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Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, Connecticut - In his first fight since March of last year, WBC Featherweight Champion Gary Russell Jr. (27-1, 16 KOs) demolished Patrick Hyland (31-2, 15 KOs) in two rounds to retain his world title.
Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, Connecticut - In a mandatory title showdown, Puerto Rico's Jose Pedraza (22-0, 12 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over challenger Stephen Smith (23-2, 13 KOs) of Liverpool to retain the IBF Junior Lightweight World Championship. The scores were 117-110, 116-111, 116-111.
by Cliff Rold - Cruiserweight is sometimes the forgotten weight class on this side of the Atlantic. It makes sense. For the last few years, almost the entire cruiserweight title picture has been formed outside US borders. It isn’t always that way of course. Cruiserweight has its moments in the US. Evander Holyfield made his early bones...
By Cliff Rold - Last weekend ended with plenty of buzz. Pound for pound lists, lineages, and legacies were discussed regarding Manny Pacquiao. Legitimacy and future earnings were heavily pondered for Anthony Joshua. The action was pretty good too.
Not much has changed since the last update in January 2016 but the possibilities are many. 2016 got off a to a rough start but matters are picking up in April. Several members of the list, and several more potential arrivals, will be in the ring if they haven’t been already.
Batman will always capture the Joker. Freddy and Jason will always be back. Manny Pacquiao will always beat Timothy Bradley. It doesn’t matter how many times they fight. Bradley could replace Teddy Atlas with the ghosts of Eddie Futch, Jack Blackburn, and Ray Arcel. Pacquiao is just better than him.
Heavyweight: Anthony Joshua gets his first win against a top ten contender, his first belt, and now the fun really gets started. Joshua will be an attractive opponent sooner than later for champion Tyson Fury and they could be in a football stadium within the next twelve months. Charles Martin exits the top ten while Joseph Parker enters.
by Cliff Rold - He might not be a young man anymore but he’s still got plenty of greatness left in him. Scoring two knockdowns along the way, 37-year old Manny Pacquiao (58-6-2, 38 KO) of General Santos City, Cotabato del Sur, Philippines, may have capped one of the great ring careers of all time with a demonstrative decision win...
By Cliff Rold - It’s been almost eighteen years since Manny Pacquiao won his first world title. It’s been over a dozen since he defeated Marco Antonio Barrera to announce his potential for true greatness. That’s all a long time ago. Manny Pacquiao isn’t a raw, power-punching flyweight anymore. He’s not a lightning fast featherweight killer. He’s a 37-year old future hall of famer entering the ring off an...
By Cliff Rold - America’s Charles Martin captured one of the major belts in the Heavyweight division, IBF variety, in January with a win over Vyacheslav Glazkov. The win didn’t make him the best heavyweight in the world. One could fairly say a win over Glazkov is barely enough to register into an objective top ten, especially with nothing else of note to go with it. That’s typically not what matters in...