Kevin B. Blackstone
9 articles · The Dallas Morning News
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After Rant Against Pacquiao, Mayweather Is in a Class of His Own: He Has None
It's too bad that no one runs boxing, for if someone did, Floyd Mayweather would be made to pay for the video he released on Friday that went as viral on the…
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Antonio Margarito, Bob Arum Bobbing and Weaving From the Truth
For nearly a quarter century, journeyman boxer Luis Resto claimed he didn't know his gloves had been stripped of their padding and his hand wraps soaked in Plaster of Paris before administering…
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Supposed Mega-Fight Packs No Punch
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Just before Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey touched gloves Saturday night in Jerry Jones' Cowboys Stadium, one of the lieutenants for fight promoter Bob Arum held up a handwritten…
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Mayweather’s Blow Hits Below the Belt
It's been 17 years since Floyd Mayweather Jr. made his first imprint on the boxing world. It was at the 1993 National Golden Gloves Championships in Little Rock, Ark. He was 16…
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Weekend’s Biggest Fight? Boxing vs. Mixed Martial Arts
Somewhere during the broadcast Thursday night of the Miami-Georgia Tech football game, a commercial broke across the screen advertising UFC 103, a mixed martial arts fight card featuring somebody named Vitor Belfort…
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Pacquiao the Destroyer Sends Message
LAS VEGAS -- At the end of the day, it wasn't that Floyd Mayweather Jr. failed to do what it appeared he'd done earlier Saturday, which was steal the thunder from the…
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The Most Significant Fighter of His Time
It was siesta, or lunch time, in Badalona, Spain, a suburb of Barcelona, when I wandered out of the Olympic boxing venue in the summer of 1992 with a couple of scribe…
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Margarito Leaves Mess in His Trail
To this day, it remains the most disgusting thing I've ever witnessed in sports: Billy Collins Jr. vs. Luis Resto, June, 1983. It was just supposed to be a little pre-fight entertainment…
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Boxing can’t afford to lose De La Hoya, its golden boy
LAS VEGAS - (KRT) - There is another reason 1992 Olympic champion Oscar De La Hoya is so appropriately called The Golden Boy. Ever since 1991, when more than a million sports…
