Browsing Tag Oleksandr Usyk

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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 ...

    On April 6, 2019 / By
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    The Fight City Podcast No. 15

    Time for another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash who this week is joined by site editor Michael Carbert. Strap in, as Alden breaks down the chaos at ...

    On February 26, 2019 / By
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    The Fight City Podcast No. 10

    Welcome to another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash who is joined once again by site founder and editor Michael Carbert. This week it’s all about ...

    On January 8, 2019 / By
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    2018 Fighter Of The Year

    Nominations: Vasyl Lomachenko Tyson Fury Oleksandr Usyk Canelo Alvarez Josh Warrington Winner: Oleksandr Usyk  While all of our nominees had outstanding years and deserve consideration for top honors, ...

    On January 8, 2019 / By
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    2018 Performance Of The Year

    Nominees: Gennady Golovkin (vs Canelo Alvarez) Josh Warrington (vs Carl Frampton) Deontay Wilder (vs Luis Ortiz) Oleksandr Usyk (vs Murat Gassiev) Tyson Fury (vs Deontay Wilder) Eleider Alvarez (vs Sergey Kovalev) Oscar Valdez ...

    On January 7, 2019 / By
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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 ...

    On January 4, 2019 / By
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    Fight Report: Usyk vs Bellew

    The Event: The fallacy of the cruiserweight division lies in the fact that it has never quite broken free of its original intent. Cruiserweight was first formed in ...

    On November 11, 2018 / By
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    The Fight City Podcast No. 4

    Time for the latest edition of The Fight City Podcast! As usual, Alden Chodash is at the helm, with site editor Michael Carbert joining him in some rousing ...

    On November 6, 2018 / By
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    The Fight City Podcast No. 1

    Over the last few months, Alden Chodash has proven himself a most industrious contributor to your favourite independent boxing website and he also happens to be the proprietor ...

    On October 15, 2018 / By
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    Too Many Belts, Not Enough Champions

    Believe it or not, there are a total of 102 recognized ‘world’ championships in existence in professional boxing today. Discounting the 34 champions which may be of an ...

    On August 26, 2018 / By
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    Fight Report: Usyk vs Gassiev

    The Event: Since Marvin Camel became the first man to win the cruiserweight championship of the world in 1980, only one man has ever fully unified the division: ...

    On July 22, 2018 / By
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    Usyk vs Gassiev: The Fight City Picks

    It’s getting repetitive, but at the same time it bears repeating: 2018 is proving to be an excellent year for professional boxing. The number of high-calibre, high-stakes matches ...

    On July 19, 2018 / By
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    The Best Is Yet To Come (Part 1)

    As we approach the halfway point of the year, the World Cup has taken center stage, attracting the undivided attention of a large majority of sports fans around ...

    On June 21, 2018 / By
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    Fight Report: Gassiev vs Dorticos

    The Event  The World Boxing Super Series has been, by almost any measure, a resounding success thus far. This fact was confirmed in most dramatic fashion a week ...

    On February 4, 2018 / By
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    Manny’s Thoughts! No. 167

    Welcome back to Manny’s Thoughts! From Manny Montreal! Congratulations to Oleksandr Usyk and to the World Boxing Super Series! What a fight! Manny has a question for Adonis Stevenson! Phil ...

    On January 31, 2018 / By
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    Fight Report: Usyk vs Briedis

    The Event  Nothing but good can come from any tournament which seeks to crown a single fighter as the king of their respective weight class and the World ...

    On January 27, 2018 / By
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    Hyped Yet For 2018?

    Time to look forward, fight fans, as we turn the corner with great expectations for a new year of boxing action that will, we hope, at least come ...

    On January 11, 2018 / By
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    2017: The Nominees

    One thing we know for certain: 2017 was, in many ways, a very good year for professional boxing. Compared to recent years when significant matches were few and ...

    On January 3, 2018 / By
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    Usyk vs Huck: An Impressive Performance

    The World Boxing Super Series kicked off on Saturday at the Max Schmeling Hall in Berlin with a clash of cruiserweight champions, Marco Huck and Oleksandr Usyk, and ...

    On September 11, 2017 / By
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    On The Cusp Of A Breakthrough

    The shadow cast by boxing’s heavyweights has long loomed over the sadly dismissed cruiserweight division, much to the detriment of boxing fans eager to see fighters with intriguing combinations ...

    On February 2, 2017 / By
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    2016 Performance Of The Year

    Performance of the Year Nominations: Carl Frampton W12 Leo Santa Cruz Errol Spence TKO5 Chris Algieri Vasyl Lomachenko RTD7 Nicholas Walters Jermall Charlo TKO5 Julian Williams Oleksandr Usyk ...

    On January 7, 2017 / By
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    The Weekend That Was

    Some significant outcomes in the sport of pugilism over the last 48 hours. Here are the highlights, with a lowlight or two as well. First up, Hopkins vs ...

    On December 18, 2016 / By
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