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LI's Joe Smith Jr. wins WBO light heavyweight title
Watch highlights from the main event of Joe Smith Jr. vs. Maxim Vlasov, an action-filled 12-round bout that ended with ...
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LI's Herring finally gets to face Frampton
Herring, from Coram, defends his WBO junior lightweight title against Frampton on Saturday after two previous postponements.
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Boxing great Marvelous Marvin Hagler dead at 66
He was the undisputed middleweight champion for 1980-87.
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Bob Arum regrets how Muhammad Ali treated Joe Frazier
Bob Arum, Larry Holmes, Gerry Cooney Bernard Hopkins discuss Ali vs. Frazier I, the "fight of the century."
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Frazier-Ali I was Fight of the Millennium
Almost 50 years ago, on March 8, 1971, two undefeated champions staged a boxing match that captivated the world and defined an era.
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Good to Know: Golden Gloves' first Black state champ reclaims past
Back in 1964, John Phillips became the first Black boxer in the United States to win a Golden Gloves state ...
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Newsday recommends Top 10 pound-for-pound boxers
Newsday's Robert Cassidy ranks the best pound-for-pound boxers.
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LI's Alicia Napoleon-Espinosa puts boxing on hold to start family
Alicia Napoleon-Espinosa of Lindenhurst has put her promising boxing career on hold to start a family. ...
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How a loss in the ring was a gain in life for LI's Napoleon-Espinosa
With title gone and a pandemic, the former women's super middleweight turned her attention to starting a family, and is due to have a baby in March.
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LI's Smith Jr. has world title shot postponed after Vlasov tests positive
Joe Smith Jr. was set to challenge Maxim Vlasov for the vacant WBO light heavyweight title on Saturday in Vegas.
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Ex-heavyweight champion Leon Spinks dies at 67
Spinks died Friday night at 67 after battling prostate and other cancers.
