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P4P Top 20 Update: Vic on the move, Joe on the outs
Seems like we just did this a couple weeks ago, right? That's 'cause we did. Not a lot has happened in that time overall, but Vic Darchinyan won again in very impressive fashion, and the No. 2 man, Jo...
How high can Vic Darchinyan go?
Now that Vic Darchinyan has walked through Dmitri Kirilov, Cristian Mijares and Jorge Arce in his last three fights, it's not a question of whether or not Vic is back on the pound-for-pound lists, be...
HBO cutting back on pay-per-views, boxing not
When HBO Sports said that they would be cutting back on the number of boxing pay-per-views, which had to be at least somewhat influenced by a brutal American economy and the massive flops of Calzaghe...
Dan's Notes, Our Thoughts: February 6
Dan Rafael's invaluable Notebook. Dan Rafael: Alfredo Angulo will face former welterweight contender Danny Perez (34-5, 17 KO) on February 14. Perez was an early candidate to replace that chump Ricar...
Rumors: Lopez-Penalosa, Taylor-Ward, Taylor-Jones, Berto-Pacquiao?
Word is flying around lately about a ton of potential fights, and they're mostly just rumors at this stage. But discussion is a hoot, so let's take unfounded internet rumors, give proper journalism an...
Montiel-Donaire, Solis-Viloria done for March 14
Thank you, Showtime, for saving my 27th birthday, at least from the boxing side of things. While HBO runs a rematch between Chad Dawson and Antonio Tarver, Showtime will counter with one of their "s...
The 2008 Bad Left Hook Awards
Since the year is all but over and there are but a few even semi-major fights left, and no big American TV cards (I'm not counting the Valuev-Holyfield PPV circus as a big card), it's about time to ge...
P4P Top 20 Update: Out with Mijares, in with Darchinyan
There'll be a lot of amendments made through the rest of the year, but here's a quick update of my P4P Top 20 following Joe Calzaghe's win over Roy Jones and Cristian Mijares' loss to Vic Darchinyan. ...
Updating the Bad Left Hook pound-for-pound top 20
I think sometime we'll get the gang together again and get a group top 20, but I wanted to just sort of re-check things myself and put my own together for the time being. Given the lack of time others...
Tomato Cans: June 3, 2008
Fernando Montiel had no trouble with fringe contender Luis Maldonado on Saturday in Mexico, scoring a third round TKO to retain his WBO 115-pound title. In a perfect world, this would set up a sho...
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