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Green horn Greenberg dumped by Boswell

Posted in Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , on August 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Having spent a great deal of Friday lampooning the American heavyweight picture and particularly Cedric Boswell, the 39 year old recruited to provide a meaningful benchmark for Roman Greenberg’s soporific progress as a heavyweight. It is with some humility I report that the veteran heavyweight, despite age, and the lack of anything other than a [...]

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Gammer succumbs to Pianeta and broken hand

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , , on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Welsh hard-man Scott Gammer was forced to retire from his absorbing contest with German based prospect, Francesco Pianeta, due to a suspected broken hand. An injury he must have sustained very earlier in the fight as he threw precious few during the 8 completed rounds. It was particularly hard on the returning former British Heavyweight champion, as [...]

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Archive: Holyfield ignores the lessons of King Canute

Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged , , , , , , on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

August 23rd 2005 Three years on from the first publication of this article on thesweetscience.com, its hard to comprehend that the career of Evander Holyfield should still be an active topic. He had been consigned to the scrap heap innumerable times already by 2005 and yet still steadfastly refused to yield to the dieing of the [...]

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Greenberg, Boswell and the old smoke and mirrors trick

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , on August 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »

To casual fans of the sport in polite conversation in the office or across the pool table I can appear to know everything about boxing. Of course I don’t, in fact I can barely scratch the surface if really pushed on fighters of the modern era or times gone by in comparison with true boxing [...]

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“Ali wouldn’t have hit Joe Louis on the bum with a handful of rice!”

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Tommy Farr said that and who am I to argue. Tomorrow will mark the 71st anniversary of his courageous but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to dethrone the newly crowned heavyweight champion Joe Louis. The humble ‘Tonypandy Terror’ is long remembered for giving the legendary Brown Bomber an arduous first defence and for the unflinching resolve he demonstrated. His effort, [...]

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Guest: In Thailand, there is no PPV

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Oliver Fennell, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“There is no such thing as bad publicity, except your own obituary.”  Irish author Brendan Behan once wrote and despite his celtic roots suggesting a pre-disposition to the noble art, I’ve no idea where he stood on the great PPV debate. However, the announcement Amir Khan is to feature on the premium format has so enraged boxing’s keenest observers one [...]

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There is no such thing as a free punch; the PPV debate

Posted in Andrew Mullinder, Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , on August 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Guest writer Andrew Mullinder comments on the furore surrounding the announcement Amir Khan’s next bout is to cost  SKY subscribers an additional £14.99 to watch, despite featuring an unknown Colombian and lacking the global significance typically found at the core of most pay-per view contests. An astonishing step, and one Frank Warren appeared aware, looks opportunisitic and premature. Mullinder [...]

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Video of Amir Khan foe Breidis Prescott in action

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on August 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »

I’ll not be indulging SKY next month, there is no hope what so ever of the satellite broadcaster’s flashy advertising campaigns convincing me that Amir Khan is a PPV attraction. Nor will I succumb to the overt and subliminal suggestion his opponent, Colombian Breidis Prescott, is a foe of such brilliance that to miss the PPV [...]

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Rugged Simpkin joins Prizefighter

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , on August 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I first saw Luke Simpkin fight in 2001 against future British title challenger John McDermott in, if memory serves, the walk-out bout on the Danny Williams v Kali Meehan show at Bethnal Green. Dogged and willful the bearded brawler belied his tender years and gave a solid account of himself against the then unbeaten Essex man. Britishboxing.net [...]

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The Odd Couple: Oscar and Pacquaio meet Dec 6th

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

According to a number of reports this evening, tomorrow will bring the announcement Oscar De La Hoya is to spurn the physically bigger tests of Paul Williams, Sergio Mora and Antonio Margarito to face Filipino shark Manny Pacquiao on December 6th in his farewell fight. Mooted for several days, the clash had divided fans. The [...]

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Acquiring a taste for Rocky Marciano

Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Rewind five years, amid the period of heavyweight history dominated by Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko, with towering contenders like Jameel McCline, Wladimir Klitschko, Michael Grant, Henry Akinwande, Hasim Rahman, Nicolay Valuev and Andrew Golota and it was increasingly easy to dismiss the chances of bygone greats like Rocky Marciano, Gene Tunney through even to Joe Frazier [...]

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Golota v Briggs in Poland?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Polish boxing site, www.boxingnews.pl, is reporting colourful heavyweight veterans Andrew Golota and Shannon Briggs are set to clash in October on the under-card of Tomasz Adamek‘s next fight. My Polish is a little rusty, i.e. non-existent but that seems to be the thrust of the piece. Its an intriguing contest and while of only peripheral significance [...]

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Moore’s mythical shot becomes reality

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Precious few fighters boast the universal respect afforded to blue-collar banger Jamie Moore. The Salford Light-Middleweight is one of British boxing’s most well-respected professionals and the news his challenge to Zaurbek Baysangurov for the European title at 154 pounds has finally been confirmed will be widely welcomed. Delayed by Moore’s career threatening shoulder injury and a late nose [...]

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Awkward as ever, Junior Witter speaks out

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Defining Junior Witter’s style has stumped greater minds than mine. Unorthodox is the ubiquitous descriptive and through generic, probably the most accurate. The former WBC Light-Welterweight champion is almost impossible to pigeon-hole, once the slippery, pitter-patter runner he blossomed into a destructive two fisted puncher but threw in enough disjointed performances to never fully engage [...]

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Venerable Manuel Medina fights on

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For all the criticism I aim at the likes of Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones and Evander Holyfield for their unwillingness to accept the passing of time and talent and for all the disappointment I feel hearing Marco Antonio Barrera and Chris Byrd are set to return to action it conversely provides great comfort to learn plucky veteran Manuel Medina is still performing close [...]

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Valuev v Ruiz II; Impossible to miss

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , on August 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »

It may seem condescending or ungracious to suggest Nicolay Valuev is a hard fighter to ignore, or perhaps overlook. At 7ft and over 300lbs the Russian is a man of almost mythical proportions but even though his contest with America’s John Ruiz is very unlikely to induce high-blood pressure moments, I will find the broadcast impossible to ignore.

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Chunky Gold Medina; Degale to go pro?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports, tagged , , , , , on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

James Degale’s success in the Beijing Olympics has left the young Londoner with a difficult decision to make about his fistic future. Capitalise on his gold medal and accept one of the presumably numerous offers from promoters trying to tempt him into the professional sport, or hold on until 2012 to try and repeat the [...]

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I’ve tried, Oscar, but Paul Williams doesn’t excite me

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Much though there is to admire in Oscar De LaHoya’s glistening career and despite the perfect role model he represents for any aspiring pugilist his status as boxing’s Golden Boy, and the enormous cheques his crossover appeal allows him to accept and write, is beginning to leave me a little nauseous. Oscar isn’t the Light-Middleweight champion, [...]

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Klitschko persistence; Peter in October

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Vitali Klitschko, 37, was never a great fighter. He certainly wasn’t a great heavyweight champion. In fact, I’d go further I’d say he was a poor heavyweight champion and little more than a mediocre fighter. Like many in the curious, contrary world of boxing his repute grew more in gritty defeat to an ageing Lennox Lewis [...]

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Price dumped out of Olympics

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Big David Price, all 6ft 8 of him, took two standing 8 counts and failed to score in his semi final contest with Italian Roberto Cammarelle. Price appeared to land more than one scoring shot but without the clarity for the five ringside observers to press their blue buttons together. Bronze remains a solid achievement [...]

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