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Antonio Tarver tested positive for synthetic testosterone, a banned substance

Former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver tested positive for synthetic testosterone, a banned substance, in a drug test before his heavyweight draw with Steve Cunningham. “I have no idea how my urine sample tested positive because I didn’t take anything…

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Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez stops Brian Viloria, retains flyweight title

Flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez strengthened his claim as the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world with his one-sided, ninth-round destruction of former unified titleholder. Gonzalez dominated, much to the delight of a raucous cheering section of fans from his…

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Andrzej Fonfara defeats Nathan Cleverly by unanimous decision

Murphy set a major league record with homers in six straight postseason games, snapping a tie with Carlos Beltran, who homered in five straight games during the 2004 postseason with the Houston Astros.

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The 30 young boxers on the rise in 2015

These are good days for fighters aged over 30, so much so that even some of boxing’s up-and-comers, such as Gennady Golovkin and light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, are into their third decade. But here is a list of the…

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Crawford’s title fight also about pound-for-pound pre-eminence

After 12 meetings this season, the Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays are as familiar with each other’s approaches, tendencies, strengths and weaknesses as they’re ever going to be. With one or possibly two games remaining in the American…

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Rigondeaux likely to be stripped of one of his belts

Unified junior featherweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux is on the verge of being stripped of one of his title belts because of inactivity. You might recall in July that Demetrius Andrade, who had not defended his WBO junior middleweight belt in…

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Golovkin’s path to global stardom runs through Lemieux

When Gennady Golovkin came to the United States in 2012, largely unknown despite owning a middleweight world title, he and Tom Loeffler. It sounded far-fetched as they met with various network executives and Madison Square Garden officials — because Golovkin…

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Cunningham rematched with Tomasz Adamek and lost a split decision

Steve Cunningham twice won world titles in the cruiserweight division before doing what most cruiserweights eventually do, which is move up for greater glory and money at heavyweight. A heavyweight since making the move in 2012, Cunningham has gone 4-3-1,…