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Manny Pacquiao Next Opponent: WBO Welterweight Champion, Jessie Vargas
The rumor mill regarding the next fight for Manny Pacquiao can end and move on to something else: His next opponent will be Jessie Vargas, the WBO Welterweight champion, who will make his first defense facing the WBO International and lineal welterweight champion.
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Pacquiao Over Algieri – All That’s Left is Waiting for Mayweather
Except for knocking him out, Manny Pacquiao hurt Chris Algieri in every possible way to score an impressive title-retaining win of his Weltereight belt, once again leaving all of us with the question of when, if ever, will he and Floyd Mayweather step in the ring.
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Kovalev Beats Hopkins, Suggesting It’s Time For Him to Retire
Bernard Hopkins doesn’t back down from fights, which is what cost him a brutal beating in the hands of Sergey Kovalev, becoming a Light Heavyweight champion for the WBO, IBF and WBA (super), beating the 49-year old journeyman who simply refuses to retire with a unanimous decision.
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Marquez Beats Alvarado – The Path to Pacquiao
In order to get a shot at a Welterweight title, Juan Manuel Marquez needed to beat Mike Alvarado in an eliminator. He had no problem doing that despite getting knocked down late in the bout, coming away with a comfortable unanimous decision (119-109, 117-109, 117-109) that gave him the unimportant WBO international Welterweight belt but more importantly put him closer for a fifth fight with Manny Pacquiao.
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Klitschko Beats Leapai – Predictable, Easy & Boring
It couldn’t get any more one sided than the way Wladimir Klitschko manhandled Alex Leapai in brisk and efficient fifth round knockout to retain his WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO & The Ring Heavyweight title belts, once again showing his complete dominance over a decaying weigh class, which makes it hard to judge how good he really is on a historical level.
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Pacquiao vs Rios – Bigger Than Boxing
National symbols carry huge expectations, especially in times of crisis. Manny Pacquiao was fighting for his relevance among Boxing’s elite against Brandon Rios, but also for the spirit of his country after the Philippines was devastated Haiyan, leaving many looking for some sort of uplifting moment from their beloved champion, wearing a title belt across his waist once again after the unanimous decision win.
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Aftermath of the Klitschko vs Mormeck Title Fight
Wladimir Klitschko hardly broke a sweat. He said he got hit by a jab that stung his eye, but no one actually so it. Jean Marc-Mormeck was way out of his league, as the younger of the Klitschko brothers retained his IBF, WBO and WBA heavyweight titles by knocking out the 39 year old Frenchman early in the fourth round.
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All the Reigning Boxing Champions From Heavyweight to Junior Welterweight
All the reigning boxing champions of the WBA, WBC, WBO and the IBF from the Heavyweight division (all Klitschko up there) to Welterweights (Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr.) stopping with Light Welterweights (Amir Khan).
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David Haye Ready to Perform Execution
Less than a week before the Heavyweights unfication title bout between Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye and the trash talking is in top gear.