Posted on July 31, 2009 by David Payne
In disturbing news, I’ve learned the WBC looks likely to withdraw sanction for the clash between Junior Witter and Devon Alexander due to a row over the assignment of officials. This weekend’s clash was to include Britain’s premier official, Richie Davies, as one of three ringside judges all assigned to the fight by the World Boxing Council. [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports | Tagged: Devon Alexander, Don King, Junior Witter, Junior-Welterweight, Richie Davies, wbc | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 28, 2009 by David Payne
Now aged 33, the career of Joan Guzman is a curious one. An unfulfilled one. Despite being a decorated Amateur and world-championship belts in two divisions, the Dominican has failed to deliver on his unquestionable talent and has frozen himself out of the title pictures from 126 to 140 pounds. Oscar De La Hoya will [...]
Filed under: British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive | Tagged: Alex Arthur, Amir Khan, Floyd Mayweather, Joan Guzman, Nate Campbell, Scott Harrison | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 17, 2009 by David Payne
Bernard Dunne is a good fighter, a good, good fighter in fact. His courage and ability ably demonstrated over the past year. I’m interested in his next fight and I would love to see Rendall Munroe get a shot at the popular Irishman. However, I must open a window on the insular world we can [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, PR, Sports | Tagged: Bernard Dunne, Brian Peters, Celestino Caballero, Frank Maloney, Rendell Munroe, Super-Bantamweight | 13 Comments »
Posted on July 17, 2009 by David Payne
I don’t wish to demean Roy Jones Jnr, one of the finest fighters of his, or any, generation, but the publicity shots circulated today showing the once pound for pound king of the sport dressed as Captain Hook, the infamous pirate from the Peter Pan stories made me laugh out loud. I have to wonder [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, PR, Shop, Sports | Tagged: Bernard Hopkins, evander holyfield, Jeff Lacy, Joe Calzaghe, Light Heavyweight, Mike McCullum, Roy Jones Jnr., Virgil Hill | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 17, 2009 by David Payne
You have to concede it has worked. Firstly, the day in June 1988 when former heavyweight battler John Fury decided his son would be called Tyson, a reflection of Fury senior’s love of the then unbeaten Heavyweight champion Iron Mike, and secondly the day now 6ft 9inch Tyson Fury became Hennessy Sports’ most promising signing. [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Shop, Sports | Tagged: heavyweight, CARL FROCH, Amir Khan, Frank Maloney, John McDermott, Lennox Lewis, ITV, Tyson Fury, Mick Hennessy | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 15, 2009 by David Payne
Nostalgia is a big seller. And its vendors seem to know just when to pique our interest in some bygone phenomenon. Whether it be the Mamma Mia film reaching out to women over 35 to relive their days as Dancing Queens – and some men come to think of it - or other film franchises like Charlie’s [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Ricky Hatton, Sports | Tagged: Baywatch, Erik Morales, Floyd Mayweather, Herol Graham, Jordan, Julian Jackson, Katie Price, Middleweight, roberto duran, Thomas Hearns | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 15, 2009 by David Payne
In the immediate aftermath of Showtime’s exciting announcement of the Super Six tournament to be held at 168 pounds over the next two years, I asked readers to predict who they felt would emerge from the groundbreaking series as champion. As you might anticipate the outsiders, Andre Ward and Andre Dirrell only landed 2% of [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports | Tagged: Andre Dirrell, Andre Ward, Arthur Abraham, CARL FROCH, IBF, Jermain Taylor, Mikkel Kessler, Super Six, Super-Middleweight. Showtime, WBA, wbc | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 15, 2009 by David Payne
Following an unfortunate series of injury induced withdrawals of late, notably Mayweather v Marquez, Kotelnik v Khan, Haye v Wladimir Klitschko, fans will be reluctant to presume David Haye’s mooted September 12th clash with 37 year old Vitali Klitschko is actually going to happen until the two men are staring across at each other with [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports | Tagged: Carl Thompson, Corrie Sanders, danny williams, david haye, heavyweight, ruslan chagaev, samuel peter, Vitali Klitschko, wbc, Wladimir Klitschko | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 14, 2009 by David Payne
Pictures of the press conference, media tour and photoshoot for Showtime’s forthcoming Super-Middleweight tournament left me aghast. Six headline fighters, in their respective primes from multiple promotional houses, numerous countries and varied sanctioning bodies coming together for a single organised format, spread out across two years. Its logical, coherent, understandable and exciting – in fact, [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports | Tagged: Arthur Abraham, CARL FROCH, Jermain Taylor, Mikkel Kessler, Showtime, Super-Middleweight | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 13, 2009 by David Payne
Thousands of words have already been written about the demise of Arturo Gatti and still more about the life in boxing that preceded it. News of his death, aged just 37, has shocked a legion of fans for whom Gatti is synonymous with courage, exhilaration and entertainment. Recently betrothed, Arturo Gatti leaves behind a young [...]
Filed under: Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports | Tagged: Arturo Gatti, Floyd Mayweather, Ivan Robinson, Joey Gamache, Micky Ward, Oscar DeLaHoya | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 10, 2009 by David Payne
This award, which has laid dormant since Shane Mosley’s richly earned January residence as the BoxingWriter.co.uk fighter of the month, is the one fighters really clamour – forget Ring championships or PPV figures, the award they’re all looking for is this one. Selected unscientifically by a panel of one, the award seeks to recognise the [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports | Tagged: Frank Maloney, Jason Booth, Joshua Clottey, Miguel Cotto, ruslan chagaev, Steve Bunce, Wladimir Klitschko | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 10, 2009 by David Payne
Bobby Gunn is a curious phenomenon. No other fighter, whether christened Floyd, Bernard or Oscar has engendered the type of readership and commentary that articles about the Celtic Warrior have. I suppose that might say as much about the sporadic readership of this gloomy corner of the blogosphere as any significance Gunn actually holds for [...]
Filed under: Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports | Tagged: Bernard Hopkins, Bobby Gunn, cruiserweight, enzo maccarinelli, IBF, Roy Jones Jnr., Tomasz Adamek | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 10, 2009 by David Payne
“God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come, our country’s rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction’s doom: We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will, we will be free!” wrote George Loveless in 1834, ahead of his transportation to Australia as one of [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, PR, Ricky Hatton, Sports | Tagged: Amir Khan, BringBackBunce, ESPN, ITV, Setanta, Sky Sports, Steve Bunce | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 10, 2009 by David Payne
Originally, the news Carl Froch was to feature in a six man round robin over two years on American network Showtime was met with little more than pithy sarcasm at BoxingWriter towers but now, two days later, it seems the proposed Froch, Taylor, Kessler, Abraham, Dirrell and Ward tournament is genuine and will begin with [...]
Filed under: Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports | Tagged: Andre Dirrell, Arthur Abraham, Bernard Hopkins, CARL FROCH, ITV, Jermain Taylor, Joe Calzaghe, Mick Hennessy, Mikkel Kessler, Super-Middleweight, wbc, WBO | Leave a Comment »
