Kostya Tsyzu - Death In Gloves; Part 1
By Bradley Yeh - An exceptional mix of unique characteristics made Kostya Tzsyu a ruthless and amazingly brilliant light welterweight boxer of the modern era.
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The Breakdown: Miguel Cotto-Shane Mosley
By Bradley Yeh - Shane Mosley has never been one to accept the status quo and believe that the operational standard need not be questioned. Dangerously explosive within the ring, Mosley has tasted boxing’s successes without allowing himself become tainted or intoxicated from its often widely adopted powers.
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Kessler vs. Calzaghe: The Fight Breakdown
I know that Kessler can drop Calzaghe if he lands that perfect right cross that he did when he waited for Beyer to just walk in and “receive”. There's no doubt in my mind about that.
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Chronicles of the master class Mexicans: Part 2
By Bradley Yeh - For a while the sheer scale and extent of Marco Antonio Barerra’s achievements escaped imagination and stunned our senses. It was as if he were fighting free from the silent fears and assertions that normally regulated achievement of the highest dreams within athlete’s minds. When Barerra effortlessly manhandled Hamed, the realization that boxing could also be as refreshing to watch, as Barerra appeared to find it liberating, hit home for us all and within the Mexico’s fighting heartland there was a homecoming for the traditional Mexican hombre.
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Chronicles of the master class Mexican hombres
By Bradley Yeh - Of all the performing arts, martial artistry is the most dynamic. Despite the fact that there's thousands of serious cult fans captivated with boxing’s unique juxtaposition of, glory, fear, and uncertainty; boxing is a sport for which its players can always find a reason to leave. Along with diametrically opposed requisites of extraordinary brilliance and tenacity to compete even at top-level amateur shows, boxing will always remain as a challenging activity for the disparity between, attitude, aspirations and real ability, to persist concealed in either a partly or wholly form. For good reason to, as despite the controversies surrounding integrity within boxing, inside the ring there is no hiding your true capabilities.
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Lovemore Ndou: The Underrated African Warrior
Against Ricky Hatton, Kostya Tszyu’s successor, the ever dangerous Lovemore Ndou will now challenge for an IBF world title shot later this year.
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Sam Soliman: Ready For Enrique Ornelas
Sam Soliman (WBA Number 3) is currently training the house down in preparation for his upcoming Middleweight fight with Enrique Ornelas. This fight will be held at the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, California, this coming weekend, November 17, 2006, and there's many reasons why boxing purists shouldn’t miss this fight.
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Paul Briggs: A Hurricane of Determination, P4
Fast forward through Brigg’s career, 8 months after Jesus Ruiz, zoom in and you’d find Briggs residing across the pacific ocean upon American shores being trained by Jack Mosley in California, and ready to catapult into the ratings at a contention point numerically impossible to ignore. It’s well known axiom that if you want to make it in boxing, and if you truly hold promise at some time, you must come to the USA.
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Paul Briggs: A Hurricane of Determination P3
With Glen Kelly defeated Paul Briggs knew domestic superiority within the Australian light heavyweight boxing circuit would now be publicly acknowledged as his. And it was. As Briggs rode the wave created from his destruction of Tosca Petridis, several years previous, it was if he simply dropped in on Kelly, and in no uncertain terms said, “one of us has to go”. Kelly departed.
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Paul Briggs: A Hurricane of Determination P2
Amongst fighters, rivalries beyond that described by governing body’s contention ranks are commonplace. For the most part they’re good for the game. They provide knowledge about boxer’s, psyche, skills and determination. Furthermore they can drive a fighter to aspire for a more comprehensive and conclusive win. Out of this, both the promoters and the fans can win because everyone knows no matter what is said, only one fighter can win. There were no exceptions to this with respect to the rivalry between Glen Kelly and Paul Briggs as their careers dovetailed into common ground and they approached each other on a collision course in 2002. Common opponents often allow analysts insights as to how fights may unfold and for the most part they make interesting breakdowns. Observing each boxer’s capabilities and adjustments in response to a similar opponent’s style, power, and strategy, casts some light on how each boxer may respond to the strengths and weaknesses of each other when they meet. At the time Kelly and Briggs shared previous common domestic opponents in Paul Smallman and Jaimie Wallace, and both opponents were considered very capable and durable domestic opponents when Briggs and Kelly both beat them. A noteworthy fact presenting itself from this is that Briggs didn’t require overtime for the same assignments, and that Kelly did - again Briggs had completed his work before the time allocated. Briggs had KO’d both Smallman and Wallace before the end of the 4th stanza, whilst Kelly had defeated them both via points decisions approximately 3-4 years earlier than when Briggs had feasted on them. Perhaps Kelly had them when they were much less shop worn, there certainly can be a case put forward for that viewpoint. However, armed with benefit that hindsight now allows us to see past Briggs’ performance in the Wallace & Smallman bouts, the smart money says If Briggs would have fought them when Kelly did, Briggs most likely would’ve still won both fights by KO.
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