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Entries tagged with "Larry+Merchant":

• Devon, The Not Great – June 26th, 2011

  This was a tough fight for Alexander, against another one of those tough Argentinian fighters, coming off the "my eye, it's burning" affair...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Victor Ortiz vs. Andre Berto – September 11th, 2011

  A lot can change in five short months. Just look at Victor Ortiz. When he fought Andre Berto for his WBC welterweight title on April 16 at Foxwoods Resort in Mashantucket, Connecticut, he was a virtual unknown with a so-so record. But his performance that night put Ortiz on the map, which has led to bigger and better things, and may lead to bigger and better things in the future...
  
  

• Merchant on Post-Fight Interview – September 18th, 2011

  
  
  

• Not Fair, Not Firm: Joe Cortez Blows It – September 20th, 2011

  "I’m fair but I’m firm." It’s a particularly ironic signature when looked at through the lens of his most recent poor performance...
  
  

• Is Larry HBO’s Merchant of Menace? – September 21st, 2011

  After Saturday’s fight between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz, Larry Merchant, not for the first time, finds himself in the crosshairs…
  
  

• Mayweather Bellwether – September 25th, 2011

  Such conduct by contestants in any other professional sport would have been subject to immediate and effective scrutiny and review by its commissioner...
  
  

• Joe Masterleo Responds to Shaft – September 26th, 2011

  
  
  

• Floyd Raps with DJ Whoo Kid – October 4th, 2011

  
  
  

• Jim Lampley: Boxing’s Vibrant Expressionist – November 16th, 2011

  “The bottom line is that boxing attracts literate observers because the psychological confrontation between two fighters is so compelling—and so identifiable...”
  
  

• Seth Mitchell Manufactures Mayhem in DC – December 10th, 2011

  It’s great to have an American Heavyweight back in the mix, and Seth Mitchell seems very happy that he can deliver absolute mayhem in the square circle...
  
  

• Khan and Peterson Wage a Classic War – December 11th, 2011

  Always an honest and honorable warrior, Lamont Peterson once again proved to the world that he is as tough as they come…
  
  

• George Plimpton Awarded the Liebling – January 5th, 2012

  Prima donnas are great in grand opera, but not so grand when it comes to a great sport like boxing…
  
  

• Wars to Be Made in 2012—Part 4 – January 18th, 2012

  In facing the nearly 6’7” and 240-lb. Helenius, Mitchell would be facing a fighter equivalent in size to either Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko…
  
  

• Chavez Jr. Decisions Rubio – February 4th, 2012

  Chavez Jr. is not the fighter his father was, but he is beginning to make his own independent indentation on the sport…
  
  

• Donaire Pounds Out Win Over Vazquez – February 5th, 2012

  Larry Merchant stated after the final bell that Donaire is a “good fighter,” but maybe it’s too soon “to bronze him…”
  
  

• Smokin' Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears – February 12th, 2012

  “If Joe was hurt by the Ali rivalry, I don’t think—unlike what other people have written or other films suggested—that Joe was bitter…”
  
  

• Team Mayhem to Battle Chazz Witherspoon – March 5th, 2012

  Fighters always fight for more than just the sport. Some fight for money, some fight for fame. Others fight for glory...
  
  

• Late Power – March 17th, 2012

  
  
  

• Crunch Time: Rosenblatt vs. Parker – March 20th, 2012

  “His body began to break down on him little by little. All the wear and tear over the years, it finally caught up with him…”
  
  

• Boxing’s Five Greatest Moments: 2000-2009 – April 6th, 2012

  It’s about the individual moments, indistinct passages of time where, as we’ll see, two minutes can seem like a second and a second can seem like two minutes…
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Floyd to Larry: Interview This – April 18th, 2012

  
  
  

• Floyd Mayweather: Speaking Out 2012 – April 23rd, 2012

  HBO broadcast "Floyd Mayweather: Speaking Out" Saturday and it revealed a more thoughtful side of the future Hall of Famer. Helped in no small part by Michael Eric Dyson, who teaches sociology at Georgetown and is as bright as he is empathetic, he and Money May discussed his traumatic childhood, his identification with Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, among other subjects, including Jeremy Lin and Larry Merchant...
  
  

• A Freak of Nature – April 25th, 2012

  The old man got just enough eye on the young buck to squeeze off one last great shot…
  
  

• Mayweather Tilts at Windmills – May 1st, 2012

  
  
  

• Mayweather’s Red Badge of Courage – May 8th, 2012

  It occasionally felt to me as though Cotto was so deferential to Mayweather that it seemed as though he was in the ring with his employer…