Sam Sheppard
10 articles · The Queensberry Rules
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Requiem For Rios ? Or How I Learned To Stopped Worrying And Love The Bam
By Sam Sheppard
?Talk to me son,? bellowed referee Russell Mora after Brandon ?Bam Bam? Rios had received a third low blow In the space of two minutes. ?Let?s go baby!? came the defiant response…
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A Bend In The River: What?s Next For The Winner Of Mayweather Vs Pacquiao?
By Sam Sheppard
A common aphorism around professional prizefighting states it is nothing more than a means to an end. Boxing as a career, rather than mere spectacle, is a route out of poverty and…
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2013 Fighter Of The Year Nominees
By Sam Sheppard
Taking the inimitable pay-per-view record-breaker Floyd Mayweather out of the equation, 2013 was arguably nothing to write home about when measured in terms of outright star power. The cash cows were, on…
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Executing The Money Man: Why Bernard Hopkins Ranks Higher Than Floyd Mayweather
By Sam Sheppard
In the wake of Floyd Mayweather?s routing of young Mexican star Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez this past weekend (which the Queensberry Rules team predicted with Nostradamus-like sagacity), attentions have once again shifted to…
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The Lost Art Of The Undercard
By Sam Sheppard
In many ways, the last few weeks have been somewhat of a throwback: a bombastic homage to a time when, somewhat apocryphally perhaps, top fighters were matched with their fiercest rivals and…
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The rise of the British and Irish middleweights
By Sam Sheppard
When Max Kellerman said that his top-ranked lightweight fighter in the world was none other than Terence Crawford, it set more than a few eyebrows into vertical motion. The man he was…
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Boxing’s Greatest Underachievers
By Sam Sheppard
Underachievement is an emotive word in boxing, perhaps more so than in any other sport. After all, how exactly do you tell a guy he hasn?t tried hard enough when he?s just…
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Lucas Matthysse?
By Sam Sheppard
So it looks like we have a new superstar -- a new Manny Pacquiao, if you choose to believe the CEO of the company that promotes him. Lucas Matthysse, the taciturn, mysterious…
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Lamont Peterson And Lucas Matthysse: Getting There The Hard Way
By Sam Sheppard
Lucas Matthysse, the hard punching Argentine, WBC interim junior welterweight titlist and number one Ring-ranked junior welterweight, will challenge the IBF strapholder Lamont Peterson this Saturday in Atlantic City. It?s a storied…
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In Defense Of Paulie Malignaggi
By Sam Sheppard
It?s strange for me to see Paulie Malignaggi these days, basking in the heat of the Indian summer his career is currently enjoying. After all, he was never meant to get this…