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Showing posts with label Title Fight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Title Fight. Show all posts
03 December, 2017
The Torch Passes: Sadam Ali Ends Miguel Cotto's Career with a Loss
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SAN DIEGO, Calif., December 2, 2017 – A boxing legend made his way to the ring in Madison Square Garden Saturday for the final time with only the music of the crowd's cheers to accompany him. Miguel Cotto's legacy is undeniable, the only male boxer from Puerto Rico to win titles in four weight divisions.
03 September, 2017
Pacquiao Wants Horn Rematch in the Philippines
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Manny Pacquiao said on Sunday he was still wanted a rematch with Jeff Horn after the Filipino boxing hero pulled out of their scheduled bout in Australia later his year. Queensland's premier, whose state government was the financial backer of a November 12 fight, announced on Friday that Pacquiao "cannot return to the ring" due to…
01 September, 2017
Pacquiao Pulls out of Title Rematch with Horn
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Filipino great Manny Pacquiao on Friday pulled out of a rematch with world champion Jeff Horn, leaving the Australian looking for another challenger in his title defence. The Queensland state government, the fight's financial backers, made the announcement two months ahead of the scheduled November 12 bout. "We have been advised today that Manny Pacquiao... cannot…
20 August, 2017
Crawford is Boxing's Undisputed Champion After KO of Indongo
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SAN DIEGO, August 19, 2017 – Making his ringwalk through the Pinnacle Bank Arena among the electrified sellout crowd of nearly 12,000 fans, the stakes could not have been higher for Omaha, Nebraska native Terence "Bud" Crawford. For only the fourth time in the modern era of boxing, Crawford and Julius Indongo of Namibia their collective…
18 August, 2017
Crawford, Indongo Duel for Super Lightweight Boxing Supremacy
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Namibia's Julius Indongo has no qualms about taking his quest for super lightweight supremacy into hostile territory -- against American Terence Crawford in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday. After all, he seized Ricky Burns's World Boxing Association title with a convincing unanimous decision in Glasgow in April, adding it to the International Boxing Federation belt he grabbed…
30 July, 2017
UFC 214: Jon Jones KO's Daniel Cormier to Win Light Heavyweight Title
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Jon Jones (23-1) knocked out Daniel Cormier (19-2) for the light heavyweight championship Saturday night at UFC 214 in Anaheim, California. A vicious head kick stunned Cormier midway through the third round before finishing him on the mat with a brutal ground and pound. Jones picked up exactly where he left off, attacking early and often…
04 June, 2017
Jose Aldo Gets Brutally Beaten, and UFC has a New Featherweight Champ
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With a series of vicious punches, Max Holloway stopped Jose Aldo via TKO in the third round of UFC 212 to become the undisputed featherweight champion. It wasn’t so surprising that Aldo lost — it was the manner in which he lost. Once Holloway took Aldo to the mat, it was over. Holloway wouldn’t let up…
Holloway Defeats Aldo Jr. via TKO
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All hail the Max Holloway era. The 25-year old from Waianae, Hawaii, went onto UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo's Jr.'s home turf and schooled the greatest 145-pound fighter of all-time Saturday night. Holloway (18-3) started slow, then turned up the heat on Aldo, delivering a blistering onslaught over the second and third rounds of their UFC…
31 May, 2017
Aldo-Holloway at UFC 212 Marks New Featherweight Era
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Saturday should go down as the night the Ultimate Fighting Championship's featherweight division closes the door on the Conor McGregor era. Champion Jose Aldo (26-2) will meet interim champ Max Holloway (20-3) to unify the titles in the main event of UFC 212 at Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It will also end a…
28 May, 2017
Boxer Suffers Horrifying Facial Injury Following Series of Vicious Blows
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Saturday evening, Errol Spence Jr. became a champion. He defeated Kell Brook in a multi-round fight that left Brook, who has already had eye issues from previous fights in the past, with a left-eye injury that is one of the more gruesome injuries you will ever see in boxing. Ultimate warriors @SpecialKBrook and @ErrolSpenceJr exchange some…
22 May, 2017
Uncle of Fighter Facing Serious Prison Time After Sucker Punching Boxer
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After the bout between Andre Dirrell and Jose Uzcategui for the interim IBF 168-pound title ended in a disqualification after the latter knocked out the former after the bell, Dirrell’s uncle entered the ring and hit Uzcategui right on the chin: Super Middleweight José Uzcátegui drops @andredirrell after the bell. Uzcátegui get disqualified by the referee.…
21 May, 2017
A Boxer’s Uncle Reacted to a Cheap Shot with One of his Own, and it was a Direct Hit
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There’s no excuse for this. A fight between two boxers was marred after a corner man went into the ring and video shows him punching one of the combatants — and now, reports say police are involved. Watch the video Let’s set the stage. Andre Dirrell and Jose Uzcategui were battling for the interim IBF 168-pound…
Crawford Stops Diaz; Beltran Scores Big KO; Benavidez gets TKO Win
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SAN DIEGO, May 20, 2017 – Terence "Bud" Crawford showed he belongs among the top pound for pound fighters in the world today, delivering a thorough beating to Felix Diaz of the Dominican Republic at Madison Square Garden Saturday. Crawford (31-0, 22 KOs) fought the entire bout as a southpaw against the southpaw Olympic gold medalist…
14 May, 2017
Miocic Retains UFC Heavyweight Title
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Stipe Miocic didn't waste much time avenging his most recent loss. The UFC heavyweight champion, who dropped a December 2014 decision to Brazil's Junior dos Santos, needed only 2:22 to knock out the former champion Saturday night in the main event of UFC 211 at Dallas' American Airlines Center. "I'm the best," Miocic (17-2) said. "I'm…
30 April, 2017
Joshua Beats Klitschko in Heavyweight Title Fight
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Anthony Joshua got up off the canvas to stop former champion Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th round of their heavyweight world title fight on Saturday night. "What can I say? 19-0, three and a half years in the game. As I said, I'm not perfect but I'm trying and if you don't take part you're going…
28 April, 2017
Joshua Favored Against Klitschko
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Anthony Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs) makes his third IBF world heavyweight title defense and is looking to capture the vacant WBA and IBO belts Saturday when he meets Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 54 KOs) at Wembley Stadium in the richest bout in British boxing history. A sellout crowd of 90,000 at the famed London stadium is expected…
26 April, 2017
Wilder Not Pulling Punches in Picking Klitschko
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LONDON - Unbeaten Deontay Wilder will have a ringside view of rival heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko in their unification showdown at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, with hopes to fight the winner by December. The 31-year-old American, who owns the World Boxing Council crown, will serve as a television analyst when Britain's unbeaten Joshua…
16 April, 2017
Johnson Dominates Reis in UFC on Fox 24
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Demetrious Johnson is the living proof of the adage it's about the size of the fight in the dog, not the size of the dog in the fight. The Kirkland, Wash. resident is the UFC's smallest male champion at 5-foot-3 and 125 pounds. But after Saturday night, he's also laid a claim as one of the…
05 April, 2017
Cormier Vies to Repeat Feat vs. Johnson at UFC 210
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With the division's biggest star on the sideline and a thin crop of top-tier competitors, the Ultimate Fighting Championship needs to go the rematch route in order to sell its light heavyweight championship as a pay--per-view headline attraction. Fortunately for the company, the rematch is intriguing as far as these things go, as champion Daniel Cormier…
