For many casual boxing fans, a majority of their exposure to the sport has come from movies. The most famous of these movies are in the now 8 film long Rocky series. For this Boxing TLDR feature, our intern Watt will be breaking down each of these films for us looking at the quality of
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Can Xu dig it??
I know. It’s a football weekend. But it’s Friday morning and you clicked on this email, so that mean’s it’s boxing time for the next few minutes! I’m pumped your here. Anyone catch the fights last weekend? No? I got you covered. There were a lot of fights to cover last weekend, but I’m gonna

AB had “whole hood on (his) back”, no match for PacMan’s promise to constituents
Boxing TL;DR family, what’s up. Thanks for clicking and giving me your precious moments of your attention. It really means a lot that you tune in week after week. I hope you got a chance to tune in to at least some of the boxing that was on over the last weekend. If not, here’s

Sweethands wins a title, Manny fights tomorrow, a big weekend for boxing
Last week I asked you to check out Ruben Villa. He did win his fight against a 10-0 Ruben Cervera and in doing so has improved his record to 15-0. Bigger opportunities on the horizon for this kid. Keep your eye out for him. Devin Haney won in the main event of that card. And

Ruben Villa, Caleb Plant, and Joey Spencer + Is Rigo suffering the Loma effect?
Last week I gave a little heads up about tonight’s fight card on Showtime. The guy I’m most eager to see is Ruben Villa and I think Boxing TL;DR readers should check him out and tune in on this kid’s career. He had an incredible amateur career and at 21 his pro career is off

Dillian Whyte vs. Derek Chisora II, Charlo Bros, Peace out 2018
Right off the bat, last week I listed the 3 cards on TV and told you which one I thought would be most worth your time by using a 0 and 1 scale. I told you the Charlo brothers card was the 1, and I gave the two British cards being the 0. Turns out