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Archive for January 21st, 2008

Golota got a lota shot

Posted in Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , on January 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Urban legend states you are never more than ten yards from a rat when in London. If you frequent some of the fast food establishments I have you could probably reduced that by 50% with some confidence. There is also an Internet phenomenon and modern day parlour game which believes nobody in movie history is more than six steps [...]

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Rusty Chagaev still too smooth for Skelton

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Few fighters are more honest, fearless and hard working than Bedford’s big bear Matt Skelton. We knew that before his fight with Ruslan Chagaev in Germany last weekend and though the contest represented Skelton’s first venture in to true world class, he further substantiated that repute. Sadly, he couldn’t add either the technique or knockout power required to [...]

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Setanta Sports: Boxing’s newest friend

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports, tagged , , , on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Once a upon a time boxing coverage was the exclusive preserve of SKY, the premier satellite broadcast network here in the United Kingdom, but it now appears to have stepped out of the sport for all but the major ‘cash cow’ events. It is a peculiar tactic given the revived pulse and stirred interest in [...]

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Trinidad plays heavy-lightweight to Jones’ light-heavyweight

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Roy Jones begins the week with a characteristically wry smile and a less familiar sore right hip following his impressive defeat of Felix Trinidad over the weekend. True, both fighters are mere shadows of their respective primes, but despite advancing years they engaged in hefty action throughout the contest.

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Farewell Ali Nuumbembe

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged , , , on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

News former Commonwealth Welterweight champion Ali Nuumbembe is to return to Namibia following a six-year adventure into professional boxing here in the UK has already been well documented. In fact, Ali’s remarkable life, from the civil war of his youth, the death and disappearance of family members to life in a caravan in Glossop, has [...]

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