Browsing Tag Roman Gonzalez
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Fight Report: Sor Rungvisai vs Estrada II
The Event Situated near Los Angeles, the legendary Forum has hosted numerous memorable battles featuring Mexican boxers over the past few decades. Across 1970 and 1971, the venerable ...
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McCluskey’s Dozen: 30 Years Of Talent
Talent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete but it’s difficult to define precisely what it is. It can manifest itself ...
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Srisaket Sor Rungvisai: Challenger At Heart
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai enters tomorrow night’s “Superfly 2” card as the “A-side” of a marquee, HBO-televised main event, something that, a year ago, would have been unthinkable. But ...
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Columns 2
New Breeds: Boxing’s Weirdest Fans
Some call them “fanagers.” Others just call them annoying. I’ve always referred to them as boxing’s “new breed of fan.” No matter, it all means the same thing. ...
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2017 Fighter Of The Year
Nominations: Terence Crawford Vasyl Lomachenko Srisaket Sor Rungvisai Andre Ward Gennady Golovkin Winner: Srisaket Sor Rungvisai At first glance, choosing 2017’s Fighter Of The Year appears a vexing ...
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2017 Knockout Of The Year
Nominations: Zolani Tete KO1 Siboniso Gonya Eleider Alvarez KO5 Lucian Bute Terence Crawford KO3 Julius Indongo Srisaket Sor Rungvisai KO4 Roman Gonzalez David Benavidez TKO8 Rogelio Medina David ...
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2017 Performance of the Year
Nominees: Leo Santa Cruz (vs Carl Frampton) Oleksandr Usyk (vs Marco Huck) Andre Ward (vs Sergey Kovalev) Errol Spence (vs Kell Brook) Roman Gonzalez (vs Srisaket Sor Rungvisai ...
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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 ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 147
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! From Manny Montreal! This week: A lot of congratulations to pass around! Concerns about Golden Garcia! Keep an eye on Mohamed Soumaoro! Superfly ...
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Night Of The Superfly
When little-known Srisaket Sor Rungvisai tabbed a controversial upset win over four-time champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez last March, a first round knockdown in favor of the challenger was ...
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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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Broner vs Garcia: The Fight City Picks
Adrien Broner vs Mikey Garcia is a compelling clash between fighters who, at least on the surface, appear to be polar opposites. For Broner (33-2, 24 KOs), the ...
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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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Aleksandr Usyk: Fighter Of Few Words
A few weeks ago, two of the very best prizefighters in the world, Gennady Golovkin and Roman Gonzalez, were again featured together by HBO in matches which promised to be triumphs. ...
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Powerless Before A Myth
Judging by the reaction to his win over Daniel Jacobs this past Saturday night, one might think Gennady Golovkin had failed in his obligation to boxing fans. Rather ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 122
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! From Manny Montreal! Congrats to Michael Conlan and Gennady Golovkin! Tip of the hat to Danny Jacobs! Manny perplexed by the scorecards! And ...
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The Greatness Of Gonzalez
Allegedly, 60% of Roman Gonzalez is plain water, just like the rest of us. It begs the question: does that leave enough room in his compact 5’3″ frame ...
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GGG Edges Jacobs: No Need To Panic
Gennady Golovkin‘s 23-fight knockout streak and aura of menacing invincibility left him mired in a catch-22 with boxing fans: continue to win in dominant, punishing fashion and hear ...
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Golovkin vs Jacobs: The Fight City Picks
Say what you like, but Gennady Golovkin vs Daniel Jacobs is a legit, elite-level matchup, a clash of two of the very best in the middleweight class. Yes, ...
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2016 Fighter Of The Year
Fighter of the Year Nominations: Carl Frampton Terence Crawford Manny Pacquiao Roman Gonzalez Joe Smith Jr. Vasyl Lomachenko Winner: Joe Smith Jr. Plain and simple, no single fighter ...
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2016: The Nominees
Another year is in the books and it’s time to weigh-in on the major accomplishments in boxing for 2016. In many respects this was not a great year ...
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The Fight City’s Holiday Wish List
So today is Christmas Day and while not all of us celebrate it or sing praises to the babe in the manger, we can all get in the ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 95
Time for Manny’s Thoughts! Congrats to Jonathan DiBella! Congrats to Chocolatito! Congrats to Kell Brook! Never forget that second round! Big amateur shows this coming Saturday in The ...
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Respect For Brook And Cuadras
Only in boxing can a man be criticized for doing a poor job after fracturing his opponent’s eye socket. Sure enough, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin messed up Kell “Special ...
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Chocolatito Outduels Cuadras: Mark It Four
Becoming a star in contemporary boxing isn’t the easiest thing to do, and it’s especially difficult when a fighter scales in far below more popular divisions like middleweight ...
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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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Top Men: Connor’s Take
This week Patrick Connor flies solo on Top Men Boxing Radio with plenty to reflect upon and discuss. Last weekend’s HBO double-header merits some attention. Gennady Golovkin, who humbled ...
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Dynamic Duo: GGG & Gonzalez Triumph
One day we may actually find out what happens when Gennady Golovkin’s chin gets tested, or when someone can manage to avoid constantly walking into his punches. Dominic ...
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