Browsing Tag middleweights
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Jan. 13, 1976: Hagler vs Watts
No matter where you place Marvelous Marvin Hagler in a ranking of the best middleweights of all-time, no one can dispute the fact few boxers have dominated a division ...
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Canelo vs Jacobs: The Fight City Picks
We’re almost half-way through 2019 and boxing fans can pretty much count on one hand the number of truly compelling, high-profile and legitimate best-vs-best contests we’ve been able ...
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The Rainmaker
At 28 years old and in his physical prime, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is a boxer of many qualities. Some attributes he has worked on for years, molding them ...
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#CaneloGGG2: This Time, It’s Personal!
It’s almost time, finally, for #CaneloGGG2, and so much has happened since the first encounter that it’s hard to believe it took place only a year ago. That ...
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Cinco De Mamadas
“I have not let you down. I respect the sport and I will always be a clean fighter.” By uttering these words—with a straight, if contrite, face—Saul ...
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Canelo vs GGG II Is Officially Set: Are We Happy Now?
After months of procrastination, the long negotiated, eagerly awaited rematch between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin has finally become official. The Mexican and the Kazakh will meet up ...
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Battle For The Soul Of Mexican Boxing
If you place a large map of Mexico on your wall and then try to put your finger exactly on its center, your index will land very close ...
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Canelo vs Chavez Jr.: A Question of Value
“Nobody knows what a dollar is, what the word means, what holds the thing up, what it stands in for. And that’s also what my work is about. Look ...
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The Middleweight Mess Redux
In February of last year The Fight City staffers engaged in a no-holds-barred conversation about the sorry state of the middleweight ranks. The division in which such names as Sugar Ray ...
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On Canelo, Golovkin, Marinating, And Other Mamadas
“Como decimos en Mexico, vamos a dejarnos de mamadas” –Canelo Alvarez In Spanish, mamada is a noun derived from the verb mamar, which literally means ‘to suckle’. Being ...
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A Question No One Asked
Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan meet tonight at the Strip’s brand new T-Mobile Arena for a contest that on the surface looks like a can’t miss Vegas extravaganza. ...
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A Futile Waiting Game
“You don’t want the fight, I understand, you’re 100% a businessman. But I wait, I’ve been waiting… let’s go fight.” –Gennady Golovkin No matter the circumstances surrounding Gennady ...
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#CaneloKhan: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The boxing kingpin of the post-#MayPac era, and the fighter to whom HBO and Golden Boy Promotions have entrusted their minting operations, has finally announced his first engagement ...
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The Mercenary and The Believer
Try as hard as you can and you’ll still fail to find a professional boxer who embodies the definition of “mercenary” better than Miguel Cotto does. While by ...
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#CottoCanelo: Twitter Shows Its Love
A fight years in the making has finally come to fruition, as it was announced today that lineal middleweight champ Miguel Cotto will fight Mexico’s wunderkind Saul “Canelo” ...
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Something from Nothing: the Unlikely Rise of GGG
There’s something about Gennady Golovkin that not only inspires a sense of wonder in his ever-growing following, but was actually instrumental in amassing such following in the first ...
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Golovkin vs Lemieux is on!
After days of speculation, it is now official that WBA middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin will face IBF beltholder David Lemieux in what promises to be a thrilling and violent spectacle. The ...
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Waiting on His Majesty
There are two schools of thought regarding Miguel Cotto’s recent career moves. The first one counts among its adherents most of his remaining fans, and holds that the Boricua’s ...
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The Limits of Ambition
We’re about six weeks away from Mayweather vs Pacquiao, and while the boxing world celebrates finally getting the mega-fight it has wanted for so long, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez ...
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Riviera Run-Over: Golovkin vs Murray
Monte Carlo, known for its extravagant displays of wealth, will see a different form of pageantry when Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin fights Martin Murray tomorrow. Golovkin is a fighter ...
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High Stakes in Monaco
Eleider “Storm” Alvarez will take another step towards stardom when he faces WBC-ranked contender Ryno Liebenberg this Saturday. The match will mark a milestone for the Colombia-born Alvarez, ...
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California Killshot: Golovkin Wastes Rubio
We learned nothing of his limits but received further proof of his rule. Last night at the Stubhub Center in Carson, California, Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (31-0) easily dispatched ...
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Fight Report: Martinez vs Chavez Jr
This year boxing had a particularly busy Mexican Independence weekend, but hardcore fight fans focused on the battle for middleweight supremacy between Sergio Martinez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. ...
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Number One Son – On Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and Jose Sulaiman
‘Son of the Legend’ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is scheduled to defend his middleweight WBC belt against fellow Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio on February 4th in San Antonio, ...
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