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: “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” Heavyweight rigor mortis continues; Mormeck v Wladimir
Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged Jean Marc-Mormeck on October 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What a tangled web we weave: Tarver and Fury
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged Ali, Antonio Tarver, Bernard Hopkins, Boxing, Tyson Fury 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’. [...]
Boxing: Its unofficial, Haye v Harrison is on
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged audley harrison, david haye, Heavyweights, Shannon Briggs, Vitali Klitschko 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 [...]
Boxing: Vitali Klitschko to fight Shannon Briggs, the prosecution rests
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged audley harrison, david haye, Heavyweights, Shannon Briggs, Vitali Klitschko 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 [...]
Boxing: Sakio Bika, a ghost from Calzaghe’s past returns to the fore
Posted in Boxing, Contender Series, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged Bernard Hopkins, HBO, Joe Calzaghe, Sakio Bika, Super-Middleweight 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 [...]
Boxing: Laugh or cry, matchmaking with the Klitschkos
Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged Alexander Povetkin, Chris Byrd, david haye, Mike Tyson, Nicolay Valuev, Steve Bunce, Tomasz Adamek, Vitaly Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko 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 [...]
The Entertainer – Bradley Pryce back at Welterweight against Bami
Posted in British Boxing, Fight Previews, Prizefighter, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged Bradley Pryce, frank warren, Joe Calzaghe, Ted Bami, Welterweight 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 [...]
Maloney: “As far as we know, Tyson Fury is OK for the fight”
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged Conspiracy Fury, Derek Chisora, Frank Maloney, heavyweight, John McDermott, Sam Sexton, Tyson Fury 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. [...]
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 audley harrison, david haye, heavyweight, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Sam Langford, Vitaly Klitschko, WBA, wbc 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 [...]
Mayweather, the showmen who leaves them wanting more
Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged Floyd Mayweather, Freddie Roach, henry armstrong, Manny Pacquaio, muhammad ali, Shane Mosley, Sugar Ray Leonard on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Presently, there is no hotter commodity in boxing than Floyd Mayweather. Fresh off a crushing victory over Shane Mosley I can no longer summon an obstacle which bears scrutiny to the now overwhelming argument that Floyd Mayweather deserves to take a place among the sport’s all time greats. Mayweather’s name can sit snugly among the [...]
Larry Olubamiwo to face Big Dave Ferguson on June 25th
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged Dave Ferguson, David Price, Derek Chisroa, Frank Maloney, heavyweight, Larry Olibamiwo, Lennox Lewis, Tom Dallas, Tyson Fury 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 [...]
John McDermott: “I don’t want any favouritism, just whoever WINS, wins!”
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged danny williams, david haye, David Price, Frank Maloney, heavyweight, John McDermott, matt skelton, Tyson Fury 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, [...]
Ricky Hatton, Danny Williams and the search for common sense
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged Amir Khan, danny williams, Floyd Mayweather, heavyweight, Light-Welterweight, Michael Katsidis, Ricky Hatton 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 [...]
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 david haye, Don King, evander holyfield, Francois Botha, heavyweight, Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson, WBF 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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