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By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of November 4th to November 11th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Mansour Stops Kassi Amir “Hardcore” Mansour (20-1) fought on the final showing of Main Events’ boxing …

By: William Holmes Tonight’s undercard for the Bernard Hopkins vs. Sergey Kovalev bout started on time at 5:15 p.m. at the famed Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The opening bout of the night was between Ryan Martin (8-0) and Martin Cardona (17-3) in the junior welterweight division. Martin …

Guest column by Hans Olson What do Edwin Rodriguez, Thomas Oosthuizen, James DeGale, Mikkel Kessler, Kelly Pavlik, Sakio Bika, Lucian Bute, Andre Dirrell, and Carl Froch all have in common? At one time or another, they chose not to fight current lineal light-heavyweight champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson, going back to …

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By Tyson Bruce Every time the forty-nine year old Bernard Hopkins now enters a boxing ring, history is being made to one degree or another. That’s why it came as a shock to most experts when Hopkins voluntarily pursued a fight against one of the most feared and avoided punchers …

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By: William Holmes The legendary Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City has been the host site for many major world title fights, and on Saturday night the biggest title fight to take place in Atlantic City in years will be televised on HBO. The legendary and often controversial Bernard “The Alien” …

By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of October 28th to November 4th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Hillary Clinton Seeks Pacquiao’s Endorsement Bob Arum recently stated to ABS-CBN News Bureau that possibly 2016 …

By Ivan G. Goldman It’s not likely, but if Bernard Hopkins, at age 49, soundly defeats cement-fisted Sergey Kovalev this Saturday night in Atlantic City, he could arguably catapult to the top of the pound-for-pound list as the best fighter in the world, period. About a dozen years back, Hopkins …

By Tyson Bruce This weekend, from the Boardwalk Hall and televised on HBO, yet another Eastern European boxer, Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev, will attempt to stake his claim at greatness by taking on the legendary and ageless Bernard “The Alien” Hopkins. This comes just two weeks after Gennady Golovkin turned in …