Browsing Tag Naoya Inoue
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The Weekend That Was (No. 15)
It was an eventful weekend for pugilism with a number of top fighters in action, so of course we have your timely recap podcast as host Alden Chodash ...
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2020: The Nominations
To say 2020 was kinda crazy is to state the obvious to the point of trivializing what was an unprecedented year of chaos, upheaval, crisis and death on ...
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The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 5)
Boxing continues its resurgence in the latter part of 2020 with a Halloween night to remember and three major match-ups last night, all discussed with great insight by ...
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Fight Report: Inoue vs Moloney
The legend of “The Monster” continues to grow. Naoya Inoue (20-0) emphatically defended his bantamweight titles last night in “The Bubble” at the MGM Grand to make his ...
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October Fireworks
As we all know, boxing was off the air completely for many weeks this past spring due to the ongoing pandemic, before returning thanks to Top Rank’s summer ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 44
Brand new edition of our podcast is ready for your listening pleasure, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site contributor Jeffery Fuss discuss recent ring ...
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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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The Fight City Podcast No. 36
Welcome back to a new edition of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash! This episode he and site founder and editor Michael Carbert discuss a range of ...
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2019 Fighter Of The Year
Fighter of the Year Nominees Vasyl Lomachenko Naoya Inoue Saul “Canelo” Alvarez Josh Taylor Manny Pacquiao Jean Pascal Winner: Naoya Inoue Welcome to the Two Fight Club! Sadly, ...
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2019 Fight Of The Year
Fight of the Year Nominations: Julian Williams W12 Jarrett Hurd David Lemieux W10 Max Bursak Gennady Golovkin W12 Sergiy Derevyanchenko Errol Spence W12 Shawn Porter Yuki Beppu TKO10 ...
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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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Sun Tzu, Musashi, & The Pound-For-Pound Five
It’s a never-ending debate among hardcore boxing fans: just who are, pound-for-pound, the very best ring warriors active today. Various criteria are at play and the answers are ...
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Fight Report: Inoue vs Donaire
The Event The finale of the second season of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) saw two of the biggest names at bantamweight square off for division supremacy, ...
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The Weekend That Was
It was a jam-packed couple of days for boxing action with major matches happening in various locations on the planet, and we’ve got your quick run-down of all ...
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The Portis Pound-For-Pound
The other week Max Kellerman, currently pugilism’s premier talking head, released his new, updated pound-for-pound rankings and it sent all the hardcore boxing geeks into a tizzy. For ...
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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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The Weekend That Was
It was a pretty wild couple of days for combat sports fans, both with boxing and with the huge Khabib vs Conor UFC showdown. So let’s get to ...
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Fight Report: Inoue vs McDonnell
The Event It was always going to be a tall order for Britain’s Jamie McDonnell. Defending away from home and competing against one of the world’s best boxers, ...
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Shiro vs Lopez: Rematch In Tokyo
Inside the gym his father owns in Kyoto, Japan, Ken Shiro prepares for his upcoming defense of his WBC light flyweight championship, a rematch against Ganigan Lopez. It ...
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The Trials Of Chocolatito
Last March the boxing world was in collective shock when the mighty Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, boxing’s consensus #1 pound-for-pound fighter, was left bloodied and narrowly defeated at the ...
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Antonio Nieves Will Let You Worry About “The Monster”
It’s almost shocking to hear super flyweight contender Antonio Nieves (17-1-2) admit that he’d never heard of Japanese superstar Naoya Inoue (13-0) prior to signing on to challenge the ...
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Getting Set For SUPERFLY
In a truly excellent year for boxing, this weekend’s SUPERFLY card is in a class of its own. The world’s top five super flyweights will be in action, ...
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Naoya Inoue: The Monster Invades America
The light shines an iridescent blue inside the Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. Dressed in blood red trunks and black gloves, a youthful looking challenger enters the ring. ...
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Boxing Gods, We Want Some More!
As diehard fight fans, every so often we take a long and thoughtful look at the assemblage of talent in the boxing world, all the top contenders and ...
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The Weekend That Was
2016 ended with a busy weekend in major fistic action, especially on the other side of the globe. Let’s get to it. First up though, on Thursday night ...
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Question And Answer With Lee Wylie (No. 4)
Suffering from uncertainty about your lead shoulder feint? Having trouble with your distance management or footwork? Are tactical concerns regarding your favorite fighter keeping you up at night? ...
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Fireworks in Japan
Ohashi Promotions put on a spectacular boxing card in Tokyo last night. The eight fight show was headlined by two world title fights, the first featuring ex-minimum weight ...
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The Magnificent Seven
The boxing world has a bad case of ‘Chocolatito Fever’ these days. The diminutive flyweight champion displayed spectacular form in dismantling an experienced and tough Brian Viloria on last ...
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Japanese Boxing: From Harada to Inoue
On May 31st, 1966 two of boxing’s great little men clashed for a second time, seeking to conclude their rivalry with a definitive winner. Their prior affair was ...
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2014 Fighter of the Year
After a year largely devoid of compelling, high profile match-ups and public anticipation, it shouldn’t come as a great surprise to realize few boxers really made a huge ...
