Browsing Tag Manny Pacquiao
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Fight City Reviews 0
The Tragic Tale Of Edwin Valero
The story of Edwin Valero is one boxing fans know because of his famously all-action, go-for-broke style—he won all 27 of his pro bouts by knockout—and because of ...
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The Top Twelve 3
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Opening Rounds
In boxing, as in most things in life, it’s quality, not quantity. Excitement is the name of the game and the greatest fights are the ones offering the ...
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Boxiana 0
June 8, 2002: Lewis vs Tyson
Legitimate superfights tend not to just happen spontaneously, but instead build up over time. The first bout between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali was years in the making, ...
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Boxiana 2
May 20, 2006: Barrera vs Juarez I
In certain respects, Marco Antonio Barrera is not your typical Mexican fighter. When compared to such compatriots as Julio Cesar Chavez, Ruben Olivares, and longtime rival Erik Morales, ...
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The Top Twelve 15
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Southpaws
According to the latest research, roughly ten percent of the human population is left-handed. This presents few problems for the other ninety percent, but in boxing, those problems ...
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Boxiana 2
May 13, 1989: Chavez vs Mayweather II
Seldom does a boxing match with a definitive and resounding conclusion result in a rematch. There’s an obvious reason why Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks locked-up only once. ...
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Boxiana 21
March 8, 1971: Ali vs Frazier I
Back in 2015, immediately following the announcement of a Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao match finally being signed and sealed, excited boxing pundits began searching for comparisons. How ...
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Columns 0
Nothing Left To Prove
Most great boxers do not go gently into the good night of retirement, but instead rage and fight against the dying of the light. And while, having long ...
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Lee Wylie 1
Terence Crawford: The Complete Boxer
In the not so distant past, when a gifted, young pugilist established himself as a top talent, he and boxing fans could look forward to a series of ...
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Features 0
Pacquiao vs Marquez IV: A History of Violence
Earlier this month boxing marked the eight year anniversary of one of the most consequential prizefights of recent times, the fourth battle between legendary champions Juan Manuel Marquez ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 7)
Time for another “weekend that was” podcast from Alden Chodash and Jeffrey Fuss as they recap a great night of action in Arlington, Texas and welterweight champ Errol Spence’s impressive ...
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Boxiana 5
Dec. 5, 1947: Louis vs Walcott I
Bad decisions. Robberies. Ridiculous scorecards. Maybe nothing sickens a fight fan more than judges rendering a final verdict which makes a mockery of a hard-fought contest. Sadly, such ...
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The Top Twelve 4
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Welterweight Fights
No matter how you break it down, Errol Spence vs Danny Garcia has one major thing going for it: it’s one of the best matches that can currently ...
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Lee Wylie 2
The Five Ways of Attack
Today is the birthday of the martial arts wizard and pop culture icon, Bruce Lee, a genuine legend and a genius of hand-to-hand combat. So what better way ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Crawford vs Brook
Pound-for-pound lists are not to everybody’s taste, but regardless of how you choose to rank the best fighters in the world, there’s no denying that Terence Crawford is ...
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The Top Twelve 2
Top 12 All-Time Greatest One Punch KOs
Few things in all of sports are as electrifying as the one punch knockout and these are the most consequential and stunning of them all. To make the ...
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Columns 4
Right Fight, Wrong Time: Hagler vs Leonard In 1983
Back in 1987, Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler threw down in a highly-advertised middleweight championship fight in Las Vegas, a glorious spectacle which captured the attention ...
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Fight Reports 1
Fight Report: Ugas vs Ramos
With professional boxing rebounding following months of idleness, the number of intriguing and consequential match-ups is steadily rising. And while not exactly a marquee match (after all, if ...
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The Top Twelve 2
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Rivalries
The best boxing rivalries are about more than a series of action-packed fights. Great rivalries are stories, absorbing narratives that capture the attention of legions of fans and ...
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Features 0
15 Kinds Of Fight Fan Heartache
As the world of sports and live entertainment ground to a halt this year, boxing fans endured months without any ring action at all, as some excellent scheduled ...
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Lee Wylie 0
Floyd Mayweather: Best Of A Generation
Three years ago today, it was “The Money Fight,” Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather, the biggest event in boxing; in fact, one of the biggest events in all ...
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Features 3
Plaster of Torrance (Part Two)
Plaster of Torrance: Unwrapping the Meaning of Antonio Margarito, Part Two. Excerpted from The Bittersweet Science. There are times when boxing matches resemble more a bullfight than they ...
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Columns 1
Adrien Broner In Perspective: Respect Is Due
He may have proven himself to be a one-man morality tale: the guy who had it all, but then made one too many bad choices and slipped into ...
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The Fight City 6
Boxing In The Blood
I guess you could say it’s in the blood. Boxing. The fight game. The crazy racket they call pugilism. Because the fact is both of my grandfathers were ...
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The Fight City 9
Tribute To Big Ron
“Ron had a big-time joie de vivre. He loved people, and he loved his boxing. When it came to training, he had a ton of patience. He was ...
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Features 12
Remembering #MayPac
Five years ago today one of the most eagerly anticipated matches in the long history of professional prizefighting, Mayweather vs Pacquiao, went down in Vegas and our own ...
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Columns 8
The Contrasting Legacies Of Roy & Floyd
When James J. Jeffries, heavyweight champion of the world, retired undefeated in 1905, few were in any doubt that they had just seen the greatest heavyweight fighter of ...
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Features 5
McCluskey’s Dozen: Thirty Years Of Talent
Talent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete, but at the same time it’s difficult to define precisely what it is. ...
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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 ...
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2019: The Nominations
As the old saying goes, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” and it’s difficult to conjure up a more apt statement ...
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