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