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By ‘eck those Mexicans can fight; Margarito prevails

Posted in Boxing, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’ve little new to add to the thousands of column inches already afforded to the outstanding contest between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito last Saturday night. A tumultuous encounter that achieved that rarest of triumphs, it lived up to its promise. Both fighters were exceptional and though Margarito emerges with maximum credit for unseating the [...]

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Pitt and Aniston, Charles and Diana, now Hatton and Graham…it happens to ‘em all in the end

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Avert your gaze from boxing for too long and the constants, the equilibrium on which your perspective of the sport was founded can quickly be disconnected and deconstructed. The notion that the gnarled, sinewy frame of gravel-voiced trainer Billy Graham will no longer be strapped into the renown body belt (pictured left) for 15 rounds of torment from [...]

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Mayweather, Lennox, Hamed, Hopkins; you can never win.

Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on July 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »

A few disparate references got me thinking this week. First it was the retirement of Floyd Mayweather, brought into sharper focus by this weekend’s Welterweight face off between Cotto and Margarito, then it was a YouTube compilation of Prince Naseem getting battered from pillar to post with super slow-mo’s to make the former Featherweight king [...]

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“Verbal contracts aren’t worth the paper they’re written on”

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Voicing an opinion without concrete foundation on a legal case involving Frank Warren is rather like smothering your tongue in honey, sticking your head in a bees nest and trying to sing “Are you lonesome tonight”, bottom line is, you’re going to get stung. With that reality in mind, I’ll tip-toe through the news he [...]

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Welter Wars: A New Hope

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The thrust of the following piece is flawed. I’ll concede that before I begin. A post Mayweather era only exists in a world where the Pretty Boy is genuinely retired, like most observers I cannot accept the sport’s most gifted exponent will fail to push his frail hands inside leather gloves at least once more. [...]

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Hope grows for Froch v Pascal

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A quick note to connect up the stories and theories currently swirling around the Super-Middleweight division. Interesting to record Jean Pascal has withdrawn from the purse process for his proposed fight with Karoly Balzsay for the Interim WBO title – the belt Calzaghe is porbably keenest to remain custodian of. As mentioned in conversation on [...]

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Broken men; Froch and Lacy

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on July 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »

As children, we all pushed our noses to the shop windows, whether it be sweets, a BMX or a Scalectrix set. We’ve all steamed up the glass to try and get closer to our dream. Poor old Carl Froch must still feel like the child on the wrong side of the glass watching the rich [...]

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Limond a “worthy” foe for Salita

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Scottish lightweight Willie Limond, a capable, diligent but oft undervalued performer, will have to wait a little longer for his moment in the spotlight versus Dmitriy Salita at Madison Square Gardens, as the repercussions of Joe Calzaghe’s wrist injury domino through the postponed September fight-card.

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“Hit ‘im wiv the uppercut John!”, Danny Williams prevails

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Being at the fight is a special experience. True television coverage offers you multiple camera angles, proximity and the benefit of replays for those crucial moments but no matter how effective your Dolby surround sound is or crystal clear your high definition LCD presents the pictures it cannot beat being there.

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MIA – BoxingWriter returns

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Due to circumstances beyond my control the site, www.boxingwriter.co.uk has been inactive for over two months due to major server problems. A point of great frustration to me and to both of my readers the site is now back in its primative form with the redirect from boxingwriter.co.uk hopefully restored in the days ahead. My [...]

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