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Archive for February 28th, 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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