Alec Kohut
23 articles · SecondsOut.com
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The Hypocrisy of the Boxing Tragedy
One of my favorite scenes from the show ?M*A*S*H*? was during an episode in which Dr. Hawkeye Pierce was distraught over his inability to save a young solider. Colonel Henry Blake sat…
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Seth Mitchell, Al Haymon and Boxing Purgatory
On the day following the 2012 election, just before his first fight with Johnathon Banks, Seth Mitchell held a media workout where he trains in Clinton, Maryland. Somewhere between the typical media…
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East Coast Report: Bright Future for DC, and More Horrible Judging
It?s become a pattern, every weekend with more than one decent boxing card, is another weekend of what only can be considered corrupt scoring. But for now let?s start off with something…
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Broner: “Saturday night will be electrifying, very explosive; just don?t blink”
[Editor?s note: As of press time, Adrien Broner failed to make the 130-pound weight limit (coming at 3.5 pounds over) thus forfeiting his WBO junior lightweight title. Broner will be allowed to…
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Eastern Regional Report- Apr. 13, 2013
Pavlik to Face Sigmon After All? After a proposed April bout between Kelly Pavlik and Virginia?s Scott Sigmon fell through, Sigmon used social media to say some very unflattering things about Pavlik.…
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Hank Lundy and Dannie Williams? Collision Course
It is far too rare in boxing when two up-and-coming, top prospects are actually willing to a risk a loss by facing each other for an average purse and the chance to…
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Eastern Regional Report: Support Your Local Boxing Promoter
It always amuses me that after every successful, profitable and big boxing show, a host of boxing writers will cite its success in some desperate hope that boxing is not in trouble…
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Eastern Regional Preview 2012
Well before New Year?s Day, I was already fatigued with the endless pronouncements of the best of 2011. How many more times could I read why Andre Ward was someone?s ?Fighter of…
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The Week that Was in D.C.: Part One
Let me start by eating some crow. I said that Golden Boy would be lucky to get 4,000 people to the fight on Saturday. Given that neither the Peterson brothers nor Seth…
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Yes, Virginia, Lamont Peterson Does Have a Chance Tonight
We take pleasure in answering prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our immense gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of Maxboxing: Dear Maxboxing? I am…
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The Deuce, Reasons To Love Boxing?and an Ice Cream Scooper
My most lasting memory of the 2011 season of ESPN2?s ?Friday Night Fights? will undoubtedly be that of an old-fashioned ice cream scooper. As a hematoma swelled over Pawel Wolak?s right eye…
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Pavlik Breaks Silence: ?Top Rank Wants to Cash Me Out?
As the news spread yesterday of Kelly Pavlik?s abrupt pullout from both Saturday?s ?ShoBox? fight in Youngstown and the proposed November bout in Canada with Lucian Bute, the internet went abuzz with…
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Are We Down to This?
Years ago on an episode of the sitcom ?Everybody Loves Raymond,? Raymond?s father, Frank Barone, was named ?Man of the Year? at his local men?s lodge. Sons Raymond and Robert decided to…
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Pacquiao vs. Mosley: Much Ado over Nothing?but Money: the State of Big Fights in America
Get ready, sports fans; the hype machine is all warmed up and this week we will all be treated to endless commercials, infomercials, and fight replays to convince us of the monumental…
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Matt Remillard: Ready for the Big Stage
Matt Remillard believes that HBO?s ?Boxing After Dark? will bring his career into the light. The 23-0 (13) Connecticut featherweight faces his biggest challenge to date in fellow Top Rank prospect Miguel…
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Facing Bradley Ends Badly for Alexander
In a bout that hardly lived up to its billing as ?The Super Fight,? Timothy Bradley scored a unanimous ten-round technical decision over Devon Alexander after an accidental headbutt caused ringside physician…
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SERGIO!
In possibly one of the best punches in middleweight history, Sergio Martinez scored a sensational one-punch knockout over Paul Williams at 1:10 of the second round and ended any debate as to…
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Paul Williams: ?It is Going to be a War?
Paul Williams? trainer and manager George Peterson doesn?t have to try to ?sell? tonight?s fight to anyone. This is a battle that needs no hype machine or marketing gurus to build it…
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Eastern Regional Report- September 4, 2010
Corley Drops Tough Decision? Few gave DeMarcus ?Chop Chop? Corley much of a chance in Argentina against Marcos Maidana. In fact, very few people had talked much at all about the fight,…
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Dan Goossen Sounding Drumbeat for Pacquiao vs. Williams
Dan Goossen made a great point when talking to Maxboxing on Monday: What is the best fight to be made if Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather can?t be made? The answer is…
