Kieran Mulvaney
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From trading punches to delivering mail: Ishe Smith looks back with contentment
“I tell people this all the time and they think I’m kidding,” laughs former 154lbs titlist Ishe Smith. “I practically had a 20-year pro career. I had no injuries really. I’ve only been cut in a couple fights, cut in the gym. Nothing really major, not...
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Boxing's best biopics: The gritty, understated realism of ‘Raging Bull’
As the film “The Featherweight,” about the life of boxing great Willie Pep, enters wide release, this week a different BoxingScene contributor will reflect on a boxing biopic that resonates with them. Today: "Raging Bull."
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On this day: Bernard Hopkins takes apart Felix Trinidad
Twenty-three years ago today, Bernard Hopkins defeated Felix Trinidad to become undisputed middleweight champion and, at 36 years old, give new impetus to his professional boxing life. For Trinidad, who had swept all before him at welterweight and ju...
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Ronny Rios: Victory over Nick Ball would be a ‘dream come true’
Veteran contender Ronny Rios says it would be a “dream come true” if he were to win a world title at the age of 34 on October 5. Rios (34-4, 17 KOs) is traveling to Liverpool to take on WBA featherweight titlist Nick Ball in his first fight outsi...
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Shu Shu Carrington following in the footsteps of Brownsville's finest
When Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington enters the ring against Sulaiman Segawa this Friday, September 27, it will mark the third time in a row – and the sixth occasion in a 13-fight pro career – that he will have plied his wares at the Theater at Madison Sq...
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The best British heavyweights in history
There was a time when the phrase “British heavyweight” was universally accompanied, at least on the western side of the Atlantic, with the adjective “horizontal”: a barbed reference to British boxers’ repeated failures for almost a century to come cl...