Miguel Cotto was dominant again in an iconic New York City venue, stopping the bigger Yuri Foreman in the ninth round of their Saturday meeting to take home the WBA junior middleweight title in the first boxing card at new Yankee Stadium. Foreman sustained a knee injury after slipping to the mat in the seventh [...]

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In terms of overall depth, it’s another subpar week on the schedule, but there’s certainly one true gem on the slate, as new Yankee Stadium hosts its first boxing card, with Brooklyn’s Yuri Foreman defending his WBA junior middleweight title against New York fan favourite Miguel Cotto in the main event.  The fight’s also part [...]

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How about a quick rundown of the last two weeks of in-ring action? We start with the highly-anticipated fourth meeting between Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez, who had previously met in an instant-classic trilogy, in which Vazquez avenged a loss in the first installment by winning the next two meetings.  It was Marquez, however, who [...]

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After last weekend’s Showtime card which featured plenty of discussion coming out of both fights (more on that in a forthcoming post), we’ve got a relatively light weekend of action as the follow-up.  The big fight on this slate: A heavyweight mismatch featuring WBC titlist Vitali Klitschko and hugely (and deservedly) unheralded Albert Sosnowski.  Their [...]

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We don’t need Vazquez-Marquez IV.  There’s nothing that Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez can show us on Saturday night that they didn’t in the three fights they gave us in the 364-day span from March 3rd, 2007, to March 1st, 2008.  If they both step into the ring and believe they have something to prove, [...]

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I’ll get the full weekly preview in tomorrow morning, but there are two meaningful matches taking place on the other side of the world today, so we might as well give each bout a quick look: Vic Darchinyan vs. Eric Barcelona: Double junior bantamweight titlist Darchinyan’s staying busy in a suburb of his hometown of [...]

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Before I get to predicting this week’s action, we should probably play some catch-up concerning the results of the last few weeks.  But, even before that, we had a solid segment of boxing talk on THE FAN 590’s The Mike Hogan Show yesterday morning.  If you missed it, here are the interviews: Up first, local [...]

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Steve Molitor won’t be fighting at Rumble At Rama XII, for which the June 30th card was officially announced today, but the series will not be lacking for a big name, as legendary trainer Freddie Roach will reunited with charge Ana Julaton in the card’s co-feature, against a yet-to-be-announced opponent. Neither Roach nor Julaton were [...]

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Here’s a rapid-fire version of this weekend’s Big Seven, which takes place in a sort of cool-down week after all of the hysteria surrounding Mayweather-Mosley: 1. Paul Williams vs. Kermit Cintron: Don’t expect as much of a thriller as Williams gave us against Sergio Martinez in December, but expect a more definitive victory from The [...]

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We’re hours away from what is almost certain to be the most anticipated matchup on the 2010 boxing calendar, and, though the fight’s been paid plenty of attention over the week (in addition to another captivating season of 24/7), there are three questions that are still standing out heavily for me before the bell rings. [...]

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