By: Sean Crose “It’s special for me,” Gennady “GGG” Golovkin said during a Wednesday conference call to promote his middleweight title showdown against Canelo Alvarez on September 16th. “It’s huge.” Indeed, his fight with Alvarez will be enormous, the biggest boxing event this side of Floyd and Conor. And team …
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By Jake Donovan The last time Miguel Cotto fought live on HBO’s flagship station in June ‘15, it turned out to be the 3rd highest-rated fight of the year. Saturday’s ring return for Puerto Rico’s first-ever four division world champion merely produced the third highest-rated boxing telecast of the evening. …
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Compiled By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of August 22nd to August 29th; covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Photo Credit: Hogan Photos/Golden Boy Promotions Canelo vs. Golovkin Undercard Set The undercard for the …
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By: Sean Crose Perhaps lost in all the mania surrounding the Floyd-Conor weekend was the huge news that ESPN has announced a major deal with Bob Arum’s Top Rank Promotions. Arum, one of boxing’s most prominent promoters (perhaps the single most prominent one) is now letting his stable of boxers …
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By: Bruce Babashan (A letter to a friend about the McGregor vs Mayweather fight the other night) I did not watch the fight the other night. I had my reasons but I have many friends and family that did. One friend (Greg) in particular who loves Conner McGregor and MMA …
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By: Sean Crose It’s only fitting perhaps that a professional sporting event that was said to be born and bred online ended up dominating the social medial site over the summer. For, in the weeks leading up to Floyd Mayweather’s 10th round victory over UFC star Conor McGregor on Saturday …
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By Gary Todd Las Vegas- Floyd Mayweather , as expected, took Conor McGregor to school, and gave the Irish plodder , a painful lesson in the sport of boxing. The loud mouthed McGregor could not back up on anything he said in the build up to the fight, and in …
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By Charles Jay This reporter had to take a look around his Facebook news feed today (Sunday) before writing this piece. I don’t know what yours says, but here it’s telling me that, for the most part, those people who felt the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight was a complete and …
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By: Ken Hissner They were closer than brothers and until this day are still best friends. South Philly’s Buster Drayton would get his title fight at age 32 defeating Carlos Santos for the vacant IBF light middleweight title in June of 1986. He was co-managed by Ivan Cohen and Gary …
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By: Ken Hissner This writer remembers back in the early 70’s when in “Smokin” Joe Frazier’s Gym seeing this boxer that Eddie Goodman managed named “The Big E” Eddie Duncan. Duncan was boastful and was a tall light heavyweight with processed hair. Recently not wanting his name revealed a PA …
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