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Lem’s latest: Sanchez says Cloud-Hopkins is Norris-Leonard

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07
Mar

Lem’s latest: Sanchez says Cloud-Hopkins is Norris-Leonard

Tavoris Cloud’s trainer, Abel Sanchez — who trained Terry Norris to brutally defeat Sugar Ray Leonard — says his fighter is “about to retire another legend on Saturday night” when Cloud faces 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins.

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07
Mar

Cloud calls Hopkins’ shades, mask, hoodie ‘childish’

Tavoris Cloud on Bernard Hopkins’ outfit at Wednesday’s press conference: “It was funny to just turn around and to just see a grown man with a ski mask on standing there and not saying nothing to nobody.”

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25
Feb

Cloud to make Hopkins look like ‘a nobody’

IBF light heavyweight titleholder Tavoris Cloud: “Bernard Hopkins is just going to have to bring his ass to the fight and fight.”

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18
Feb

Could Bute-Pascal affect Pascal-Dawson II?

Former IBF super middleweight titleholder Lucian Bute could meet ex-light heavyweight beltholder Jean Pascal in an all-Canadian affair that may jeopardize a rematch between Pascal and RING light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson.

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15
Jan

Lem’s latest: Tyson-beater McBride profiled; Hopkins turns 48

Kevin McBride said his reasons for continuing to fight have little to do with money as much as “restoring sanity in my own head.”

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11
Jan

Hopkins’ fight with Cloud to be announced on 48th birthday

Former RING light heavyweight and middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins’ next fight, a March 9 clash with IBF 175-pound beltholder, Tavoris Cloud, will be formally announced during a press conference on Jan. 15, Hopkins’ 48th birthday.

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09
Jan

Lem’s latest: Bika says ‘This is my time to shine’

Having lost title bouts to Andre Ward, Lucian Bute and Joe Calzaghe, super middleweight contender Sakio Bika looks to cash in on a potential WBC title fight agianst Nikola Sjekloca on Feb. 16.

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07
Jan

Ward anxious for ring return after shoulder surgery

RING, WBA and WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward said “I can’t wait to get back out there and perform for all my fans” after having endured surgery on his right shoulder on Friday.

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05
Jan

Lem’s latest: Hopkins-Cloud; Froch mulls Kessler, Stevenson

While IBF light heavyweight titleholder Tavoris Cloud could defend his belt against Bernard Hopkins on March 9, IBF super middleweight beltholder Carl Froch is weighing mandatory challenger Adonis Stevenson or WBA counterpart Mikkel Kessler.

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03
Jan

IBF ‘tentatively’ approves Hopkins-Cloud

Bernard Hopkins could face IBF light heavyweight beltholder Tavoris Cloud on March 9 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn thanks to a tentative approval of the bout by the sanctioning body.

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