Browsing Tag Erik Morales

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  Top 12 Greatest All-Mexican Fights

  The expectations were high this past Saturday when Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez answered the bell in Las Vegas and with good reason. Few countries can match Mexico ...

  On February 22, 2021 / By Rafael García
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  Feb. 19, 2000: Morales vs Barrera I

  No one can really pin down how the animosity began. Perhaps it was a regional rivalry with Erik Morales hailing from the working class region of Zona Norte, ...

  On February 19, 2021 / By Rene Ricardo Bernal
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  Feb.3, 1996: Barrera vs McKinney

  It’s 1996 and HBO has decided to start a new series of live boxing, providing fight fans with more excitement and their prizefighters with more exposure. At that time, ...

  On February 3, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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  Sept. 6, 1997: Zaragoza vs Morales

  It was the classic confrontation: age and experience vs youth and raw talent. Southpaw Daniel Zaragoza was the grizzled veteran, a survivor of 65 professional battles and some 21 ...

  On September 6, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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  15 Kinds Of Fight Fan Heartache

  As the world of sports and live entertainment ground to a halt this year, boxing fans endured months without any ring action at all, as some excellent scheduled ...

  On August 27, 2020 / By Matt O'Brien
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  Fifty Epic Fights: The 1990s

  We got some bad news, fellow fight fans: looks like COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere, at least not for quite a while. So, depending on where you reside, you ...

  On July 14, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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  May 20, 2006: Barrera vs Juarez I

  In certain respects, Marco Antonio Barrera is not your typical Mexican fighter. When compared to such compatriots as Julio Cesar Chavez, Ruben Olivares, and longtime rival Erik Morales, ...

  On May 20, 2020 / By Alden Chodash
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  The Top 12 All-Time Greatest Mexican Boxers

  A while back your preferred kick-ass boxing website had a special week on Mexican pugilists called “Mexican Style” and part of it was a spirited debate regarding just ...

  On May 5, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  Whatever Happened To Scott Harrison?

  For a country so small, Scotland has punched well above its weight in producing champion boxers. Benny Lynch, “The Little King of the Gorbals,” famously lit up the ...

  On April 24, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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  April 7, 2001: Hamed vs Barrera

  “I’m here training the greatest featherweight of all time.” None other than Emanuel Steward spoke those words, three weeks before Prince Naseem Hamed faced Marco Antonio Barrera in ...

  On April 7, 2020 / By Rafael García
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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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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Pacman Moments

  At this point it’s anybody’s guess how much longer ring legend Manny Pacquiao will continue boxing, but what is known is that the Pacman scored a huge win ...

  On July 21, 2019 / By Rafael García
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  Who Is The Greatest Mexican Boxer?

  Michael Carbert: Several years ago I wrote up a Top 12 Greatest All-Time Mexican Boxers list and to my delight, it inspired some consternation. I’ve wanted to revisit ...

  On December 28, 2018 / By Rafael García
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  Top 12 All-Time Best Larry & Lampley Moments

  On January 22, 1973, a broadcasting start-up by the name of Home Box Office debuted in the sport of boxing, bringing viewers George Foreman’s legendary second round annihilation of Joe ...

  On December 10, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  The Weekend That Was

  Bloody and Bruised: Berchelt and Miura Emerge Victorious. It’s not often that boxing fans get to witness two fights back-to-back that are so steeped in savagery that they likely ...

  On January 30, 2017 / By Daniel Attias
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  Top Men: Greatest Mexican Boxers

  Fight fans are avidly looking forward to this Saturday night as we have what should be an amazing all-action, all-Mexico showdown between two blood-and-guts warriors, Orlando Salido and ...

  On June 2, 2016 / By Robert Portis
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  Erik Morales: First Mexican to Win 4 in 4

  In celebration of #MexicanStyle week we bring you Rafael’s write up of Erik “Terrible” Morales’ historic title-winning effort of September 17, 2011, when he defeated Pablo Cesar Cano ...

  On August 28, 2015 / By Rafael García
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  Dear Paulie

  Dear Paulie, When I first learned you were fighting Danny Garcia, my concern for you almost matched my disappointment in Danny. After all, and despite his recent lackluster ...

  On July 31, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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  Towards the Light: Bradley vs Vargas

  “Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.”        –Thomas Hardy ...

  On June 26, 2015 / By Patrick Connor