Entries tagged with "anthony+joshua":
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Whatever the downside, incidental stuff like squandering his talent, Fury appears to know what he is doing...
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Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KOs) is the WBO mandatory for Andy Ruiz Jr., which speaks volumes about something or other…
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“I want to defeat him (Joshua) one more time, because there's a lot of critics saying that it's a lucky shot…”
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When Joe Tessitore declared that boxing fans were “being better served now” than at any time in recent memory, I tossed my half-eaten burrito at the screen…
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The marketing for the ESPN+ matchup would have had us believe Wallin was a serious threat to Fury, sporting a spectacular amateur record…
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You wouldn’t notice it from the weak Mexican Independence Day fight offerings this year, but Mexican boxing, as a whole, is undergoing a bit of a resurgence…
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The penchant for erecting paywalls everywhere—from streaming apps to a resurrected PPV business model—has hobbled the sport in the US…
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Joshua won’t be muscle-bound when he fights Ruiz a second time. He looks lean if not particularly mean…
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Eddie Hearn, last year, said that, in good conscience, he couldn’t be a part of such a farcical celebrity boxing spectacle. But what a difference a year makes…
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His achievements aren’t at Usyk’s level, but with a title shot at stake, he has nothing to lose and everything to gain…
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“I think fighting fire with fire with someone who is quicker than you and puts better shots together is a disaster…”
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To be honest, based on everything we’ve been seeing lately, it’s getting harder and harder to feel bad as we see the disaster awaiting him down the road…
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The contretemps between Team Joshua and Team Ruiz over staging their December 7 rematch in Saudi Arabia has been going on for weeks…
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Joshua comes right out and makes himself look like a fool with the clownish claim that he was felled “by a lucky punch…a punch sent by the gods…”
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It is always best to “stay humble” when the wise speak. Especially, those who’ve traveled the road you’re on…
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Ruiz will either fight for what he wants or fold under pressure, and if his performance against Joshua is any indication, it won’t be the latter…
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Boxing is no stranger to dirty money from dirty men sponsoring major events and you, sir, are indeed a trailblazer in taking things to the next level…
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Most countries don’t treat adultery, homosexuality, witchcraft and sorcery as serious criminal offenses…
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A fair, proportionate share of revenue and an appropriate level of autonomy to go along with it is a fighter’s greatest protection...
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Sports are conceivably a respite from the grisly consequences of realpolitik, but money trumps everything in the end…
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Hughie lacks the size and skill of his cousin Tyson, but he stays active and the bout will be his third this year…
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The two headliners were treated well, and it showed in relaxed interviews with hardly any tales of how they were going to hospitalize their opponents…
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Heredia did what any self-respecting “drug-dealer” would do when caught dispensing PEDs: he ratted out his co-conspirators...
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Ratings are highly important in every sport. Ratings give a structure to the state of the game and determine the importance of major fights…
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While Tyson Fury goes easy on the sauce, the sounds of corks popping can be heard around the world...
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Like Deontay Wilder, like Tyson Fury, like Anthony Joshua, Whyte believes he has what it takes to defeat Andy Ruiz...
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“We need one champion, one name, it’s Deontay Wilder. I can’t wait for that to happen. I’m the right guy for the job…”
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“I want Dillian Whyte first, then Anthony Joshua,” said Parker after the bout. “After that, I would fight Andy Ruiz…”
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The WBO has designated Oleksandr Usyk, who has yet to fight a heavyweight, mandatory challenger for its world title…
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At best, Tyson Fury is “the man who beat the man who never actually beat the man, but was declared the man in absentia…”
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The personal is political and vice-versa. But a little distance might better serve Eddie Hearn in this instance…
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Looking at him you think, his body is open, his guard is lazy. But he somehow finds a way to not get hit clean...
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"Neither man is huge by today’s standards. Neither man has bulging muscles. They are built like Andy Ruiz..."
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Here’s where we currently stand in the shaken, stirred, and donkey-punched heavyweight division…
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Fury did his shtick, showboated a bit, but then he gave fight fans, especially the all-important casual-curious ones, what they mostly want—bloody carnage…
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Ring Magazine, in their most recent rankings update, declared Tyson Fury to be the number one heavyweight in the world…
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Justin Bieber wants to fight Tom Cruise, and Conor wants to promote the bout. It’s a sentence I never thought I’d type…
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Nestled among subjects of marginal interest, boxing made an appearance, not once, not twice, but in three articles…
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Figuring out Schwarz won’t be nearly as difficult as decoding the Mayan Codex, nor will it be as rewarding...
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"I'm gonna give him a black eye and he might lose a few teeth. Within five seconds, I'll know exactly what to do with him..."
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Many of us knew as much about Golovkin’s opponent, Steve Rolls, as we did of Andy Ruiz, Jr. just one short week ago…
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"You think it's going to be all sunshine. You look down in your hands, and it's like, man, it's a bunch of snakes…"
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America can do funny things to a human who isn’t used to its charm. You can lose all sense of time and space…
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With shock giving way to grief and revenge, Hearn, to deflect from his matchmaking, now blames Wilder for the loss...
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“All these guys come out of the woodwork and say, ‘I picked Andy Ruiz.’ Bullshit! No one picked Andy Ruiz…”
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Eagerly sitting ringside that afternoon in the Tokyo Dome was Evander Holyfield, who was all set to face Mike Tyson later that summer in Atlantic City…
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Now that the smoke has cleared, the analysis has begun and surprisingly, the talk no longer appears to center around Andy Ruiz’s waistline…
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With the victory of Andy Ruiz, a new and exciting era in the saga that is Al Haymon appears to be upon us…
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Despite all the machinations and maneuverings involved in the business of boxing, the sport is still, ultimately, about one human being vs. one human being…
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Ruiz has B+ power but the way he had Joshua stumbling around you might have thought that the champ was in there with the likes of Earnie Shavers….