. For the past 5 years or so, I have anointed one Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko as the most talented boxer of the past 15 years. Or to put it in…
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HANEY VS KAMBOSOS 2.0: AN UNDERWHELMING EMPEROR OR A FEROCIOUS COMEBACK?
14 de Outubro, 2022
. When George Kambosos Jr and Devin Haney last met on June 5th, I believe that most bystanders left the Marvel Stadium in Melbourne feeling that the former unified…
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STEVENSON VS CONCEIÇÃO: IS THE LATEST WUNDERKIND GETTING TOO BIG FOR HIS… BRITCHING BOXING TRUNKS?
23 de Setembro, 2022
. Inconsiderate of such “hulking” matters, it should be plainly accepted – and with enthusiasm and “relief” but without need for hype, nor hiperbole – that Shakur Stevenson‘s has……
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CANELO VS GOLOVKIN 3: IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, THIS ONE IS FOR HATE’S SAKE…
16 de Setembro, 2022
. And 4 years and 2 days after their last meeting, it has come to this, Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will accommodate each other for a…
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. Dear REGINA “Isabel“, . as this second “Elizabethan age” comes to a close, we… . Ever since Rei João I of Portugal signed the Windsor Treaty back in 1386,…
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. It seems that not too long ago, several of Boxing’s “elder heads” were picking Luis Ortiz to not only become world’s heavyweight champion, but to hold on to…
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. A long, long time ago, twice reigning World Heavyweight Champion of the world Floyd Patterson said: . “It’s easy to do anything in victory. It’s in defeat that…
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JOSHUA VS USYK 2: THE RETURN OF SEEK-AND-DESTROY OR MORE SIMFEROPOLITAN RAZZLE-DAZZLE?
19 de Agosto, 2022
. The fight of the year is nearly upon us. Fight of the year… on mediatism and money-drawing (within realm of possibility..), if nothing else. After all, to the…
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. Boxing, like any other Sport – since its “mediatic emancipation” in the early 70s – is very much a business, and in order to keep a business going,…
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DANNY GARCIA STEPS UP TO THE “BAILIWICK” OF 154 AND FLATTERS TO DECEIVE…
3 de Agosto, 2022
. After a near 20 month absence, former Welterweight and Junior-Welterweight stalwart, Danny Garcia has risen to the “jurisdiction” of 154 pounds in order to pursue his goal of…
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. The old timers sayeth, that one can play tennis, one can play golf, one can play soccer, one can even play chess (and I most assuredly do). But…
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. I cannot encourage nor practice deceit. Nor can I misrepresent through my writing, one of the fledgling practitioners within “Fistiana”, so to speak( and write). . This very…
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. We recently witnessed Lightweight Frank Martin‘s – an Errol Spence Jr “protégé” – 16th professional fight, and I thought the 27 year old contender looked darn decent and…
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. In this year of our Lord, 20-22, is Joe Joyce already a top 10 heavyweight? But of course! Is he, as of now, a top fiver? Perhaps not.…
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“BAM” RODRIGUEZ “CRASHES” THROUGH TO THE PERIPHERY OF “POUND FOR POUND”…
29 de Junho, 2022
. Many a tribute (pardon if… thou will, the poetic “preamble”) have already been thrown in the direction of the precocious 22 year old from San Antonio, Texas. Chief…
