Boxing Writing from a Fan’s Perspective
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Fight of the Day #5: Kelly Pavlik vs Edison Miranda
Setting the stage: Kelly Pavlik and Edison Miranda were the two leading middleweight contenders for champion Jermaine Taylor and they met in Memphis in May 2007 to get their title shot. This was an exciting collision course that I still remember all these years later. Pavlik came up out of Youngstown, Ohio and was featured…
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A Response to Montero on Boxing: PPV & Sustainability to the American Scene
Michael Montero who does boxing commentary on YouTube via Montero on Boxing and is a writer for Ring Magazine touched upon the topic of pay per view costs on the fans and the success these cards have had. His video is off the back of a tweet he put out illustrating the cost of buying…
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International Boxing Hall of Fame 2022 Inductees Announced
Many times these hall of fame announcements are semi controversial with fans bickering over certain guys getting in. Whether it be European fans feeling their legends are underappreciated or accusing the hall of letting in subpar American fighters based on a bias; and American fans feeling someone in the long history of the sport is…
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Deontay Wilder Retirement?
Ring Magazine just ran a story about Deontay Wilder speaking on the topic of retirement. Across the front page of Google are various articles discussing a possible retirement from the sport for the Bronze Bomber. Wilder did an interview with comedian Kevin Hart and to paraphrase said that he accomplished what he set out to…
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Devon Haney Retains WBC Lightweight Title
Devon Haney avoided the upset that derailed Teofimo Lopez last week by winning a decisive unanimous decision over Joseph Diaz Jr. last night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The WBC Champion at lightweight made his fifth successful title defense of a belt that was awarded to him in 2019 without a…
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Fight of the Day # 4: Roy Jones Jr vs Montell Griffin II
Revenge is best served with a left hook! Keeping in the spirit of rematches of controversial fights and short fights here is Roy Jones Jr going up against Montell Griffin. For those unfamiliar, Griffin was the first man to “defeat Roy Jones” as a pro when they met in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Griffin had…
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Fight of the Day #3: Kendall Holt vs Ricardo Torres II
I missed a day yesterday so I chose a short fight to catch up. Whatever you do, please do not blink when watching this fight. Bombs away from the start Kendall Holt of Paterson, New Jersey and Colombia’s Ricardo Torres met in a WBO 140 lb. title tilt in 2008 in Las Vegas. This was…
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Fight of the Day # 2: Muhammad Ali vs George Chuvalo II
Today I watched the Muhammad Ali and George Chuvalo rematch from 1973. The fight took place in Vancouver Canada and was roughly seven years after their 1966 encounter in Toronto where Ali still the champion defeated Chuvalo by unanimous decision. Having seen that fight several times on ESPN Classic its hard to forget the hard…
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Fight of the Day#1: Sonny Liston vs Floyd Patterson
In the spirit of watching more fights and writing more I have decided to do a series that I hope to contribute daily to by watching a fight, posting the link, and writing about it. I watched the pair of heavyweight title fights in the early 1960’s that saw Sonny Liston win the heavyweight world…
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