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Boxing: Nobody gets out on their own terms, not even Hopkins

Posted in Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It was sad to see Bernard Hopkins, a fighter who has battled the boxing establishment, its promotional and managerial cartels and the perceived wisdom that tried to dictate to him for twenty years finished by one of the sports unshakeable truths; nobody leaves the sport on their own terms.  Bernard has spent the past decade [...]

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Boxing: Fur Coat and No Knickers? David Haye retires

Posted in Boxing, tagged , , , , , , , on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Any consideration of David Haye’s career is usually accompanied by a track from my internal Jukebox. It isn’t McFadden and Whitehead’s Aint No Stopping Us Now; his entrance tune, nor is it From Russia with Love, primarily because his nemesis was Ukrainian, I tend to hear the chorus from Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn representing as is [...]

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Boxing: “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” Heavyweight rigor mortis continues; Mormeck v Wladimir

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged on October 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Look around any garden centre, walk-in bath store or drug rehabilitation unit and you will probably find a big lug willing to suggest he remains a contender. Many of them will be unfamiliar in appearance. Don’t let their seeming impotence, age or lack of vim discourage you. Embrace your quarry when you find them, ignore [...]

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Boxing: Reassembling a defeated fighter, Kevin Mitchell begins to convince

Posted in Boxing, tagged , , , , , , , on June 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The winning of a prizefight is decided by a complex equation. Combining as it does the unquantifiable x and y’s of the scientific and the visceral, the physical and the emotional. Each aspect of a fighter’s make-up contributes to his equilibrium and the tipping point between winning and losing. These variables are infinite and even at a fight’s conclusion, the outcome can remain [...]

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Old school, new school? Cleverly and Bellew spat

Posted in Boxing, tagged , , , , , , , on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

For those of a certain antiquity, the increasingly ubiquitous press conference rumpus between world-class Light-Heavyweight contender Nathan Cleverly and champion of the Commonwealth Tony Bellew will have proven distasteful. Others of more recent vintage will be torn. Nurtured as we were on the polarised demeanours of the ever urbane Lennox Lewis, the pantomime charm of Frank Bruno and the caustic atmosphere of all things [...]

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What a tangled web we weave: Tarver and Fury

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

There is a hierarchy to everything. Whether it be a pack of wolves, heavyweights or journalists. No demographic or social organism exists without either a class system or a distinct pyramid of significance or achievement. In the wild, the theory of evolution demands this hierarchy is structured upon one simple principle. ‘Survival of the fittest’. [...]

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The Truth? You can’t handle the truth: WBC, Hatton and Alvarez

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The truth has always been an elusive quarry in the world of boxing. A paradox given the earthy honesty which surges through those who lace up the gloves. Their virtue has always attracted the righteous wordsmith and the devious chancer.

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Boxing: Its unofficial, Haye v Harrison is on

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , on July 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Now some would say I know precious little about boxing, others are less flattering, but one thing I do know for certain is – it takes two to make a fight. By my reckoning, and with some reliance on my Casio fx-100c, I am able to announce the inevitability of a clash between David Haye [...]

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Boxing: Vitali Klitschko to fight Shannon Briggs, the prosecution rests

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , on July 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I wrote recently in at least partial defence of the brothers Klitschko. Excusing some of their benevolent matchmaking as the inevitable by-product of their misfortune of being resident in arguably the weakest era in living memory. Following on with the theme of that piece, I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry at the announcement [...]

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Boxing: Sakio Bika, a ghost from Calzaghe’s past returns to the fore

Posted in Boxing, Contender Series, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Debate about the substance of Joe Calzaghe’s career will enthrall boxing fans for decades to come, his standing will ebb and flow with the passage of time and in all likelihood forever divide opinion thus – he was an all-time great who dominated his division for 10 years or, alternatively, he was a great fighter [...]

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Boxing: A sport of humans, not robots; chin up Tony Jeffries

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Olympic Boxing, Sports, tagged , , , , on July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I met British Super-Middleweight champion Paul Smith at the weekend, Paul and I have exchanged opinions, messages via various internet methods for a year or two but there is no facsimile for meeting someone in person. True, Paul proved as generous and humble with his time as the virtual discourse had suggested he would but [...]

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Boxing: Laugh or cry, matchmaking with the Klitschkos

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »

As a boxing traditionalist, the Klitschko brothers prove something of a troublesome enigma to me. Resplendent though they are at the top of the heavyweight mountain, their individual and collective resumes feature nothing but a procession of mediocrity – some of whom the physically gifted Ukrainians have conspired to lose to. But I cannot always [...]

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Boxing: Harrison v Haye – why it should happen

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Olympic Boxing, Prizefighter, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Despite David Haye’s protestations to the contrary the prospect of this unlikely heavyweight prizefight remains the talking point of the day in the dungeons of the internet’s boxing forums. Audley Harrison has, afterall, already sacrificed the European title in the belief that he will secure the all-British world heavyweight title fight he and television network Sky Sports [...]

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Boxing: Long and winding road. Six years since the BBC dumped Audley

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Olympic Boxing, Prizefighter, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Precious few heavyweights polarise opinion in the way Audley Harrison does. Maybe that is part of the fascination with him. Maybe that enigmatic quality is what draws observers back to the story despite a series of tame defeats to mediocre fighters. The Mona Lisa is neither the most beautiful subject nor the most technically perfect painting but [...]

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Boxing: Tyson Fury 270 pounds for McDermott rematch

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , on June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Big Tyson Fury was bigger than ever ahead of the much-anticipated rematch with John McDermott. Weighing in at 19 stone 4, eclipsing his debut weight 18 months ago and 23 pounds heavier than in the first contest. McDermott looked more trim despite a characteristic weight of 18 stone 2, or 254 pounds. Surprisingly Fury, who attended [...]

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Boxing: Whats wrong with boxing? Adding the letters P, P and V to Tua v Barrett.

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , on June 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I like David Tua. I shared the dream once. I threw him up as another fighter Tyson ducked in his shambolic 1990′s reincarnation. He shook up heavyweights, he was fast, dangerous and busy. Obviously, that was all before he got his mandatory ranking, hibernated and then froze versus Lennox Lewis – since then he’s been dormant, [...]

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Boxing: David Haye in Orwellian about turn; Audley not Vitali or Wladimir next?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Prizefighter, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »

It was meant to be different. That was the tag-line. The sedentary waters of the heavyweight division were to be purified. David Haye wanted to fight the best heavyweights straight away, he didn’t want to procrastinate, to manoeuvre. He just wanted to know if he was the best, prove it or fail. Money was secondary. [...]

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Maloney: “As far as we know, Tyson Fury is OK for the fight”

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Throughout Tyson Fury’s embryonic boxing career he has embraced and wrestled with more media attention than his exploits in the ring have thus far merited. In part due to his eye-catching name, part due his back-story as a 6 foot 7 inch giant from travelling stock and in no small part to the potential he showed. [...]

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Exclusive: Tyson will not fight Holyfield says David Payne

Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve consulted with my much ignored common sense, accessed with the help of a strong mug of Yorkshire tea and low-lighting, and I can confirm that this fight is not going to happen, I’d encourage you all to breathe, take stock and have a similar internal conversation. It will save you time and energy for other more [...]

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Flying over the cuckoo’s nest for the last time? Oliver McCall defeated

Posted in Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Anyone with a passing interest in heavyweight boxing over the past twenty years will hold a mental image of one sort or another of heavy punching former champion Oliver McCall. Whether it be the crunching right-hand which felled Lennox Lewis, his emotional implosion in the rematch or the various drug fuelled episodes which have blighted his [...]

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