Browsing Tag Sergio Martinez
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The Executioner’s Greatest Victories
To state the obvious, fight fans have always been attracted to thunderous power punchers. The sheer violence of a sudden, dramatic knockout is a major part of boxing’s ...
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Golovkin vs Canelo: The Last Word
With boxing still profoundly affected by the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to periodically revisit some of our past feature articles. Today we look back to the still ...
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Cotto vs Martinez: King Of New York
With pro sports in a deep freeze due to the coronavirus pandemic, now is a good time to re-feature some great articles from the recent past. Here is ...
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How Many Title Defenses Does GGG Have? It’s Complicated
In the wake of Gennady Golovkin’s return to knockout form last May, there was much fanfare regarding his purported achievement of matching Bernard Hopkins’ record of 20 consecutive ...
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“JonFer”: Spain’s Budding Star
Although Spain has never been exactly a hotbed for professional boxing, emerging prospect Jon Fernandez appears poised to take up the prizefighting torch for his homeland. Indeed, the mantle ...
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Winning Isn’t Everything: Cotto Exits With Class
On Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, Miguel Cotto proved the truth of the old cliché, winning isn’t everything. After being soundly beaten by the younger, faster Sadam ...
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Cotto vs Canelo: Lee Wylie’s Pick
The Fight City is proud to be the home of Lee Wylie and as part of our special coverage in advance of an historic clash of champions, Cotto ...
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Beyond a Punch: Cotto vs Canelo
There’s more to boxing than meets the eye and there’s more to Cotto vs Canelo than just another exciting Puerto Rico vs Mexico showdown. This is without question ...
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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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Greb and Robinson Are Spinning In Their Graves
Miguel Cotto made short work of Daniel Geale this past Saturday night and in emphatic fashion and I’m still trying to get the bad taste out of my ...
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Fight Report: Cotto vs Geale
One of the biggest criticisms of the Cotto-Geale showdown was the installation of a catchweight limit and weight became a major talking point throughout the HBO World Championship ...
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Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
Chavez Jr vs Fonfara Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions takes a break this week, but that doesn’t mean fight fans will have Saturday night off. In fact, boxing aficionados ...
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Julius Jackson: The Chef Gets Cookin’
In the coming weeks, Julius ‘The Chef’ Jackson (19-0 15KO) will be heading out to Big Bear, California, to help Gennady Golovkin prepare for his May bout against ...
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Golovkin Too Much For Murray
Gennady Golovkin is, without question, the best middleweight in the world. Miguel Cotto may be the lineal champion, but he will be a huge underdog if that match ...
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Riviera Run-Over: Golovkin vs Murray
Monte Carlo, known for its extravagant displays of wealth, will see a different form of pageantry when Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin fights Martin Murray tomorrow. Golovkin is a fighter ...
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The Middleweight Mess
On the eve of one of the best matches the middleweight division can offer, and yet, despite this, a fight many are not expecting to be particularly competitive, ...
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Paul Williams: Down, But Not Out
No sport is home to more tragedy than boxing. Death, career-ending injury, brain damage. These can be the legacy of the cruelest of sports. But a different kind ...
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Who Will Rule The Middleweights?
The middleweight division has for the past year been as tantalizing and frustrating as watching an X-rated video on a patchy internet connection: you know the content is ...
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Business as Usual: Chavez Jr. vs. Vera II
“Why should I watch an overweight pothead riding his daddy’s name and fame?” This is the question a boxinghead recently posed to Ring Magazine’s Doug Fischer. The scribe’s ...
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Fight Report: Martinez vs Chavez Jr
This year boxing had a particularly busy Mexican Independence weekend, but hardcore fight fans focused on the battle for middleweight supremacy between Sergio Martinez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. ...
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Number One Son – On Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and Jose Sulaiman
‘Son of the Legend’ Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is scheduled to defend his middleweight WBC belt against fellow Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio on February 4th in San Antonio, ...
