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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
Pain is Truth: On Boxing and Cruelty
**** It is a sanctuary for all brands of racketeers, a Rota Fortuna powered by an immiscible concoction of money and blood. With his typical acuity, John Schulian christened boxing “the cruelest sport,”…Read More
The Clock Strikes Thirteen: The Best Of TCS, 2012
**** On The Grind: Tavoris Cloud-Gabriel Campillo Preview When Cloud meets a durable opponent, it’s a competitive and entertaining clash. Saturday night likely won’t be any different. But because…Read More
DAMAGE, INC. : Brandon Rios TKO7 Mike Alvarado
**** They forgot the Catherine Wheel, the strappado, and the whirligig, but Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado took turns torturing each other in medieval ways on Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in…Read More
Mañana en la batalla: Brandon Rios vs. Mike Alvarado
**** “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…Read More
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The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board: An Opening Bell For Reform
**** The purchase of THE RING by Golden Boy Promotions in 2007 provoked immediate questions about its…Read More
“We Were Young Together Once”: Top 20 Favorite Fighters Of The 1980s, A Personal Reminiscence
**** First, he destroyed one of my heroes, the unassuming accountant-like Donald Curry, in a fight that…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
**** Part of my bottom line is that to myself I’m a man—fairly, unfairly, uninterestingly, stupidly—who…Read More
Caminos sin ley: Antonio Margarito.
**** Uno podría parafrasear a Conrad y decir: Toda América participó de su educación. Ciertamente…Read More
New Paradigms: On Carl Froch and Lucian Bute
**** **** It is late October 2011, in Toronto, a time of year when the chill lays siege to your bones.…Read More
TCS In Undisputed Fight Magazine
**** I have an article on Jack Dempsey published in the latest issue of Undisputed Fight Magazine. Hard…Read More
DARK MIRROR: When Max Baer Met Ben Foord
**** After fraying American purse strings on an outlandish “comeback” tour against an assortment…Read More
NASTY, BRUTISH, SHORT: AL PALZER & THE WHITE HOPES
On May 26, 1911, the first White Hope tournament, a motley assortment of eleven barnyard scrappers and…Read More
Not So Caliente: Erislandy Lara D10 Carlos Molina
Cuban prospect Erislandy Lara suffered the first hiccup of his professional career Friday night, slogging…Read More
The Howling: Brandon Rios TKO 10 Miguel Acosta
***** Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios lived up to his nickname by rallying from a slow start to clawhammer…Read More
WIZARDS OF GORE: TV Boxing That Drips Blood!
***** Set-ups–dangerous and grotesquely obvious mismatches–used to be the dark secret of…Read More
TCS 2010 Story of the Year: The Disinherited: Edwin Valero 1981-2010
1. “Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.” Philip Larkin 2. In the ring, Edwin Valero was riveting,…Read More
Aftermath: On Hopkins-Pascal
***** Bernard Hopkins looked down-at-heels for three or four rounds against Jean Pascal last night in…Read More
Shortcut to Hell: Amir Khan W12 Marcos Maidana
***** Amir Khan underwent a trial by inferno against pitiless Marcos Maidana last night at the Mandalay…Read More
10 & Counting: On Nonito Donaire, Saul Alvarez, Derek Chisora, & Soto-Antillon
***** Nonito Donaire played Godzilla in downtown Tokyo against Wladimir Sidorenko at the Honda Center…Read More
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