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2020 Performance Of The Year
Performance Of The Year Nominations: Roman Gonzalez TKO9 Kal Yafai Kazuto Ioka TKO 8 Kosei Tanaka Tyson Fury TKO 7 Deontay Wilder Teofimo Lopez W12 Vasiliy Lomachenko Gervonta ...
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Not Exactly High Drama
Coming on the heels of a thrilling month of fight action that was capped off by a Halloween knockout parade, November has big shoes to fill. As boxing ...
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Can Wilder Win?
While the whole world, and of course that includes the sports world, is “on pause” due to the deadly pandemic we are all struggling with, the fact remains ...
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Fury vs Wilder II: The Breakdown
It seems strange to know so much about two fighters – their strengths and weaknesses and how their styles mesh –and yet the outcome of a match between ...
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Wilder vs Fury II: The Fight City Picks
Their first battle in December of 2018 was an entertaining and surprisingly dramatic tilt with an unforgettable final round, but the draw verdict at the end left many ...
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2019 Knockout Of The Year
Knockout of the Year Nominations: Nonito Donaire KO6 Stephon Young Ryan Rozicki KO2 Khetag Pliev Oscar Escandon KO1 Jhack Tepora Teofimo Lopez TKO2 Richard Commey Deontay Wilder KO7 ...
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Overfed Turkey Or Sleek Bird Of Prey?
What a difference two years can make. Back in 2017, the WBC belt-holder Deontay Wilder had just fought Gerald Washington, the latest in his long line of scrubs, ...
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“The Bronze Bomber” Will Need To Be Better Come February
Wilder vs Ortiz II is done and dusted and now I for one cannot wait for February. Because, barring something unforeseen, that’s when we’ll witness probably the best ...
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2018: The Nominations
In many ways, 2018 picked up where 2017 left off with its share of excellent match-ups, unification fights, and a heaping helping of action-packed, crowd-pleasing battles. But perhaps ...
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Fury Only Played The Fool
(Before I get to the matter at hand, something infinitely more important need be said: A shout-out to the wife and family of Adonis Stevenson. As in no ...
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Five Reasons Why “The Gypsy King” Will Win
Almost three years to the day since he defeated Wladimir Klitschko for the WBA, WBO, IBF and lineal heavyweight titles, Tyson Fury steps through the ropes tonight to ...
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Wilder vs Fury: The Fight City Picks
When talk first surfaced several months ago of Tyson Fury abandoning his own comeback schedule to instead challenge WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, very few took the idea ...
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Fury vs Wilder: Money Changes Everything
Some like to say that money would never change them, that if they won the lottery or became a huge overnight success, they would still be the same, ...
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Atlantic City Comeback, Part II
Atlantic City is no longer America’s Playground, and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s a city of casinos along the famous boardwalk, many of which are run ...
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The Best Is Yet To Come (Part 2)
We continue our in-depth look at some of the possible, if not probable, high-stakes matches which may happen before the end of 2018, a year which is already ...
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Joshua vs Parker: One Step Closer
In one week, in Cardiff, Wales, a major battle goes down between two of the three belt-holders in the heavyweight division, a fight that brings us one big ...
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Let’s Stop Pretending
Sports is about passion. It’s what fills the stands and sells the tickets. I’m from West Virginia, and the University Mountaineers football and basketball games can reduce people ...
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Wilder, Bivol & Kovalev Win Big
Once again Showtime and HBO go to war with major fight cards on the same night and the bottom line is fight fans got some great action, so ...
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Wilder vs Ortiz: Not A Moment Too Soon
Saturday night will see two of the top four heavyweights in the world, Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz, do battle for the WBC’s green and gold belt. No ...
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The Wilder vs Ortiz Debacle
Last month boxing fans were treated to the welcome news that WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, aka “The Bronze Bomber,” would defend his title against one of the ...
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Wilder vs Miller: The Time Is Now!
Try as I might, I just can’t keep a straight face when I read “world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.” Believe me, it’s been tough to give him the ...
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The Weekend That Was
Once again we offer a run-down of much of this past weekend’s boxing action with help from our good friends at FightFan.com. First up, an absolute waste of ...
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Is Luis Ortiz For Real?
As crazy as it may sound, Luis Ortiz reminds me of former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe. No, the two men don’t exactly have similar rings styles, but they look ...
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2015: The Year That Was
As we charge fearlessly into 2016, boxing fans look back at 2015 with decidedly mixed feelings as the year was clearly a mixed bag of the good, the ...
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The Weekend That Was
We got heavyweight action, a mild upset at 160, and — surprise, surprise — another set of inexplicable scorecards. Time for your rundown of the major happenings. Rances Barthelemy ...
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Boxing’s Shame
No one, of course, should have been surprised. Sadly, though, all of us were. Just as we are, each and every time. There was Nicholas Walters, up a ...
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Jennings vs Ortiz: Crossroads Collision
A heavyweight match of serious implication goes down at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York tomorrow when Luis “King Kong” Ortiz faces Bryant “Bye Bye” Jennings. The winner ...
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The Return Of The Heavyweights
Check it out: I’m genuinely excited for this Saturday’s heavyweight championship fight. Been a long time since I could utter or type those words with conviction. Truth be ...
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The Times They Are A-Changin’
“The times, they are a changin’.” These lyrics, so endlessly applicable, are what serenaded David Lemieux’s ring walk on Saturday night. Dylan’s poetry ostensibly heralds a changing middleweight ...
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