Entries tagged with "Guillermo+Rigondeaux":
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His athleticism and all-around skills, plus his mental quickness and physical speed, had Uzcategui at a loss for what to do for most of the fight…
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Unless something unforeseen occurs, Rigo should have no trouble stopping Delgado, who has lost his last four fights…
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A “real” great pursues challenges, even if those challenges deeply cut into the advantages he likes to enjoy…
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More problematic for Lomachenko and his ultimate goal is not what already went down, but what may lie ahead…
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On November 13, 2010 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Super Bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, fought Ricardo Cordoba, from Santa Marta, Panama, for the interim WBA World super bantamweight title. Rigondeaux was undefeated at 6-0. Cordoba was 37-2-2. The fight…
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Saturday night on ESPN, the double gold medalist from Ukraine will make the jump to lightweight and find a potentially dangerous challenge in Jorge Linares...
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Fighting Orlando Salido and Gary Russell Jr. in your second and third fights as a pro is deserving of some serious boxing street cred…
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Lomachenko was one of a few men with a claim to the spot and he made the best case that he deserved it by defeating Guillermo Rigondeaux…
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People are not seeking truth anymore, as much as they are looking to affirm their own personal prejudices. Boxing may be caught up in that same mentality…
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Let’s quickly inspect the respective 2017 résumés of the fighting man from Nebraska alongside that of the masterful ring maestro from Ukraine…
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If one-sided romps against stylistically ill-suited foes make a case for awards and heavy praise, then, yeah, Lomachenko has the edge over Joshua…
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“If you put Golovkin back in front of me now, then it’s a whole different scenario,” Lemieux told the media on Monday afternoon. He wasn’t lying…
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Like many boxers, Hatton is a quiet man, almost shy. He understood his career would not be a long one because of the way he fought…
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A great fighter can handle being beaten in the ring, but it’s humiliating to be duped into a bad spot by politics and business…
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Who knows just how many memorable nights we may have missed because of the disagreements between the two companies?
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What’s important to remember is that at age 39 Salido gave everything he had during his 21 years in the ring…
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After the sixth round, Rigo told his trainer Pedro Diaz that he had a hand injury and couldn’t continue. The fight was called…
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What makes this the dream matchup for the “purist” is the competitive nature of the bouts as well as the contrasting styles…
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“You know what, I like Errol Spence. I really like Keith Thurman. I like the tenacity and grittiness of Shawn Porter. He’s just gritty and I like that…”
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No boxer wins an Olympic gold medal, much less two of them, without being a tremendous fighter…
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Loma vs. Rigo is a great fight that everyone who loves the artistry of the sport should thoroughly enjoy…
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It would take a superman to walk into an unlevel playing field like this against a true elite like Lomachenko and walk away with the win…
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WBA president Gilberto Mendoza Jr. stated that his organization would strip Guillermo Rigondeaux should he lose to Vasyl Lomachenko…
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Donaire was slowed by the continual attacks of Vazquez and finally in the tenth he goes down for the first time…
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When Peter Nelson, a former boxing writer, was named Executive Vice President of HBO Sports in 2015, it was hailed as the dawning of a new day…
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When push comes to shove, boxing is—and always has been—more about showbiz than sport…
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Boxing fans are probably the sports fans most used to rankings. This is another set. In this list, the divisions will be ranked according to their current strengths…
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“I’ve had to come up the hard way, fighting on small hall shows earning nothing, in fact losing money getting no recognition…”
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What do these fighters all have in common? It’s something none of them have any control over—and something that doesn’t matter whatsoever…
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After he turned professional in 2013, "Hi-Tech" waited only seven months until he was given his first shot at a world title…
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With the exception of his Fight of the Year brawl with Ruslan Provodnikov in 2013, Bradley has never really made for compelling TV…
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Huge bouts have happened and huge bouts have been announced. Here is the top 30 boxers on the planet…
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Visa may boast that its credit card gets you "everywhere you want to be," but the race card needs to stay in one's wallet…
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Rigondeaux proved—yet again—that he is a masterful boxer, simply one of the best in the world, and is a joy to see in the ring…
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Ward and Kovalev respectively are listed (per The Ring magazine, the "Bible of Boxing") as pound for pound the two best fighters on planet Earth…
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Guillermo Rigondeaux has a message for younger fighters to avoid the many pitfalls that continue to be so common…
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Rigo has been accused of being boring, among other things, but one man’s boring is another man’s excellence…
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In his first interview with American press, Casamayor stated he "would rather die than box for Fidel Castro…"
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Boxing lends itself to nicknames in a way no other sport manages. Whilst they do not really matter, every great fighter has one…
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His life is an intriguing story, his talent is indisputable and boxing fans will welcome the return of such a talent…
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Boxing was treated to its first display of top quality action this weekend and there is so much more to come…
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“I lost five of my first 10 fights. Since then, I have won 87 with over 30 stoppages and only lost five; all on debatable decisions…”
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The draft is introduced to help the weaker nations and has two rounds where any boxer who does not represent a country competing can be picked...
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“I will try to knock him out because I am Krusher and I try to live up to my nickname. Let's do it...”
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Andre Ward is a tough sell in the best of times. In the worst of times, when a tune-up is a letdown, he is harder to sell than ever…
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Santa Cruz is a busy fighter. He is always coming forward. He is always throwing punches. He will take one to land one of his own…
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The change from 15 rounds to 12 rounds has not harmed the sport. It has improved fighter safety which should always be a priority…
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Frampton estimates “probably three-and-a-half-years” are left before he retires. He would like to hang up the gloves by 33…
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“I’m up for anyone,” said Santa Cruz. “I’d love to fight Carl Frampton. He won, he said he wants to move up in weight, so let’s do it…”
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Great opportunities await the winner. Guillermo Rigondeaux, Leo Santa Cruz and others may want to watch this one…