Boxing Insider Notebook: Mayweather, Golovkin, Cuadras, Fonfara, Olympics, and more… Compiled By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of January 24th to January 31st, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Olympian Richard Hitchins Signs with …
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Mayweather, McGregor, Money By: Kirk Jackson It seems it’s more than just a hypothetical, more than just what if? This is more than fantasy talk now. Boxing meets MMA. The polarizing, retired,boxing legend Floyd Mayweather vs. the budding, active, mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor. It appears there has been …
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Gerald Washington Gets A Crack At Deontay Wilder By: Sean Crose “Right now we don’t deserve the heavyweight title,” Gerald Washington said to me a while back. “It’s not easy to be the champion. You have to live right and work hard.” Now, several years later, Washington is apparently ready …
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Santa Cruz Plays It Smart In Victory Over Frampton by John Freund On Saturday night at the MGM in Las Vegas, before a crowd of 10,085 in attendance, Leo Santa Cruz did exactly what he didn’t do in his first meeting with Carl Frampton – exploited his long reach to …
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Sixty One Rounds Of Combat: Jackson Versus Corbett By: Sean Crose Heavyweight champion John L Sullivan was racist. Or afraid. Or perhaps both. Whatever the reason, the famous (or notorious) Boston Strong Boy refused to trade punches with a black fighter. Thus, the infamous “color line” was drawn. Black fighters …
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Joshua v. Klitschko set to pack 90K into Wembley Stadium By: Matthew N. Becher Carl Froch is going to have to come up with a better saying than “I knocked out George Groves in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium”, because a new record is soon to be set …
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Mayweather-McGregor: The Money Grab The Public Demand By: Sean Crose The public is going to get what it wants. And what it wants is a novelty act. Indeed, what it wants is for Floyd Mayweather to fight Conor McGregor in a boxing match. And so it’s probably going to happen. …
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Jaron “Boots” Ennis and Manny Folly Win Saturday in Philly! By: Ken Hissner Headlining Saturday at the 2300 Arena in South Philly in a Victory Boxing Promotions with CEO Chris Middendorf put on a “knockout of a show” with all seven fights failing to go the distance. The best prospect …
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Vargas-Berchelt, Miura-Roman, Provide Great Night Of Boxing On HBO By: Sean Crose Super featherweight Takashi Miura (30-3-2) returned to American television screens on Saturday as he kicked off HBOs first Boxing After Dark broadcast of 2017 by facing Miguel Roman. Although Roman had a record of 56-11, he hadn’t lost …
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Showtime Championship Boxing Recap: Garcia wins by KO; Santa Cruz avenges first Loss by Maj Decision By: Matthew N. Becher Live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Nevada, Premier Boxing Champions presented a two fight championship card. The co-main event was between the first and only world champion from …
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