LATEST STORIES FROM T.K. STEWART ON BOXING
The Samuel Peter Principle
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June 05, 2008
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Arum Rolls the Dice with Cotto and Margarito in Vegas
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June 05, 2008
De La Hoya Proves You Can Go Home Again
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June 05, 2008
There's No Place Like Home
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June 05, 2008
He Huffs, He Puffs and He'll Blow Your House Down
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June 05, 2008
The Czar of Atlantic City
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June 05, 2008
Cotto Takes it One Fight at a Time
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June 05, 2008
An Underdog Gets His Shot
In two weeks, Alfonso Gomez will try to do what underdogs do in boxing - upset the champ. He'll step through the ropes and into the ring at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall and take a shot at doing what 31 other guys have been unable to do - send Miguel Cotto back home to Puerto Rico as a loser.Make no...
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June 05, 2008
No Country for Old Heavyweights
Vitali Klitschko, the nearly 37 year-old brother of Wladimir Klitschko, says he will return to the ring later this year in an attempt to win back his WBC title.Joel and Ethan Coen's movie, "No Country for Old Men" won four Academy Awards the other night and the brothers shared the award for best pict...
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June 05, 2008
Will Klitschko Be the Last One Standing?
Wladimir Klitschko and Sultan Ibragimov will be face-to-face on Saturday night at New York's Madison Square Garden.To listen to hall of fame trainer Emanuel Steward tell it, Saturday night will be one of the most dangerous nights in the career of his charge, IBF heavweight titlist Wladimir Klitschko....
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June 05, 2008
Marquez Fights for His Place in the Sun
Mexico's Juan Manuel Marquez is ready to defend his title and exact a measure of revenge against Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Talk to those in the know around this game they call boxing and they'll tell you that Manny Pacquiao, the little Filipino spitfire, is no worse than the seco...
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June 05, 2008
Lightweights Are a Heavyweight Mess
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May 29, 2008
"Nigerian Nightmare" Ready to Crush Maskaev's Dreams
WBC titlist Oleg Maskaev (R) is flanked by promoter Don King and Nigeria's Samuel Peter at the press conference to announce their fight in Cancun, Mexico. There's a store on the Danby Road in Ithaca, New York called Sam Peter Furniture. It has nothing to do with the World Boxing Cartel interim heavyw...
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April 20, 2008
Larry Holmes' Long Fight is Finally Over
Larry Holmes (right) battles Ken Norton for the heavyweight title, June 1978.He was never who we wanted him to be. But that wasn't Larry Holmes' fault.In June 1982, minutes after he dealt Gerry Cooney a thirteen round beating in the sweetest victory of his long career, Holmes stepped through the ring...
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March 15, 2008
A Chip Off The Old Block?
On Saturday night, doe-eyed Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. will once again be cranking up the left hook that looks a lot like dear old Dad's. For 'Junior' it will be his second straight fight as a pay-per-view headliner and another opportunity for him to continue building his resume as he looks to make his...
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March 11, 2008
On the Road at Foxwoods
Matt Remillard, left, shoots a shot to the body of the game Manuel Perez.MASHANTUCKET, CONNECTICUT - There's a sign on Route 2 as you're heading into Foxwoods that lets you know, "The fine for littering is $219."Well, there was no danger of that happening tonight as Jimmy Burchfield and his CES Promo...
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March 07, 2008
"The Rock" Keeps Rolling Along
Former heavyweight champion of the world, Hasim "The Rock" Rahman.For Hasim "The Rock" Rahman, life has never been as good as the night in 2001 when he shocked the planet, and Lennox Lewis, to win the heavyweight championship of the world. For Rahman the sweet taste of the championship was fleeting...
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February 24, 2008
The Hits Keep On Coming
Above: "Ireland's" John Duddy is looking to fight Middleweight Champion Kelly Pavlik on January 26th in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Well, if you ever doubted that what Bob Arum wants, Bob Arum gets, then you needn't look any further than the fact that reports are indicating that Kelly Pavlik will make...
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February 23, 2008
Two Sides to Atlas, But He's His Own Man
I've been following the ongoing saga with Teddy Atlas and his seven day suspension from his position as a color analyst with ESPN2 Friday Night Fights with a keen interest as to what will come of it all. If you know Teddy Atlas, you know there's two sides to the man. There's the side that is abrasi...
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February 22, 2008
Paulie Malignaggi is the New Bionic Man
He's splintered his right hand like dry kindling wood on no less than three occasions and he's gone under the knife nine times in order to fix it. But that hasn't stopped Brooklyn born Paulie "The Magic Man" Malignaggi from punching.Similarly, during the decade of the 80's, former WBA heavyweight ti...
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February 22, 2008
It's Time for Hopkins to Fight Like He Talks
Bernard Hopkins and Joe Calzaghe came face-to-face last month in Las Vegas and they engaged in a heated exhange of words. This week's announcement that Bernard Hopkins will face Welshman Joe Calzaghe on April 12th in Las Vegas came with the same hype and blather that comes from Hopkins each time he a...
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February 22, 2008
Jermain Taylor Has 96 Ounces of Hope
Jermain "Bad Intentions" Taylor, former middleweight champion of the world, is telling anybody with ears that the main reason he lost the title to Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik back in September was because he just couldn't make the division limit of 160-pounds anymore. Taylor was handed his first loss an...
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February 22, 2008
Antonio Tarver Knows They Are Out to Get Him
Millionaire, champion and movie star Antonio Tarver forges on with his life.There's a scene in last year's movie 'Rocky Balboa' in which Antonio Tarver's character, Mason "The Line" Dixon, complains that he isn't getting the respect he deserves. Despite being the famous and undefeated champion of th...
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February 10, 2008
THIS HITMAN WEARS BABY BLUE
Nobody told Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton that real hitmen are supposed to wear black. And even if they had, it probably wouldn't have made any difference. Hatton, who is getting ready to face the tough as nails Mexican Jose Luis Castillo on Saturday night in Las Vegas, has made a career of doing thing...
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February 07, 2008
THIS MAGIC MAN CAN CHANGE MINDS
The first time I laid eyes on Paulie "The Magic Man" Malignaggi was in Atlantic City on a cool November night nearly five years ago. It was the night before Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward took a second turn tearing the pages from each other's book. I was waiting in line at Bally's to see a fight card ...
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February 05, 2008
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