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Entries tagged with "John+Ruiz":

• James Toney No Phony Baloney – June 24th, 2011

  
  
  

• The Greatest Show on Earth – June 30th, 2011

  If the night is dominated by strong, willful performances, it may finally do something to lift the division out of the dark recesses…
  
  

• Never Spectacular: Klitschko Wins Again – July 2nd, 2011

  Wladimir Klitschko doesn’t show the desire to take a chance in the name of glory. He doesn’t show the passion to be anything more than very good…
  
  

• The Return of Andrew Golota? – July 22nd, 2011

  
  
  

• The Tyson Effect and the Fall of the Pure Boxer – October 9th, 2011

  Can we analyze the heavyweight division in a way that might better educate us on how the division has changed, and why it has declined…
  
  

• Roy Jones Jr. Plays with Fire – October 22nd, 2011

  
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• The Dragon Slayers, Part I: Hasim Rahman – January 18th, 2012

  Their storylines can include a David and Goliath, reluctant heroes, tales of redemption, good/evil and old school/new school dichotomies…
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Golden Days Donny Lalonde – March 28th, 2012

  Donny "Golden Boy" Lalonde always dreamed and still dreams big, and more often than not those dreams have come to fruition…
  
  

• Postcard from Panama: Gimnasio, of Dreams to Heroes – April 16th, 2012

  We started to think that perhaps midway through the dinner there would be a bongo drum roll and Duran would make his entrance…
  
  

• The Triple Crown of Bob Fitzsimmons – April 17th, 2012

  Fitzsimmons may not be the fashionable choice, but Ruby Robert was as precious as any one of the great jewels of boxing…
  
  

• The Compassionate Corner – April 30th, 2012

  Sometimes a fighter has an unwritten pact with his corner, that if he simply no longer has it—if it all suddenly disappears—he must be saved from himself…
  
  

• Haye/Chisora Chomp at the Bit – May 13th, 2012