Daniel 'Tex' Cohen
51 articles · RingsideReport.com
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Life Beyond Floyd Mayweather & Manny Pacquiao: Boxing?s Underrated
Prize-fighting is an economically idiotic idea for the fighters themselves. While HBO, Showtime, and Don King get rich, the guys that serve as the product itself wind up with pathetically little to…
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Manny Pacquiao: Serving the People or the Pugilist?
I don?t really like politicians. I know that statement is a bit prejudiced in its absolutism, but I figure that I may as well be up front about my own biases. Politicians…
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Boxing Blueprint: How to Beat Manny Pacquiao
Boxing offers everyone the chance to be a strategist. By predicting how a fight will unfold and what a challenger needs to accomplish to pull off the victory, we can all make…
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Manny Pacquiao: The Best Fighter of the Era
I have noticed a general pendulum swing in most public debates, first all the way to one side, then back to the other. The individual person tends to get fed up with…
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Tex?s Quick Jabs: Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao & More
-The Floyd Mayweather, JR-Shane Mosley Super Fight is heating to a beautiful boil as the Boxing blogosphere gets into it. I?ve seen a wide range of opinions from the experts on this…
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Examining the Pound for Pound: Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather JR or Other?
We, as people, require categories to live our lives. Americans tend to divide into Democrats and Republicans. The weather outside may range through a theoretically infinite number of degrees, but we still…
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From Timothy Bradley to Manny Pacquiao: The Targets of Edwin Valero
Edwin “Dinamita” Valero, 27-0, 27 KO’s, has been on the boxing scene long enough for many of the “mainstream” fans of the sport to finally develop some sort of opinion on him.…
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Keeping Boxing Safe: Ban Antonio Margarito for Life
The Boxing world is still abuzz with the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao dispute, but creeping slowly closer with each passing day is the judgment hour for Antonio “Tijuana Tornado” Margarito, 37-6, 27 KO’s.…
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Steroids in Boxing: Did Baseless Allegations Ruin the Manny Pacquiao – Floyd Mayweather Superfight?
In what is news to no one, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, JR,, are in negotiations regarding a March super fight for the Pound for Pound Championship of the world. These two…
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Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather: Winners and Losers
For the first time since Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield, the Boxing world has produced a fight that all of mainstream America will hear about. Manny Pacquiao is close to a household name. His…
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Andre Ward Stuns Mikkel Kessler in Front of Home Crowd
Undefeated WBA Super Middleweight Champion Andre “S.O.G.” Ward, 21-0, 13 KO’s, scored an eleven round technical unanimous decision victory over Mikkel “Viking Warrior” Kessler, 42-2, 32 KO’s, by scores of 97-93 and…
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Tex’s Fight Journal: Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto
(The following events are real. The names have been changed- to bad alcoholic puns- to protect the innocent.) 8:29- I just got home from work and hit the Pay Per View button.…
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A Look at the Best Pure Boxers in the Fight Game
Floyd Mayweather is the best pure boxer on the planet. The biggest vacuum created by the Mayweather departure was not in the category of boxing stars or even in the welterweight ranks.…
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Tex?s Southpaw Study: A Look at the Lefty
Hundreds of years ago, they were stoned to death for witchcraft. In the boomer generation, nuns smacked them on the hand with rulers. They make up an overwhelming proportion of US presidents.…
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Oscar De La Hoya & Manny Pacquiao Promotional Tour Come to Texas
Top Rank and Golden Boy traded moon shots Friday afternoon at the Manny Pacquiao-Oscar De La Hoya press conference at the NASA Space Center in Houston, Texas. The conference was a very…
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The Politics of Boxing – Manny Pacquiao is Currently the Sitting President
Everything can be political. Business, especially in capitalist locations, almost always includes an element of social climbing and backdoor entry into bigger and better positions. Likeability is the key to personal progress.…
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Is Edwin Valero Ready for Manny Pacquiao
Edwin Valero, 24-0, 24 KO?s, is an unknown quantity. While his hard numbers factor kindly into the equation of a great fighter, Valero still has not shown the sort of performances that…
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Boxing without Floyd Mayweather JR: The Remaining Star Power ? Manny Pacquiao and Joe Calzaghe Lead the Pack
Star Power is often the lifeblood of a sport. Times can be tough for the fans even when they are commercially positive for the owners. The level of competition is the most…
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Manny Pacquiao Vs David Diaz: For the Fans or the Fighters?
With the recent victories of Joe Calzaghe and Miguel Cotto, the inactivity of Floyd Mayweather, JR., and the continued impressive showing of Manny Pacquiao, the Pound for Pound debate has reopened with…
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The Manny Pacquiao Chronicles: Erik Morales II
There are particular fights through out history in which one fighter becomes a different boxer than he was before the fight. These occurrences happen in terms of ascending or descending patterns. A…
