Browsing Tag Billy Joe Saunders
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Fight Report: Canelo vs Saunders
The Event ‘Pressure makes diamonds’ isn’t quite the whole story. Whether in a lab, or hundreds of miles below the earth’s surface, when temperatures of thousands of degrees ...
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Canelo vs Saunders: High Pressure
Have you ever tried to squeeze all of the toothpaste out of the tube? I mean really tried. And I mean every last sticky particle of paste. No? ...
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Top 12 Fights We Want To See In 2020
No one can dispute the fact that 2019 was a strong year for boxing with some excellent fights we’ll remember for a long time to come. Match-ups such ...
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Will Beterbiev Make Montreal Great Again?
After losing by knockout, Oleksandr Gvozdyk held up his hands in honest submission. The gesture came on his way back to the dressing room when a group of ...
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DeGale vs Eubank: Flight Of The Egos
Although it’s pleasing to see the DeGale vs Eubank fight come to fruition – it could so easily have been one of those oft-discussed but never consummated domestic ...
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#CaneloGGG2: This Time, It’s Personal!
It’s almost time, finally, for #CaneloGGG2, and so much has happened since the first encounter that it’s hard to believe it took place only a year ago. That ...
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Groves vs Eubank: Showdown In Manchester
There was a time when few people took Chris Eubank Jr seriously, but it’s fair to say that time has passed. You only have to watch the sinewy ...
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Canelo vs GGG II Is Officially Set: Are We Happy Now?
After months of procrastination, the long negotiated, eagerly awaited rematch between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin has finally become official. The Mexican and the Kazakh will meet up ...
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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: The Nominees
One thing we know for certain: 2017 was, in many ways, a very good year for professional boxing. Compared to recent years when significant matches were few and ...
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The Fight City 0
Je Me Souviens
The Place Bell is situated a five-minute walk from the doors of the Montmorency metro station in Laval, just north of Montreal. But when the temperature is -15 ...
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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 ...
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Fight Report: Saunders vs Lemieux
The Event Place Bell in Laval last night hosted a massive fight card, flooded with local talent and headlined by the middleweight championship bout between Britain’s Billy Joe ...
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Saunders vs Lemieux: Middleweight Crossroads
The middleweights are a class we have deemed more than once to be an unabashed mess given the fact that for several years it has been populated at ...
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Boxcaster: Billy Joe Speaks!
Once again, we turn to our friends at Boxcaster to bring you this exclusive interview with WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders. The Briton was in Toronto recently to ...
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Pierre Bernier: A Passion For Boxing
When we hear the term “ring announcer,” HBO’s Michael Buffer and his iconic catch phrase “Let’s get ready to rumble!” is probably the first thing that comes to ...
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Boxcaster: Saunders vs Lemieux Preview
The good people at Boxcaster are joining forces with your preferred independent combat sports website so we can feature even more top-shelf content on a daily basis and ...
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The End Of Middleweight Madness?
The 160 pound class has long been considered one of boxing’s so-called “glamour divisions,” the locale of numerous great champions and great fights, but in recent years it’s ...
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Saunders vs Monroe: The Other Middleweight Title Fight
Two long years have elapsed since Billy Joe Saunders last had a fight of substance. That was when he took a close decision over Andy Lee to win ...
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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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More Than Main Event Worthy
On March 11 at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York, former IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux and one-time title challenger Curtis Stevens will lock horns in ...
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Will Eubank Deliver?
When Chris Eubank Jr. announced that he would face Renold Quinlan for the meretricious IBO super-middleweight title on February 4, he inadvertently provoked a tidal flow of derision. ...
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The Weekend That Was From FightFan.com
Once again we offer a run-down of the weekend’s boxing action with help from our good friends at FightFan.com. First up, a quick synopsis of some of Friday ...
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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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Eubank vs Blackwell: Brave, Brutal, Blameless
“Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the ...
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Titles Mean Nothing Now
On Saturday Billy Joe Saunders took a middleweight title from game Irishman Andy Lee. Credit should be given to Saunders for successfully completing a very difficult task. However, ...
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The Weekend That Was
We got heavyweight action, a mild upset at 160, and — surprise, surprise — another set of inexplicable scorecards. Time for your rundown of the major happenings. Rances Barthelemy ...
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The Book On James DeGale
One day James DeGale will publish his autobiography. His face will adorn the front cover and the title could range to anything from ‘A Golden Life’ to ‘The ...
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Mark Your Calendar
The month of May doesn’t normally excite me. Spring is in the air but, if you happen to be from Scotland, that just means four seasons in one ...
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Eubank: We Want More
“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 ...
