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Ring of Fire: Manny Pacquiao to Keep Fighting, Winky Wright Returns, Big Birthdays, Weekend Results and More
Birthdays and Games Don't miss the first week of Pick 'Em Game choices one post below this one. Or you can just click here if you're too lazy to scroll. FOUR big birthdays in the last three days. On Saturday, Bernard Hopkins turned 46 years old. On Sunday, his rival Roy Jones Jr. turned 42. And...
Friday Global Boxing Results: Odlanier Solis Gets DQ Win Over Ray Austin in Miami
Miami, Florida Odlanier Solis DQ-10 Ray Austin: This sets up Solis (17-0, 12 KO) for a shot at WBC heavyweight titleholder Vitali Klitschko in March. Austin (28-5-4, 18 KO) really should have never been in a WBC eliminator to begin with, but that's the heavyweight division and boxing politics...
Global Boxing Round-Up: Tajbert, Manfredo, Remillard victorious
There was a lot of action this weekend in the boxing world, so let's catch up in case anyone missed anything. Fights We've Already Covered: Rafael Marquez over Israel Vazquez, Yonnhy Perez draws Abner Mares Ruslan Chagaev beats Kali Meehan Ji Hoon Kim and Ruslan Provodnikov win on FNF Ryan Rhodes...
Mandatory Eight Count: So-So Sonsona and Joe Calzaghe's Hollywood Dreams
Sonsona too young to quit (The Philippine Star)I think it's fair game to wonder if Marvin Sonsona has any real desire to be a professional boxer at this point. His promoter says in this article that there have been "days when he told me he wanted to quit boxing because he'd been boxing all his...
Bad Left Hook's Top 20 Fights of 2009: The Cut List
There were a whole lot of good, memorable fights in boxing this year, and while I've put together a top 20 that will start going up in installments (20-16, 15-11, 10-6, 5-1) this evening, I wanted to give some due credit to the fights that were on my cut list after some deliberation and...
Mandatory Eight Count: Acelino Freitas questioned for murder
Ex-boxing champ Acelino "Popo" Freitas denies murder involvement - ESPNFreitas is being questioned in the murder of his 17-year old niece's boyfriend. He says he did talk to the man who was murdered the day of his killing, and a friend of the victim says he believes Freitas was involved...
Jorge Arce contemplating retirement?
Jorge Arce, one of boxing's most colorful and entertaining characters, sounds like he may be contemplating retiring from boxing. While Arce said that he wished he had gone all 12 rounds last night in his loss to Vic Darchinyan and that he feels good aside from the usual bumps and bruises, he is...
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