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By Cliff Rold - There is an audacity to the career of WBO 130 lb. titlist Vasyl Lomachenko. Two Olympic Gold medals, and two world amateur championships, said a lot about how good he was before he ever turned pro. His stated desire to fight for a title in his professional debut didn’t come to fruition. One wondered if it was a gimmick. Then he fought Orlando Salido in his...
Sometimes a fight can be closely contested, closely decided, and still be decidedly wrong. That’s what happened on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev dominated most of the first half of the fight. Former super middleweight champion Andre Ward made a heck of a comeback in the second half. He rebounded from what looked like a one-sided beating to compete on even terms down the stretch.
by Cliff Rold - Four years ago, having gone through the Super Six minefield and becoming the first man to stop then lineal light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson in a super middleweight title fight, Andre Ward looked like the heir apparent. Following the wild round robin years of the 1980s featuring a relative parity...
Arriving in the best shape he’s been in since 2013, and fighting with tenacity for all ten rounds, 27-year old welterweight Pablo Cesar Cano (30-5-1, 21 KO), 143 ½, of Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico, came up with a career saving split decision win on Friday night at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California, over 36-year old Maurico Herrera (22-7, 7 KO), 142 ¾, of Riverside, California.
By Cliff Rold - If you’re a boxing fan, this Saturday is a date that has been circled on the calendar for months. Two of the three best light heavyweights in the world will lock horns. They sport a combined record of 60-0-1. The former unified and lineal super middleweight king, the last American man to win a Gold...
Welterweight: Few seem to want it but there is enough smoke to wonder if there might be fire to the idea of a Manny Pacquiao rematch with Floyd Mayweather. Time will tell. Until it does, Pacquiao returns from ‘retirement’ with another decisive win over a top ten contender in 2016.
By Cliff Rold - To a certain segment of the fan base, the perception of control is everything. This has been a regularly disappointing year in boxing. Several big fights have fallen through or been delayed (with no guarantee they ever happen). The Heavyweight Champion of the World couldn’t hold himself together long enough to make a single title defense. Fans have been reduced to cheering in...
By Cliff Rold - 'Get in here. Tyson is getting his ass kicked!' When a friend shows up at the door just as the bell rings to end the sixth, the urgency of not missing the replay of the knockdown is palpable. As this is being written, we’re still a couple hours shy of exactly twenty years to the minute that the heavyweight title fight...
At 37, Manny Pacquiao doesn’t throw the same sustained combinations, doesn’t appear to have his finishing touch, and rarely fights three minutes of a round. Matched right, he doesn’t have to. There are some young guys out there that might be ready to push him over the edge into the pastures of old fistic age but in 2016 he was still good enough to beat Timothy Bradley and a game Jessie Vargas.
by Cliff Rold - Manny Pacquiao is an easy fighter to take for granted. One day, sometime sooner than later, Pacquiao will be viewed entirely through the lens of history. His talent, remarkable longevity, and fairly consistent level of opposition, all the things we take for granted now, will be part of his full picture of...