Team USA: The Journey Ends for Two, Mayer Advances
Friday, Nico Hernandez and Carlos Balderas joined middleweight teammate Charles Conwell at the Olympic off ramp. Their Olympic dream in 2016 is at an end.
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Team USA: Can Boxing Become a Story?
By Cliff Rold - On Wednesday afternoon, Team USA got something it needed badly. After being shut out of the medal stand on the men’s side for the first time in Olympic competition in 2012, light flyweight Nico Hernandez guaranteed the men’s team would not leave empty handed this time around. A different test begins. The test is this: if Team USA keeps winning, can they begin to...
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Team USA: Nine Minutes From Medals for Two
Having finished the round of 16 in both the men’s lightweight and light flyweight divisions, Team USA finds themselves 4-1 as a unit and nine minutes, or one win, away from the medal stand in two classes.
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Juan Diaz Eyes World Title Shot, Verdejo and Crolla Bouts
It is not uncommon for a fighter to turn professional in their teens, approaching twenty years as a professional by their early 30s. It is less common among US-based fighters in this era.
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Can Olympic Boxing Un-Fix Itself?
By Cliff Rold - It’s still here. After whispers and innuendos that seem to come up every four years that boxing will finally get the ax at the Olympics, it remains. That is as it should be. Some things should always be at the Olympics. Track, wrestling, boxing…pretty much anything that has an equivalent in the Iliad? Yeah, that stuff belongs in the Olympics. For those who wait every...
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Carl Frampton vs. Leo Santa Cruz: Post-Fight Report Card
Irish eyes are surely smiling. Showing poise, versatility, and durability, Northern Ireland’s Carl Frampton proved that risk has its rewards. Just months after winning an anticipated, if ultimately less than scintillating, unification battle with undefeated Scott Quigg, he moved up in weight to take on another undefeated tiger.
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Leo Santa Cruz-Carl Frampton: Pre-Fight Report Card
For most of the last twenty years, we have been able to count on the area of the scale once considered classic featherweight. 122 and 126 lbs. have delivered too many times to count. We thought it might earlier this year in a unification clash between Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg. Frampton boxed too well for too long to let a classic break out.
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Adonis Stevenson-Thomas Williams: Post-Fight Report Card
There are always going to be fans that don’t get into Adonis Stevenson. He’s got an ugly past. He’s received more of the public blame for the failure to make a fight with Sergey Kovalev, fairly and unfairly.
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Adonis Stevenson-Thomas Williams: Pre-Fight Report Card
by Cliff Rold - Woe to the party deemed responsible… Boxing fans wanted to see a showdown at light heavyweight between the two biggest punchers in the division. They still do. It hasn’t happened. It may never. When Adonis Stevenson initially opted to head for Showtime, the complications in making a fight with Sergey Kovalev increased. He became the guilty party.
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Leo Santa Cruz vs. Carl Frampton: Ring the Damn Bell
By Cliff Rold - The best fights are often those that combine two elements. The first is that feeling on uncertainty for the audience. Last weekend had some of that. Few expected a barnburner in Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol. Most thought Crawford would win. But they didn’t know. When two undefeated battlers...
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