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Workmanlike slugger Ramon Alvarez produced the same result in his trilogy bout with Omar Chavez as he’d earned in their first fight seven years earlier, winning a wide unanimous decision on the Tribute to the Kings pay-per-view show from a cavernous Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s official. The race is on. To see which boxer will step up this summer to claim whatever oxygen is left in the room by the time the retired Hall of Famers and social media toe-dippers have retreated to the background. Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul reportedly bagged more than a million buys for their eight-round spectacle earlier this month in Miami, meaning the bar is set pretty high for those coming next.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul came to Miami. They made their promises. They fought their “fight.” They left with a few more million than they had when they arrived. And whaddya know? We all survived. Whether you believe a 44-year-old Mayweather carried Paul through eight rounds or you think the upstart YouTuber deserves credit for a victory simply for not embarrassing himself, fine.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - The Mount Rushmore of upsets. Regardless of your generation or sport of choice, the top candidates for chiseled-granite immortality can probably be plucked from a similar crop of wannabes. The New York Jets in Super Bowl III. North Carolina State in the NCAA Final Four.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I appreciate Manny Pacquiao. The things he’s accomplished since reaching the championship level more than two decades ago measure up to anyone over the same time frame, and he’ll be a deserving International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee at the very instant he becomes eligible.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Just when you thought it was safe to get excited about a heavyweight fight… Back comes Deontay Wilder. According to Monday reports, a favorable – to Team Wilder, anyway – ruling from an arbitrator means WBC champ Tyson Fury must face his two-time foe in a trilogy bout by mid-September, surely scuttling a would-be August unification with Anthony Joshua that had been made official over the weekend.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Here’s a news flash, folks… I love sports. I played football, baseball and hockey to moderate success as a youngster, picked up distance running as an intermittent hobby in my 30s and have been fortunate enough to scratch out something resembling a post-college living watching and writing about athletes in action.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Oh sure, it’s been done. There have been fights – two, in fact – where mega-talented stylists have bamboozled Canelo Alvarez with movement, speed and guile. Floyd Mayweather Jr. did it in 2013 in the first megaevent of a then-inexperienced Mexican’s career.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Some people do needlepoint. Others play board games. But Erislandy Lara prefers an outlet with a bit more excitement. Particularly when it helps pay the bills, too. “To be honest, boxing comes so easy to me, it’s like riding a bike,” he said.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - The more I watched Demetrius Andrade on Saturday, the more I thought of NFL Films. Sports fans of a certain vintage will recall the company that was founded in the early 1960s, based in southern New Jersey – not too far from Philadelphia – and tasked with producing commercials, TV programs, feature films and documentaries on the National Football League.