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Melissa Hernandez: Her Best to the Last Bell

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Many of the top pro boxing women know each other; a fact that becomes more and more evident to me when I hear my trainer Bonnie “Queen B” Mann chatting aimiably about meeting with Mia St. John in Vegas, running into Laila Ali at a hotel, or talking with Erin Toughill or Christy Martin on [...]

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Twilight Zone Episode “Steel” to be Made Into Futuristic Boxing Movie

I can’t decide if this sounds like the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard or if it actually has possibilities. Ok, so Richard Matheson published a short story in 1956 about a future in which boxing (er, with human combatants) has been criminalized, and androids have taken over the sport. I bet you can already see [...]

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What Mayweather’s Fight Really Means

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Boxing is stuck in the 20th century. And I mean firmly stuck. You only have to see the meteoric rise of MMA to realize that the sweet science can’t, won’t, and actively refuses to keep up. And boxing has such history, art, legends, grit, beauty, strength, and such heart it’s a shame to see it [...]

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Fight Night: Battle at the Expo 2

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I will never be an MMA fighter. One tiny slip-up that another fighter can take advantage of, and boom, you’re in a arm bar or choke hold or whatever, and you’re tapping out and all those months of training for a fight vanish in a flash, leaving you blinking in the aftermath. Nope, not me. [...]

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Carano and Cyborg Weigh In on Target

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Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg Santos stripped to their underwear and stepped onto the scales for a standing-room only crowd at the San Hose Marriot last night; Carano with an easy, almost embarassed smile and Cyborg with her customary scowl. Both fighters have been the cause of abundant speculation and buzz, having failed to make [...]

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Fear Factor

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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will [...]

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The overdue demise of Mrs. Nice Freaking America

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There are some social rules in sparring that I am trying to absorb, but these rules are competing with 43 years of cultural indoctrination and some days it’s like trying to dig up asphalt with a kitchen fork. I was actually feeling pretty strong Friday morning, and had planned for a double workout day. My [...]

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New Rule: If they tee off on you, you can take their head off

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Still trying to absorb the unwritten rules of boxing. Earlier in the week I was sparring in an unfamiliar gym, and I got in the ring with one woman I didn’t know and had not seen box before. We were not a good match (she outweighed me by a good margin and was less experienced), [...]

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Blood Happens (but I’m really sorry)

Image by paperrocks a.k.a. evalinda It’s a major balancing act, bringing a new boxer into the ring. Especially if it’s a woman. Women who actually want to get in the ring are just such rare occurrences that when one comes around I keep my fingers crossed and do my absolute best to encourage rather than [...]

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I Got My First Boxing Trophy

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I now have my first boxing trophy and it’s purple. Yesterday it was reddish purple, but it’s trending darker today and headed to black, I suppose, then the normal green and yellow. I’m feeling all Fight Club. I’ve been tilting my chin up and doing show and tell with my “I’ve been eating uppercuts” bruise [...]

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