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Archive for February, 2007

Mayweather’s: You Couldn’t Make It Up

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

But I suspect somebody is. The forthcoming fight between Oscar DeLaHoya, boxing’s poster boy for the past decade and Floyd Mayweather the consensus pound for pound champion, is being hyped as the major fight of the year and perhaps beyond. It certainly brings together two of the most talented fighters of my generation and in DeLaHoya it [...]

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Lennox Back? No. Training? Yes. Trainer? Maybe.

Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Former champions are always news in boxing. Whether Tommy Morrison returning from an HIV enforced absence on the back of suspiciously vague medical clearance, Evander Holyfield entirely just but completely impossible pursuit of the title aged 44 or Mike Tyson’s admittance of drug related problems and subsequent rehab request – champions remain news.

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Boxing’s ‘B&W’ Fighters Would Crush ‘Wide-Screen’ Generation

Posted in Boxing, Sports on February 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »

All sports are burdened and enriched in equal measure by their history. I propose few create the depth of debate boxing does when it seeks to pitch its bygone champions into mythical encounters with their modern day equivalents. Some observers prefer to avoid the debate entirely, pointing out that comparison is futile and propose judgement [...]

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Good Ship Greenberg Avoiding Icebergs

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Heavyweight hopeful Roman Greenberg is arguably the most talked about heavyweight that hasn’t achieved anything. His Jewish background, youth and fast hands encouraging the Fight Academy promotional team to utilise every conceivable vehicle to issue a press release, and for a time their frequency and flashes of excellence in Greenberg’s embryonic outings convinced enough observers to [...]

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“Always Pull Marciano Out Thay Ass”

Posted in Boxing, Sports on February 22, 2007 | 6 Comments »

The success of Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood’s emotionally charged tale of a novice female fighter, and before it Will Smith’s plausible facsimile of Muhammad Ali, startled Hollywood but encouraged those with the power to look more fondly on film projects with boxing at their heart.  Suddenly, Russell Crowe was able to strike a chord as the [...]

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Audley Back Before He Left

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Stubborn, defiant, belligerent, delusional? Audley Harrison, staring at 3 defeats in his last 5 fights, remains confident he will return better than ever and at championship level from his latest setback.  True the punch that flattened him this time was a cracker, with the small caveat that Sprott isn’t known as a devastating puncher, but alongside his conspicuous [...]

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Simply the Pest: Eubank Arrested

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Few fighters cut a more distinct figure than Chris Eubank in a giant American truck, but the fearsome former champion is as opinionated as ever and brought a great deal of media attention to a protest against the War in Iraq, and specifically today’s news that third in line to the throne, Prince Harry, is [...]

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You Khannot Be Serious: Amir Ranked!

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on February 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Now far be it from me to tell the WBO how to run their business, nor am I willing to suggest something underhand has occurred to facilitate Amir Khan’s new found status as a world-ranked Lightweight, but Amir Khan – #14, really? A staggering step by the WBO, with whom Khan’s promoter – Frank Warren [...]

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Peace Follows War: Benn and McClellan Meet

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on February 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »

For boxing fans of a certain generation, namely mine, the fight between Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan represents a seminal moment in our love of the sport. Retrospectively however, the fight creates disharmony amongst those that saw it. Fans crave to revel in the intensity of the combat, the purity of two men willing to put [...]

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Shadow Boxing: Matthew Hatton Emerges

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A brief note to recognise how important Matthew Hatton’s recent victory on the Hatton v Urango undercard could prove to be. The younger, bigger Hatton slogged away unspectacularly on the undercards of his illustrious sibling for a number of years without ever announcing himself as a talent in his own right, but a change could [...]

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The Unwise Return of Tommy Morrison?

Posted in British Boxing on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve found it hard to fathom quite how American heavyweight Tommy Morrison, 46-3, has been cleared to fight again a decade or more on from the announcement he’d contracted HIV at some unknown point during his sexual voyage through an unquantifiable number of female companions. My bemusement appears to be widespread with conflicting medical opinion on the [...]

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Williams v Gammer: Live on the Web

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

According to www.boxingtimes.comthe British title fight between champion Scott Gammer and Danny Williams will available over the Internet for a price starting at $16.99. An interesting move, and yet another example of the inevitable move toward integrated coverage of the sport. What next, hover-boards? Barry Hearn, head of Matchroom, and the promoter..

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As Old as the Hills – Virgil Faces Maske

Posted in Boxing on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The news Virgil Hill, the once long-standing Light-Heavyweight champion, will fight Henry Maske – a fighter he sent into retirement more than a decade ago – has to be met with a shake of the head by boxing fans. Hill is 43, and so far removed from his prime that his hey-day is little more than a [...]

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The End of TheSweetScience.com

Posted in Boxing on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Many discerning fight fans will shed a tear for the passing of TheSweetScience website, home to some of the greatest writing talents the sport has ever enjoyed. The site will close for business in the next week or so. Rigorous in its editorial control, stringently unique and thought provoking, TSS hosted some of the most [...]

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Hatton Britain’s Greatest?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Billy Graham, the long-time trainer of Ricky Hatton, today claimed that the British public will one day accept Hatton as the greatest fighter to ever have emerged from the United Kingdom. It seems an ambitious claim given the mediocrity of his recent encounters but considering the achievements of the previous champions from these shores, it [...]

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Pittsburgh Ticket Seller Continues Comeback

Posted in Boxing, Ricky Hatton on February 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Paul Spadafora, the unbeaten Junior-Welterweight with a conviction for shooting his then girlfriend in an argument and a fighter who has wrestled with a host of other demons in his life, continues his return from the inactivity forced by his ridiculously short incarceration early next month against Oisin Fagan.

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Hatton Faces Castillo on June 23rd

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton on February 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Reported everywhere today, so why should this little hideaway be any different, the news that Ricky Hatton is to face veteran – and its noticeable how many media outlets refer to him as veteran since his narrow victory and lacklustre performance last time out – Mexican, Jose Luis Castillo in a fight few fans will [...]

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Neil Sinclair’s Career: Take 47

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports on February 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Belfast banger Neil Sinclair, one of the purest punchers from the British Isles in recent memory, made a cautious return to action following a failed attempt to galvanise himself in America last year, beating imported loser Arek Malek. The detour to America went desperatley wrong,  a third choice substitute knocked him out on his Stateside [...]

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Poleaxed. The Audley Charade Ends

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing on February 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve written dozens of articles, fight reports, previews and message board comments on Audley Harrison in the past five years, his professional career running parallel to my own contributions as a boxing writer – if affording myself that title isn’t too much of an insult to the Putnam, Leibling and Mailers that precede me. In [...]

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Congratulations Ali!

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports on February 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Just a brief note of congratulation to Ali Nuumbembe, the Glossop based Namibian finally fulfilled his dream of winning a professional title – defeating Commonwealth champion Kevin Anderson by Split-Decision in a tightly contested fight. Anderson was somewhat dismayed by the decision having started by brightly but barely survived the eighth.

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