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Malignaggi Diaz Rematch Recap

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ - Finally! Paulie Malignaggi(27-3, 5 KOs) wins a notable bout (and the IBF light welterweight belt) and showcases his talent on a big stage. Yes, flamboyant and easy to hate, the Magic Man displayed his crafty style of stick and move against a promising Juan Diaz(35-3, 17 KOs), who had [...]

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Midweek Focus

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Forget your TPS reports. Here’s a little sports ranting to get you thru your humpday.
FAVRE SIGNS WITH VIKINGS

Cue the circus music, Brett Favre has signed with Minnesota. So Tavaris Jackson will sit and old man Favre will give the Vikings a little more agita than necessary in the 2009 season. Sure this may bring excitement [...]

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Arturo Gatti Tribute

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Arturo “Thunder” Gatti, one of boxing’s most exciting fighters of all time, died last Saturday at age 37. What can be said about a guy who left everything he had in the ring? All you need to do is watch one Gatti fight to understand how he impacted the sport, and a region.  Born in Italy, Thunder moved to [...]

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Mayweather Marquez Cancelled, Rescheduled

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

After suffering a rib injury a couple weeks ago, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (39-0, 25 kos) was forced to postpone his upcoming fight against Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 kos) but the fight has been rescheduled for September 19. Originally, the match was set for July 18 at the Garden Arena @ MGM Grand in Las Vegas where Mayweather [...]

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Wladimir Klitschko Schools Chagaev

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Gelsenkirchen, Germany - In a night of hard to spell words, Wladimir “Dr. Steelhammer” Klitschko (53-3, 47 KOs) took on Ruslan “White Tyson” Chagaev (25-1, 17 KOs) for the vacant Ring Magazine Heavyweight belt at Veltins Arena in front of 61,000 boxing fans. Klitschko was originally supposed to fight David Haye, who pulled out of [...]

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Cotto vs Pacquiao?

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Thats what you would expect after Miguel Cotto’s slim victory over Ghana native Joshua Clottey, successfully defending his WBO welterweight title. (Isn’t it funny how Clottey, from Ghana, can speak English without a translator but Antonio Margarito can’t speak a lick of English even though he’s from Torrance? Maybe its just me or maybe Tony just wants to keep his [...]

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Cotto vs Clottey Live Boxing Blog

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Welcome to MG SPORTS TALK’s live blog during the Miguel Cotto vs. Joshua Clottey WBO welterweight title fight from Madison Square Garden. The fight will be televised on HBO at 10:30pm EST/7:30 pm PST.
Join in the forum and leave your comments and score by clicking…
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*Be sure to refresh you browser to get up-to-the minute analysis [...]

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Cotto vs

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Cotto fight

Saturday, June 13 - 10pm EST/7pm PST
Join us this Saturday night on www.mgsportstalk for round by round live coverage of the Cotto vs Clottey fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Its our live boxing blog. We will bring you all the action in a live forum where you can join in [...]

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Boxing: Hatton-Pacquiao Preview…and more

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Here’s the latest from the world of boxing…
 
WRIGHT-WILLIAMS review:
On April 18th, Ronald “Winky” Wright came back to the ring for the first time since dropping a decision to Bernard Hopkins back in 2007. His choice of comeback opponent was none other than the self-proclaimed most feared man in all of boxing, Paul “The Punisher” Williams. [...]

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Puerto Rican welterweight superstar Miguel Angel Cotto and Youngstown, Ohio’s middleweight champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik both erased memories of losing their most recent fights by recording TKO victories this past Saturday night in a unique, two-site Pay Per view event.

Cotto defeated the UK’s Michael Jennings via 5th Round TKO at Madison Square Garden to [...]

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Pavlik To Defend Middleweight Title

Friday, February 20th, 2009

 

This Saturday, February 21, get ready for a triple fight night. PPV boxing will be bringing you 3 exciting fights, all part of the same broadcast. At $44.95, this may be the best boxing value of the year.
The broadcast will start off  at Madison Square Garden for the undercard and the first of two main events and follow [...]

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Mosley KO’s Margarito in the 9th

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Chris Cazzone
Los Angeles, CA - On Saturday night, in front of a Staples Center-record crowd of 20,820 fans, “Sugar” Shane Mosley KO’d Tijuana’s Antonio Margarito, a 4-1 favorite, in dramatic fashion to take the WBA welterweight belt. Scheduled for 12 rounds, Mosley would only need 9 to finish off Margarito, arguable winning every round to that [...]

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