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		<title>The Sun Also Rises: Marquez &amp; Diaz Dispense With The Matadors To Fiesta Again</title>
		<link>http://safesideoftheropes.com/2010/07/29/the-sun-also-rises-marquez-diaz-dispense-with-the-matadors-to-fiesta-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a rock pool in the desert, boxing embraces a stacked Golden Boy card this weekend as Juan Manuel Marquez rematches Juan Diaz at the Mandalay Bay Resort &#38; Casino in Vegas. After an annus horribilus for fight afficionados, one which must have Ring Magazine’s team of writers already dabbing away sweat from furrowed brows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2675&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fleischer Eat Your Heart Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a fight in possession of press credentials for the first time on Friday, the Sky televised Stuey Hall-Martin Power dust up just down the road from where I rest my boxing fixated noggin. My ringside report for TheBoxingBulletin.com can be found  here, however, I&#8217;ve tapped out a few additional notes from the coal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2659&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons To Remain Cheerful</title>
		<link>http://safesideoftheropes.com/2010/07/21/reasons-to-remain-cheerful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m returning from an extended summer sabbatical with a nice easy ramble through recent events, one which will hopefully allow me to gloss over the fact that I’ve been AWOL for quite some time (ahem), whilst also bringing me back up to speed with current affairs. Where to start then? Hmmm. I guess the big talking point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2647&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Is David Haye? Who Is Carl Froch? What In The Blue Blazes Is An Ezekiel Brook?: Britain’s Best Update And Mid-Year Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With nothing doing over the weekend, I decided I would quit staring out over the barren international wasteland and instead turn my gaze inward and onto the British fight scene. With the domestic season winding down, it felt like a good time to cast an eye over my current top 20 British fighters to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2642&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Men Leave Heavy Hearts as the British Heavyweight Scene Flatlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyson Fury, the next big thing in British heavyweight boxing was close to exhaustion after a handful of rounds. He hadn’t trained, hadn’t sparred and hadn’t taken the sport very seriously at all. His opponent, the morbidly obese John McDermott had roared his way into the ring yet he was about to leave it without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2631&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tyson Fury Phenomenon: Out of Puff Already?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little over 10 months ago, Luke Tyson Fury, a garrulous young giant from Manchester, elected to take an ambitious leap up in class against a hard luck heavyweight from Horndon in just his eighth professional fight. The opponent was “Big” John McDermott, a decent domestic big man who appeared to have an albatross draped around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2614&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bomb Disposal Expert: Andre Ward Shows Substance Over Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although pre-fight comparisons with Ray Leonard and Roy Jones made for good copy, they were always likely to prove difficult ones to live up to for Andre Ward. In completely dominating Allan Green from first bell to last in Oakland on Saturday evening, he proved that although the name checking of Sugar and Jr. was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2601&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Andre Ward Looks To Avoid A Hammer Horror Show Against Allan Green: Super Six Preview &amp; Prediction</title>
		<link>http://safesideoftheropes.com/2010/06/16/hammer-horror-andre-ward-v-allan-green-preview-prediction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andre Ward could be excused if he found himself developing a bit of a complex toward all things Scandinavian right now. Last time out, the “Bay Area Kid” found himself having to vanquish a real life Viking warrior in the Dane Mikkel Kessler, and this weekend in the last of the second round matches in the flagship [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2587&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maloney&#8217;s Peterlee card puts boxing fallacy to the sword &amp; other random observations</title>
		<link>http://safesideoftheropes.com/2010/06/11/maloneys-peterlee-card-puts-boxing-fallacy-to-the-sword-other-random-observations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been out of action this week as life overtook me and put boxing onto the back burner (as terrifying as that sounds), however, I’m back in business and will attempt to catch up a week’s worth of shenanigans in a single post. Sky’s Friday Fight Night landed in my home city last weekend as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2558&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experts Sniff an Upset: Foreman-Cotto Picks</title>
		<link>http://safesideoftheropes.com/2010/06/05/experts-smell-an-upset-foreman-cotto-picks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Graham Houston (FightWriter.com &#38; Boxing Monthly) “Foreman, then, is a boxer who must be taken seriously. Yet for all his evasive skills, I have no doubt that Foreman is going to get hit in this fight, likely harder than he has ever been hit. If he can take Cotto’s punches without wilting and maintain his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safesideoftheropes.com&blog=2526887&post=2552&subd=hazharrison&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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