Browsing Tag Lucas Matthysse

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  Pacquiao vs Thurman: The Fight City Picks

  It hasn’t exactly been a terrible year, but it’s been far from a great one, when it comes to meaningful, top-level match-ups and big attractions in boxing. And ...

  On July 16, 2019 / By Neil Crane
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  Pacquiao vs Broner: Prelude To MayPac II?

  It’s the big showdown in Vegas tonight, Pac vs Broner, but don’t be fooled fight fans. What it’s really all about is Floyd “Money” Mayweather. That’s right, people; ...

  On January 18, 2019 / By Ralph M. Semien
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  Manny Pacquiao: The True Believer

  Manny Pacquiao dances with boxing like a jilted lover. The twists and turns retain their technical grace, but lack the fluidity and passion as when the love was ...

  On January 15, 2019 / By Craig Scott
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  Garcia vs Porter: The Fight City Picks

  As one of our contributors discussed not that long ago, the current version of the welterweight division has all the necessary ingredients to give boxing fans plenty of ...

  On September 5, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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  Paalam, Freddie

  Are legendary trainer Freddie Roach and his Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood on the skids? Star losses, most notably Manny Pacquiao, and other defections of boxers Roach ...

  On July 19, 2018 / By Ralph M. Semien
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  Fight Report: Pacquiao vs Matthysse

  The Event It is easy to forget that Pacquiao vs Matthysse is a match that fight fans have been waiting for since 2013. Before Lucas Matthysse’s trail of ...

  On July 15, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  The PacMan’s Last Hurrah?

  Yes, it’s hard to believe, but it’s July of 2018 and, for better or for worse, it’s another Manny Pacquiao “Fight Week.” Pacquiao vs Matthysse. It’s going down, ...

  On July 10, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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  Fight Report: Taylor vs Postol

  The Event When Cyclone Promotions announced that their fast-rising star Josh Taylor was to fight Viktor Postol, few could believe it. Not because Taylor was not considered capable, ...

  On June 24, 2018 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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  Explosive Potential: 147 Should Be Boxing’s Hottest Division

  It was, until recently, the premier division in boxing, the weight class with the most elite-level talents and the most tantalizing match-ups to be made. Over the decades, ...

  On June 1, 2018 / By Sean Crose
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  Don’t Count Him Out

  This Saturday night, Lamont Peterson of Washington, D.C. will be in Brooklyn, New York to face Errol Spence Jr. for the IBF world welterweight title. While the welterweight ...

  On January 18, 2018 / By Jeffrey Fuss
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  Crawford vs Postol: The Fight City Picks

  Saturday night in Las Vegas, 28-year-old Terence Crawford and 32-year-old Viktor Postol will headline what could become a memorable PPV show at the top of the junior welterweight division. Bud ...

  On July 22, 2016 / By Rafael García
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  2015 Round of the Year

  Round of the Year Nominations: Akira Yaegashi vs Javier Mendoza – Round 11 Edwin Rodriguez vs Michael Seals – Round 1 Krzysztof Glowacki vs Marco Huck – Round ...

  On January 6, 2016 / By Daniel Attias
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  Al Haymon’s (Possible) War Of Attrition

  In the end, it’s all about eyeballs. And Al Haymon may have decided that a strategy of putting Showtime cards directly up against HBO cards will ultimately prove ...

  On October 10, 2015 / 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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  The Strange Case of Danny Garcia

  I have to be honest here – I’m not big on disliking people. I’m just not. I’m not saying this to make myself out to be some kind ...

  On July 28, 2015 / By Sean Crose
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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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  Catchweight 22: Garcia vs Peterson

  If you didn’t yet believe boxing is the greyest of sports, you need look no further than this Saturday’s main event in Brooklyn, NY. At Barclays Center, 140-pound ...

  On April 10, 2015 / By Robert Portis
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  Bosses Don’t Take Losses

  “Bosses talk to bosses.” This is what Adrien Broner declared during his car ride interview with TMZ’s cackling jackals in January. The fighter had been asked about the ...

  On March 6, 2015 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Triumph in the Twelfth: Broner Wins in Cincy

  Adrien Broner had a good night on Saturday, as he earned a unanimous decision win over Emmanuel Taylor in an entertaining junior welterweight scrap. It was ‘The Problem’s” ...

  On September 8, 2014 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Fight Report: Peterson vs Jean

  The Event Last night’s Showtime card at the DC Armory was headlined by a light-welterweight scrap between Washington’s Lamont ‘Havoc’ Peterson and Montreal’s Dierry ‘Dougy Style’ Jean. At ...

  On January 26, 2014 / By Eliott McCormick
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  Fight Report: Garcia vs Matthysse

  The Event The co-main event of the Mayweather vs. Canelo mega-fight featured the fearsome Lucas Matthysse challenging Danny “Swift” Garcia in a bout for junior welterweight supremacy. Despite ...

  On September 15, 2013 / By Rafael García