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 [...]
Archive for July 30th, 2008
By ‘eck those Mexicans can fight; Margarito prevails
Posted in Boxing, tagged Felix Trinidad, Mexico, Miguel Cotto, Miguel Cotto; Antonio Margarito; Floyd Mayweather; Welt, Paul Williams, Ricky Hatton, Shane Mosley, WBA, Welterweight on July 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 Billy Graham, Carl Thompson, Floyd Mayweather, Golden Boy Promotions, Light-Welterweight, Luis Collazo, Manny Pacqauio, Ojay Abrahams, Oscar DeLaHoya, Samuel L. Jackson, Welterweight 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 [...]

