Category: Top Rank
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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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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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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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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…
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Emmanuel Navarrete Finishes Off Christopher Diaz
I published a recap of the weekend’s action on Boxingnews24.com and have shared it here. Below I will post an excerpt but please check out the full article on Boxingnews24.com and all other content from their team of contributors. Thank you! “Emmanuel Navarrete closed the show with eleven seconds on the clock to secure the…
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Big Upsets, Big KO’s, and Underdogs Earn Their Keep a February 13th Recap
Sorry for the half assed post I am putting out but Valentine’s Day weekend cut into my boxing watching and DAZN has been giving me some technical issues. I have not watched all of the fights from this past weekend but I caught the two most talked about fights and Anderson vs Ibeh of course.…
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Under the Radar Match Up: Jared Anderson vs Kingsley Ibeh
I was going to do a big prediction post on today’s three main events on ESPN+ and DAZN but was frustrated by the positive COVID test killing the main event on ESPN and JoJo Diaz losing his title on the scales of his own DAZN headline. I think the remainder of these cards are still…
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Cream rose to the top in this weekend’s action: All champions victorious
Terrence Crawford victorious in four Terrence Crawford expanded his record to 37-0 with 28 knockouts and 14-0 with 11 knockouts in title fights with his win over Kell Brook. This was his 4th successful defense of the title he won back in 2018 from Jeff Horn and his 8th consecutive stoppage. His domination in the…
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Fight Preview Round Up: October Four Card Finale! Part I
Tureano Johnson offers stiff challenge in Jaime Mungia’s second fight at 160 Jaime Mungia enters his second fight at the middleweight limit with trainer Erik Morales in their third installment as a team. Mungia is only twenty-four years of age, 35-0 (28) 6-0 (3) in title fights, and a rising young star in the deep…
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