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Archive for January 28th, 2007

Hamed, Tyson and YouTube

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson on January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

As a late-comer to the YouTube party, I was intrigued to monitor to whom I would gravitate in my first taste of archive footage of the sport I love. For this writer, boxing is about more than knockout power and the slug-fests, to give them their playstation generation tag, for which the sport appeals to [...]

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Vital or A Knee Jerk? The Return of Big Brother

Posted in Boxing, Sports, tagged , , , , on January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The return of giant Ukrainian Vitaly Klitschko caused something of a rumpus in boxing circles this week, fresh from Samuel Peter’s emergence as a contender from the ranks of pretenders it would seem the WBC, the over-valued leader of the sanctioning bodies and one of the sport’s biggest problems, reinstated the former champion as mandatory [...]

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Boxing Returns to Sweden

Posted in Boxing on January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

As a country that fathered former Heavyweight boxing champion Ingamar Johansson, who beat Floyd Patterson to win the title before losing in a rematch – as well as flattening proud British hope Henry Cooper amongst others, Sweden is long overdue a return to professional boxing. 37 years on from the last card staged there, and having [...]

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Coma to KO with Jorge Castro

Posted in Boxing on January 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »

As a veteran of 144 contests you would think there could be little left to prove or pursue in a fighter’s career, but following a car crash that threatened to paralyse former middleweight champion Jorge Castro (130-11-3) returned from months of rehabilitation and a 20 day coma to exert revenge over Jose Herrera, the last man [...]

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