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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: “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: 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: 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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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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Old? Check. Fat? Check. Unambitious? Check. Brian Nielsen next for Vitaly?

Posted in Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Shop, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Did you hear the one about Vitaly Klitschko and the hungry, young contender? No, nor did I. Admittedly, Vitaly Klitschko hasn’t fought during a particularly glowing period for heavyweights. His tenure, interrupted by a now mysteriously cured knee problem, as the leading heavyweight began when Lennox Lewis retired and has continued through soporific contests with Danny Williams, [...]

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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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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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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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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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Tua; beginning to sound like a contender again

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not quite in the camp with the Tuamaniacs, a kind of derivative of the fanaticism Mike Tyson was able to evoke even after the flush of his youthful best had passed, but I must confess to more than a passing interest in the fortunes of the once destructive Samoan. Following an apparent eternity in [...]

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Look beyond the smiles; the Haye v Valuev build up begins

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Shop, Sports, tagged , , , , , on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I wrote yesterday of Frankie ‘El Gato’ Figueroa’s unique ability to self-promote through the multitude of outlets the modern world of communication affords a fighter, contemporary David Haye is another advert for the power of a fresh approach to promotion. He was conspicuous in his use of the MySpace platform a year or two ago, [...]

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The brainwash is almost complete, I’m hooked on Tyson Fury

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Shop, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You have to concede it has worked. Firstly, the day in June 1988 when former heavyweight battler John Fury decided his son would be called Tyson, a reflection of Fury senior’s love of the then unbeaten Heavyweight champion Iron Mike, and secondly the day now 6ft 9inch Tyson Fury became Hennessy Sports’ most promising signing. [...]

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Run Yasmine, run; how boxing would love an 80′s remake.

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Nostalgia is a big seller. And its vendors seem to know just when to pique our interest in some bygone phenomenon. Whether it be the Mamma Mia film reaching out to women over 35 to relive their days as Dancing Queens – and some men come to think of it - or other film franchises like Charlie’s [...]

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