Browsing Tag Amir Khan

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    When Fighters Fought

    Speaking for fans of a certain vintage, we all have a special set of boxers, the ones that forged our love for the sport, the ones on those ...

    On July 24, 2021 / By
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    Don’t Sleep On “One Time”

    For my money, there is no hotter and more tantalizing division in boxing today than the welterweights. Historically, the 147 pound weight class has been the home of ...

    On June 13, 2019 / By
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    A Blow To The Balls

    It was fitting that Bob Arum concluded the in-ring portion of ESPN’s Crawford vs Khan main event. There he was: a shrunken, bleary-eyed 87-year-old, howling about Al Haymon ...

    On April 24, 2019 / By
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    The Fight City Podcast No. 19

    Welcome to a brand new episode of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, who this week is joined by site contributor Jamie Rebner. A full slate ...

    On April 22, 2019 / By
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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
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    Fight Report: Crawford vs Khan

    On Saturday night, over 14,000 fans were in attendance at Madison Square Garden to watch Terence “Bud” Crawford defend his WBO welterweight title against former 140-lb champion, Amir ...

    On April 20, 2019 / By
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    The Weekend That Was

    Khan vs Lo Greco Amir Khan finally returned to the ring yesterday–following a high-profile KO loss to Canelo Alvarez, a bone-graft surgery on his right hand, and appearances ...

    On April 22, 2018 / By
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    Let’s Stop Pretending

    Sports is about passion. It’s what fills the stands and sells the tickets. I’m from West Virginia, and the University Mountaineers football and basketball games can reduce people ...

    On March 22, 2018 / By
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    Special K Ready To Rebound

    A major theme of recent years in boxing is fan frustration with too many elite fighters taking too few risks. Whether it’s Floyd Mayweather side-stepping a match with ...

    On March 9, 2018 / By
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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
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    Don’t Count Him Out

    This Saturday night, Lamont Peterson of Washington, D.C. will be in Brooklyn, New York to face Errol Spence Jr. for the IBF world welterweight title. While the welterweight ...

    On January 18, 2018 / By
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    Fury vs Joshua: It Has To Happen

    As of last week, lineal heavyweight champion of the world, Tyson Fury, has been cleared by UK Anti-Doping to fight again. News on the Furious One has been ...

    On December 18, 2017 / By
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    Canelo vs Golovkin: The Fight City Picks

    It’s a match we’ve been waiting for since at least November of 2015 when Saul Alvarez defeated Miguel Cotto to win the lineal middleweight championship of the world. ...

    On September 13, 2017 / By
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    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 ...

    On August 20, 2017 / By
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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 ...

    On July 13, 2017 / By
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    Next Step to Stardom: Spence vs Khan

    Errol Spence Jr. is now a world champion, becoming one under circumstances not common to this generation of fighters. He took on the most talented welterweight in the ...

    On June 8, 2017 / By
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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 ...

    On May 26, 2017 / By
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    The Khan Conundrum

    At the Athens Olympics in 2004, the British boxing team consisted of a single pugilist: Amir Khan. The Bolton-born lad was alight with a Northern-English charm. He nonchalantly ...

    On April 16, 2017 / By
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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 ...

    On March 2, 2017 / By
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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
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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
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    On Quitting

    There’s quitting. And then there’s quitting. After all, this is boxing, the most dangerous of sports. Only a moron would insist that a fighter should never, ever, under ...

    On November 28, 2016 / By
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    The Curious Case Of Kell Brook

    Ezekiel Brook of Sheffield, England is something of an enigma. He became one of the very few British boxers to win a world title from an American champion ...

    On September 9, 2016 / By
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    Lee Wylie On Golovkin vs Brook

    Gennady Golovkin vs Kell Brook: Strategic & Tactical Considerations Kell Brook: Golovkin is renowned for his ability to hit and hurt with either hand, so Brook must utilize enough ...

    On September 8, 2016 / By
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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. ...

    On August 22, 2016 / By
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    Can ‘Beefy’ Shock The World?

    Demetrius Andrade. Erislandy Lara. The Charlo brothers. Julian Williams. Saul Canelo Alvarez could have chosen to fight any of these men after giving up the WBC middleweight title ...

    On August 3, 2016 / By
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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
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    Custio Clayton: Global Ambition

    Whether in Canada or elsewhere, there are few welterweight prospects whose talents match those of Custio Clayton. The Dartmouth, Nova Scotia native, who trains out of Club de Boxe de ...

    On May 23, 2016 / By
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    What Now, Canelo?

    The trick seems to have worked. Or has it? Canelo Alvarez vs Amir Khan, boxing’s version of an effects-laden summer film created by marketing analysts, appears to have done ...

    On May 16, 2016 / By
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    Jacobs Calls Out Alvarez

    The middleweight division is full of excitement and intrigue right now but most of the talk is all about Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin. Questions abound. Is Canelo ...

    On May 12, 2016 / By
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