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Canelo vs Kovalev: What We Learned
It was an unlikely and unexpected event before it became one of the most anticipated showdowns of the year. Canelo vs Kovalev: a crossroads fight with major implications ...
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Canelo vs Kovalev: The Fight City Picks
A few short months ago, absolutely no one in boxing was thinking about a clash between Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and light heavyweight titlist Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev of ...
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Kovalev vs Canelo: Searching For Answers
On Saturday night reigning middleweight king Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will challenge light heavyweight titlist Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev in a bid to become world champion in a third weight ...
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The Canelo Situation
For a while now I’ve been wondering what’s going on with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. First, for many months he’s been insisting a third match with his arch-rival, Gennadiy ...
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Kovalev vs Yarde: Double Vindication
Kovalev vs Yarde. A veteran champion defending in his home nation of Russia against an undefeated British upstart. An intriguing match-up on paper and one that brought out ...
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Kovalev vs Yarde: Russian Renaissance
Sergey Kovalev has always had tremendous boxing ability but, until recently, it has been largely masked behind his persona as the “Krusher” and a fearsome reputation built on ...
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Barriers To Entry: Why Superfights Are So Difficult To Make
To say that boxing is not as popular as it once was is to utter an obvious truth to those that know and understand the history. I’m referring ...
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May 19, 1985: Gomez vs Lockridge
In recent years Rocky Lockridge has unfortunately become as well-known for his appearance on the television show “Intervention” and the visceral cry of pain that launched countless internet ...
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Kovalev Returns! (With Some Help From “Buddy”)
The bell had yet to ring to start the fight, but the outcome was already decided. Sergey Kovalev was finished and about to get his butt kicked for ...
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Kovalev Comeback, Part II
Not that there’s any lack of evidence to help people understand why boxing will most likely never regain the kind of mainstream acceptance that it enjoyed in decades ...
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Fight Report: Kovalev vs Shabranskyy
The Event Not that long ago, Sergey Kovalev was widely regarded as, pound-for-pound, one of the best boxers in the world. Dominant wins over Nathan Cleverly, Jean Pascal ...
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Sergey Kovalev, Act II
Sergey Kovalev says he’s a new man. In a fascinating Sports Illustrated article, Kovalev makes it clear that he had a religious experience after the disastrous rematch with Andre ...
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The Appealing Ruthlessness Of Andre Ward
The central premise of this article — that Andre ‘S.O.G’ Ward is a smarter, more obdurate fighter than Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev, meaner, dirtier, surpassingly vicious, constituted by sturdier ...
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Ward vs Stevenson: The Time Is Now
Over the weekend, Andre Ward put an emphatic stamp of victory on his rivalry with Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev, stopping the Russian puncher in round eight and handing him ...
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Ward vs Kovalev II: The Fight City Picks
Given how suspenseful their first encounter was; given that the combatants are, by universal consensus, among the top five boxers on the planet; given that some very real ...
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Beyond a Punch: Kovalev-Ward II
Their first meeting was both one of the most eagerly anticipated matches of 2016 and then one of its most controversial: Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward. For three ...
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Remembering Lou Duva
If you were a boxing fan in the 1980s and 90s, you knew the face and the name and the voice. He was seemingly omnipresent, as so many ...
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Lafreniere And St Juste Steal The Show
Jean Pascal appeared devastated and inconsolable and Freddie Roach was incapable of explaining what had just happened beyond stating the obvious. It was a poignant moment at the ...
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Pascal Goes Bananas
It’s difficult to know just what to make of Jean Pascal at this point in his career and the more one considers the moves he’s made of late, ...
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How To Make A Pariah Preeminent
This past Saturday during the Pascal vs Kovalev event at the Bell Centre in Montreal, a strange thing happened. On the huge screen above the ring, an elegantly tailored ...
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Pascal Gets His Man
On Tuesday, Main Events CEO Kathy Duva confirmed that a deal is now set for Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev to face Montreal native Jean Pascal in March. The bout ...
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