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WBO shows why sanctioning body rankings are a joke and their titles mean nothing
Sometimes, "newbies" to boxing wonder why many of us, including this blog, are so against acknowledging titleholders in the WBC, WBO, IBF and WBA as "champions," and only doing that with the lineal c...
Ranking the Junior Bantamweights: February 2009
The 115-pound division has been one of the sport's best and most action-packed over the last couple of years, and the re-rise of the monster known as Vic Darchinyan has redefined the weight class sinc...
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...
Ranking the Junior Welterweights: January 2009
Seven pounds south of boxing's glory division lie the junior welterweights, a one-star show that will soon get a second big-name attraction when Manny Pacquiao arrives to fight the division's top man....
Ranking the Welterweights: January 2009
The welterweight division is constantly touted as the sport's best, but the truth is with recent evacuations of key fighters, it's really no deeper up top than a lot of other weight classes. Floyd Ma...
P4P Top 20 Update: Sugar Shane back home in the top 10
This list was last updated on November 10, 2008 -- a lot has happened since, and a lot is coming up in February. I get the feeling it won't be too long before we do another update, but with such a dra...
Bad Left Hook Top Ten: Super Middleweight (December 2008)
1. Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KO)WBA TitleholderLast Five Fights: Danilo Haussler (W-KO-3), Dimitri Sartison (W-KO-12), Joe Calzaghe (L-UD-12), Librado Andrade (W-UD-12), Markus Beyer (W-KO-3)Next: TBA...
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. ...
Ranking the Middleweights: October 2008
Early this year, I ranked the middleweights and discussed just how shallow the division truly was. Though very top-heavy with Pavlik, Abraham and Wright, there was little in the way of real threats af...
Ranking the Heavyweights: October 2008
The heavyweight division is discussed plenty by me, even though I urge boxing fans who don't already do so to really put the heavies on the backburner and pay attention to the lower weights. All what...
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