Skye Nicolson eases to decision win over Raven Chapman
Australia's Skye Nicolson overcame a difficult opening two rounds to keep her unbeaten record and her WBC featherweight title via unanimous decision over Britain's Raven Chapman
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The best light heavyweights of all time
With Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol meeting on Saturday to definitively determine the top light heavyweight of this generation, who are the fighters they have to overtake to be considered as one of the division's all-time greats
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From trading punches to delivering mail: Ishe Smith looks back with contentment
“I tell people this all the time and they think I’m kidding,” laughs former 154lbs titlist Ishe Smith. “I practically had a 20-year pro career. I had no injuries really. I’ve only been cut in a couple fights, cut in the gym. Nothing really major, nothing serious that would hold me out for an extended period of time. But being a mailman, I’ve experienced more injuries on that job in five years than I ever experienced boxing.”
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Boxing's best biopics: The gritty, understated realism of ‘Raging Bull’
As the film “The Featherweight,” about the life of boxing great Willie Pep, enters wide release, this week a different BoxingScene contributor will reflect on a boxing biopic that resonates with them. Today: "Raging Bull."
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On This Day: Bernard Hopkins takes apart Felix Trinidad
Twenty-three years ago today, Bernard Hopkins defeated Felix Trinidad to become undisputed middleweight champion and, at 36 years old, give new impetus to his professional boxing life. For Trinidad, who had swept all before him at welterweight and junior middleweight, it was the beginning of the end of what would be a Hall-of-Fame career. Hopkins’ victory was a major upset at the time, but perhaps the bigger surprise is that the fight went ahead after a build-up that saw Hopkins start a nearly deadly riot in Puerto Rico and the 9/11 attacks devastate New York just days before the bout was scheduled to take place at Madison Square Garden. Here we look back on one of the middleweight division’s greatest events.
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Ronny Rios: Victory over Nick Ball would be a ‘dream come true’
Veteran contender Ronny Rios says it would be a “dream come true” if he were to win a world title at the age of 34 on October 5. Rios (34-4, 17 KOs) is traveling to Liverpool to take on WBA featherweight titlist Nick Ball in his first fight outside the United States. Speaking on “Big Fight Breakdown” on ProBox TV, Rios said that he is “very excited” about the opportunity.
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Murodjon Akhmadaliev to Naoya Inoue: Fight me or step aside
Former junior featherweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev has called on unified champ Naoya Inoue to either fight him or surrender one of his belts.
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Shu Shu Carrington following in the footsteps of Brownsville's finest
When Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington enters the ring against Sulaiman Segawa this Friday, September 27, it will mark the third time in a row – and the sixth occasion in a 13-fight pro career – that he will have plied his wares at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. For the native New Yorker, it’s an achievement that stems from a lifetime of hard work, but it is also a tremendous honor.
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The best British heavyweights in history
There was a time when the phrase “British heavyweight” was universally accompanied, at least on the western side of the Atlantic, with the adjective “horizontal”: a barbed reference to British boxers’ repeated failures for almost a century to come close to the biggest prize in sports.
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Canelo Alvarez drops Edgar Berlanga, wins wide decision
On Saturday at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez beat Edgar Berlanga, retained his lineal super middleweight championship and remains the unquestioned best in the 168-pound division.
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