Browsing Tag Srisaket Sor Rungvisai

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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 ...

  On December 31, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  The Fight City Podcast No. 28

  The summer break is over and we’re back with a brand new episode of our podcast, anchored as always by Alden Chodash. For this installment he is joined ...

  On August 28, 2019 / By Alden Chodash
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  Sor Rungvisai vs Estrada II: The Fight City Picks

  Tomorrow night, it’s finally time for the second chapter in what die-hard fight fans hope will turn into a legendary rivalry as Juan Francisco Estrada of Mexico and ...

  On April 25, 2019 / By Neil Crane
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  Rungvisai vs Estrada II: Unfinished Business

  This Friday, fourteen months after their first fight, Thailand’s prodigal son, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, and Mexico’s own Juan Francisco “Gallito” Estrada, will meet again to settle some unfinished ...

  On April 23, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  The Portis Pound-For-Pound

  The other week Max Kellerman, currently pugilism’s premier talking head, released his new, updated pound-for-pound rankings and it sent all the hardcore boxing geeks into a tizzy. For ...

  On April 6, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  The Fighter Of The Decade, Part Four

  In our final look at the top candidates for Fighter Of The Decade, we consider Roman Gonzalez, aka “Chocolatito,” who, it should be remembered, was at the top ...

  On March 11, 2019 / By Lee Wylie
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  The Weekend That Was

  It was a pretty wild couple of days for combat sports fans, both with boxing and with the huge Khabib vs Conor UFC showdown. So let’s get to ...

  On October 7, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  The Best Is Yet To Come (Part 1)

  As we approach the halfway point of the year, the World Cup has taken center stage, attracting the undivided attention of a large majority of sports fans around ...

  On June 21, 2018 / By Rafael García
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  Manny’s Thoughts! No. 171

  Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week: Congratulations once again to World Boxing Super Series! Looking forward to Usyk vs ...

  On February 27, 2018 / By Manny Montreal
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  Fight Report: Superfly 2

  The Event Superfly 2 went down last night at the Forum in Inglewood, California, featuring some of the best talent to be found in the lower weight classes. ...

  On February 25, 2018 / By Rafael García
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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 ...

  On February 23, 2018 / By Zachary Alapi
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  Chartchai Chionoi: 1942-2018

  While sports like hockey and basketball have only experienced the effects of globalization relatively recently, boxing has forever been a sport of nations. Manuals from as far back ...

  On January 26, 2018 / By James Kinneen
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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 ...

  On January 7, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...

  On January 6, 2018 / By Robert Portis
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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 ...

  On January 5, 2018 / By Rafael García
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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 ...

  On January 3, 2018 / By Robert Portis
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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 ...

  On September 10, 2017 / By Patrick Connor
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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 ...

  On September 8, 2017 / By Danny Howard
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  Sor Rungvisai Upsets Chocolatito: Great Fight, Wrong Result

  Srisaket Sor Rungvisai may well have the most deceptive record of any current world champion in boxing. The story of where he came from in order to become ...

  On March 24, 2017 / By Matt O'Brien
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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 ...

  On March 23, 2017 / By Eliott McCormick
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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 ...

  On March 22, 2017 / By Manny Montreal
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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 ...

  On March 20, 2017 / By Rafael García