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 [...]
Archive for July 25th, 2008
Mayweather, Lennox, Hamed, Hopkins; you can never win.
Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged Bernard Hopkins, Featherweight, Floyd Mayweather, Kelly Pavlik, Lennox Lewis, Prince Naseem Hamed, Welterweight on July 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Verbal contracts aren’t worth the paper they’re written on”
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged frank warren, HBO, Joe Calzaghe, Light Heavyweight, Roy Jones Jnr., Setanta, Sports Network, Super-Middleweight 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 [...]
Welter Wars: A New Hope
Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged Miguel Cotto; Antonio Margarito; Floyd Mayweather; Welt 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. [...]

