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The long-awaited Mayweather vs Pacquiao clash may or may not become 2015’s Fight of the Year but it certainly is the boxing event of the year. A fight several years in the making is now on the lips

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Eubank: We Want More

March 2, 2015April 26, 2015

“This is prizefighting,” declared Barry Jones. The Boxnation co-commentator’s thirst was clearly unquenchable. Chris Eubank Jr. had left him, and many others, wanting more. Much more. The 25-year-old had engaged in a rugged, 12 round fight with Russian middleweight

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Barry Jones: Never In a Better Place

January 23, 2015March 8, 2015

Joe Calzaghe wasn’t the only Welshman to win a world title in the 1990s. Before him came the likes of Robbie Regan and Steve Robinson, and in 1997, the year Calzaghe floored Chris Eubank to take the WBO

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May 5, 1973: Jofre vs Legra

May 5, 2021May 5, 2021

Boxing comebacks are usually a bad idea. Boxing comebacks involving former world champions over the age of 35 are, George Foreman notwithstanding, almost always a terrible idea. But in fact, one of the exceptions to this was not

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Coal For Christmas

December 25, 2021December 25, 2021

If James Braddock is “The Cinderella Man,” then what do we call Arnold Cream, aka Jersey Joe Walcott? Braddock’s story of perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds eventually inspired Hollywood attention, but no movie has been

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Fight City Legends: The Aldgate Sphinx

November 15, 2019November 18, 2019

Historically speaking, boxing is a sport of great rivalries, though now we can only pine for the days when pugilists thought nothing of facing an adversary more than once in a single year. As it is, the trilogy,

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March 9, 2013: Hopkins vs Cloud

March 9, 2021March 11, 2021

The amazing Old Man Hopkins show continued, but did anyone really want to keep watching it? Hopkins vs Cloud had The Barclays Center in Brooklyn little more than half-full, but no one should have been surprised. There was