By Sean Crose If you look carefully enough you’ll be surprised that things took this long to come to a head. The war between HBO and Showtime should, by right, have been going on since the second half of the 1980s, when Showtime first stepped onto the boxing scene. In …
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By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of December 3rd to December 10th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. TMZ Reports: Pacquiao Owes 18 Million to IRS TMZ reports that the IRS claims Manny Pacquiao …
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By Ivan G. Goldman Twelve rounds of Rigondeaux is too much Rigondeaux. No amount of cajoling by Max Kellerman can change that. If baseball games were scheduled to go 18 innings they’d be a close cousin to one of this guy’s fights — and America would have to look for …
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By Sean Crose Funny how things can change over the course of a single evening. Up until the moment Paulie Malignaggi stepped into the ring at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn on Saturday night, the man was considered, well, washed up. Past his prime. On the downslide. Now, if you …
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By Tyson Bruce At the much anticipated four fight card at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, fans got to witness a little big of everything. The sold out Brooklyn crowd observed two extremely rough and tumble affairs in the Bika-Dirrell and Alexander-Porter fights, and two master class boxing exhibitions in …
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By: William Holmes The Adrian Phillips ballroom in the legendary Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey was the site of tonight’s HBO Boxing After Dark tripleheader. An entertaining and surprisingly competitive undercard preceded tonight’s televised card as Toka Kahn Clary and Matt Korobov were able to win despite being …
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By Jackie Kallen This is the season to celebrate and there are holiday parties every weekend. I usually DVR the fights and head out to a good party. But tonight I am planning to be sitting right in front of my TV when the Showtime fights start. The fights are …
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By Kirk Jackson December 7th, the “Magic Man” Paulie Malignaggi 32-5 (7 KO’s) will engage in a welterweight showdown with fellow Brooklynite Zab “Super” Judah 42-8 (29 KO’s) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. This should be a closely contested fight throughout between these veterans who share various …
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By Tyson Bruce Floyd Mayweather Jr., live and in the flesh, brought four of his most high profile young fighters to Little Creak Casino in Shelton, Washington to show off their talent on the latest installment of ‘Sho Box’. The results of the card, depending on your personal taste, could …
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by Johnny Walker At the start of the 2013, the United Kingdom looked set to make a heavy impact on boxing’s heavyweight division, with emerging talents like giants David Price and Tyson Fury, returning veteran David Haye, and the enigmatic Dereck “Del Boy” Chisora all vying to replace the aging …
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