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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: 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: 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: 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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The Entertainer – Bradley Pryce back at Welterweight against Bami

Posted in British Boxing, Fight Previews, Prizefighter, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Bradley Pryce is arguably the United Kingdom’s best value for money fighter, a telling attribute in these austere times and he will next month return to something approaching his most productive weight class when it is reported he will tackle veteran former European champion Ted Bami at the classic 147 pound limit. Despite his less than pristine personal life [...]

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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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Harrison, Haye and Klitschko. Among the madness, bluff and silence is there a fight to be found?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Olympic Boxing, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In an era before nutritionists, public relations and conditioners, during that simplistic period when heavyweights ran, hit-bag, sparred, chopped wood and often took a stiff drink or three the night before a fight it is hard to imagine how they would have viewed the flimsy media battle being contested by heavyweight trio David Haye, Klitschko and heaven help [...]

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McCloskey smashes Lauri to the canvas in the 11th

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , on June 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Irishman Paul McCloskey plucked a world-class right hook to knockout veteran Italian Giuseppe Lauri in dramatic fashion to retain his European title and preserve his aspirations of securing a world-title shot in the near future. Just moments before there had been concerns about his swollen right eye between rounds and he’d had a point deducted for [...]

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Gavin Rees added to McCloskey v Lauri card

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I was interested to read that pocket battleship Gavin Rees has been added to the under card of Paul McCloskey’s encounter with veteran Italian Giuseppe Lauri this weekend. Rees has fought once since winning the Prizefighter 140 pound tournament, defeating three former European Champions in the process, and appears to be a promotional free agent in the absence [...]

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Larry Olubamiwo to face Big Dave Ferguson on June 25th

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Likeable, affable heavyweight Larry Olubamiwo announced overnight that his opponent on the big Maloney bill later this month, June 25th at Brentwood, will be the North East’s Dave Ferguson in a cracking contest that serves as a title Eliminator for the British and Commonwealth titles. Great news for both fighters and a boom for Frank Maloney [...]

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Ian Bailey, Prizefighter’s cruelest loser, looks to upset Carl Frampton

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Shop, Sports, tagged , , , , , on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Despite his diminutive stature and win some lose some record, 26 year old professional fighter Ian Bailey  is a handy little battler and deserves a degree of good fortune and good will this Friday as he travels to Belfast to tackle touted prospect Carl Frampton on the under card of Paul McCloskey’s attempt to encourage veteran Italian Giuseppe Lauri [...]

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John McDermott: “I don’t want any favouritism, just whoever WINS, wins!”

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on June 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I met John McDermott once. He was standing at the back of the press rows the night David Haye got beaten by Carl Thompson. An evening more notable for him because he saw Mark Krence flattened by an imported journeyman that looked likely to rule the boxing butcher out of their proposed Eliminator, a contest, John lamented, [...]

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Ricky Hatton, Danny Williams and the search for common sense

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Contrasting stories surround two of British boxing’s favourite sons this week. Firstly, and most satisfactorily, is Ian McNeily’s piece at BoxRec News dutifully reporting Ricky Hatton difficulty in summoning the will to commence training while the same site also records a summer fixture for Danny Williams on the other side of the world. News of this proposed [...]

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Sosnowski, Subbuteo, Sanders, Snooker and me

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve always found an attic or loft to be a fascinating place. It probably originates from the joyous isolation it provided me as a child, resplendent with snooker table, dart board, train set and Subbuteo it was a place of dreams, solace and make-believe. On the baize I was Davis AND Higgins, on the Astropitch I was everyone from Peru to Peterborough and [...]

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Feted, hated, fated? Is Audley stepping closer to defining Haye fight?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Olympic Boxing, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

There has been something of the David Icke about Audley Harrison throughout his decade as a prominent heavyweight. Fuelled and demonstrated by a paradoxical cocktail of delusion, acute self-awareness and paranoia. Qualities which ostracised him from the boxing public and allowed the media to portray him as the villain, the idiot and the clown in his own one-man pantomime. But like all [...]

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