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Archive for November, 2009

Say what you like, but Holyfield v Botha caught your eye, didn’t it?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on November 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Francois Botha has tried many things to stay relevant and keep earning including a hapless foray into that form of combat that needs no introduction beyond its initials.  The veteran South African is in the Autumn, arguably Winter, of his fluctuating career. A career, lest we forget, which has variously included Michael Moorer, Lennox Lewis, [...]

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Manny from Heaven set for fair-weather Floyd

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Fight Reports, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »

So the scene is set. Boxing has risen from the canvas to offer the viewing public a fight of such dramatic potential it already draws comparison with the magnetic contests boxing was once able to supply from a position of long forgotten significance on an annual basis. Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino with the smile and an entire people in his corner, neutralised Miguel Cotto [...]

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Barry Morrison out of Prizefighter

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m hearing, thanks to the power of Facebook – so as yet unconfirmed – that fan friendly Light-Welterweight contender Barry Morrison is out of December’s tournament with an unquantified injury. Globe trotting contender Ashley Theophane is one option it would seem.

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Holding out for a hero, is a new dawn really here?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There was a time recently when boxing fans were entitled to wonder if a next generation of top-level fighters were ever going to emerge. The class of the 90′s hung on. Reflecting the ageing demographic tag which was readily hung on the sport as it struggled for relevance among the emergence of UFC and amid [...]

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John Ruiz v David Haye will be a thriller

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It will not prove as easy for newly crowned WBA Heavyweight champion David Haye to sell tickets to his mandated clash with American John Ruiz in the spring as the David v Goliath showdown proved last weekend. But for all the doubters, I’d like to encourage everyone to visit YouTube and refresh their preconceptions about the [...]

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In the shadow of giants, Sexton wins

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Poor old Sam Sexton, not enough that he derailed the Cinderella Man story of Belfast hard man Martin Rogan once, controversially of course, but last weekend he returned to the white hot atmosphere of the Odyssey Arena to thoroughly dismantle the Rogan again. And within 24 hours his considerable achievement was completely outshone by some [...]

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David Haye, boxing’s new Barnum, continues to sell

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Shop, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If promoting a fight is craft, then David Haye has used every tool in the box to generate interest in this Saturday’s fight with Nicolay Valuev. He is an effervescent self-promoter who has used eye-catching gimmicks, distasteful commentary about Valuev’s personal hygiene, appeared on every talk-show, press event and personal appearance in order to force [...]

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No electricity like Tyson electricity

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Shop, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

During the dim days of his post Buster Douglas career, I would maintain in the face of often fervent opposition that Mike Tyson was over-rated. That he succeeded in a weak era and through the many attempts to recycle the myth he tip toed around any of the risk-laden contenders of the 1990′s. Fighters like Ray [...]

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Chris Aston grooming the next generation

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

For those among the readership who frequent the virtual watering holes of boxrec.com, Eastsideboxing.com or the pop-up ridden DogHouseboxing.com then the name of Huddersfield trainer Chris Aston is a familiar one. Once a gutsy circuit pro, the flame-haired trainer enjoyed a golden period at the start of the decade as he provided stewardship to the notable careers of [...]

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The art of attracting web hits: Put Tyson in the title

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

He remains a media phenomenon, even now two whole decades removed from the last of his boxing peak and with a whole generation of boxing fans for whom he was never a consensus world-champion now fully grown. The time when the word Tyson was part of the language of the playground, of bars, of water-coolers [...]

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