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2015 Knockout Of The Year Nominees
Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end boxing awards, continuing this week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year, Fight of...
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2015 Round Of The Year: Edwin Rodriguez Vs Michael Seals Round 1
The Round of the Year is often a small piece of a contender for Fight of the Year. The criteria for both are the same: momentum swings and sustained action. However, within many fights that are...
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Jerry Izenberg In The Boxing Hall of Fame
Sports columnist Jerry Izenberg has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. I grew up with Izenberg. Like almost everyone else in New Jersey, where he is as much an institution as...
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2015 Fighter Of The Year Nominees
Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end boxing awards, continuing this week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year, Fight of...
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2015 Knockout Of The Year: Canelo Alvarez Vs James Kirkland
Some knockouts are spectacular — there’s virtually no sight in sport as breathtaking as a person being suddenly and violently removed from consciousness. Others are surprising — upsets and...
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2015 Fighter Of The Year: Floyd Mayweather
It’s easy, in retrospect, to belittle Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao. It wasn’t terribly hard beforehand, either. We knew, coming in, that Mayweather was the heavy favorite, deservedly. We knew...
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Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 12/15
Happy New Year. Here’s a last bit of sweeping up after 2015 — a year-end pound-for-pound list of the best boxers alive, regardless of weight. This entry brings just one exit (Miguel Cotto) and one...
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Rearviewmirror: A Look Back At Boxing In 2015
2015 was a strange year for boxing. Like “Charles In Charge,” we took a lot of “bad” to go with the “good.” We got huge fights like Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao, free fights like Keith Thurman vs...
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PBC Year One: An Argument For Optimism
It has been almost a year since we’ve welcomed “Premier Boxing Champions'” version of free boxing for the masses into our lives, living rooms and Twitter feeds. I haven’t seen any formal surveys on the...
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Adrien Broner, Tomasz Adamek And The Rest Of The Week’s Boxing Schedule
The biggest fight of the week is still on for now (what a great phrase to start the schedule with) despite Adrien Broner facing felony charges over an alleged robbery. What can you even say about...
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