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On Saturday night, December 3rd, El Pasoan Tony Escalante returned to the ring at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces and met Rynell Griffin in a lightweight battle. Escalante outlasted Griffin and won by TKO in the 7th round

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On Saturday night, December 3rd, David Rodriguez challenged Byron Polley for the NABU Heavyweight Championship. Rodriguez captured the belt after stopping Polley in the 2nd round.

Students at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY often spend more than half their waking hours practicing their respective instruments. What’s not common practice, however, is a different kind of training spearheaded by one of the university teachers — boxing.

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Former heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier, most famous for delivering Muhammad Ali his first career defeat, died on Monday, as a result of liver cancer. He was 67.

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Lenny Dykstra’s battle with Jose Canseco in one of those dignified celebrity boxing matches never took place over the weekend after Dykstra pulled out for reasons that remain unclear.

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Two former baseball stars will duke it out in the ring on Saturday in a celebrity boxing match. Lenny Dykstra, 48, and Jose Canseco, 47, will square off in a match that’s left many observers shaking their heads. “Canseco ruined my career by spreading lies,” Dykstra said.

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After being wrongly imprisoned for 26 years, Dewey Bozella, 52, won his professional boxing debut against Larry Hopkins in a four-round cruiserweight fight at the Los Angeles Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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On Tuesday, September 20th, boxing historian Bert Sugar joined Sportstalk to discuss the sport's latest controversy.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. stayed unbeaten Saturday night, knocking out Victor Ortiz in the fourth round and take hold of Ortz’s piece of the welterweight title. But it was the strange circumstances of the match, and a confrontation afterward, that has people buzzing.

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It was a fight-filled night at the El Paso County Coliseum. "Independence Showdown" featured Jhonny Gonzalez and Rogers Mtagwa in the main event. It also featured some of the best local professional fighters, including Antonio Escalante, Mickey Roman, Jennifer Haan, Joel Garcia, and Carlos Villa.

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