Dougie’s Friday mailbag
Fans share thoughts on Lucas Matthysse-Viktor Postol, Adrien Broner-Khabib Allkhverdiev, Anthony Joshua, favorite fights, racial/stylistic double standards, mythical matchups and more in this week’s Friday mailbag.
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Keith Thurman: Soto Karass a stepping stone to Mayweather
Keith Thurman: “You can doubt me as much as you want, but you are going to watch me throughout my career climb that ladder and reach the destination that I foresaw, and the one that I told you about, and that’s Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather.”
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Leonard, Foreman talk Pacquiao, retirement
There are some who have already asked Manny Pacquiao to retire and others who would do so if he loses to Brandon Rios on Nov. 23. Sugar Ray Leonard and George Foreman talk about how hard the decision to hang up the gloves can be.
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Could Mayweather, Ward be in Hopkins future?
IBF light heavyweight titleholder Bernard Hopkins has some options on what he does next but he says he’s looking for a “super fight” for his next bout and would like to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. as a middleweight.
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Lem’s latest: Stevens ‘coming to wreck’ Golovkin
Curtis Stevens on Gennady Golovkin: “I’m coming there to wreck him. I’m coming to wreck the wrecking machine.”
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Lem’s latest: Duva says Stevenson, Kovalev ‘destined to fight’
Hard-hitting light heavyweights Adonis Stevenson and Sergey Kovalev will face separate opponents on Nov. 30 in Canada, and Kovalev’s promoter sees them facing each other down the road.
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Lem’s latest: Trainer ranks Golovkin right behind Robinson, Hopkins
Trainer Abel Sanchez said Gennady Golovkin “is the best middleweight ever besides Sugar Ray Robinson and maybe Bernard Hopkins.”
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Lalonde rebuts Leonard, discusses catchweights, Mayweather-Alvarez
Donny Lalonde discusses his fateful catchweight bout with Sugar Ray Leonard in 1988 and how weight issues figured into the outcome, and offers his thoughts on the practice of inventing new weight limits for fights today.
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Lem’s lastest: Macklin vows a beat-down for Golovkin
Middleweight contender Matthew Macklin claims that he will handle unbeaten WBA titleholder Gennady Golovkin in similar fashion to how Bernard Hopkins knocked out then-undefeated Felix Trinindad in the 12th round.
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Lem’s latest: Berto-Soto Karass, Thurman-Chaves in July
Florida welterweight standouts Andre Berto and Keith Thurman are schedueld to fight in separate bouts on a Showtime-televised card in July. Berto will face veteran gatekeeper Jesus Soto-Karass; Thurman will fight fellow unbeaten puncher Diego Chaves.
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