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HBO World Championship Boxing: New graphics, same Larry
Usually I wouldn't devote an entire post to talking about the actual broadcast from HBO or any other network, but there was some important stuff last night on the revamped World Championship Boxing p...
Dan's Notes, Our Thoughts: January 16
Dan Rafael's Notebook is one of our most invaluable sources for boxing news and solid rumors, and if you don't already read it every week, you should. Since he always breaks at least three or four int...
Re-examining the Kessler-Miranda fiasco
Last month, in a "Boxing's 15 Biggest Losers of 2008" piece I put together, I had Danish super middleweight Mikkel Kessler ranked ninth. I said, in short, that it wasn't really his fault. He's a tal...
HBO inks Kirkland-Julio, Ortiz-Harris, Lopez-Penalosa
If you hear a rumbling in the boxing world right now, it's probably coming from HBO's newest card, scheduled for March 7. In the main event, there should be thunder aplenty when James Kirkland faces ...
Hatton-Pacquiao done for May 2 in Vegas
World junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton will face Manny Pacquiao on May 2 in Las Vegas, with both fighters having agreed to terms and location. The only thing left to be decided is whe...
ESPN: "Experts" agree that boxing won't literally stop existing in 2009
Talk about your hard-hitting journalism. Guys like Lou DiBella, Bernard Hopkins, Ross Greenburg, Bob Arum and Don King all agree that boxing will not die in 2009. "I'm an eternal optimist. I don't e...
Dawson-Tarver II: This time it's obvious!
On March 14, 2009, I will turn 27 years old. This year, the day after I turned 26, boxing's gift to me was the rematch between Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao, another thriller between argua...
Rafael: Vazquez-Marquez IV "is dead"
From Dan Rafael's must-read Notebook: The proposed fourth fight between junior featherweight champ Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez, which Showtime had been eyeing for February, is dead, Mar...
Calzaghe-Jones PPV numbers another big disappointment for HBO
If you had any doubt that the current economy is going to seriously hamper pay-per-view buyrates for boxing, stop doubting. When October's Kelly Pavlik-Bernard Hopkins fight drew around 190,000 buys...
Calzaghe-Jones 24/7: Episode One
I've never done something like this before, but I'm bored, I'm going to watch every episode, and why not? That's mostly the point. Why not? Here's how it works: I watch live, and type thoughts as I ...
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