The goal of any documentary about an individual is usually the same: Who is this person? That’s the task Netflix’s Mr. McMahon attempts to take on. And what an effort it requires. Vince McMahon is undoubtedly a business genius but also a true Cro-Magnon. There are many ways to describe the man who brought wrestling
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Today, all sudden-like, MGM dropped the trailer for the biopic The Fire Inside, a film that will tell the story of Claressa Shields and her humble beginnings from Flint, Michigan, to her groundbreaking Olympic boxing victories and beyond. I always like to say that it’s pretty easy to cut a great-looking preview, even from a
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On the night of June 16, 1983, on the undercard of the Roberto Duran/Davey Moore middleweight title fight, undefeated up and comer “Irish” Billy Collins Jr. stepped into the ring as part of the undercard. His opponent was a man named Luis Resto; a tough guy with a strong amateur background, but a disappointment as
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In his final fight for Top Rank, Newark’s hometown boy and Undefeated WBC Lightweight champ (and soon to be free agent) Shakur Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) won the headlining fight on ESPN by fighting in a way that may have correctly delivered him the W against German Olympic Bronze Medalist Artem Harutyunyan (12-2, 7 KOs),
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In what was clearly a stay-busy and-get-well fight for Teofimo Lopez after his lackluster win over Jamaine Ortiz, Lopez (21-1, 13 KOs) scored a clear unanimous decision victory over the veteran fighter Steve Claggett (38-8-2, 26 KOs) tonight in Miami. To his credit, Claggett (out of Canada) came out with no fear, pressing Lopez and
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I admit it: when Adrien Broner first came on the scene as a prominent prospect, I was full of eagerness to see his every bout. The combination of hand speed, power, and confidence was mesmerizing. Broner won his first 26 fights and did so in dominating fashion (aside from a majority decision win in his
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It wasn’t always like this, you know. There was a time, within my memory, when the best heavyweights fought the best heavyweights, no matter how deep the division was. Sure, there were the Klitschko years where the competition wasn’t exactly fierce. Larry Holmes suffered through a similar era too. You can only fight the best
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“There are levels to this game.”-Andre Ward That was the first thing I thought as the fight between Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Jaime Munguia progressed into the fourth round, as the red-headed Mexican floored his countryman with a wicked uppercut. Munguia was more than game coming out of the corner for each and every round.
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Director Steve Read’s In the Company of Kings is a unique boxing documentary that drops you into the lives of fighters both well-known (Bernard Hopkins and Larry Holmes) and those who perhaps have been somewhat forgotten (Eddie Mustafa Muhammad and Tim Witherspoon). Read and his long-running team of producer Robert Douglas (producer and narrator of
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The Story of former Rahway, New Jersey Warden Bob Hatrak is an extraordinary one. In 1973, he became the youngest warden to ever take over a maximum security prison. Hatrak had a keen eye for reform, and approached the idea of reform with empathy, creativity, and industriousness. A huge part of Hatrak’s efforts centered around
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