Patrick Kehoe
23 articles · SecondsOut.com
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“Sugar” Shane Mosley: Finding Defining Moments
No, you cannot completely run from your past ? even as time?s distancing from events and circumstances, from actions made from intentions ? with perceptual memory coloured over. We are, in the…
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The Mayweather Maelstrom
Iconic portraits of Roger Federer, Tom Brady, Michael Jordan and Arnold Palmer stare out from major sports and men’s magazines this last month, with autumnal athletic engagements tugging at our sense of…
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Marco Antonio Barrera – In the Eye of the Beholder
Marco Antonio Barrera has been taking Manchester England by stealth. The Mexican legend has been looking interviewer after interviewer in the eye over the last week patiently, and in his measured English,…
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David Diaz and The Limits of Extreme Possibilities
The thing about all out boxing aggression is that it demands knowing the end result alone matters; it?s fighting with only the end game of submission, via attrition, in mind. WBC lightweight…
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Postscript for Champions of The Sport
Time defiles every mortal effort to sustain athletic excellence eventually leaving sports fans only the recourse of memory as a final consolation. Marco Antonio Barrera acted out the role of the wily…
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The Long Good-Bye of Erik Morales
“It’s been one of the most peaceful training camps I have ever had.” Erik Morales seems to be ultra chilled, as he awaits his shot at WBC lightweight title holder David Diaz…
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Barrera-Marquez: A super-featherweight’s burden
Underneath the high definition calm of his practiced professionalism, Marco Antonio Barrera frets, holding in check his nervous anxiety when ever he’s asked about his next fight. In training camp, the great…
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Thoughts in the off season
Our thoughts this time of year tend toward reflection, trying to summarize and evaluate the events that made up the fabric of another year now dimming, rain washed, snowbound, closing. In boxing,…
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Destiny and the Legend of Erik Morales
?No one has ever booed me out of a ring and no one ever will. As far as I am concerned there is going to be a fight. We are there to…
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Pacquiao Mugs Morales!
Pilipino bomber Manny Pacquiao waged a war of aggression that Mexican legend Erik Morales, for the first time in his career, found too much to withstand. The rematch of these courageous champions…
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5 Reasons to Pick Pacquiao; 5 Reasons to Pick Morales
Manny Pacquiao - Age 27 stands 5'6 ?" with a career record of 40-3-2 (32) in 45 fights. The Hunger of Necessity: No one has to tell Manny Pacquiao that he needs…
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Morales vs. Pacquiao: Ancient Rituals
When the Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez featherweight rematch couldn't be made, given the monies Juan Manuel wanted and Top Rank's tendered offer, Erik Morales stepped up and took the risk…
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Ready for a Fight: Erik Morales
Venturing toward a lightweight championship, what would have been his fourth weight division conquered, Tijuana, Mexico’s legend, Erik Morales, found out that in boxing wanting is not the only prerequisite to having.…
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Pacquiao vanquishes Velazquez
Manny Pacquiao 40-3-2 (31) vs. Hector Velazquez 42-110-2 (31) was almost by design supposed to be a reaffirming knockout win for Pacquiao, an outing to see how his new right jab and…
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Is retooling a good fit for Pacquiao?
In a friendly against England, in the late 1970s, the great Brazilian football midfielder Roberto Rivelino put on a clinic of power football. Even late in his international career, Rivelino completed about…
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The Enduring Erik Morales
In the fall of 2002, many boxing insiders were picking southpaw jr. featherweight champion Paulie Ayala to beat Erik Morales, then 26, the collective assessment mainly keying off of Ayala's victory over…
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Morales-Pacquiao: Getting Technical
Erik Morales has admitted that after his rubber match loss to Mexican rival Marco Antonio Barrera he wanted to make amends to his fans, his family and himself. Such was his sense…
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Pacquiao ready to fight large
Philippine boxing super star Manny Pacquiao seems to always have a smile on his face. For his opponents, he's always got thunder in his flashing fists. The southpaw with a devastating left…
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Morales only has eyes for Manny
Mexican boxing legend Erik Morales assured boxing fans his loss to rival Marco Antonio Barrera is not the end of his career. On Saturday March 18, at the MGM Grand Garden arena,…
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Erik Morales
Odd guy this Erik Morales. A placid introvert, given to sullenness, brilliant counter punching boxer who's won titles in three different weight classes, beginning at bantamweight and yet seldom gets written about…
