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Maidana stops Ortiz in war, Ortiz leaves questions about his future
Marcos Maidana stopped Victor Ortiz in the sixth round of a junior welterweight war, but the biggest story of the night may have come from Ortiz's post-fight interview. After essentially quitting in the sixth round, Ortiz said in his post-fight interview that he had "a lot of thinking to do" about...
Fight Previews: Ortiz-Maidana and Abraham-Oral
Neither of this weekend's fights being offered on major American TV are really big enough to go into our running picks competition, but both are more than worth discussion. First off, Showtime will bring us a middleweight title fight on tape delay from Germany. IBF titlist Arthur Abraham is...
Ranking the Junior Middleweights: June 1, 2009
The division between glory classes welterweight and middleweight often gets ignored, but it has recently become one of the more active and TV-featured classes out there, thanks to some good young fighters, some good rising and not-so-young fighters, and one freak of nature whose closest thing to...
Top Rank announces full lineup for June 27 PPV
Top Rank has sent out a press release with the full lineup for their upcoming June 27 pay-per-view, and it's a pretty solid show all around for Caesars Atlantic City. Main Event: Juan Manuel Lopez (25-0, 23 KO) v. Olivier Lontchi (18-0, 8 KO) Maybe the least intriguing of the four scheduled...
Sergio Martinez steals the show on HBO; Gamboa, Angulo win as expected
I went out last night and DVR'd Boxing After Dark, and got around to watching the card this evening, doing a wonderful job of avoiding the results. I avoided them so well that I didn't even know that Abraham-Marquez was called off and postponed until November 8. Let's talk some fights. Sergio...
Ranking the Junior Middleweights: May 2008
The junior middleweights (154 pounds) are one of boxing's admittedly weakest divisions. With no truly big names and no marquee titleholders, plus a vacant Ring Magazine championship, the division would be considered by most to be rather barren. But fear not -- there is some serious talent coming...
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