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Entries tagged with "Antonio+Tarver":

• Tarver Talks the Talk – May 3rd, 2011

  
  
  

• The Road Warrior: Warp Speed – May 28th, 2011

  There’s nothing subtle about Johnson’s all-action, in your face, kamikaze, I’m-coming-to-get-you style…
  
  

• The Long Weekend – June 30th, 2011

  The reason I have the boxing bug this weekend is that I think we are finally going to get some heavyweight fireworks…
  
  

• Tarver Does It Again – July 20th, 2011

  
  
  

• Amir Khan vs. Zab Judah Preview – July 22nd, 2011

  Robert Ecksel, Editor-in-Chief of Boxing.com, spoke with Rick Strom of TYT Network about Saturday's junior welterweight unification bout between WBA champion Amir “King” Khan (25-1, 17 KOs) and IBF champion Zab “Super” Judah (41-6, 28 KOs) at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. They also discussed the return of James Kirkland on the Khan-Judah undercard, and 42-year-old Antonio Tarver's shocking victory over Danny Green in Australia...
  
  

• The Curious Case of Chad Dawson – October 11th, 2011

  If he is successful, he’ll solve one of boxing’s greatest riddles—who exactly is "Bad" Chad Dawson…
  
  

• Bernard Hopkins: Boxing’s Top (Under)Dog – October 13th, 2011

  Bernard Hopkins' final chapter in boxing has been the longest chapter that any fighter has ever authored…
  
  

• B-Hop Is Hopping Mad – October 21st, 2011

  
  
  

• Lucian Bute vs. Glen Johnson Preview – November 5th, 2011

  Johnson less resembles a prizefighter than a runaway train, and hitting him is like trying to knock bricks out of wall...
  
  

• It’s Transition Time Again – November 17th, 2011

  
  
  

• All I Want for Christmas...Floyd, Tattoos, Manny – December 7th, 2011

  Santa I would ask you to consider an Immaculate Conception, that being the idea of finally having Manny Pacquiao fight Floyd Mayweather…
  
  

• Ted the Bull’s Boxing Awards for 2011 – December 18th, 2011

  The win over Carl Froch unified the WBA and WBC super middleweight titles and also earned Andre Ward The Ring Magazine belt...
  
  

• Roy Jones: Going Down the Highway – December 19th, 2011

  It is hard, if you have any ounce of humanity, to watch a human being, like or dislike, disintegrating in the public domain…
  
  

• Steve Smoger: Master of an Art Form – December 25th, 2011

  Smoger, the real article, speaks for itself, and by action, for himself. There is no need to draw attention...
  
  

• Haye Seed – January 10th, 2012

  
  
  

• Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones II – January 15th, 2012

  Antonio Tarver and Roy Jones fought three times. Jones won the first fight by majority decision in Nov. 2003. The rematch on May 15, 2004 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas was a shocker in more ways than one. Jones had a nearly perfect 49-1 record going in and was still considered a master at the top of his game. Tarver was 21-2, and while a respected if not scintillating fighter, he was never considered a world-beater, at least until he fought Roy a second time...
  
  

• Hopkins vs. Tarver Redux – January 25th, 2012

  I don’t know who won the round or won the fight, or even if there was a round or fight to win…
  
  

• The Dragon Slayers, Part II: Antonio Tarver – February 27th, 2012

  Sometimes the boxing stories write themselves like literature, with colorful, complex characters authoring the combat…
  
  

• Unmitigated Savagery in the Year 2002 – April 8th, 2012

  On July 23, 2002, Elvir "Kosovo Kid" Muriqi met Sam “Slamming Sammy” Ahmad in New Rochelle, NY on an ESPN televised fight…
  
  

• The Dragon Slayers, Part IV: Marco Antonio Barrera – April 12th, 2012

  Marco Antonio Barrera had come a long way in pursuit of a young dragon to slay…
  
  

• Bernard Hopkins: On His Last Legs – April 21st, 2012

  Hopkins demonstrations of technical brilliance have defined this generation of fans’ understanding of an old-school fighter…
  
  

• Loughran-Hopkins: “The Philadelphia Fighter” – April 23rd, 2012

  So here are the lives and careers of two Philadelphia fighters. In many ways the men are stunningly different and yet the same…
  
  

• Antonio Tarver: Magic in the Man – April 24th, 2012

  
  
  

• TruSparta Boxing Blog I – April 27th, 2012

  When Chad Dawson and Bernard Hopkins face off tomorrow night in Atlantic City, will the boxing world be interested? They should be...
  
  

• Hopkins-Dawson II Predictions – April 27th, 2012

  Bernard Hopkins, who generates intense reactions pro and con, has hit more ends of the road than he has heavy bags...
  
  

• Hopkins vs. Dawson II Preview – April 28th, 2012

  Robert Ecksel, editor-in-chief of Boxing.com, speaks with TYT Sports Rick Strom about Saturday's rematch between light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson. Their controversial first fight notwithstanding, this bout presents an opportunity to tie up the many loose ends that remain from their first fight at the Staples Center in L.A. Dawson has youth, strength, and hunger on his side. Hopkins has a lifetime of surviving under duress on his...
  
  

• Tarver on Mayweather-Cotto – May 2nd, 2012

  
  
  

• The Cruiserweights: Stacked – May 13th, 2012

  Big, but not the biggest, cruiserweight is and was and will continue to be a division without a true identity…
  
  

• Antonio Tarver: Organ Grinder – May 16th, 2012

  In anticipation of IBO cruiserweight champion Antonio Tarver’s June 2 defense of his title against Lateef Kayode at the Home Depot Center...