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CUTTING STRINGS: Jhonny Gonzalez TKO1 Abner Mares 26 Aug 2013 | 06:38 am
**** His brains still scrambled, Abner Mares stood before Showtime cameras and was asked to comment on the first defeat of his professional career, a stunning first-round TKO loss to 11-1 underdog Jho...
Muy Grande Great: The Story of Battling Shaw 21 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
**** There was perhaps no harder period to make it big in boxing than in the early 1930s. There was no shortage of men who could fight, partly because of the Great Depression, and partly because of th...
RAW POWER: Sergey Kovalev TKO4 Nathan Cleverly 19 Aug 2013 | 07:36 am
**** Punching power is spellbinding. You need only to consider the adjectives that accompany it for proof. Words like “frightening” or “chilling” indicate a visceral response to blows that turn a man’...
DEFIANCE: Darren Barker W12 Daniel Geale 18 Aug 2013 | 09:43 pm
**** Darren Barker was finished. A paralyzing left hook to the liver from Daniel Geale had dropped the Englishman. He fell slowly, grimacing in agony. On his knees, kicking his feet in pain, Barker pr...
Off the Radar: Daniel Geale-Darren Barker Preview 16 Aug 2013 | 08:43 am
**** Middleweights Daniel Geale and Darren Barker knuckle up under the lights of the Revel Resort, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Saturday night. While a bit of a sore thumb—a bout featuring two com...
A Backward Glance: July 16, 1947 – Rocky Graziano vs Tony Zale II 14 Aug 2013 | 11:18 pm
“It was such a magnificent brawl…” Jack Cuddy, United Press A crowd of 18,547 spectators, paying an indoor gate record of $414,126, turned out to see the second installment of Tony Zale and Rocky ...
Leftover Life To Kill: Blood, Death, Remembrance, Alphabet City. 1 Aug 2013 | 02:47 am
Photo by Geoffrey Biddle, from Alphabet City All died dreaming about america waking them up in the middle of the night screaming: Mira Mira your name is on the winning lottery ticket for one hundred t...
Daniel Geale: Thrilled to be Fighting on U.S. Soil (Not a Bad Title For A Press Release, Really) 1 Aug 2013 | 01:10 am
**** NEW JERSEY (July 31, 2013) – Ever since Daniel Geale (29-1, 15 KOs) pulled off the unthinkable by defeating Felix Sturm on Sturm’s home turf of Germany in September of last year, he has essential...
One is the Loneliest Number: On Danny Garcia-Lucas Matthysse and Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Saul Alvarez 31 Jul 2013 | 02:05 am
**** The marquee event of 2013—Floyd Mayweather Jr., versus Saul Alvarez—improved dramatically with the recent announcement that Danny Garcia and Lucas Matthysse will clash on the undercard. That mean...
A Backward Glance: September 27, 1946 – Tony Zale vs Rocky Graziano I 30 Jul 2013 | 03:07 am
“Graziano belabored Tony with everything but the ring post, hard head smashes that sent the blood flying and battering body blows. But Tony kept coming back, relentlessly, waiting for that one fading...
