Browsing Tag Roman Gonzalez
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2020 Fight Of The Year
Fight Of The Year Nominations: Jose Zepeda KO5 Ivan Baranchyk Juan Francisco Estrada TKO11 Carlos Cuadras Roman Gonzalez TKO8 Kal Yafai Alex Povetkin TKO5 Dillian Whyte Masayoshi Nakatani ...
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2020: The Nominations
To say 2020 was kinda crazy is to state the obvious to the point of trivializing what was an unprecedented year of chaos, upheaval, crisis and death on ...
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Mayhem In Mexico
The Event Friday night at TV Azteca’s studios in Mexico City, super flyweight badasses Juan Francisco “Gallito” Estrada and “Chocolatito” Roman Gonzalez sprung back into action in separate ...
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October Fireworks
As we all know, boxing was off the air completely for many weeks this past spring due to the ongoing pandemic, before returning thanks to Top Rank’s summer ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 44
Brand new edition of our podcast is ready for your listening pleasure, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site contributor Jeffery Fuss discuss recent ring ...
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Fight Report: Gonzalez vs Yafai
The Event: The main event, or so we were told, for last night’s solid DAZN card from Texas was a showdown of welterweight contenders, Mikey Garcia and Jessie ...
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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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The Fighter Of The Decade
In a way, it makes perfect sense that the true stand-out prizefighter of the past decade would become for many boxing fans, if not most, something of an ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Fight Report: Golovkin vs Jacobs
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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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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