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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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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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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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James DeGale round by round LIVE

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Olympic Boxing, Sports, tagged , , on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Unbeaten novice Ally Morrison, with old favourite Chris Aston in the corner, took on James DeGale tonight – the 2008 Olympic Gold medalist to whom the British public is slowly warming to. Very slowly.

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Irish eyes are smiling; McCullough fights on

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Olympic Boxing, Shop, Sports, tagged , , , , , on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Precious few combatants evoke the same swell of good will that will greet Wayne McCullough when he strides to the ring for the 35th time in a fortnight’s time. The former Super-Bantamweight world title-holder has had a frustrating Autumn to his career, with the shadow of an overturned suspension for irregular brain scans thwarting his [...]

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Jennings v Cotto; Setanta coverage unconfirmed

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Olympic Boxing, Ricky Hatton, tagged , , , , , on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

To many, this fight is of little less than passing interest. Miguel Cotto predictably rebuilding from his shattering loss to Antonio Margarito with a regulation comeback fight against Michael Jennings – a fighter with a pretty record and precious little experience at elite level. Its an industry standard tactic for the Puerto Rican Welterweight. However, to [...]

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Guest Article: A score needs settling in the Olympic ring

Posted in Andrew Mullinder, Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Olympic Boxing, Sports, tagged , , , , , on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Guest writer Andrew Mullinder gets hot under the collar about the peculiarities and weaknesses of scoring in Amateur boxing, suggesting the quest to eradicate the blatant favouritism displayed in Seoul 88 has actually diluted the sport to such an extent it has become little more than a be-gloved version of fencing. As always, Andrew thinks its time [...]

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