Boxing Writing from a Fan’s Perspective
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Wood Dominates Lara & Lopez KO’s Conlan
Last night the featherweight division was the star attraction with both the IBF and WBA titles on the line in two main events from the UK and Ireland featured on DAZN and ESPN+. Both fights contained interesting match ups and hard punchers who have been consistently putting on terrific fights. The Wood vs Lara fight…
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Haney vs Lomachenko Scorecard
1 Haney2 Haney3 Lomachenko4 Haney5 Lomachenko6 Haney7 Lomachenko8 Haney9 Haney10 Lomachenko11 Lomachenko12 HaneyF 115-113 Haney Honestly I feel like this was a very difficult fight to score and I thought that live I watched this again with the sound turned off and I think this fight could really go either way I think the people…
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Boxing in Media: Michael Montero Previews Devon Haney vs Vasily Lomachenko
Michael Montero has returned to host Montero on Boxing his YouTube show on the sport doing previews, reviews, interviews and all other videos. I have appreciated his work over the years and after a hiatus he is back. I like this preview video and this is a very intriguing fight. Please take a watch of…
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Rolando Romero claims WBA Title via TKO
Rolando Romero captured his first world title last night with a controversial ninth round technical knockout of Ismael Barroso. This fight was altogether unsatisfying as a last minute replacement was brought in following title holder Alberto Puello’s positive test for performance enhancing drugs. Despite the vast criticism of Barroso for looking sixty-five years old in…
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Reaction: Canelo Defeats Ryder via Decision
I did not order the fight last night but have scoured the highlights and post fight press. John Ryder heard the final bell in Mexico and gave it his all. Ryder fought through a broken nose and was bleeding profusely from the third round on. A snapping right cross led to a delayed reaction knockdown,…
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Previewing Saul Alvarez vs John Ryder
Tonight on DAZN PPV Canelo Alvarez makes his second defense of his undisputed 168 lbs. championship in his sixth championship fight at the division since moving up from middleweight. The thirty-two year-old Mexican star is competing on Mexican soil for the first time since 2011 and is entering the ring for the sixty-third time in…
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Big Bang Zhang Scores the Upset!
Joe Joyce was stunned this past weekend at the Copper Box Arena in the UK by “Big Bang” Zhang Zhilei. The now 25-1-1 (20) Chinese contender upset the +1,100 favorite in his backyard; the loss drops Joyce to 15-1 (14) and is a massive knee capping. Joyce was highly ranked in the heavyweight division sitting…
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Two Big Upsets Highlight Easter Weekend
Undefeated unified champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev and undefeated contender Sebastian Fundora left the weekend with their first losses in massive upsets. MJ as he is known entered the ring in San Antonio, Texas this weekend on DAZN for his fourth title defense of the junior featherweight titles he picked up in 2020 when he defeated the…
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Shakur Stevenson Debuts at 135 in Style
Shakur Stevenson made the move to the loaded lightweight division last night in front of his hometown crowd and did not disappoint. The Newark born two division champion moved up to his third division and stopped Japan’s Shuichiro Yoshino in the sixth round to advance to 20-0 (10) and sent waves through the division in…
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Fight of the Day: Mayweather vs Castillo I
Floyd Mayweather’s 2002 foray into the lightweight division to face WBC Champion Jose Luis Castillo is a fight still argued over to this day. While I would not call it the most controversial decision of the twenty-first century, it is seen by many as an unofficial blemish on Mayweather’s perfect record. I had not scored…
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