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Middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins destroyed another overmatched opponent in another mandatory title defense Saturday night at the First Union Spectrum. His opponent, Frenchman Mourade Hakkar, dropped to the canvas five times. Finally, referee Frank Cappuccino stopped the…
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Read on mcall.com →Middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins wanted to fight Roy Jones Jr., but was not willing to be cheated out of money. He would have settled for Oscar de la Hoya, but the Golden Boy has stayed clear. Welterweights Shane Mosley and Vernon Forrest know how to find Hopkins, but…
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Read on mcall.com →Gerry Cooney is satisfied with his life 21 years after he failed to win the heavyweight championship from Larry Holmes. That loss has not haunted him. It only made him stronger and more committed to helping other boxers get their lives in order after they retire. His health is…
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Read on mcall.com →Larry Holmes’ arms were raised in victory. His reign as heavyweight champion would continue after a 13th-round technical knockout of Gerry Cooney, the man many thought of as “the great white hope.” With the victory, Holmes hoped the racial barrier that he believed separated…
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Read on mcall.com →Trying to figure out what’s in the brain of former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is a task many psychiatrists might find difficult, so Larry Holmes is not even going to attempt. All Holmes, who held the heavyweight title 1978-85, can really do is speak about the general…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh found American University not so hospitable, losing 69-59 Saturday at Bender Arena. The loss was Lehigh’s third straight on the road to a Patriot League team, preventing coach Billy Taylor from winning his 16th game and placing his name in the school record book for…
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Read on mcall.com →Victoria Abadia, a 24-year-old professional boxer with plenty of potential, fought in the main event for some alphabet championship belt, but his relative cakewalk to victory hardly roused the crowd the way Easton welterweight Derrick Parks had Thursday night at the Days Inn and…
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Read on mcall.com →Junior featherweight Victoria Abadia will get his second chance this year to prove that he can win a championship fight. But he’s going to have to take out a knockout puncher in Francisco Tejedor to accomplish his goal. The International Boxing Council junior featherweight title…
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Read on mcall.com →For seemingly one final time, 29 years after his first professional bout, former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes proved before his chanting fans, closest friends, family and a pay-per-view audience, that his left jab was still slick as “butter” Saturday night at the Scope.…
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Read on mcall.com →Mike Mittman, a former Telley Award winner for excellence in broadcasting, has signed a contract to join the boxing commentary team of Al Bernstein and Dave Bontempo for the pay-per-view telecast of former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes’ final fight tonight at the Scope arena…
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Read on mcall.com →You can not win 68 of 74 fights and successfully defend the heavyweight championship 20 consecutive times without having a few easy fights. Former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes does not deny that. In fact, he believes that one of his easiest fights will come Saturday night…
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Read on mcall.com →Former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes sat quietly in a folding chair, cooling down and perhaps reflecting on all the glory he has enjoyed over the last 29 years, as sweat poured down his face following a workout and sparring session in his humid training facility Friday in…
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Read on mcall.com →The more the fans cheered for them, the more Allentown’s Edgar Sanjurjo and Easton’s Russell Snyder shone underneath the lights in the grandstand events area Saturday night at Cedar Beach as both peppered their opponents with sharp, effective, punishing shots. For both fighters,…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins, who has awed sports fans throughout the Lehigh Valley since he arrived in the spring of 1999 as head coach of the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs, isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. He lives in the Valley; his wife is from here. He and assistant coach Rick Nash have…
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Read on mcall.com →The rumble is on. The raging bull that is Mike Tyson is fighting the heavyweight champion with the glass jaw, Lennox Lewis, late tonight at The Pyramid in Memphis, Tenn. No heavyweight championship bout has had this much hype since Tyson and Evander Holyfield went “tooth-to-ear”…
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Read on mcall.com →Lennox Lewis is just four days away from defending his World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation heavyweight championship titles against the one man former heavyweight champ Larry Holmes believes Lewis is probably scared to fight. That man is the loose cannon that…
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Read on mcall.com →Forget about the rocking chair that some people might have been thinking about as a goodbye gift to Evander Holyfield. “I’m going to be here a long time,” Holyfield said following his lopsided victory over Hasim Rahman in a heavyweight elimination bout Saturday night at the…
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Read on mcall.com →Evander Holyfield used nothing but his fists, padded with boxing gloves. But it seemed like the former four-time heavyweight champion was using a baseball bat against another former heavyweight champion, Hasim Rahman, Saturday night before a crowd of 9,831 at the Boardwalk Hall.…
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Read on mcall.com →A heavyweight from Philadelphia, who has “lights-out” punching power, will return to the Days Inn & Conference Center in South Whitehall Township on Thursday. Sean Carrington has scored knockouts in his only two professional fights, both in the first round. He forced a stoppage…
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Read on mcall.com →The right hand of challenger Ricardo “El Matador” Mayorga kept landing, backing up and often doing damage to Andrew “Six Heads” Lewis. Then came the furious conclusion. Mayorga came with everything in his arsenal and flattened Lewis to score a technical knockout at 1 minute, 8…
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Read on mcall.com →Welterweight champion Andrew “Six Heads” Lewis sat at Wednesday’s press conference at the Sovereign Center and listened as both the challenger and the challenger’s manager predicted that Lewis is going to get knocked out. Lewis just smiled, his teeth glistening like the diamonds…
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Read on mcall.com →You can not listen to former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes’ talk, especially when he says, “I’m retired” because he always unretires. Even though he’s 52. Even though his legacy was established two decades ago. The bottom line is that Holmes does not like being stuck on 74…
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Read on mcall.com →Something besides money made legendary boxing promoter Don King light up like the glamorous lights of Las Vegas Thursday when he visited the Canal Street Pub and Restaurant. And everybody knows that casinos are big in the city that never sleeps. Reading does not have any casinos…
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Read on mcall.com →“Bark, bark, bark.” That’s all undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins says he hears from Roy Jones Jr., mostly from far away. When will Hopkins get a chance to pound Jones, as he did Carl Daniels in successfully defending the middleweight title a record 15th…
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