Browsing Tag Shawn Porter
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Fight City Legends: The Barbados Demon
The issue of boxers failing to make weight is an ongoing concern, angering many fight fans and rightfully so. Whether it’s Floyd Mayweather intentionally coming in overweight against ...
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Nothing Left To Prove
Most great boxers do not go gently into the good night of retirement, but instead rage and fight against the dying of the light. And while, having long ...
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Lee Wylie 1
Terence Crawford: The Complete Boxer
In the not so distant past, when a gifted, young pugilist established himself as a top talent, he and boxing fans could look forward to a series of ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 7)
Time for another “weekend that was” podcast from Alden Chodash and Jeffrey Fuss as they recap a great night of action in Arlington, Texas and welterweight champ Errol Spence’s impressive ...
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The Top Twelve 4
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Welterweight Fights
No matter how you break it down, Errol Spence vs Danny Garcia has one major thing going for it: it’s one of the best matches that can currently ...
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“My Brain Is Okay!”
A few weeks ago I saw Errol Spence in a video from his training camp for Saturday’s showdown with Danny Garcia, Spence’s first fight in over fourteen months. ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Crawford vs Brook
Pound-for-pound lists are not to everybody’s taste, but regardless of how you choose to rank the best fighters in the world, there’s no denying that Terence Crawford is ...
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Fight Reports 1
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 2)
It was a lively weekend in boxing action and we got your podcast recap of all the major results, courtesy of Alden Chodash and Jeffrey Fuss. Topics include: the action-packed ...
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Columns 1
Adrien Broner In Perspective: Respect Is Due
He may have proven himself to be a one-man morality tale: the guy who had it all, but then made one too many bad choices and slipped into ...
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Columns 1
The Crawford Question
When a fighter who many consider to be, pound-for-pound, the best in the world defends his title at Madison Square Garden, it should be a big deal. But ...
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Beterbiev vs Gvozdyk: Light Heavyweight Lift Off
Recent weeks have seen boxing fans spoiled by a deluge of terrific contests between big-name fighters. From the back-and-forth battle between Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter, to ...
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Columns 1
A Lowdown Dirty Shame
It appears increasingly likely that there will never be a clash between the two best welterweights in the world, Errol Spence Jr. and Terence “Bud” Crawford, and that’s ...
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Spence vs Porter: Lost Opportunity
It is a hard truth of boxing in the 21st century that fight fans are so starved for meaningful competition that matches which once upon a time would ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 30
Time for a new podcast with Alden Chodash who is joined this time by site founder and editor Michael Carbert as they help fight fans get set for ...
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Spence vs Porter: The Fight City Picks
You can make the case that this match-up should have happened a while ago. You can also point out that one of the two combatants didn’t look very ...
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Columns 2
The Baleful Look In The PacMan’s Eyes
During all the weeks of pre-fight hoopla and the long promotional tour, Manny Pacquiao, a nice man with a lot of class, quietly took a whole lot of ...
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Pacquiao vs Thurman: The Fight City Picks
It hasn’t exactly been a terrible year, but it’s been far from a great one, when it comes to meaningful, top-level match-ups and big attractions in boxing. And ...
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Columns 2
Don’t Sleep On “One Time”
For my money, there is no hotter and more tantalizing division in boxing today than the welterweights. Historically, the 147 pound weight class has been the home of ...
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It’s Your Move, Bud!
If we say it too loudly we might just jinx it, but we have to give credit where it’s due: Al Haymon’s PBC at long last figured out ...
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When Fighters Fought: Time for a Welterweight Renaissance
Speaking for fans of a certain vintage, we all have a special set of boxers, the ones that forged our love for the sport, the ones on those ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Spence vs Garcia
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” Clearly the likes of “Barbados” Joe Walcott (who originally coined the phrase) and Bob Fitzsimmons didn’t think much of size ...
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Spence vs Garcia: The Fight City Picks
Errol Spence and Mikey Garcia are two of the best talents in boxing today. Both are champions; both are undefeated. However, few, if any, foresaw a clash between ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 16
Welcome back to a new edition of The Fight City Podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash. This week he and site contributor Jamie Rebner discuss the past ...
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The Weekend That Was
In case the sport of boxing wasn’t brutal enough inside the ring, Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker and “Showtime” Shawn Porter showed just how taxing it could be outside ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Thurman vs Lopez
As the old adage has it in the sport of boxing, you’re only as good as your last fight. The assumption of course being that you compete often ...
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Pacquiao Beats Broner: The Last Big Win?
There was no reason for Manny Pacquiao vs Adrien Broner to be a meaningful fight and in the end it was a bit on the sound and fury, ...
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Manny Pacquiao: The True Believer
Manny Pacquiao dances with boxing like a jilted lover. The twists and turns retain their technical grace, but lack the fluidity and passion as when the love was ...
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Philadelphia Fight Night
Manny Rivera, co-owner of Hard Hitting Promotions, was walking the main room of the 2300 Arena in a checked suit that would have fit the scene back when ...
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Fight Report: Porter vs Garcia
The Event: Even though the Barclay’s Center has become one of boxing’s hottest venues, you seldom see two fighters square off against each other that have each given ...
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Garcia vs Porter: The Fight City Picks
As one of our contributors discussed not that long ago, the current version of the welterweight division has all the necessary ingredients to give boxing fans plenty of ...
