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 [...]
Archive for July 10th, 2009
Boxingwriter.co.uk Fighter of the Month; June 09
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged Frank Maloney, Jason Booth, Joshua Clottey, Miguel Cotto, ruslan chagaev, Steve Bunce, Wladimir Klitschko on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Adamek to ride shot Gunn
Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged Bernard Hopkins, Bobby Gunn, cruiserweight, enzo maccarinelli, IBF, Roy Jones Jnr., Tomasz Adamek on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Save the boxing martyrs; BringBackBunce.net
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged Amir Khan, BringBackBunce, ESPN, ITV, Setanta, Sky Sports, Steve Bunce on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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 [...]
Froch rolling with the big guns
Posted in 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 on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]

