Tyson Madness

Mike Tyson almost broke the Internet this week with footage of him hitting the mits, but if the 53 year old former heavyweight champion of the world got into a ring with today’s biggest hitters he’d be as broken as he was the last time he slumped onto the ropes against Irish plodder Kevin McBride and refused to come out for the seventh round, writes Mark Keohane on IOL Sport. (more…)

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Can Fury sting like Ali?

The respect is there for Tyson Fury, grudgingly it has to be emphasized, but the ridicule is richer than reverence when it comes to comparisons with heavyweight boxing’s greatest of them all, the late Muhammad Ali. (more…)

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Pacquiao overpowers Broner
Manny Pacquiao punches Adrien Broner

Pacquiao overpowers Broner

Manny Pacquiao claimed a unanimous decision victory against Adrien Broner at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas on Sunday. (more…)

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Wilder, Fury slug it out to disputed draw
Deontay Wilder misses with another right hand

Wilder, Fury slug it out to disputed draw

When all the noise quietened down deep into the Los Angeles night boxing fans were left wondering just how so-called qualified judges at ringside could have marked Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury so differently, writes GARY LEMKE.

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Canelo ends unbeaten run of ‘GGG’
Canelo lands a right hook

Canelo ends unbeaten run of ‘GGG’

Canelo Alvarez emerged the winner on points in a thrilling middleweight title fight inside a capacity T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, inflicting the first defeat on Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin in a 12-year-career. GARY LEMKE reports.

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Oosthuizen wins to revive his career
Tommy Oosthuizen

Oosthuizen wins to revive his career

Tommy Oosthuizen answered the first big question of his latest comeback when he won a majority points decision over Thabiso Mchunu in their cruiserweight fight at Emperors Palace on Saturday night.

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Mphongoshi beaten in boxing bout
Siyabulela Mphongoshi

Mphongoshi beaten in boxing bout

Team South Africa’s boxing campaign at the Commonwealth Games took an early blow on Friday after Siyabulela Mphongoshi lost, writes MARK ETHERIDGE in Gold Coast, Australia. (more…)

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Golovkin robbed as war ends in draw
Gennady Golovkin lands a right hand

Golovkin robbed as war ends in draw

On the grandest boxing stage of them all, in the gambling mecca of Las Vegas, Gennady Golovkin found himself robbed in front of a full house at the T-Mobile Arena, writes GARY LEMKE. (more…)

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Blood and thunder awaits in Las Vegas
Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin

Blood and thunder awaits in Las Vegas

For the boxing purists this promises to be the biggest fight of 2017. And don’t rule them out doing it again in 2018, such is the expectation of a classic when Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez square off in Las Vegas on Sunday morning (SA time), writes GARY LEMKE.

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