Joe Masterleo
17 articles · Boxing.com
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Ali: Forever Young
A boisterous trend-setter, his singular example changed the complexion and ethos of professional sports forever? He had been regarded as one of the most significant sporting figures in history, if not the…
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Money: Swan Song or Swan Lake?
And his comeback won?t be about money. There isn?t enough money in the world to satisfy an ambitious ego hungry for acclaim? Some say that if this fight was a basketball game,…
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Spike TV: Feast or Famine
Boxing is a young man?s sport, period. Like most post-prime fighters, Tarver?s mind writes checks that his body can?t cash? Last Friday night a fistic meal was served up by Premier Boxing…
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Bum and Glum of the Month
As for ?Glum of the Month? honors, the fight between Pascal and Gonzalez was modern day vintage boxing? The boxing broadcast Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las…
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The Thrilla in Vanilla
If wishes were fishes, we?d all cast nets. One robin doesn?t make a spring, or one defibrillator jolt a pulse? Vanilla: (slang); ordinary, plain, unexciting, conventional, boring ? Urban Dictionary At one…
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Passing Over Pascal
At this point in his career, Jean Pascal should take the advice of his philosopher namesake in humbling himself? ?The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play.??Blaise Pascal…
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Fire & Ice in Boxing and Sport
While the mob practices the evil arts to ritual perfection, the ?good? man or woman merely excels at the precarious business of being fully human? Abandon all hope you who enter here…
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HBO?s ?Boxing?s Best?: Assessed & Undressed
As serfs before kings, the vanquished fighters in all of these HBO ?standouts? maintained tail-tucking ?strategies? throughout? In a so-called ?holiday treat? for boxing fans over a four day stretch, HBO has…
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Tapia: Mi Vida Loca
A man faces no deadlier opponent than himself, a formidable challenger one can duck only for so long before it staggers and drops him? Director Eddie Alcazar?s recent HBO documentary (Tapia) on…
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Why the Sweet Science Remains Sour
With few exceptions, the bulk of fighters are weak, insular men adept at controlling their destinies inside the ropes, but seldom outside them? ?Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of…
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Crawford: Voila In Omaha
Following a so-so appetizer on the undercard, which included warmed-up leftovers of week-old Pacquiao-Algieri, the main course of Terence Crawford (25-0, 17 KOs) vs. Ray Beltran (29-7-1, 17 KOs) was served up…
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Algieri: Pulp Fiction Champion
A night out would have been easier to swallow, even if the chef bungled the meal, and/or your date was a dog? Predictably, the outclassed Chris Algieri was resoundingly defeated by Manny…
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The Roadrunner vs. Pac-Man
Algieri hasn?t proven anything substantive yet, at least not in the meat ?n potatoes department, and therefore isn?t up to snuff for an opponent like Pacquiao? Christopher Algieri got beat-up by Ruslan…
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Making Mincemeat in Hamburg
The difference in talent between Klitschko and the rest of the heavyweights has become one not of degree, but of kind? Wladimir Klitschko made quick work of Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev Saturday night…
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No Bebop in B-Hop
That Hopkins took on the ?Alien? namesake and mask for this bout did little for his image, save as metaphor? Sergey Kovalev cake-walked over the ancient Bernard Hopkins in a landslide decision…
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Pacquiao-Rios: Made in China
Not to worry. A diamond in a rhinestone world, Pacquiao has more options than Miss America after last call at a bachelor party? Confucius say, war doesn?t determine who is right, war…
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Boxing: From Here to Eternity
In a world rife with paradox such opposites as good and evil, winning and losing, poverty and riches, life and death, wisdom and foolishness mingle and co-mingle on the human scene. And…