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This Saturday on HBO, we have a doubleheader where in each fight, either elbow grease and know-how will triumph, or else raw horsepower will. James Kirkland is like the owner of a muscle car, loud and vulgar, while Danny Garcia is more like the owner of a formula one car, speedy and nimble. But Erik Morales and Carlos Molina -- they run their grimy garages that find ways to win the race at the end of the movie, no matter how many times they're counted out.Both fights, too, have action credentials. Kirkland is an almost vulgar display of physicality who charges forward with the subtlety of a meteor, and Molina loves to get down and dirty in the trenches, so that junior middleweight fight has a "surefire" marked down next to it in that category. Morales has been providing action fights for decades, and Garcia has done some showy things in high-contact affairs, so that junior welterweight has a "probable" marked down next to it.Style contrasts, the ...
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