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Devon Alexander: 'I've Been An Underdog Most Of My Life'

If you had no experience with toughness, or you had no toughness about you, then you weren't going to survive there. It would chew you up and spit you out. It was different between the streets and The Kronk. You had to have street knowledge, or to be a person from the streets. That's the only way you were going to be...

Boxing, Detroit Needs Alexander-Bradley Without Question

DETROIT -- When Frank Garza steps into the ring for Saturday night's HBO televised, junior welterweight (140 pounds) title clash between southpaw WBC king Devon Alexander and WBO counter part Tim Bradley, the 58-year-old referee said that he will treat the situation as if it is the fighters' first professional...

IBF Orders Tomasz Adamek-Samuel Peter Purse Bid

The IBF has ordered a Jan. 20 purse bid for an eliminator bout between third-ranked heavyweight contender, Tomasz Adamek, and, sixth-ranked former world champion, Samuel Peter, according to Adamek's promoter, Kathy Duva, CEO of Main Events. The IBF crown is one of three held by the 34-year-old Wladimir Klitschko (55-3,...

Sergio Martinez-Sergei Dzinziruk Still Close for March 12

Although a deal is close, the contacts still have not yet been signed for side of Ukrianian-born southpaw WBO junior middleweight (154 pounds) titlist Sergei Dzinziruk of Germany to compete in an HBO televised, March 12 bout for the crown of Argentinian-born southpaw king Sergio Martinez (pictured above), a resident of...

After Billy Lyell, Julio Cesar Chavez Eyes Sergio Martinez, Miguel Cotto

Middleweight (160 pounds) contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (pictured at right), the 24-year-old son of the former world champion by the same name, will return to the ring on Jan. 29 against Ohio's world title contender, Billy Lyell, at Estadio Banorte in Chavez Jr.'s home town of Culiacan, Mex., according to Chavez's...

Background on Manny Steward

Emanuel Steward (born July 7, 1944) is an American boxing trainer, commentator and inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame.

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