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The Juan Manuel Lopez Case Files
**** An overview on Juan Manuel Lopez culled from the files of TCS. Relive the last three years of his tumultuous career as Lopez heads into his crossroads bout against Mikey Garcia tomorrow night.…Read More
AFTERMATH: Stevenson-Dawson, Angulo-Lara, Gamboa-Perez, Maidana-Lopez, & More
**** These recaps cover many of the fights from Saturday, June 8th. Technical difficulties prevented them from being posted earlier. **** ShamWow commercials are more interesting than Yuriorkis Gamboa…Read More
Form For Fury: Mikey Garcia-Juan Manuel Lopez Preview
**** “His conception of funerals is that they were mainly to amuse the living.” – Henry James, The Aspern Papers A few of boxing’s unspoken rules will manifest when featherweights Mikey…Read More
“We Were Young Together Once”: Top 20 Favorite Fighters of the 1980s, A Personal Reminiscence
**** Long before Roger Mayweather became famous for twelve-letter expletives and for discovering A-side Meth, he was a bold case study in hot-and-cold, up-and-down, and what-goes-around-comes-around.…Read More
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FanSided and The Cruelest Sport have teamed up with Deals2Buy.com to give away a LG Electronics 42-Inch LED TV!!! To enter, simply like us on Facebook and sign up for our daily email newsletter, FanSided…Read More
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FIREPOWER: Marcos Maidana TKO6 Josesito Lopez
**** There is a military rigidity of thought to welterweight Marcos Maidana, a charming lust for destruction…Read More
VISION THING: On Floyd Mayweather Jr.
**** Last week Floyd Mayweather, Jr., less than a month removed from a stillborn event with Robert Guerrero,…Read More
That Insolent Sneer: Carl Froch W12 Mikkel Kessler
**** Leading into their rematch at the O2 Arena in London, England, Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler appeared…Read More
MACHINE HEAD: Lucas Matthysse TKO3 Lamont Peterson
**** Leading into his fight against Lamont Peterson at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey,…Read More
The Violent Men: Lamont Peterson vs Lucas Matthysse Preview
**** “So it has come, the day of testing…and he is in the middle of it.” – J.M. Coetzee,…Read More
The Ugly American: Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and the Absence of Presence
**** Most companies are image-conscious and would never associate so closely with a character as unsavory…Read More
HARD TIMES: The Mystery of the Jack Dempsey-Jess Willard Fight
**** It is, for boxing, as enduring a mystery as the Bermuda Triangle or the identity of the Man in…Read More
Unanswered Prayers: Floyd Mayweather Jr. W12 Robert Guerrero
**** It was a fight short on drama, one that prompted a smattering of boos among the throng gathered…Read More
SCREEN TIME: Floyd Mayweather, Jr.-Robert Guerrero Preview
**** Robert Guerrero is deemed by many to be a supporting character in the opening act of a six-fight,…Read More
Storm Rider: Danny Garcia W12 Zab Judah
**** “You are fuckin’ something, man!” His arms draped across the fighter’s shoulders,…Read More
Losing Steps: Sergio Martinez W12 Martin Murray
**** Sergio Martinez got the job done, but just barely. On a rainy night in Buenos Aries, the middleweight…Read More
Cinders And Smoke: Danny Garcia-Zab Judah Preview
**** You can roll your eyes at the redemptive narrative of Zab Judah, but the fact that he has clung…Read More
RED ARROW: The Mysterious Death of Sonny Liston
**** “You should remember that you were born to die.” Blind Willie McTell **** Las Vegas, Nevada,…Read More
The Golden Calf: Saul Alvarez W12 Austin Trout
**** Junior middleweight Saul Alvarez has long endured the criticism that he was a pampered and protected…Read More
The Ugly American: A Darkness Made to Order
**** You can see them in the dim corners of dingy gyms from one end of the country to the other. They…Read More
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