Browsing Tag Juan Francisco Estrada

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  2020 Fight Of The Year

  Fight Of The Year Nominations: Jose Zepeda KO5 Ivan Baranchyk Juan Francisco Estrada TKO11 Carlos Cuadras Roman Gonzalez TKO8 Kal Yafai Alex Povetkin TKO5 Dillian Whyte Masayoshi Nakatani ...

  On January 9, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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  2020 Round Of The Year

  Round Of The Year Nominations: Jose Zepeda vs Ivan Baranchyk, Round Two Clay Collard vs Raymond Guajardo, Round One Gervonta Davis vs Leo Santa Cruz, Round Six Kazuto ...

  On January 8, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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  2020: The Nominations

  To say 2020 was kinda crazy is to state the obvious to the point of trivializing what was an unprecedented year of chaos, upheaval, crisis and death on ...

  On January 6, 2021 / By Neil Crane
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  Mayhem In Mexico

  The Event Friday night at TV Azteca’s studios in Mexico City, super flyweight badasses Juan Francisco “Gallito” Estrada and “Chocolatito” Roman Gonzalez sprung back into action in separate ...

  On October 24, 2020 / By Rafael García
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  The Fight City Podcast No. 44

  Brand new edition of our podcast is ready for your listening pleasure, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site contributor Jeffery Fuss discuss recent ring ...

  On October 11, 2020 / By Alden Chodash
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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 ...

  On January 20, 2020 / By Rob Lownie
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  The Fight City Podcast No. 28

  The summer break is over and we’re back with a brand new episode of our podcast, anchored as always by Alden Chodash. For this installment he is joined ...

  On August 28, 2019 / By Alden Chodash
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  Fight Report: Sor Rungvisai vs Estrada II

  The Event Situated near Los Angeles, the legendary Forum has hosted numerous memorable battles featuring Mexican boxers over the past few decades. Across 1970 and 1971, the venerable ...

  On April 27, 2019 / By Rafael García
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  Sor Rungvisai vs Estrada II: The Fight City Picks

  Tomorrow night, it’s finally time for the second chapter in what die-hard fight fans hope will turn into a legendary rivalry as Juan Francisco Estrada of Mexico and ...

  On April 25, 2019 / By Neil Crane
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  Rungvisai vs Estrada II: Unfinished Business

  This Friday, fourteen months after their first fight, Thailand’s prodigal son, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, and Mexico’s own Juan Francisco “Gallito” Estrada, will meet again to settle some unfinished ...

  On April 23, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  The Portis Pound-For-Pound

  The other week Max Kellerman, currently pugilism’s premier talking head, released his new, updated pound-for-pound rankings and it sent all the hardcore boxing geeks into a tizzy. For ...

  On April 6, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  The Fighter Of The Decade, Part Four

  In our final look at the top candidates for Fighter Of The Decade, we consider Roman Gonzalez, aka “Chocolatito,” who, it should be remembered, was at the top ...

  On March 11, 2019 / By Lee Wylie
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  The Weekend That Was

  It was a pretty wild couple of days for combat sports fans, both with boxing and with the huge Khabib vs Conor UFC showdown. So let’s get to ...

  On October 7, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Fight Report: Superfly 2

  The Event Superfly 2 went down last night at the Forum in Inglewood, California, featuring some of the best talent to be found in the lower weight classes. ...

  On February 25, 2018 / By Rafael García
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  Srisaket Sor Rungvisai: Challenger At Heart

  Srisaket Sor Rungvisai enters tomorrow night’s “Superfly 2” card as the “A-side” of a marquee, HBO-televised main event, something that, a year ago, would have been unthinkable. But ...

  On February 23, 2018 / By Zachary Alapi
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  2017 Knockout Of The Year

  Nominations: Zolani Tete KO1 Siboniso Gonya Eleider Alvarez KO5 Lucian Bute Terence Crawford KO3 Julius Indongo Srisaket Sor Rungvisai KO4 Roman Gonzalez David Benavidez TKO8 Rogelio Medina David ...

  On January 6, 2018 / By Robert Portis
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  Night Of The Superfly

  When little-known Srisaket Sor Rungvisai tabbed a controversial upset win over four-time champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez last March, a first round knockdown in favor of the challenger was ...

  On September 10, 2017 / By Patrick Connor
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  The Trials Of Chocolatito

  Last March the boxing world was in collective shock when the mighty Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, boxing’s consensus #1 pound-for-pound fighter, was left bloodied and narrowly defeated at the ...

  On September 8, 2017 / By Danny Howard
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  Antonio Nieves Will Let You Worry About “The Monster”

  It’s almost shocking to hear super flyweight contender Antonio Nieves (17-1-2) admit that he’d never heard of Japanese superstar Naoya Inoue (13-0) prior to signing on to challenge the ...

  On September 7, 2017 / By Zachary Alapi
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  Getting Set For SUPERFLY

  In a truly excellent year for boxing, this weekend’s SUPERFLY card is in a class of its own. The world’s top five super flyweights will be in action, ...

  On September 7, 2017 / By Rafael García
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  The Magnificent Seven

  The boxing world has a bad case of  ‘Chocolatito Fever’ these days. The diminutive flyweight champion displayed spectacular form in dismantling an experienced and tough Brian Viloria on last ...

  On October 24, 2015 / By Daniel Attias
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  Fight Report: Marquez vs Segura

  South of the border and at the lower end of the scales, Mexican warriors Giovani “Guerrero Azteca” Segura and Hernan “Tyson” Marquez staged a vicious rumble Saturday night. ...

  On November 4, 2013 / By Rafael García