tension and discomfort and even, on occasion, violence. Thus, as your friendly journalist enters the appointed ...
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Flashes Of Violence: Jeff Lockhart Photo Gallery
The challenge of sports photography is finding a way to capture that split second of action which the naked eye can barely register, those precise and illuminating flashes ...
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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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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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2016 Round Of The Year
Round of the Year Nominations: Carlos Cuadras vs Roman Gonzalez: Round 5 Adonis Stevenson vs Thomas Williams Jr.: Round 4 Keith Thurman vs Shawn Porter: Round 9 Orlando ...
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2016 Upset Of The Year
Upset of the Year Nominations: Jezreel Corrales KO2 Takashi Uchiyama David Peralta W10 Robert Guerrero Jason Sosa TKO11 Javier Fortuna Joe Smith Jr TKO1 Andrzej Fonfara Julius Indongo ...
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2016: The Nominees
Another year is in the books and it’s time to weigh-in on the major accomplishments in boxing for 2016. In many respects this was not a great year ...
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The Last Stand Of Jean Pascal
The brutal image of Jean Pascal‘s indented face after his second stoppage defeat to Sergey Kovalev, which horrifically resembled a Picasso portrait, is one Montreal boxing fans will not ...
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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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High Stakes In Quebec City
Yesterday, Lucian Bute and promoter Yvon Michel gathered media at the Montreal Casino to officially announce the former IBF super middleweight champion’s next fight: a light heavyweight showdown against WBC ...
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Superman On The Sidelines
Boxing’s current landscape, which emphasizes branding and marketing over logical, compelling match-ups, is littered with vilified champions. Danny Garcia’s recent string of dangerously overmatched foes ahead of a ...
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On The Comeback Trail: Bob Miller Fights Back
Renowned boxing manager, trainer and cut man, Bob Miller, is receiving support from all corners of the fight world after he was involved last month in an accident ...
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The Rematch Needs To Happen Next
Ali vs Frazier. Robinson vs LaMotta. Pep vs Saddler. Barrera vs Morales. Pacquiao vs Marquez. Every great rivalry in boxing history has led to legendary battles and pushed both ...
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The Weekend That Was
Kovalev vs Ward wasn’t the only fight happening this past Saturday. In fact, it was a fairly busy weekend in fisticuffs. So with help from the good people ...
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Fight Report: Kovalev vs Ward
The Event Kovalev vs Ward. Perhaps the most eagerly anticipated fight of 2016. When word first came that Andre “S.O.G.” Ward and Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev would throw down, ...
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Yvon Michel: Looking To The Future
Belying his eminent position in boxing and celebrity status in Quebec, promoter Yvon Michel is refreshingly personable and candid, not always the case in the world of professional ...
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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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Manny Montreal’s ‘Shootout’ Gallery
This past Friday night in Quebec City it was another Premier Boxing Champions card, with Groupe Yvon Michel presenting a night of fights called “Shootout” for Spike TV. And ...
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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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Quebec City Shootout
Tomorrow night Premier Boxing Champions returns on Spike TV with a card co-staged by Groupe Yvon Michel, the event billed as “Shootout” by the promoters because of the ...
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Au Revoir, Interbox
Yesterday a press conference announced some big Canadian and Montreal boxing news. Camille Estephan’s company Eye of the Tiger Management has officially absorbed Interbox, a fixture in the ...
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