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Remembering (for) Timothy Bradley
American welterweight Timothy Bradley was knocked-out at 2:33 of round 1 by Russian Ruslan Provodnikov, Saturday at Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. ...
Provodnikov Takes Bradley to the Limit in Fight of the Year Candidate
CARSON, CALIFORNIA – Timothy Bradley Jr. was taken to the limit over twelve rounds by Ruslan Provodnikov in the HBO-televised main event at the...
Bradley Still Fighting for Respect
MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- Long compared to the sometimes underappreciated Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Timothy Bradley Jr. finds himself in a position the middleweight great...
The Right Corner: Freddie Roach still occupies it
Losses are as inevitable as scars. If you don’t have some of both, you probably haven’t done much. Or learned much. Freddie Roach, fulltime...
What will they say about what we said about Timothy Bradley?
Saturday Timothy Bradley, inactive since decisioning Manny Pacquiao nine months ago, will return from exile to defend against Russia’s Ruslan Provodnikov the burnt-maroon WBO...
Crazy Comeback: Bradley looking for a win that won’t turn him into a loser
Nothing on Tim Bradley’s resume says his March 16 fight against Ruslan Provodnikov in Carson, Calif., should be called a comeback. He’s...
Canelo is coming. Is this city ready?
SAN ANTONIO – While there is no promotional formula for rising from small and local shows to large and national ones, there is perhaps...
Canelo-gram: Canelo sends message to Mayweather that he’s a star in his own right
Opponents are like employees to Floyd Mayweather Jr. He talks as if he hires and fires them in his role as boxer, promoter,...
Icy catharsis: “A fight is a fight”
DALLAS – While the aficionados who peruse this column were dutifully enduring a first collaboration of Mayweather Promotions and Showtime, Saturday, one that worked...
Money or History: Mayweather’s Showtime deal will define him
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s jump Tuesday from HBO to Showtime and parent network CBS is a move that will reveal whether he’s more about money...
Here’s The Problem
This is how Saturday ended after Adrien “The Problem” Broner defeated Gavin Rees by corner stoppage in the fifth round.
Max Kellerman: “You beat the...
Romero decisions Lopez to win vacant 122 lb crown
Jonathan Romero scored twelve round split decision over Alejandro Lopez to capture the vacant IBF Super Bantamweight title in Tijuana, Mexico
It was a good...
Camera Clause: Mora will fight Jesus Gonzales, but only on TV
Los Angeles middleweight Sergio Mora has agreed to fight Jesus Gonzales on April 19 in Phoenix, Gonzales’ hometown, but only if the bout is...
Prodigy and mastery in a postmodern world
HOUSTON – At this city’s Museum of Fine Arts is a historic exhibition called “Portrait of Spain” that is historic, in part, because of...
Life as art: Tyson’s best role is himself in Law & Order: SVU
Makeup hid the facial tattoo, but there’s no disguise for Mike Tyson.
Never will be.
Tyson’s guest appearance Wednesday night...
Quiet time
On a bench beside the black metal steps to an elevated ring sits a semitransparent and well-gnawed gumshield with a lemon-yellow frontispiece and several...
PED: Performance Enhancing Dangers for a sport that already has too many
Yuriorkis Gamboa’s name in a Miami New Times story this week about an anti-aging clinic that allegedly supplied performance enhancers isn’t exactly a surprise....
Post-abstract realism: Fernando Botero and Lucas Matthysse
The opening minute of Saturday’s main event on Showtime, Argentine junior welterweight titlist Lucas Matthysse versus American Mike Dallas, showed such a disparity of...
The Good Fight: Jacobs beats cancer, calls out bullies and obesity
Billy Lyell might have a better chance than bullies and obesity.
Danny Jacobs will fight them all in an ongoing battle that...
Garcia and Golovkin: The mysteries continue
We came to the moment for which we assembled, Saturday, the telling collection of intervals, two predecessors succeeded by the aptly named championship rounds,...
Weights from Newark–FIGHT LIVE ON GFL.TV
Michael Anderson 146 Emmanuel Lartei Lartey 145.5
Derek Webster 164 Darnell Boone 164.5
Ty Yab Beale 246.5 Aaron Kinch 267
Peter Reyes 158 Oscar Pagan 159
Shakir Aquel...
Arum’s old words say it all for days defined by Armstrong and Te’o
First, Lance Armstrong. Now, Manti Te'o.
The hoax is in, or at least it has become America's favorite pastime.
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Golovkin and Garcia, showcases and trial horses
The June day Manny Pacquiao lost to Timothy Bradley began with a media breakfast in the airy, open interior of Wolfgang Puck Bar and...
MIKEY GARCIA MEDIA WORKOUT QUOTES
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. (January 11, 2013) -- Undefeated No. 1 featherweight contender MIKEY GARCIA, his co-trainers Eduardo and Robert Garcia and manager Cameron Dunkin,...
Name Game: Broner plans to beat them without knowing them
Adrien Broner calls himself The Problem. He had one Thursday. He couldn’t remember his opponent’s name. Or, at least, he chose not to, perhaps...
Reading Burke, thinking about Martinez-Chavez
“The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of...
New Year, new hopes start with Golovkin-Rosado
An encore of a year loaded with explosive signs of renewal might be a tall order, but chances of one in 2013...
Portrait of 2012’s most excellent week, part 2
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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The moment Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez took Filipino Manny Pacquiao’s consciousness with a right cross on Dec....
Portrait of 2012’s most excellent week, part 1
The moment Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez took Filipino Manny Pacquiao’s consciousness with a right cross on Dec. 8 brought a series of instants affecting...
VIDEO: ARUM: MARQUEZ – PACQUIAO WILL HAPPEN
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Bob Arum -- Manny Pacquaio Rematch With Juan Marquez Will Happen
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