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Adrian Curiel-Sivenathi Nontshinga II: Stats & Stakes
Junior flyweight has already delivered a fight of the year contender in 2024. Kenshiro’s lineal title defense against Carlos Canizales set a bar for the division this year, the same way his run atop the division has set a bar for what has been a stro...
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Review: The Secrets on Federal Street Are An Engrossing Read
For years, there were two things easily taken for granted about the short, tragic life of a junior lightweight champion who never was. The first was that Tyrone Everett was the victim of one of the worst decisions of the 1970s. The second was that Ev...
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Teofimo Lopez’s Inconsistency is His Consistent: Weekend Afterthoughts
It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last. Boxing is chock full of tales of fighters who did enough to win the world championship only for the judges to leave them behind as a footnote. To these eyes, using superior defense, ring generalship,...
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Fury-Usyk Postponement Cuts Deep: Weekend Afterthoughts
The biggest news of the weekend in boxing didn’t come from anything in the ring. February’s highest profile fight isn’t happening in February anymore with an errant elbow leaving us without the undisputed showdown between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usy...
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Fury and Usyk Play Highlander: February Preview
There can be only one. A film analogy felt appropriate after the debut of the audacious preview commercial for the undisputed heavyweight clash dropped this week. Borrowing from western, gladiator, and anime influences among others, the point was dri...
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Lightweight Shuffle Might Require Some Fan Patience
By Cliff Rold - It can be exciting to see a fighter collect all the belts in a single class. How they lose those belts is another matter. Sometimes, they lose them in pieces. Josh Taylor and Jermell Charlo are recent examples. Both assembled all the...
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krikya360.com's Television Pick of The Week - January 27
Pick It: TBRB #5 John Ryder vs. Jaime Munguia (Saturday, DAZN, 8:00 PM EST) - No title is on the line but serious title contention could be at stake for both men in this super middleweight main event. 35-year old John Ryder (32-6, 18 KO) has to know...
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Kenshiro Teraji-Carlos Canizales: Stats & Stakes
by Cliff Rold - If being up before the sun to catch an intriguing championship boxing match is your cup of tea, there are mere hours to wait. On Tuesday (ESPN+, 4 AM EST), the best junior flyweight in the world is riding a four fight knockout streak...