Norm Frauenheim
No More Waiting: Caleb Plant agrees to fight to fight David...
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David Benavidez waited for weeks. He heard Canelo Alvarez say no, no and no all over again. He heard David...
Caleb Plant Signs Contract For Benavidez Fight
Former Super Middleweight World Champion Caleb Plant announced on his verified Twitter account that he signed a contract to face David Benavidez for...
Jake Paul scores knockdown, wins debatable decision over Silva
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Problem Child had a problem.
Had a solution, too.
Jake Paul found his power at a moment when it looked as if defeat...
At The Bully Pulpit: Jake Paul weighs in
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GLENDALE, Ariz. --- Jake Paul jumped off the scale, flexed, screamed and then did what he does best.
He weighed in.
He’s...
Stupid Question: Jake Paul talks a lot, but keeps it real
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GLENDALE, Ariz. – His reputation precedes him. So, too, does his nickname. Trouble is expected from anybody who calls himself...
Anderson Silva gets quick AZ Commission approval to fight Jake Paul
By Norm Frauenheim
GLENDALE, Ariz. – The Arizona State Boxing & MMA Commission quickly cleared Anderson Silva to fight Jake Paul Thursday night, citing a...
Jake Paul gallops onto AZ stage and into David Benavidez’ neighborhood
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GLENDALE, Ariz. – He rode in on a horse.
Maybe, it was a nod toward Arizona’s wild-west past. Or, maybe, it was his...
Arizona Commission schedules meeting in wake of questions about Anderson Silva
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GLENDALE, Ariz. – The Arizona State Boxing & MMA Commission scheduled a meeting for late Thursday in the wake of conflicting reports...
No Crawford-Spence, No Surprise
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The outrage is predictable. Inevitable. Boxing loves its misery and more was delivered Thursday with news that Terence Crawford won’t be fighting...
Deontay Wilder: Is he the same guy after Fury?
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It’s a comeback connected to a birthday.
Deontay Wilder turns 37 a week after his comeback Saturday night against former sparring...
Testing, Testing, Testing: Benn-Eubank just another failure
By Norm Frauenheim
The furor is familiar. So is the futility.
Nothing like a positive drug test to generate big headlines, especially in boxing at a...
Wilder-Helenius: Another example of what’s wrong with pay-per-view
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It’s hard to know what to make of reported pay-per-view numbers, especially during a streaming era when numbers are misrepresented or not...
Different Numbers, Same Trend: Canelo’s box-office appeal is shrinking
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It was thoroughly forgettable. Thoroughly predictable, too.
Nothing that happened within the ropes during Canelo Alvarez’ decision over Gennadiy Golovkin in...
Canelo scores unanimous decision over Golovkin
LAS VEGAS -- Only the argument continues.
A third fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena was supposed to settle...
Canelo-GGG 3: Weights, promises made
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LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin kept their cool under a hot desert sun Friday afternoon at a staged...
Greatness? Canelo has one definition, Benavidez has another
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LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez says he’s happy to be back on what he calls the path to greatness, a destination that...
Still Talking: This time, Fury is trying to talk his way...
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It’s hard to believe anything Tyson Fury says these days. He’s the master of the rhetorical feint, an entertaining way of serving...
Pressure Builds: Canelo’s words could put more punch into GGG trilogy
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Canelo Alvarez is fighting for Mexicans, but not against Mexicans.
That, at least, was the message he intended this week during a media...
Oleksandr Usyk: The only grown-up in the heavyweight division
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Tyson Fury is a little bit like an ex-American president. He stays in the headlines.
Fury has been there, loud and profane, throughout...
Show Must Go On: There’s never been retirement in Tyson Fury’s...
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Tyson Fury, lineal heavyweight champion and undisputed populist, is back. Correct that. He never left. He’s still at the proverbial...
Crawford-Spence: Waiting on a homerun deal
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It’s been a summer about comebacks, which is another way of saying that it’s been mostly forgettable.
Maybe, the Oleksandr Usyk-Anthony Joshua rematch...
Garcia-Benavidez: A couple of formers in a fight to be current
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It’s a fight without all the belts and whistles. That’s what makes it interesting. There’s no confusion about what’s at stake in...
Benavidez-Garcia: Benavidez counters, says he doesn’t see “anything special” in Garcia
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Jose Benavidez Jr. was something of a prodigy. He was a 16-year-old national champion, the youngest ever in a Golden Gloves’ history...
A statue sets the stage for Wilder comeback
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There’s life after the statue for Deontay Wilder, whose comeback plans are beginning to fall into place within just a couple of...
Back To The Jab: Jose Benavidez Jr. in fight to restore...
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He’s a brother. He’s a dad. Jose Benavidez Jr. is a lot of things. These days, however, he’s a fighter in a...
Bam, Jesse Rodriguez’ sudden impact makes talk about a Naoya Inoue...
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Jesse Rodriguez storms into the headlines and pound-for-pound talk in about the time it takes to say his nickname.
Bam, he’s there.
His sudden...
Usyk-Joshua 2: Joshua still in a fight to re-discover the fighter...
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It’s a rematch full of role reversals. But one thing hasn’t changed.
The same question is there about Anthony Joshua, the underdog this...
Retirement talk just another feint from Tyson Fury
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Tyson Fury is talking again. That, of course, would be news only if he had gone silent for, say, longer than a...
Pound-for-Pound: There’s a vacancy at the top of the debate
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The shuffle continues. It never really ceases, mostly because the pound-for-pound game is only about opinion. It’s noisier than it...
Fantasy Meets Reality: Talk about Benavidez-Canelo isn’t going anywhere
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It’s a fantasy.
That, at least, is how David Benavidez’ promoter described talk about any chance at a fight with Canelo...
