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Distant Thunder at 175

March 12, 2015March 12, 2015 Shaun Brown 0 Comments Adonis Stevenson, Artur Beterbiev, Bernard Hopkins, Egor Mekhontsev, Eleider Alvarez, Jean Pascal, Kathy Duva, Kovalev vs Pascal, Sakio Bika, Sergey Kovalev, Vasily Lepikhin, Vyacheslav Shabranskyy

Promotional veteran Kathy Duva recently said “I think light-heavyweights are the future.” The current CEO at Main Events, founded in

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Oct. 10, 1962: Harada vs Kingpetch

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Pone Kingpetch, Thailand’s first world champion, had won the flyweight crown from Pascual Pérez, an impressive achievement considering the Argentinian

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July 9, 1989: Rosario vs Jones

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When we compare and rank boxers of the past, something all serious fight fans love to do, one of the

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Nov. 30, 1979: Benitez vs Leonard

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Perhaps few people at the time realized it, but the title match between Wilfred “Radar” Benitez and Sugar Ray Leonard at

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Sept. 6, 1920: Dempsey, Greb & Langford

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It’s now a very rare thing for boxing fans to get genuinely excited about the undercard for a major fight.