The Cruelest Sport » JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHTS http://thecruelestsport.com A Professional Boxing blog Fri, 17 May 2013 21:25:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Cinders And Smoke: Danny Garcia-Zab Judah Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/25/cinders-and-smoke-danny-garcia-zab-judah-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/25/cinders-and-smoke-danny-garcia-zab-judah-preview/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:28:58 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5529 **** You can roll your eyes at the redemptive narrative of Zab Judah, but the fact that he has clung to relevance over seventeen years is no meager accomplishment. Despite the worst intentions of men like Kostya Tszyu, Miguel Cotto, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and a history of self-sabotage that runs the length of the [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/25/cinders-and-smoke-danny-garcia-zab-judah-preview/feed/ 0 Blood In, Blood Out: Mike Alvarado W12 Brandon Rios http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/31/blood-in-blood-out-mike-alvarado-w12-brandon-rios/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/31/blood-in-blood-out-mike-alvarado-w12-brandon-rios/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:20:54 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5505 **** Boxing is never better than when it delivers the unexpected. This is not to say that the expected cannot amaze, as was the case last October when junior welterweights Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado made experts of everyone in tearing into each other for seven brutal rounds before Rios broke Alvarado with a crushing [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/31/blood-in-blood-out-mike-alvarado-w12-brandon-rios/feed/ 0 With Mercy For The Dreaming: Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado II Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/29/with-mercy-for-the-dreaming-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/29/with-mercy-for-the-dreaming-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii-preview/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:32:40 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5503 **** Some fighters never stop paying dues, even after they reach the grueling heights of a profession as pitiless and as nebulous as any in North America. For Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado—who brought a prizefight apocalypse into living rooms across the country last October when they assaulted each other over seven delirious rounds in [...]

With Mercy For The Dreaming: Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado II Preview - The Cruelest Sport - The Cruelest Sport - A Professional Boxing blog

]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/29/with-mercy-for-the-dreaming-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii-preview/feed/ 0 Turning Screws: On Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado II http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/02/02/turning-screws-on-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/02/02/turning-screws-on-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:21:49 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5424 **** Is it reductionist to say that the delightfully brutal contest waged by Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado was decided when Rios finally threw a straight right hand? Perhaps. But it took Rios six rounds to introduce this punch last October. Up to that point he had been able to fight Alvarado on even terms [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/02/02/turning-screws-on-brandon-rios-mike-alvarado-ii/feed/ 0 Mañana en la batalla: Brandon Rios vs. Mike Alvarado http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/15/manana-en-la-batalla-brandon-rios-vs-mike-alvarado/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/15/manana-en-la-batalla-brandon-rios-vs-mike-alvarado/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:44:07 +0000 Mauricio Salvador http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5267 **** “I know you fucking love it” Robert García, entrenador. Es difícil (por no decir inútil) intentar describir o incluso pretender dotar de sentido a los seis rounds que Brandon Ríos y Mike Alvarado disputaron este 13 de octubre en el Home Depot, en Carson, California. Lo que hacemos es acudir a ese repositorio lingüístico [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/15/manana-en-la-batalla-brandon-rios-vs-mike-alvarado/feed/ 0 WHITE KNUCKLES: Mike Alvarado-Brandon Rios Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/11/white-knuckles-mike-alvarado-brandon-rios-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/11/white-knuckles-mike-alvarado-brandon-rios-preview/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:00:42 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5259 **** Some of the darker trappings of prizefighting—sutures, penlights, butterfly strips, ice packs, smelling salts, abbreviated futures—are almost guaranteed to materialize at some point when Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios and Mike Alvarado meet on Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Refreshingly, neither fighter feels the need to boast, berate, or browbeat. [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/11/white-knuckles-mike-alvarado-brandon-rios-preview/feed/ 0 The Promise of Beauty: Mike Alvarado Faces Brandon Rios http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/09/the-promise-of-beauty-mike-alvarado-faces-brandon-rios/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/09/the-promise-of-beauty-mike-alvarado-faces-brandon-rios/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:29:44 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5254 **** Yet for all Rios’ menace, the man standing across from him at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, next Saturday will not be intimidated. Mike Alvarado’s brand of belligerence embraces attrition, a contest where endurance, resilience, and psychical sturdiness render the verdict. The brawny fighter out of Denver, Colorado, is unlikely to see [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/10/09/the-promise-of-beauty-mike-alvarado-faces-brandon-rios/feed/ 0 Going To The Dogs: Danny Garcia TKO4 Amir Khan http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/07/15/going-to-the-dogs-danny-garcia-tko4-amir-khan/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/07/15/going-to-the-dogs-danny-garcia-tko4-amir-khan/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:10:53 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5106 **** Danny “Swift” Garcia hit the jackpot in Las Vegas last night when he overcame a few rough patches early to belt out Amir Khan via fourth-round TKO at the Mandalay Bay Casino and Resort. This fight, overshadowed by the ceaseless antics of David Haye and Dereck Chisora, seemed like an afterthought to most, and [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/07/15/going-to-the-dogs-danny-garcia-tko4-amir-khan/feed/ 9 EDDIE PERKINS 1937-2012 http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/05/12/eddie-perkins-1937-2012/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/05/12/eddie-perkins-1937-2012/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 23:23:59 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4843 **** “I would love to fight an exhibition now to show people how the fight game is supposed to be fought. You just don’t go out there and slug. The name of the game–boxing–is going out and outpointing someone. It’s a sport. I don’t see no sense in killing a man if you don’t have [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/05/12/eddie-perkins-1937-2012/feed/ 0 NIGHTSIDE: Zab Judah-Vernon Paris Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/03/22/nightside-zab-judah-vernon-paris-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/03/22/nightside-zab-judah-vernon-paris-preview/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:37:19 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4767 **** Vernon Paris gets his biggest chance to abandon the fringes at last when he faces veteran southpaw Zab Judah on Saturday night in an intriguing matchup scheduled for 12 at the Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn, New York. After years of personal turmoil, “The Iceman” is looking to, at the very least, settle his [...]

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