Browsing Tag Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

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  Canelo vs Golovkin: Lee Wylie’s Pick

  One week from today, we will see arguably the best match-up of the year, which is saying something considering how 2017 has already been a truly excellent one ...

  On September 9, 2017 / By Lee Wylie
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  Yvon Michel: “Adonis Has Never Ducked Anyone!”

  Adonis Stevenson vs Andrzej Fonfara II. Eleider Alvarez vs Jean Pascal. Two major showdowns with serious implications, both happening on the same card this Saturday night. A world ...

  On June 1, 2017 / By Michael Carbert
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  Canelo vs Golovkin: Four Steps To Make It The Event Of The Year

  Louis C. K. has a good bit about how words are neither good nor bad, but just happen to become good or bad depending on how people use them. ...

  On May 18, 2017 / By Rafael García
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  Fight Report: Canelo vs Chavez Jr.

  The Event 2017’s Cinco de Mayo boxing card featured the two most recognizable names in Mexican boxing in a super middleweight bout fought at a catchweight of 164.5 ...

  On May 7, 2017 / By Robert Portis
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  Canelo vs Chavez Jr.: A Question of Value

  “Nobody knows what a dollar is, what the word means, what holds the thing up, what it stands in for. And that’s also what my work is about. Look ...

  On May 3, 2017 / By Rafael García
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  Canelo vs Chavez: Junior Grows Up

  Okay, I admit it: I’ve always had something of a soft spot for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Yes, I know, he’s acted like a punk sometimes, but to ...

  On April 13, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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  Canelo vs Chavez: Why The Outrage?

  Just imagine for a second how big this fight would have been a few years ago. Julio Caesar Chavez Jr., son of a Mexican boxing icon, going head-to-head ...

  On January 19, 2017 / By Sean Crose
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  Will Eubank Deliver?

  When Chris Eubank Jr. announced that he would face Renold Quinlan for the meretricious IBO super-middleweight title on February 4, he inadvertently provoked a tidal flow of derision. ...

  On January 17, 2017 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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  PBC’s Hard Lessons

  Last week two high profile articles hit the web describing in almost grotesque detail the way Premier Boxing Champions—Al Haymon’s infamous boxing league—has been bled nearly dry. The ...

  On October 3, 2016 / By Rafael García
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  Are Fans Losing Patience With Canelo?

  Brutal and dangerous though it may be, boxing is still a sport, both at heart and in practice. So when a prominent pugilist decides the competitive nature that ...

  On February 6, 2016 / By Sean Crose
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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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  A Sad Spectacle

  Julio Caesar Chavez Junior fulfilled all the expectations everyone at all familiar with his career had for him and for the farcical contest which took place last night. ...

  On July 19, 2015 / By Sean Crose
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  The Long Journey Back

  The brutal world of pro boxing isn’t necessarily a great place for family bonds to thrive. But the history of the sport is full of father-son relationships, many ...

  On July 17, 2015 / By Patrick Connor
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  Enemies at the Gate

  This week, Top Rank, the promotional outfit run by Lee Harvey Oswald-era holdover Bob Arum, launched a $100M lawsuit against Al Haymon and his various enterprises. The lawsuit, ...

  On July 3, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Creating Boxing’s Next Cash Cow: Gennady Golovkin

  Mayweather-Pacquiao signaled a change of order in boxing, as the sport will need new stars to supplant Floyd and Manny as its biggest draws. Who will it be, and ...

  On May 10, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Ten Things We Learned Last Night

  1. HBO really, really wants Terence Crawford to be a star. The commentary last night by Max Kellerman and Roy Jones was so transparently pro-Crawford that even innocent movements ...

  On April 19, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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  Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting

  Chavez Jr vs Fonfara Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions takes a break this week, but that doesn’t mean fight fans will have Saturday night off. In fact, boxing aficionados ...

  On April 17, 2015 / By Rafael García
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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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  Business as Usual: Chavez Jr. vs. Vera II

  “Why should I watch an overweight pothead riding his daddy’s name and fame?” This is the question a boxinghead recently posed to Ring Magazine’s Doug Fischer. The scribe’s ...

  On February 28, 2014 / By Robert Portis
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  Fight Report: Martinez vs Chavez Jr

  This year boxing had a particularly busy Mexican Independence weekend, but hardcore fight fans focused on the battle for middleweight supremacy between Sergio Martinez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. ...

  On September 16, 2012 / By Rafael García
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  Number One Son – On Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and Jose Sulaiman

  ‘Son of the Legend’ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is scheduled to defend his middleweight WBC belt against fellow Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio on February 4th in San Antonio, ...

  On January 16, 2012 / By Rafael García
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  Fight Report: Kirkland vs Angulo

  In boxing, as in politics, it is an unforgivable blunder to peak early. Alfredo ‘El Perro’ Angulo learned this lesson the hard way on Saturday night in Cancun, ...

  On November 7, 2011 / By Rafael García