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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 ...
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Golovkin vs Canelo: The Day After
The most anticipated match of 2017 delivered in numerous ways and in the end it was 12 highly competitive rounds which were a credit to both fighters. Herewith, ...
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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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Mayweather vs McGregor: Back To Reality
According to retired MMA journeyman Brendan Schaub, there exists “no chance” of Floyd Mayweather knocking out Conor McGregor. This reasoning requires the kind of suspension of common sense ...
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Welcome To The Circus
There is no reason for Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor to be fighting each other. No reason at all. The mere idea of matching the semi-retired Mayweather and ...
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Canelo vs Golovkin: Four Steps To Make It The Event Of The Year
Louis C. K. has a good bit about how words are neither good nor bad, but just happen to become good or bad depending on how people use them. ...
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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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An Epidemic Of Gutlessness
“That fight,” says Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the recent celebration for his 40th birthday, “makes a lot of sense.” Interesting statement. The “fight” Floyd refers to is the ...
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Canelo vs Chavez: Why The Outrage?
Just imagine for a second how big this fight would have been a few years ago. Julio Caesar Chavez Jr., son of a Mexican boxing icon, going head-to-head ...
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The Weekend That Was
In a stunning upset on Saturday, upstart cruiserweight Oleksandr Usyk (10-0, 9 KOs) shocked previously undefeated WBO world champion Krzysztof Glowacki (26-1, 16 KOs) via clear-cut unanimous decision ...
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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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What Now, Canelo?
The trick seems to have worked. Or has it? Canelo Alvarez vs Amir Khan, boxing’s version of an effects-laden summer film created by marketing analysts, appears to have done ...
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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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#PacNelo Is Coming
“Boxing is a business” is the phrase fighters, promoters, managers, and even fight fans use to justify about 85% of the matches that we get to see on ...
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Zuffa’s Ultimate Gamble
The greatest business moguls always follow the risk vs reward theory, carefully balancing the two and avoiding the huge gamble. But right now it appears that the UFC is preparing ...
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Is David Lemieux Really A Middleweight?
March 12 was supposed to be the glorious homecoming of David Lemieux in a card set up by Eye of the Tiger Management at the Olympia Theatre in ...
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Pacquiao Off His Pedestal
Comparing disfavorably a significant subset of the human population to animals is not a good way to win friends, especially when the one speaking had for so long ...
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Are Fans Losing Patience With Canelo?
Brutal and dangerous though it may be, boxing is still a sport, both at heart and in practice. So when a prominent pugilist decides the competitive nature that ...
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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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Canelo vs Golovkin: No Marinating Please!
Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports had some interesting things to say in the aftermath of an agreement between the World Boxing Council, its middleweight champ Canelo Alvarez, and ...
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Ronda Rousey: An Outsider’s Perspective
First things first. I’m a boxing writer, and while I admire MMA I don’t know nearly enough about it to write with any authority, at least not usually. ...
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The Sugar Shane We Want To Remember
Against all logic and the pleas of serious boxing fans everywhere, future Hall of Famer and former all-around good guy “Sugar” Shane Mosley refuses to retire. The latest ...
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From Managua to Manhattan
Once Floyd Mayweather decided to ‘retire’ this September and retreat further into his sealed bubble of self-exaltation, Nicaragua’s Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez gained widespread recognition as the world’s best boxer, pound for pound. On Saturday night ...
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David Lemieux Public Workout
In downtown Montreal, there are few buildings more historic than “The Old Forum,” as it’s commonly referred to now. Not only was it the home of the Montreal ...
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Floyd’s Farewell?
Another Floyd Mayweather fight, another 12 round exhibition of defensive boxing tactics. Andre Berto, as expected, lacked the skills or the athletic gifts to challenge Mayweather and fight ...
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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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The Long Journey Back
The brutal world of pro boxing isn’t necessarily a great place for family bonds to thrive. But the history of the sport is full of father-son relationships, many ...
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Let Boxing Decide
So now Keith Thurman is under fire from critical boxing fans. Why? Because he took a vicious body shot from Luis Collazo during their PBC match last week. ...
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Enemies at the Gate
This week, Top Rank, the promotional outfit run by Lee Harvey Oswald-era holdover Bob Arum, launched a $100M lawsuit against Al Haymon and his various enterprises. The lawsuit, ...
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