Boxing Writing from a Fan’s Perspective
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Adrien Broner: Not Interested Yet
There was a time when Adrien Broner was a very exciting figure in the sport but he has become that bad ex you keep letting back into your life. Broner arrived on my radar in 2011 when he was getting featured on HBO and rising up the ranks of the 130 lb. division. His one…
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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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Boxing News Week 2 February 2021: RIP LEon Spinks
The boxing world was silenced by the death of Leon Spinks this past Friday as the champion succumbed to his five year fight with cancer. Leon is best known for defeating Muhammad Ali in 1978 in only his eighth professional bout. The twenty-four year-old’s meteoric rise fell as quickly as it rose with a defeat…
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Frankie Edgar as i remember him
Last night put the full brutality of mixed martial arts on display with Cory Sandhagen knocking out Frankie Edgar with a jumping knee to the jaw just twenty-eight seconds into the first round last night at UFC Las Vegas 18. For a great warrior like Edgar it was disappointing image of him just laid flat…
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Jersey George Boxing Blog’s Super bowl prediction
Though boxing is my favorite sport and this site is dedicated to coverage of boxing I will put forth my thoughts on tonight’s big game. Football fans have been largely spoiled in the last twenty or so years when it comes to super bowl Sunday. I can only recall three uninteresting games in a sea…
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Caleb Plant Shuts out Caleb Truax but fails to make a statement
The Result: Caleb Plant won a shutout decision on all three of the judges scorecards this weekend in a dominant performance to defend his IBF super middleweight title for the third time. Plant dominated the fight with his superior hand speed and reflexes. Plant built an early lead behind his jab which he threw from…
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The Pitbull takes bite: Otar Eranosyan remains undefeated with a 4th round tko in miami
Otar Eranosyan advanced his career to 5-0 this weekend as he picked up his third career stoppage. They twenty-seven year-old fights out of Miami, Florida after coming over from the Republic of Georgia and is affiliated with Warriors Boxing. It looks like they have the super featherweight prospect on the fast track as they stuck…
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Caleb Plant vs Caleb Truax: IBF Super Middleweight Championship Preview
Caleb Plant and Caleb Truax are two fighters I wrote about in my early writing days on East Side Boxing before it became Boxing News 24/7. I wrote about Truax’s draw with Ossie Duran back in 2014 and became a fan of his over the years. I was not confident on his ability to make…
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Boxing News January 2021
I must apologize for the space in between posts. I am working on the formatting for this site for the new year and am trying to have a schedule in place for content. I am also working on bringing in new content for 2021 as long as COVID limitations don’t create issues. We approach the…
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