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Interview with the Undefeated Heavyweight Prospect Trey Lippe Morrison

Interview with the Undefeated Heavyweight Prospect Trey Lippe Morrison By: Benny Henderson Jr. Being the son of the late former champion, Tommy Morrison, you could say that the undefeated heavyweight…

staff 10/10/2016

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Stephon Burgette loses a majority decision to Matt Probin at the Lodge, in Scranton, PA, Saturday!

Stephon Burgette loses a majority decision to Matt Probin at the Lodge, in Scranton, PA, Saturday! By: Ken Hissner Long Productions in association with North East Boxing promoted a very…

staff 10/09/2016

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Aaron Pryor: 1955-2016

Aaron Pryor: 1955-2016 By: Sean Crose Word has come through various media outlets that Aaron Pryor, the junior welterweight legend, has died. This is a big loss for fight fans,…

staff 10/09/2016

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Billy Conn: The Anti-Low Risk Fighter

Billy Conn: The Anti-Low Risk Fighter By: Sean Crose Let’s just start right off by saying Billy Conn was most certainly not like many contemporary boxers. We live, after all,…

staff 10/07/2016

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1964 Olympic Gold Medalist Valeri Popenchenko

1964 Olympic Gold Medalist Valeri Popenchenko By: Ken Hissner Known as Mr. Knockout! In a recent visit to the office of neurologist Igor Porotov I asked if he was Russian?…

staff 10/07/2016

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Brian Minto Speaks Out On Retirement, His Legacy, the Heavyweight Division and more…

Brian Minto speaks out on retirement, his legacy, the heavyweight division and more By: Benny Henderson After nearly fourteen years, fifty-three fights, two-hundred and thirty-six rounds in the sport of…

staff 10/06/2016

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Chazz “The Gentleman” Witherspoon” Scored a Knockout Along with the Rest of the Red Corner All Scoring Knockouts in Trenton, NJ!

Chazz “The Gentleman” Witherspoon” Scored a Knockout Along with the Rest of the Red Corner All Scoring Knockouts in Trenton, NJ! By: Ken Hissner At the Sun National Bank Arena…

staff 10/03/2016

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Fury Abruptly Announced Retirement

Fury Abruptly Announces Retirement By: Sean Crose “Boxing is the saddest thing I ever took part in,” controversial heavyweight champ Tyson Fury tweeted this morning. “All a pile of shit,…

staff 10/03/2016

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A Look At Salido-Miura

A Look At Salido-Miura By: Brandon Bernica This past week, a knuckle-loaded slugfest between veterans Orlando Salido and Takashi Miura was finalized for December 17th. Instantly, the boxing world rejoiced…

staff 10/03/2016

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Philly’s Fab Four Turned Professional in 2016 and Are 15-0-1!

Philly’s Fab Four Turned Professional in 2016 and Are 15-0-1! By: Ken Hissner This was to be the year that five Philly boxers were to go to the Olympic in…

staff 10/02/2016

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Gatti vs. Gomez: The Thunder’s Last Rumble

Gatti vs. Gomez: The Thunder’s Last Rumble By: Ron Scarfone In June 2003, Arturo “Thunder” Gatti and “Irish” Micky Ward completed their trilogy of three consecutive fights. Ward won by…

staff 10/01/2016

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Weight Classes Matter

Weight Classes Matter By: Matthew N. Becher “The Surgeon went up through his gums, His front teeth, moved an eye To one side and then sorted out the fracture” -Dominic…

staff 09/29/2016

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The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall By Kent Wallace with Cindy “Boom Boom” Podgorski So I’m seated at the bar at American Legion Post 92, surrounded by a bunch of guys who…

staff 09/29/2016

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Larry Hazzard, Sr., “You Name It and He Did It in Boxing!

Larry Hazzard, Sr., “You Name It and He Did It in Boxing! By: Ken Hissner Some people serve as boxers, martial artists, referees, judges, commissioners, chairman of officials, school principals,…

staff 09/28/2016

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Lomachenko-Walters Set To Throw Down In November

Lomachenko-Walters Set To Throw Down In November By: Sean Crose Boxing got some much needed good news on Tuesday (it’s been in a doldrums worthy of Coleridge lately) when word…

staff 09/28/2016