Category: Fight Posts
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Tyson Fury Knocks Out Deontay Wilder in a Great Night for Boxing!
Boxing has been living on the fringes of the American sports universe for some time now but the performance that Wilder and Fury put on has come front center for the sports world. A trilogy fight that many fight fans saw as a roadblock to total unification and a foregone conclusion after the second fight…
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Oleksandr Usyk Stuns Anthony Joshua in Heavyweight Showdown!
I had said leading up to the fight that Usyk was a serious banana peel for the Joshua vs Tyson Fury showdown but not many predicted what unfolded. Usyk overcame a twenty-one pound and four inch reach disadvantage to win a dominant unanimous decision of scores of 115-113, 116-112 and 117-111. This author scored the…
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Bring on the Farce! Another Disappointing Weekend of Boxing
Robinson Conceicao Loses Controversial Decision in PED Scandal Marred Fight This fight was a tremendous black eye for boxing which as a sport is in a precarious place. Oscar Valdez the reigning WBC 130lb champion tested positive in the lead up to the fight for the banned substance Phentermine. Rather than strip the champion whose…
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Vergil Ortiz Jr Shines in Stoppage Victory: Weekend REcap
Vergil Ortiz Jr extends his record to 18-0 with his 18th career stoppage as he reached the eighth round for the first time in his young career. Egidijus Kavaliauskas proved to be a tough opponent with his cagey counters and hard punching. Mean Machine as he commonly known as rocked Ortiz in the second round…
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Boxing Scorecard Autopsy: Reviewing the Charlo Rounds vs Castano…Robbery or Not?
Boxing is an odd sport in comparison to others given its subjective nature of scoring. In the NFL you score a touchdown it is always six points, in basketball a three pointer is a three pointer, etc you get the point. In boxing the rounds are scored by who wins the round and that is…
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Brian Castano and Jermell Charlo Battle to an Exciting and Disputed Draw in Texas
Boxing fans will have to wait longer to see the next crowning of an undisputed champion in the four belt era. Recently we have seen Josh Taylor, Oleksandr Usyk and Terrence Crawford gain all four major sanctioning titles with Teofimo Lopez holding a debated claim to that status. Charlo and Castano met at the AT&T…
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Boxing News Round Up Week 4 June 2021: Results, Predictions, & Opinions
Gabriel Rosado scores destructive KO over Bektemir Melikuziev in 3! Bek “The Bully” as he is referred to as entered this fight 7-0 with five knockouts and hungry for a big fight. The Uzbek super middleweight lost out on a big fight against Sergei Kovalev last year when Kovalev tested positive for a banned substance.…
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Shakur Stevenson Dominates Jeremia Nakathila: A Decisive Unanimous Decision Divides Fans
Shakur Stevenson won as dominant a decision as you can see in boxing but still came away disappointed last night in Las Vegas. The Newark, New Jersey born twenty-three year-old Olympic Silver Medalist won the boxing match but may have lost in the court of public opinion. On one hand, Stevenson won the fight 120-107…
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Claressa Shields Scores a Dramatic 3rd Round TKO: Wins MMA Debut
I am still coming down from the excitement I felt for Claressa Shields cross over win in MMA tonight from Atlantic City. I will be honest after two completed rounds I was thinking of titles for this post in preparation to write about her game performance in defeat. Then, Shields came roaring out in the…
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Josh Taylor Unifies All Four Titles at Junior Welterweight! Victorious Over Jose Ramirez In Las Vegas
Last night at the Virgin Hotel in Las Vegas Josh Taylor became the sixth fighter to unify all four sanctioning body titles. This was a fantastic match up on paper and the fight was a highly skilled contest with plenty of grit mixed in. Going in I expected a toe to toe war with each…