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Wrongly convicted Bozella gets a bout at age 52

Walking down the street in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on an otherwise nondescript summer day in 1977, 18-year-old Dewey Bozella was about to be rob…

Wed, 12 Oct 2011

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Dawson leans on Scully to prepare for Hopkins

Scully has been hidden away in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, preparing Chad Dawson for his light heavyweight title bout against Bern…

Sat, 08 Oct 2011

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Mailbag: Martinez stuck in the middle

After weighing in at 158 on Friday, then eating a meal that included a steak and a slice of cheesecake, Martinez rehydrated only six more po…

Wed, 05 Oct 2011

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Bradley on collision course to face Pacquiao

In about five weeks, after Juan Manuel Marquez is done chugging his own pee and Manny Pacquiao finally gets an emphatic victory over his lon…

Tue, 04 Oct 2011

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Martinez searches for big-time foe

It would be easy to say that rare is the superstar boxer who finds himself in the plight that Ring middleweight champion Sergio Martinez fac…

Sat, 01 Oct 2011

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?JuanMa? rebuilds after devastating loss

Juan Manuel Lopez finally concedes he was wrong. He had a seemingly stay-busy title defense lined up against Orlando Salido on April 16 and …

Fri, 30 Sep 2011

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Mailbag: Ward takes patient path

Andre Ward, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist, still isn?t a household name, despite defeating Mikkel Kessler, Allan Green, Sakio Bika and Arth…

Wed, 28 Sep 2011

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Rankings: Pacman holds off Mayweather

April was the last month that Floyd Mayweather Jr. was eligible because he had last fought in May 2010 and the poll's rules require a fighte…

Fri, 23 Sep 2011

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Cotto won?t rap on Margarito?s wraps

If steam actually did come out of a person?s ears when they were angry, Miguel Cotto would have looked like an overheated industrial-sized f…

Thu, 22 Sep 2011

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Mailbag: Floyd and Pacman take similar path

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has repeatedly intimated that Manny Pacquiao?s rise through boxing?s weight classes is due to something other than natu…

Wed, 21 Sep 2011

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Mayweather missteps, avoids Pacman question

LAS VEGAS ? The sole mistake that Floyd Mayweather Jr. made on Saturday came about 90 minutes after he disposed of Victor Ortiz and claimed …

Mon, 19 Sep 2011

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Floyd the straw that stirs boxing?s drink

On Saturday, after 16 months on the sidelines, Mayweather returned to make the World Boxing Council welterweight champion look like a rank a…

Sun, 18 Sep 2011

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Smart marketing makes Mayweather ?Money?

LAS VEGAS ? Richard Schaefer had had enough of Floyd Mayweather Jr. During a cross-country tour to promote the 2007 fight between Mayweather…

Sat, 17 Sep 2011

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Hard childhood made Ortiz a fighter

LAS VEGAS ? Victor Ortiz was staring at the floor, speaking dispassionately, rarely making eye contact, when someone mentioned that fighting…

Fri, 16 Sep 2011

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Mailbag: Boxing isn?t going anywhere

If you search the Internet for the phrase ?boxing is dead,? it will turn up tens of millions of responses. Mixed martial arts fans mockingly…

Wed, 14 Sep 2011

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Klitschko machine clicking on all cylinders

It?s not news that Vitali Klitschko has lapped the field in the heavyweight division. That should have been obvious years ago. And it really…

Sat, 10 Sep 2011

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Mayweather, De La Hoya spar over legacies

LAS VEGAS ? Roger Mayweather is stretched out on a couch in the lobby of the Mayweather Boxing Club, awaiting his nephew?s arrival. Between …

Fri, 09 Sep 2011

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Mailbag: Changes needed in HBO?s methods

Gary Russell Jr. proved on Saturday in the opener of HBO?s doubleheader from Biloxi, Miss., why so many believe he?s the top prospect in box…

Wed, 07 Sep 2011

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Backlash has Berto reflecting on his career

Andre Berto says he doesn?t give two hoots about your opinion. He insists he doesn?t care what the media says. He doesn?t care what is writt…

Sat, 03 Sep 2011

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De La Hoya hopes second time is charm

Oscar De La Hoya said in a lengthy telephone interview with Yahoo! Sports on Thursday that he had also entered drug and alcohol rehabilitati…

Fri, 02 Sep 2011