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By Cliff Rold - When it was first discussed, the idea sounded like a joke. It ended up being a fight, perhaps intended to build a grudge match transparently years in the making. Whether Adrien Broner can be a problem for Floyd Mayweather, or just the latest hoping Mayweather comes back to the ring, remains to be seen.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - 25-year old lightweight Robert Easter (17-0, 14 KO), 133, of Toledo, Ohio, danced his way into the ring. He did more than dance once he got there, using a single right hand in round five to level former 130 lb. titlist Algenis Menzdez (23-4-1, 12 KO), 134 ¼, Dominican-born of Brooklyn, New York. Mendez entered having won two straight including a unanimous decision over tricky former lightweight titlist Miguel Vazquez since losing the IBF 130 lb. title to Rances Barthelemy in 2014. It was the first stoppage loss of Mendez’s career. The referee was William Johnson.
By Cliff Rold - In light of 140 lb. titlist Adrien Broner’s latest outside the ring issues, which may or may not pan out to be a serious issue, this seems as good a time as any to point out some of the similarities between the sweet science and bowling. The activities themselves aren’t really where the commonalities lie. Sure, in...
Anyone who was looking forward to a clash between Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev before last weekend is probably even more interested now. Part of the fun of big fights is the build up. Part of the build up is the comparing and contrasting of well-matched professionals. For anyone who likes the former super middleweight champion Ward over Kovalev, they’ve got to like that snappy counter left and the way he got harder to hit as the fight wore on.
by Cliff Rold - Working his way back to the stature he had after winning the Super Six tournament, 32-year old former super middleweight champion and 2004 Olympic light heavyweight gold medalist Andre Ward (29-0, 15 KO), 174 ¾, of Oakland, California scored a third-round knockdown en route to a unanimous twelve-round decision...
by Cliff Rold - Win and we all have something to look forward to. The first is the task for former super middleweight champion Andre Ward: win. The latter is the prize for fans looking for the sort of showdown that 2016 so far lacks. Recently some very good fights were added to the slate, but the best of them just sounds very good.
By Cliff Rold - In the ring, he wasn’t the most impressive member of the 2012 US Olympic boxing team. He still isn’t. That honor, then and now, has belonged to welterweight Errol Spence. That’s no knock on featherweight Joseph Diaz Jr. Spence just looked, looks, that good. Given the weight he fights at (welter) and the frame to move up, Spence may ultimately be the biggest star developed from a...
Making his ring return after a year-off, 35-year old welterweight Mike Alvarado (35-4, 24 KO), 147 ¼, of Denver, Colorado, shook off the rust with a third round knockout of Saul Corral (19-7, 10 KO), 147 ¼, of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. It was only Corral's second knockout loss.
By Cliff Rold - It takes something extra to get much attention at 105 lbs. Wars help. Akira Yaegashi-Pornsawan Porpramook and Francisco Rodriguez-Katsunari Takayama had reach rare for their class with action rare for any class. Individual fighters have worked harder for excellence than a single night’s mayhem could..
By Cliff Rold - Juan Diaz is 32 years old. It seems odd for him to be that old. He’s attempting to come back for the second time. Even when he reached the highest points of his career, he always seemed younger than everyone around him. He often was. At only eighteen, he came off the floor to eek out a split decision win over Ubaldo Hernandez and the crowd let him have it. The young Diaz broke down on Showtime...