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Outside the Ropes

Outside the Ropes

BACK TO THE PEOPLE There’s one crucial ingredient for a sport to be popular: the populace. Likewise, it can’t be “the...

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Outside the Ropes

MOVING ON To everything there is a season, and July was apparently a time to retire. Tim Bradley appeared set to turn...

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Outside the Ropes

MOB MENTALITY If “boxing is the red light district of sports,” as late journalist Jimmy Cannon wrote, then this column is...

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Fight Roundup

May 12, Madison Square Garden, New York Next time you use up a roll of toilet paper, save the tube. Save...

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Fight Roundup

Jan. 19, MGM Grand, Las Vegas There’s a chronicle of blood, sweat and tears behind most triumphs in boxing, but the...

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Fight Reports

Oct. 13, CHI Health Center, Omaha, Nebraska The Canelo-Golovkin rematch in September was stoked by some bitter words, but all the...

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Fight Roundup

Aug. 4, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City Sergey Kovalev used to be “Krusher” Kovalev, the Keyser Soze of...

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Fight Roundup

Dec. 8, Madison Square Garden Theater, New York For boxers with roots in Puerto Rico, New York City has long been...

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Fight Roundup

Sept. 15, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas It couldn’t compete with the main event in terms of pure, steaming animosity, but the...

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Knockout of the Year

(Photo by Naoki Fukuda) Junto Nakatani KO 12 Andrew Moloney Junto Nakatani’s victory had already been sealed as the fight ticked into...

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