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STATE OF THE GAME THEOUR BIBLE EXCLUSIVE OF BOXING DIVISION-BY-DIVISION ANALYSIS THE BIBLE OF BOXING ® MAN OH +HALL OF FAME 2014 MANNY PACQUIAO PROVES HE ISN’T FINISHED OSCAR P.76 DE LA HOYA THE RING AT PEACE WITH REMEMBERS RUBIN CARTER, HIMSELF, CAREER MICKEY DUFF P.40 P.80 TH 25 BEST I ANNIVERSARY: FACED: THE HALL’S EVOLUTION P.48 FELIX TRINIDAD JULY 2014 JULY P.20 $8.95 83 CONTENTS | JULY 2014 Rubin “Hurricane” FEATURES Carter, the former middleweight contender who maintained he was wrongly convicted of murder and ultimately won his freedom, died on April 20. Oscar De La Hoya (left) and Felix Trinidad enter the International Boxing 48 Hall of Fame in June. HALL OF FAME 40 DE LA HOYA: NEW CHAPTER THE ‘GOLDEN BOY,’ FINALLY AT PEACE WITH HIMSELF, SAYS HE’S BACK By Ron Borges 48 25TH ANNIVERSARY THE BOXING HALL OF FAME HAS BECOME AN ICONIC DESTINATION By Bernard Fernandez 54 STATE OF THE GAME THE RING MAGAZINE’S ANNUAL DIVISION-BY-DIVISION BREAKDOWN By David Greisman 76 PACMAN’S STATEMENT MANNY PACQUIAO PROVED AGAINST TIM BRADLEY THAT HE ISN’T FINISHED By Norm Frauenheim 80 MICKEY DUFF: 1929-2014 THE BRITISH PROMOTER WAS AN UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER By Gareth A Davies 83 RUBIN CARTER: 1937-2014 ‘HURRICANE’ GAINED INTERNATIONAL FAME BY FIGHTING FOR HIS FREEDOM By Tim Smith CARTER: FPG/GETTY IMAGES; DE LA HOYA/TRINIDAD: THE RING MAGAZINE FPG/GETTY IMAGES; DE LA HOYA/TRINIDAD: CARTER: COVER PHOTO / GREG GORMAN 7.14 / RINGTV.COM 3 DEPARTMENTS 6 RINGSIDE 7 OPENING SHOTS 96 12 COME OUT WRITING 15 ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES Unbeaten junior Jabs and Straight Writes by Thomas Hauser featherweight Shelly Vincent 20 BEST I FACED: FELIX TRINIDAD overcame By Anson Wainwright daunting challenges with 22 READY TO GRUMBLE the help of boxing. By David Greisman 25 OUTSIDE THE ROPES By Brian Harty 27 PERFECT EXECUTION By Bernard Hopkins 32 RING RATINGS PACKAGE 86 LETTERS FROM EUROPE By Gareth A Davies 90 DOUGIE’S MAILBAG By Doug Fischer 92 NEW FACES: CALLUM SMITH By Tom Gray 94 SWEET SCIENCE By Scott LaFee 96 WOMEN’S BOXING By Thomas Gerbasi 98 AMATEUR BOXING By Joe Santoliquito 100 RINGSIDE REPORTS By Norm Frauenheim 106 WORLDWIDE RESULTS 108 COMING UP 112 FROM THE ARCHIVE 114 AT THE FIGHTS AT RINGTV.COM SUGAR RAY’S TAKE BEST I’VE FACED: RAY LEONARD PACQUIAO ANALYZES THE TOP MANNY PACQUIAO WELTERWEIGHTS FOR REVEALS HIS TOP THE RING OPPONENTS IN 10 GO TO: http://bit. CATEGORIES ly/1hlql53 GO TO: http://bit. ly/1l3O3nL DON’T FORGET TO FOLLOW US ON: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/RINGTV @RINGMAGAZINE THERINGDIGITAL IAN TRAVIS IAN TRAVIS BARNARD HTTP://INSTAGRAM.COM/RINGTV# 4 RINGTV.COM / 7.14 7.14 / RINGTV.COM 5 RINGSIDE By Michael Rosenthal PERFECT SITUATION VOLUME 93, NO. 7 | JULY 2014 FOUNDER for six installments of the Nathaniel Fleischer feature, starting with the jab (1888-1972) in this issue. The plan is to EDITOR meet with Hopkins every six Michael Rosenthal months so we can give you ASSOCIATE EDITOR Perfect Execution year round. Douglass Fischer Santoliquito felt fortunate CONTRIBUTING EDITOR to play a role in the project. Brian Harty “Bernard is like a ART DIRECTOR professor,” he said. “You get Lamar Clark a tingle up your spine as he CONTROLLER breaks this stuff down. He Deborah L. Harrison makes you see things that you normally wouldn’t see. CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Kenneth J. Gudaitis He’s a true master. And the man took time out of his ADVERTISING INQUIRIES Robert Gasparri training for a major f ght to 213-233-2952 His Excellency Bernard Hopkins spend time with us. We were there [email protected] left us shaking our heads once again for around four hours. SUBSCRIPTION INQUIRIES after his convincing victory over “He doesn’t have an entourage, SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Beibut Shumenov on April 19. doesn’t show up in a limo. You PUBLICATIONS P.O. BOX 433122 BHop made a major light don’t have to get through a Palm Coast, FL 32164-3122 heavyweight titleholder almost thousand people to get to him. He’s 800-846-6438 [email protected] half his age look desperate with his a true treasure.” three decades of experience, his