Browsing Tag welterweights
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Welterweight Fights
Thirty-eight years ago one of the biggest fights in boxing history shattered box-office and telecast records and helped usher in the era of The Four Kings. Hearns vs ...
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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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Enigmatic To The End
Amir Khan may be the nicest man I’ve spoken to in the entire fight game. If I had to consider all the people I’ve shared a few words ...
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Method To The Madness?
I’m moving up two weight divisions, and not just to fight any welterweight, but Errol Spence. At first glance, it seems nuts. –Mikey Garcia Four-division titlist and counter-puncher ...
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Back To Vegas
This Saturday night, ring legend Manny Pacquiao will hear the opening bell as a pro for the 70th time in his career. He will do so at a ...
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Explosive Potential: 147 Should Be Boxing’s Hottest Division
It was, until recently, the premier division in boxing, the weight class with the most elite-level talents and the most tantalizing match-ups to be made. Over the decades, ...
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Fight Report: Garcia vs Broner
The Event At the Barclays Center of Brooklyn, New York, highly regarded Mikey Garcia met perennial troublemaker Adrien Broner in a bout that came together unexpectedly, adding a ...
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Brook vs Spence: Closer to The Truth
Tomorrow night at Bramall Lane Ground in Sheffield, England, IBF welterweight titlist Kell Brook will defend his belt against fearsome up-and-comer Errol Spence Jr. If most fight fans ...
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The Middleweight Mess Redux
In February of last year The Fight City staffers engaged in a no-holds-barred conversation about the sorry state of the middleweight ranks. The division in which such names as Sugar Ray ...
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Dinamita’s Last Stand?
It’s been almost two years since Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez stepped into a boxing ring and got paid for it. The last occasion in which that happened ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 53
Welcome back to Manny’s Thoughts! Boxing, MMA, thoughts and news from Manny Montreal! This week: Big fight in Sorel! Shakeel Phinn vs Guillaume Coudé! Congrats to Shakeel! Thoughts ...
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Going All-In: Bradley vs Rios
Timothy Bradley and Brandon Rios are, by almost any measure, highly successful pugilists. They know seven-figure paydays and what it feels like to fight in glitzy venues in ...
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Twitter Ain’t Impressed
TMZ broke the news weeks ago, but Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the various stakeholders of his September 12 PPV match announced only today that he will, indeed, officially ...
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The True Significance of #MayPac
A fight that needs no introduction or build-up and has been in gestation for over five long years will finally hear its opening bell this Saturday night. It ...
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Friday Matters
The Al Haymon Boxing League rolls on for the second weekend in a row. Last Saturday, Haymon and his protégés took over Las Vegas, where Keith Thurman emerged ...
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Fight Report: Thurman vs Guerrero
The Event Last night at the MGM Grand of Las Vegas, welterweights Keith Thurman and Robert Guerrero headlined Al Haymon’s first foray intro free TV. Heralded as professional ...
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The Comeback Kids
This Saturday night offers a rare treat for fight fans, something that used to be routine some time ago: a high-profile boxing bout on free TV. The MGM Grand Garden ...
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Fight Report: Rios vs Alvarado III
The Event Saturday night in Broomfield, Colorado, Mike Alvarado enjoyed home-field advantage as he met Brandon Rios for a third time. It’s hard to assign much significance to ...
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TFC Picks: Pacquiao vs Algieri
This Saturday night in Macau, China, Manny Pacquiao will step into the ring to square off against the bigger and younger Chris Algieri. It’s a match that doesn’t ...
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We need to talk about Keith
Hi Al, You probably don’t remember me, but we crossed paths two summers ago in San Antonio during the first Knockout Kings card. I noticed you and was ...
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An oral (and entirely fictional) history of Mayweather vs Maidana
Brian Kenny – Mayweather vs Maidana is one of those contests in sports you never forget. In all my years of working boxing broadcasts, in terms of drama ...
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Broner vs Maidana: The Reckoning
By now, much has been written about the Adrien Broner vs Marcos Maidana rumble that went down in San Antonio this past Saturday. And it’s a safe bet ...
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Fight Report: Bradley vs Marquez
The Event In a bout staged to determine who the best Top Rank welterweight is at the moment, Timothy Bradley defended his portion of the championship against Juan ...
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Bradley vs Marquez: Something’s rotten in Vegas
In his first match since knocking out Manny Pacquiao last December, Juan Manuel Marquez will return to the ring on October 12 against WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley, ...
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Mayweather vs Guerrero: A beautiful monologue in Las Vegas
Last Saturday night at the MGM Grand Floyd Mayweather Jr. overturned all sorts of expectations. Many assumed his meeting with Robert Guerrero represented a stern test of the ...
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Quince de Septiembre: Canelo and Maidana shine
About a mile away from the Thomas and Mack Center where Martinez vs. Chavez Jr. took place, the Knockout Kings quadruple-header at the MGM Grand Garden Arena saw ...
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Pacquiao vs Bradley: Chronicle of a Fix Foretold
After a bizarre but largely irrelevant undercard, thousands in attendance and millions watching around the world eagerly awaited the main fight. So, for about 40 minutes after the ...
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