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Archive for July 30th, 2008

By ‘eck those Mexicans can fight; Margarito prevails

Posted in Boxing, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’ve little new to add to the thousands of column inches already afforded to the outstanding contest between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito last Saturday night. A tumultuous encounter that achieved that rarest of triumphs, it lived up to its promise. Both fighters were exceptional and though Margarito emerges with maximum credit for unseating the [...]

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Pitt and Aniston, Charles and Diana, now Hatton and Graham…it happens to ‘em all in the end

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Avert your gaze from boxing for too long and the constants, the equilibrium on which your perspective of the sport was founded can quickly be disconnected and deconstructed. The notion that the gnarled, sinewy frame of gravel-voiced trainer Billy Graham will no longer be strapped into the renown body belt (pictured left) for 15 rounds of torment from [...]

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