Browsing Tag Carl Froch
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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. ...
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McCluskey’s Dozen: 30 Years Of Talent
Talent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete but it’s difficult to define precisely what it is. It can manifest itself ...
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The Super Middleweight Super Six
Since being established by the major sanctioning bodies in the mid-80s, the super middleweight division has produced some classic contests. I was fortunate to grow into an avid ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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