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6 days ago | ca.sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall

In a roundabout way, Jack Della Maddalena has the fate of one man, two divisions and three champions in his hands right now. That’s a lot of power to be toting up to Montreal for his welterweight title bout against Belal Muhammad next month. Muhammad is of course the one man — as in the one man who stands between Della Maddalena and the top of the mountain.

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall

If you were around in the 1990s, the George Foreman you knew was a gentle giant. You could see the dimples in his cheeks when he smiled, which was often. He would talk about his faith in such a warm way that even if you didn’t believe, you wanted to believe. The old boxing heads would tell you about his transformation from what he was in the 1970s, back when he was boxing’s heavyweight champion. The words they used made no sense. Brooding. Mean. Terrifying.

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall

In retrospect, if UFC 304 was geared toward being a kind of hero’s homecoming for Birmingham’s own Leon Edwards, Saturday’s return to England feels like it could be a sendoff. A fight with Sean Brady is such a thankless task after losing his title that it borders on cruelty. It’s like a meeting with the taxman as a dedicated 1099; all the fun of the 13-fight unbeaten spree and that two-year run as the welterweight champion comes with a heavy toll.

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall

Carlos Ulberg has had a couple of different nicknames in his day. The first, “Ladies Night,” because there was a stretch about a decade ago — just before he discovered the joy of fighting — that he worked as a male stripper all over greater New Zealand and Australia. The other, “Black Jag,” because, well, that’s his alter ego. The thinking is that, whenever Ulberg goes into Black Jag mode, he abruptly darkens from his usual nice-guy self to become a legitimate danger.

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | chuck mindenhallUncrowned |Chuck Mindenhall

NEW YORK — They don’t turn the rivers green in New York for St. Patrick’s Day, but the gutters are known to overflow with the afternoon’s intake of Guinness. And on the eve of that special day in the Big Apple, a good many were in their best and proudest greens as the Irishman himself, Callum Walsh, took center stage at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. It was an old-school affair.