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Crawford-Spence: Unlikely partners in business for bucks and blood

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By Norm Frauenheim - It’s an unlikely partnership in an unforgiving business for blood and bucks. Maybe some legacy, too. Mostly, it’s still a...

Crawford-Spence: Dramatic differences add up to a fight too close to...

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By Norm Frauenheim - Terence Crawford-Errol Spence Jr, a fascinating fight embedded in the public imagination for years, is generating lots of ideas about...

Crawford-Spence: Surprising deal opens the way to escalating expectations

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By Norm Frauenheim - It’s a fight that has already exceeded expectations. Terence Crawford-Errol Spence Jr. got made. There was a deal just a...

Trevor McCumby comeback resumes Saturday night in Phoenix

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By Norm Frauenheim PHOENIX, AZ — Trevor McCumby takes the second step in a comeback Saturday night at Celebrity Theatre. The 30-year-old McCumby hopes to pick...

Nothing New: Canelo ignores Benavidez, agrees to fight Jermall Charlo

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By Norm Fraueneim - Last week, there was a question. Is Canelo Alvarez listening? This week, there’s an answer. No. It’s a definitive no, delivered by Badou...

Market speaks, but is Canelo listening?

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By Norm Frauenheim - It’s been a good week to be a fight fan, which is another way of saying the business is staging...

Teofimo Lopez has plenty to say, but is still searching for...

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By Norm Frauenheim - There’s not much Teofimo Lopez won’t say these days. He’s a shock jock in a concussive business, one that has...

Benavidez-Canelo? Benavidez promoter goes public with his campaign

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By Norm Frauenheim - Politics, boxing style, continues to surround the David Benavidez-versus-Canelo Alvarez possibility and nobody is playing that game harder than Benavidez...

Chaos Game: Crawford, Spence announce they’re next

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By Norm Frauenheim - Chaos is boxing’s oxygen. If the last few months are a sign, the patient is breathing. Maybe even thriving. The latest...

Devin Haney wins controversial unanimous decision

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LAS VEGAS --If this was chess, TheGrandMaster got robbed. That at least, was the verdict from an angry crowd that booed a unanimous decision handed down by three judges in...

Opening Shove: Haney pushes Lomachenko at staged weigh-in

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By Norm Frauenheim - LAS VEGAS – Waist-high chess pieces decorate a media room that includes posters that have Devin Haney and Vasiliy Lomachenko...

Technical Masterpiece? On the chessboard, Loma-Haney looks like one

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By Norm Frauenheim - LAS VEGAS – It was first mentioned about four years ago. It didn’t happen then. But the possibility was never...

Bivol or Benavidez? Canelo confronted by a choice between legacy or...

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By Norm Frauenheim - It was a homecoming that produced mixed reviews and perhaps a dilemma. The mix, some praise and lots of criticism, was...

Canelo is back with a promise to reassert his reign of...

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By Norm Frauenheim - It’s getting hard to identify the so-called face of boxing. One week, it looks a lot like Gervonta Davis. Next...

Fight For The Ages: Tank-Garcia wins over a new generation

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By Norm Frauenheim - It wasn’t a classic. Roberto Duran’s place as history’s greatest lightweight remains undisputed. But it was a fight for the ages. Ages...

Opening Salvo: Elijah Garcia ready to deliver the first pay-per-view shots

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By Norm Frauenheim - The last time Elijah Garcia opened the show he proved to be a showstopper. He said a memorable hello to...

Tune-up or Crossroads? Questions continue to swirl about Canelo’s bout with...

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By Norm Frauenheim - It’s called a tune-up. A long-awaited homecoming. But it’s beginning to look as if Canelo Alvarez’ fight with John Ryder...

Benavidez-Canelo? Benavidez is winning the political rounds

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By Norm Frauenheim - For now, the David Benavidez-Canelo Alvarez possibility isn’t about boxing. It’s about politics. The debate goes on. And on. It also brings to mind...

Benavidez moving up, but still not into Canelo’s immediate plans

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By Norm Frauenheim - David Benavidez gained name recognition and some first-time recognition in pound-for-pound ratings with his victory over Caleb Plant, but he...

AZ prospect Elijah Garcia to face Zambrano on Tank-Ryan Garcia card

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By Norm Frauenheim - Elijah Garcia, an emerging middleweight from Phoenix, will fight on the Tank Davis-Ryan Garcia card on April 22 against Kevin...

David Benavidez scores unanimous decision over Plant

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LAS VEGAS -  It was contentious. It was surprising. It was ugly. It wasn't everything David Benavidez thought it would be. Or promised it...

More Face-off Fury: Benavidez, Plant get into altercation after stepping off...

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By Norm Frauenheim - LAS VEGAS -- On the scale, David Benavidez and Caleb Plant did what they had to. They made weight.  Off the scale,...

Face-off: Benavidez asked for one and got one in a tense...

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By Norm Frauenheim - LAS VEGAS -- Nobody blinked, but David Benavidez got the face-off he wanted Thursday with Caleb Plant after the final news...

Benavidez to Plant: “Everybody I hit, I hurt.

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By Norm Frauenheim - LAS VEGAS -- In terms of trash talk, it's all been said. Maybe that's why David Benavidez and Caleb Plant didn't have...

Benavidez-Plant: Plenty To Prove

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By Norm Frauenheim - The proof has been unfolding for years. First, David Benavidez had to prove it to himself. Now, he has to prove...

Tank Davis-Ryan Garcia: Waiting on potential promised by boxing’s Youngbloods

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By Norm Frauenheim - They went coast-to-coast. They trash-talked, face-to-face, at midday in New York on Wednesday and after lunch on Thursday in Los...

Perfect Fit: 602 fits Elijah Garcia like an AZ fighter

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By Norm Frauenheim - Elijah Garcia wears 602 on his waistband. It’s his hometown. It’s also a busy area code, a fight town that...

Statement Fight: Abel Ramos looking to make one

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By Norm Frauenheim - For an emerging 22-year-old nephew, he’s a wise uncle. Uncle Abel. But don’t be misled. This uncle isn’t retired. And most of his wisdom...

Paul-Fury: Butchers, Bakers and Tomato Can Makers

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By Norm Frauenheim - It’s a main event, pay-per-view, between fighters with a combined 14-0 record compiled against YouTubers, a 3-time NBA Slam Dunk...

Moving On Up: Light-heavy poised to be one of boxing’s busiest...

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By Norm Frauenheim - It looks as if boxing is moving up and on, beyond dashed hopes for a definitive date at welterweight and...