ring Perfect Execution will look a lot BACK ISSUES 215-643-3087 OR ONLINE AT intelligence and more than enough like it did in the past, with photos RINGTV.COM physical ability at 49 to follow his illustrating the moves Hopkins brain’s instructions. explains. We have an added feature DIGITAL EDITION INQUIRIES 215-541-2770 No one, not even Floyd this time around, though: video. [email protected] Mayweather Jr., understands RingTV.com’s videographer, SEND EDITORIAL COMMENTS TO: the sweet science better than the Bill Emes, worked side by [email protected] marvelous Executioner-turned-Alien. side with Santoliquito while or P.O. BOX 251753, That’s why THE RING Magazine Hopkins demonstrated and Los Angeles CA, 90025 editors knew exactly who to explained the fundamentals of approach after we decided to the sport, which will allow you THE RING (ISSN: 0035-5410), Vol. 93, NO. 7 (JULY 2014), is reinstitute something akin to Perfect to watch and listen to Hopkins published monthly by Sports and Entertainment Publications, LLC, PO Box 90254 Brooklyn, NY 11209. Periodicals postage paid Execution, the feature in which as he goes through his moves. at Brooklyn, NY 11209 and additional post off ces. 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Publisher is not responsible agreed to take part even as he was Perfect Execution provides you with for the accuracy of the content of advertisements appearing in this magazine, nor the delivery or quality of merchandise or preparing for the Shumenov f ght. an unusual tool to understand what services offered. No endorsement of any such advertisement is intended or implied. Advertisers and agencies assume liability Regular contributor Joseph you’re seeing when you watch a for claims arising from the content of their advertisements. FOR ADVERTISING INQUIRES AND RATES: (213) 233-2952. U.S. and Santoliquito arrived at Joe Hand’s f ght or to improve your technique Canadian distribution by Kable Distribution Services Inc., 14 Wall Street, Suite 4C, New York, NY 10022. International distribution Gym in downtown Philadelphia one if you box. And our friend Bernard by Worldwide Media Service Inc., 115 East 23rd St., New York, NY 10010, UK distribution by Comag Tavistock Rd., West Drayton, Saturday in March to get material Hopkins made it possible. Middlesex UB77QE, England. Printed in U.S.A. ROB CARR/GETTYIMAGES HOPKINS: JEFF GROSS/GETTY IMAGES; PACQUIAO: 6 RINGTV.COM / 7.14 THE LIGHTER SIDE OF A SERIOUS SPORT Dionesia Dapidran- Pacquiao, Manny Pacquiao’s mother, left nothing to chance as her son prepared to face Tim Bradley on April 12 in Las Vegas. 8 RINGTV.COM / 7.14 Peter Quillin (right) remained unbeaten but still without a defning victory after his one- sided decision over Lukas Konecny to retain his WBO middleweight title on April 19. LARS BARON/BONGARTS/GETTY IMAGES LARS BARON/BONGARTS/GETTY 10 RINGTV.COM / 7.14 Bernard Hopkins was far too elusive for Beibut Shumenov in their light heavyweight title-unifcation bout on April 19 in Washington, D.C. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GETTY IMAGES COME OUT WRITING KUDOS TO Alexander. Instead he chooses to devoted the rest of his adult life to PACQUIAO f ght Maidana, who lost to Khan helping other wrongfully I have to tip my hat to Manny and is yet another f at-footed, convicted criminals. Pacquiao for his win over tough wide-punching slugger who f ghts Kenneth L. Zimmerman Tim Bradley. I had the f ght three with his face out in front of him. Huntington Beach, Calif. rounds apiece going into the Mayweather has used retirement, seventh round. Then I watched a false allegations of steroid use, MARTINEZ BY KO more mature Manny really box the pricing himself out of the f ght, My belief is that Miguel Cotto’s brakes off Bradley for the rest of demands that Pacquiao drop Bob best nights in boxing came the f ght. I had a little trepidation Arum and Manny’s recent losses at welterweight while Sergio for Manny going into the rematch. (and victories) as excuses to dodge Martinez’s came at middleweight. It appeared to me as long ago as Pacquiao. Kudos to Manny for Because of that natural size the Sugar Shane Mosley f ght that taking on dangerous opponents and difference and the fact that Cotto he was slipping a bit.