The holidays came early today for Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins when the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) overturned the decision that dealt the oldest champion in boxing history a controversial technical knockout loss to “Bad” Chad Dawson on October 15 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. The outcome of the …
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by Hans Olson Evander Holyfield. The Real Deal. His name is synonymous with American boxing. One of the greatest heavyweights of all time, Holyfield continues to fight on into his late 40’s, recently knocking out Brian Nielsen in Denmark this past May. In addition to his fight career, Evander has …
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Promoter Frank has confirmed the dates in 2012 when World Champions Nathan Cleverly and Ricky Burns will return to action, live and exclusive on BoxNation (Sky Ch. 456, Virgin Ch. 546). Welshman Cleverly, the WBO World Light-Heavyweight Champion, makes a glorious homecoming on Saturday 25th February at the Motorpoint Arena …
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On Floyd Mayweather and Perfection By Hans Olson With their 46-14 drubbing of the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, the NFL’s Green Bay Packers earned their 13th win this year, 3 wins away from regular season perfection. 3 more in the playoffs, and they could be the first NFL team since …
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By Dominic Sauboorah Along with Amir Khan another up and coming light-welterweight fighter is beginning to prosper which has been proven after his convincing win over experienced domestic fighter Lenny Daws (22-2-2) for the British light-welterweight championship. Ashley Theophane (31-4-1) is clearly one for the future, but is it too …
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by Charles Jay All in all, I kind of enjoyed it. Even as Saturday night’s fight was progressing, this looked like Amir Khan’s most “professional” opponent to date. What I mean by that is, he may not have been a good a “technician” as Andriy Kotelnyk, or as big a …
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by Charles Jay Was Amir Khan the victim of “home cooking” as was suggested by a crew of HBO announcers who had much more of an interest in Khan winning Saturday night’s fight than the eventual winner, Lamont Peterson? I’m going to suggest that was not the case. Not the …
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By Johnny Walker On the undercard of the Khan-Peterson bout last night, American heavyweight prospect Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell defeated Uzbek veteran Timur Ibragimov in surprisingly quick fashion, stopping him by TKO at 2:48 of round two. A quick scan of various boxing boards shows that the Seth Mitchell bandwagon is …
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Team Khan/GBP Official Statement Firstly, we would like to congratulate Lamont Peterson on his performance against Amir Khan. Not only has he shown that he is a tremendous fighter inside the ring, but also a great man out of the ring. Following the decision in the fight, Team Khan and …
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