Browsing Tag Naseem Hamed

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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
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    Fifty Epic Fights: The 1990s

    We got some bad news, fellow fight fans: looks like COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere, at least not for quite a while. So, depending on where you reside, you ...

    On July 14, 2020 / By
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    Whatever Happened To Scott Harrison?

    For a country so small, Scotland has punched well above its weight in producing champion boxers. Benny Lynch, “The Little King of the Gorbals,” famously lit up the ...

    On April 24, 2020 / By
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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, 2020 / By
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    Cut Time

    In Cut Time: An Education at the Fights, Carlo Rotella expounds deeply on a thesis boxing fans have heard before; namely, that the fight game serves as a ...

    On January 11, 2020 / By
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    Dec. 19, 1997: Hamed vs Kelley

    The time had come for the arrogant, fast-talking pugilist they called “The Prince” to conquer the most famous arena in boxing history. The gifted power-puncher had already become ...

    On December 19, 2019 / By
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    Top 12 All-Time Cockiest Boxers

    There’s confident, and then there’s cocky, the former being expected of any prizefighter with the guts to step into the ring, but the latter taking confidence and turning ...

    On December 17, 2019 / By
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    Dark Trade

    My earliest memory of boxing is a poster for Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks from back in 1988, the big heavyweight superfight that lasted exactly 91 seconds. The poster ...

    On June 21, 2019 / By
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    When Trash Talk Backfires

    Many times my dad repeated this old saw in my presence: “A wise man keeps his ears open and his mouth shut.” Not that I ever listened or ...

    On October 10, 2018 / By
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    Remembering The Kronk

    [Ed. Note: Since the publication of this article, more than one individual associated with the Kronk Gym has questioned the accuracy of this account. It should be noted ...

    On April 13, 2018 / By
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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
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    The British Heavyweights: THEY’RE ALIVE!

    Somewhere online or in print between now and next Monday there will be an article headlined ‘Frampton Comes Alive,’ a 1970s musical reference to the IBF Super-Bantamweight champion Carl ...

    On February 25, 2015 / By
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