Browsing Tag Marco Antonio Barrera

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  Top 12 Greatest ‘WTF’ Pacman Moments

  At this point it’s anybody’s guess how much longer Manny Pacquiao will continue boxing, but what is known beyond a shadow of a doubt is that, win or ...

  On August 20, 2021 / By Rafael García
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  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, ...

  On May 20, 2021 / By Alden Chodash
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Mexican Boxers

  A while back your preferred independent combat sports website had a special week on Mexican pugilists called “Mexican Style” and part of it was a spirited debate regarding ...

  On May 5, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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  April 7, 2001: Hamed vs Barrera

  “I’m here training the greatest featherweight of all time.” None other than Emanuel Steward spoke those words, three weeks before Prince Naseem Hamed faced Marco Antonio Barrera in ...

  On April 7, 2021 / By Rafael García
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  Top 12 Greatest All-Mexican Fights

  The expectations were high this past Saturday when Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez answered the bell in Las Vegas and with good reason. Few countries can match Mexico ...

  On February 22, 2021 / By Rafael García
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  Feb. 19, 2000: Morales vs Barrera I

  No one can really pin down how the animosity began. Perhaps it was a regional rivalry with Erik Morales hailing from the working class region of Zona Norte, ...

  On February 19, 2021 / By Rene Ricardo Bernal
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  Feb.3, 1996: Barrera vs McKinney

  It’s 1996 and HBO has decided to start a new series of live boxing, providing fight fans with more excitement and their prizefighters with more exposure. At that time, ...

  On February 3, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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  Johnny Tapia: Boxing Saved His Life

  HBO’s Tapia begins with an overhead shot of the New Mexico desert. The camera pans across the yellow landscape and settles on a solitary man, walking with his ...

  On November 13, 2020 / By Eliott McCormick
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  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 ...

  On August 27, 2020 / By Matt O'Brien
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  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. ...

  On January 23, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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  Top 12 All-Time Worst Cheap Shots

  All intentional fouls or blindside hits are cheap, but for this list we define a “cheap shot,” also known as a “sucker punch,” as a blow rendered when ...

  On October 13, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights

  We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our ranking of the best to ever lace up ...

  On August 14, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  Who Is The Greatest Mexican Boxer?

  Michael Carbert: Several years ago I wrote up a Top 12 Greatest All-Time Mexican Boxers list and to my delight, it inspired some consternation. I’ve wanted to revisit ...

  On December 28, 2018 / By Rafael García
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  Undisputed Chaos

  The other week saw one of the most compelling match-ups boxing has to offer finally happen: “Supremacy” — Gennady Golovkin vs Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. The significance of this ...

  On September 25, 2017 / By Matt O'Brien
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  The Weekend That Was

  Bloody and Bruised: Berchelt and Miura Emerge Victorious. It’s not often that boxing fans get to witness two fights back-to-back that are so steeped in savagery that they likely ...

  On January 30, 2017 / By Daniel Attias
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  Top Men: Greatest Mexican Boxers

  Fight fans are avidly looking forward to this Saturday night as we have what should be an amazing all-action, all-Mexico showdown between two blood-and-guts warriors, Orlando Salido and ...

  On June 2, 2016 / By Robert Portis
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  “Bomber” Peden Looks Back

  Boxing, like life, is all about seizing the moment, taking full advantage of the opportunities which come your way. After all, it takes just one punch to turn ...

  On October 11, 2015 / By Daniel Attias
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  Rivalry or Obsession?

  No matter how you look at it, the second half of the career of Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez has been defined by his rivalry with Filipino legend ...

  On August 29, 2015 / By Rafael García
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  Erik Morales: First Mexican to Win 4 in 4

  In celebration of #MexicanStyle week we bring you Rafael’s write up of Erik “Terrible” Morales’ historic title-winning effort of September 17, 2011, when he defeated Pablo Cesar Cano ...

  On August 28, 2015 / By Rafael García