Browsing Tag Carl Froch

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  The Super Middleweight Super Six

  Since being established by the major sanctioning bodies in the mid-80s, the super middleweight class has produced some classic contests. I was fortunate to grow into an avid ...

  On June 1, 2020 / By Matt O'Brien
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  McCluskey’s Dozen: Thirty Years Of Talent

  Talent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete, but at the same time it’s difficult to define precisely what it is. ...

  On January 23, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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  The Fighter Of The Decade, Part One

  There are still many months left in 2019 but the discussion and debate is already heating up as to who are the front-runners for Fighter Of The Decade. ...

  On March 6, 2019 / By Lee Wylie
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  What Now, Mr. Groves?

  One of the more negative aspects of boxing in the modern age is the way in which defeated fighters are cast aside, while those who have assiduously protected ...

  On November 15, 2018 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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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 ...

  On February 13, 2018 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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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 Sherif Dhaimish
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  The Appealing Ruthlessness Of Andre Ward

  The central premise of this article — that Andre ‘S.O.G’ Ward is a smarter, more obdurate fighter than Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev, meaner, dirtier, surpassingly vicious, constituted by sturdier ...

  On June 22, 2017 / By Eliott McCormick
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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, ...

  On June 2, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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  Joshua vs Klitschko: It Could Be Cinematic

  The narrative has never been easier. This Saturday, London’s Anthony Joshua will fight Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium for a triumvirate of heavyweight titles. He will draw over ...

  On April 28, 2017 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Can Kell Brook Be The Next British Giant-Killer?

  The date with destiny is rapidly approaching for Kell Brook, and if he’s to have any hope of toppling fearsome middleweight ruler Gennady Golovkin, he must live up ...

  On August 17, 2016 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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  Bellew Bidding For Goodison Glory

  In boxing, football stadium fights have a certain dizzying appeal. Funnelling an army of 20 000 or more diehard fight fans into an open-air stadium creates an electrifying ...

  On May 27, 2016 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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  Lee Wylie On Frampton vs Quigg

  While the match is not nearly as momentous on this side of the Atlantic, the fact remains that for serious boxing fans, Carl Frampton vs Scott Quigg is ...

  On February 26, 2016 / By Lee Wylie
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  Can Klitschko Come Back?

  Okay, there’s been a change of plans. No longer are you to say that Wladimir Klitschko is an all-time great. I realize you may have been saying that ...

  On December 2, 2015 / By Sean Crose
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  Fight Report: DeGale vs Bute

  The Event An intriguing match-up in several respects, DeGale vs Bute pretty much guaranteed an interesting outcome of some kind. This was a contest between two unanswered questions: how ...

  On November 29, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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  Chris Ganescu: “Bute Is Exceptional”

  For manager Chris Ganescu, boxing is a passion. Which is not surprising considering his father competed in the squared circle back in his native country of Romania. Chris ...

  On November 27, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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  Expect The Unexpected

  Boxing, it is said, is “the theater of the unexpected,” but this statement naturally applies more to some fights than others. In the case of this Saturday’s clash ...

  On November 26, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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  Bute And Di Luisa Face Off

  It takes a little time for this writer to identify the peculiar element in the atmosphere at the final press conference for the Premier Boxing Champions card taking ...

  On August 12, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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  Sam Eggington: The Evolution Of ‘The Savage’

  Sam Eggington wanted to be a journeyman. The Birmingham welterweight wasn’t looking for anyone to mould him into a contender; he was just a teenager looking to earn ...

  On July 22, 2015 / By Shaun Brown
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  Lucian Bute: The Return

  Lucian Bute is far more comfortable communicating in his native Romanian, or in French, the official language of his adopted home city of Montreal, but during his talk ...

  On July 14, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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  Will The Cobra Rush In Where Cotto Fears To Tread?

  There’s room for all different styles and techniques in boxing. Not everything has to be a blood-stained brawl, or “boxing’s Super Bowl,” or even a highly-cerebral, tactical chess ...

  On May 24, 2015 / By Patrick Connor
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  The British Heavyweights: THEY’RE ALIVE!

  Somewhere online or in print between now and next Monday there will be an article headlined ‘Frampton Comes Alive,’ a 1970s musical reference to the IBF Super-Bantamweight champion Carl ...

  On February 25, 2015 / By Shaun Brown
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  Golovkin Too Much For Murray

  Gennady Golovkin is, without question, the best middleweight in the world. Miguel Cotto may be the lineal champion, but he will be a huge underdog if that match ...

  On February 22, 2015 / By Michael Carbert
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  Riviera Run-Over: Golovkin vs Murray

  Monte Carlo, known for its extravagant displays of wealth, will see a different form of pageantry when Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin fights Martin Murray tomorrow. Golovkin is a fighter ...

  On February 20, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Pray to the Boxing Gods: Our 2015 Dream Fight Wish List

  Good riddance to the cesspool of mismatches, robberies, and lack of appealing fights that was 2014! The new year is here and well underway so it’s time to ...

  On January 13, 2015 / By Rafael García
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  Pepsi Center Card Fizzles

  Last night at the Pepsi Center in Quebec City, Showtime put on its last fight card of significance for 2014. It wasn’t even that significant, for although several ...

  On December 20, 2014 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Gamal Yafai: Pain and Gain

  Some boxers can only dream of what it would be like to fight in front of nearly 80,000 people in one of the most iconic soccer venues in ...

  On November 4, 2014 / By Shaun Brown
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  Froch vs Groves II: Brawl for Britain

  “By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show,” wrote Samuel Johnson, perhaps during a rare respite from anxiety. When, on Saturday, ...

  On May 28, 2014 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Fight Report: Ward vs Dawson

  Last night the 8,500 fight fans in attendance at the Oracle Arena of Oakland, California expected a tough, gritty, and most likely ugly battle between two highly regarded ...

  On September 8, 2012 / By Rafael García
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  Fight Report: Froch vs Bute

  Even a die-hard fan of fisticuffs must search his memory to recall a blowout as unanticipated and surprising as what we witnessed last night when Carl Froch laid ...

  On May 27, 2012 / By Michael Carbert