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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This year at the Academy Awards, I was covering the show on a press pass for my film & TV outlet, Awards Daily. How this works is the show plays live on more monitors than you can shake a gold statue at (in what’s known as the Interview Room) while we in that room await
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While I would not want to simplify the film career of the mighty Carl Weathers down to one role, let’s face it, as much as any of us might have loved him in Semi-Tough, Death Hunt, Predator, Action Jackson (a personal favorite of mine), Happy Gilmore, or on TV in The Mandalorian, Weathers will always
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Knockout artist Artur Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) kept his knockout streak alive against Callum Smith Saturday night with a seventh-round stoppage of the former super middleweight champ in a match for Beterbiev’s IBF, WBC, and WBO light heavyweight titles. Beterbiev was crisp from the start. While both men were active, Beterbiev was more precise (landing
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