Browsing Tag Nicholas Walters
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April 1, 2000: Klitschko vs Byrd
When a prizefighter decides he has had enough for the night and signals surrender, a variety of attitudes and opinions from the boxing fraternity are revealed. The “Q”-word ...
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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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Fight Reports 1
Fight Report: Lomachenko vs Walters
The Event It was one of the most anticipated matches of the year, ostensibly a battle between two of the very best in the sport. Vasyl Lomachenko is ...
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Lomachenko vs Walters: The Picks
Lomachenko vs Walters. Two of the very best in the world at 130 pounds, both facing their biggest challenge and most dangerous opponent yet. And it’s going down ...
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Hi-Tech’s Tricks
Last Saturday we had a showdown between two of the best boxers, pound-for-pound, in the world. And guess what? This Saturday we have another high-stakes clash between, you ...
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PBC Is Back: Early Picks
When it comes to boxing on Showtime and the Premier Boxing Champions network, we know who’s in charge, right? It’s Uncle Al! The reclusive, camera-shy operator with so ...
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Columns 2
The Doctors Are Wrong
Nothing will kill boxing and nothing can save it. — Larry Merchant The doctors shake their heads as they look over the unconscious patient. No question, he ...
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Lee Wylie 6
Vasyl Lomachenko: The Tricks
Having already gifted us excellent videos on virtually every top technical pugilist in the game today, including Roman Gonzalez, Gennady Golovkin, Guillermo Rigondeaux, Andre Ward, Canelo Alvarez and Floyd ...
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#NoTrump: The Rise of Oscar Valdez
Let’s be honest: 2016 has been far from an exciting year for boxing with few truly compelling matchups. This Saturday night will bring us one of the biggest ...
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2015 Robbery of the Year
Robbery of the Year Nominations: Nicholas Walters D10 Jason Sosa Jean Pascal UD10 Yunieski Gonzalez Johnny Muller W10 Mateusz Masternak Keita Obara D12 Walter Castillo Robert Guerrero SD10 ...
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The Weekend That Was
We got heavyweight action, a mild upset at 160, and — surprise, surprise — another set of inexplicable scorecards. Time for your rundown of the major happenings. Rances Barthelemy ...
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Boxing’s Shame
No one, of course, should have been surprised. Sadly, though, all of us were. Just as we are, each and every time. There was Nicholas Walters, up a ...
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Columns 4
Lomachenko’s Muse
What is art? And how do we evaluate it? Great minds through the centuries have pondered these questions, brooding over the subjective nature of aesthetic judgment. Must art ...
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Columns 6
Whatever Happened to Ambition?
Why isn’t Deontay Wilder screaming for a fight with Wladimir Klitschko? Why isn’t Leo Santa Cruz calling out Guillermo Rigondeaux? Or Vasyl Lomanchenko? Or Nicholas Walters? Why isn’t Adonis Stevenson ...
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The Axe Man Cuts Down Another Tree
For the second week in a row, an HBO main event had its shine stolen by weight issues and ‘what if’s.’ Last week it was Miguel Cotto having ...
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Mark Your Calendar
If the month of May was a woman then the first date didn’t go so well. Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao had many of us giddy with excitement ...
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Columns 14
Pray to the Boxing Gods: Our 2015 Dream Fight Wish List
Good riddance to the cesspool of mismatches, robberies, and lack of appealing fights that was 2014! The new year is here and well underway so it’s time to ...
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Columns 2
The Jackal Is Relegated to Japan
On the last day of one of boxing’s lamest years, its master craftsman, Guillermo “El Chacal” Rigondeaux (14-0), steps into the ring where he’ll seek a upbeat conclusion ...
