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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 champion escaped a strong challenge from Martin Murray, surviving a trip to the canvas and a…Read More
Paradox City: Gennady Golovkin & The Politics of Avoidance
**** Cleaved from his consciousness on March 30th—a single right hand having stretched him prostrate across the bottom rope in Monaco—Nobuhiro Ishida became the latest victim in Gennady Golovkin’s…Read More
ROUGH TREATMENT: Gennady Golovkin-Gabriel Rosado Preview
**** Last seen bludgeoning Grzegorz Proksa over five rounds last September, middleweight Gennady Golovkin returns to action on Saturday night at The Theater in Madison Square Garden. Setting hearts aflutter…Read More
CARMEN BASILIO: 1927-2012
**** “This is an entirely different world today. People have it a lot easier. The guys in the ring today couldn’t compare, wouldn’t stand a chance. The social circumstances are incomparable.…Read More
LA MORDIDA: Sergio Martinez W12 Julio César Chávez Jr.
**** For eleven rounds, Julio César Chávez, Jr., resembled Jackie Bibby, the Fort Worth, Texas, man who holds the world record for lying in a tub full of rattlesnakes. Except, for Chávez, the snakes…Read More
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Hell By Baby Steps: Sergio Martinez-Julio César Chávez Jr. Preview
**** After years of mockery, innuendo, and torment, Julio César Chávez, Jr. gets his chance to legitimize…Read More
Lowering the Boom: Gennady Golovkin TKO5 Grzegorz Proksa
**** With cruel, calculating efficiency, Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin ravaged Poland’s…Read More
You Got to Work to Get Your Pay: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr-Andy Lee Preview
**** Who can forget the days when Emanuel Steward used to hype Andy Lee as a future heavyweight champion?…Read More
THE UGLY AMERICAN: Junior & Maravilla
**** I have a regular column, “The Ugly American” featured in ESQUINA, a new boxing magazine…Read More
MERCIFUL HOUR: Sergio Martinez TKO11 Matthew Macklin
**** Spirited Matthew Macklin saw his dreams of glory turn into a sudden nightmare on Saturday at the…Read More
Hardchaw, Dreaming: Sergio Martinez-Matthew Macklin Preview
**** Sergio Martinez takes a break from cyber-bullying Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. when he meets bruising…Read More
BAD COMPANY: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Marco Antonio Rubio Preview
**** Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., AKA “The Thing That Should Not Be,” returns to San Antonio tonight,…Read More
Ordinary Heroes: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr W12 Sebastian Zbik
***** It was a long way from the glory days of Ruben Olivares, Pipino Cuevas, or JCC Senior, but Julio…Read More
Mystery Street: Sebastian Zbik-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr Preview
***** The Staples Center may not be as hallowed a boxing venue as The Grand Olympic Auditorium was in…Read More
Bonjour Tristesse: Marco Antonio Rubio TKO 7 David Lemieux
***** Two weeks after Cuban prospect Erislandy Lara sloughed his way to a majority draw against Carlos…Read More
Q & A: Sergio Martinez-Serhiy Dzinziruk Preview
**** After Sergio Martinez’ gritty decision over Kelly Pavlik and shocking second round knockout…Read More
“BAD” BENNIE BRISCOE 1943-2010
“I still think about my career a lot. I miss going into the ring. The big money wasn’t…Read More
DINAMITA! Sergio Martinez KO 2 Paul Williams
**** Sergio Martinez proved that he is, indeed, a maravilla, when he obliterated Paul Williams via electrifying…Read More
Iron Dogs: Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez Preview
***** Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams, two contemporary boxers actually worthy of the honorific “prizefighter,”…Read More
Delivering The Goods: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. W12 John Duddy
In a bruising fight that makes you wonder why anyone pays any attention to HBO at all, Julio Cesar Chavez,…Read More
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