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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Wrestling with fog, Golden Boy seeks to tame Guzman
Posted in British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged Alex Arthur, Amir Khan, Floyd Mayweather, Joan Guzman, Nate Campbell, Scott Harrison on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now aged 33, the career of Joan Guzman is a curious one. An unfulfilled one. Despite being a decorated Amateur and world-championship belts in two divisions, the Dominican has failed to deliver on his unquestionable talent and has frozen himself out of the title pictures from 126 to 140 pounds. Oscar De La Hoya will [...]
Archive: Scott of the anarchic
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged Featherweight, frank warren, Manuel Medina, Michael Brodie, Nicky Cook, Scott Harrison, Wayne McCullough, WBO on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The sorry tale of Scott Harrison lurched to a new low this week when he was sentenced to a total of 8 months imprisonment for assaulting his girlfriend and a police-officer alongside being found guilty of driving whilst 4-times over the legal limit. Should Harrison remain at Her Majesty’s service for the entire sentence, he [...]
Archive: Holyfield ignores the lessons of King Canute
Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged cruiserweight, evander holyfield, HBO, heavyweight, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones, TheSweetScience on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
August 23rd 2005 Three years on from the first publication of this article on thesweetscience.com, its hard to comprehend that the career of Evander Holyfield should still be an active topic. He had been consigned to the scrap heap innumerable times already by 2005 and yet still steadfastly refused to yield to the dieing of the [...]
Archive: Knowing You’re Born: A Boxer’s Tale
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, TSS.com Archive, Sports, tagged Junior Witter, Light-Welterweight, Alan Bosworth, Lonsdale Belt, Ashley Theophane, Matthew Hatton on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alan Bosworth discuss his career and his then forthcoming fight with Ashley Theophane.
Archive: Scott Harrison Looking To Crash Party
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged Featherweights, Scott Harrison, wbo boxing on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Archive: 25th January 2005 I’ve read with interest the numerous articles pertaining to Scott Harrison’s impending return. Owen Slot of The Times probably summarising the topic best. The return of his withdrawn licence, in light of host of misdemeanours at home and abroad, strikes me as a routine decision for the British Boxing Board of Control and [...]
Farewell Ali Nuumbembe
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged Ali, Namibian Boxing, Nuumbembe, Silent Assassin on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News former Commonwealth Welterweight champion Ali Nuumbembe is to return to Namibia following a six-year adventure into professional boxing here in the UK has already been well documented. In fact, Ali’s remarkable life, from the civil war of his youth, the death and disappearance of family members to life in a caravan in Glossop, has [...]
Archive: Is the Rocky road boxing’s only path to redemption?
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Contender Series, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged Ali, Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather, Joe Calzaghe, Joe Louis, Rocky, Rocky Balboa on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Archive: 20/10/2006 The recent renaissance of interest in boxing has been palpable. Stirred by the success of Joe Calzaghe, David Haye and the impending super fight between Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather the recently beleaguered and oft discarded sport of boxing is back on the sports pages, back on the television and back in the consciousness [...]
Archive: Jennings Survives British Barnburner
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, TSS.com Archive on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
27th October 2005 Chorley’s Michael Jennings, the Welterweight contender to whom the WBU pay homage as their world champion, returns to the ring on the 28th, headlining a Guild Hall, Preston card on which he stays busy versus sturdy Ukrainian Vladimir Khodovoski; a fighter durable enough to go the distance with classy campaigners like Stevie Johnston and Kendall [...]
Archive: Behind the smile: Ali Nuumbembe
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive on August 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
14th November 2005 BritishBoxing.net’s recent article on Ali Nuumbembe, written by James Howard, offered an excellent insight into the friendly Commonwealth Welterweight champion’s world, and caused me to recall my own meeting with the Silent Assassin almost two years ago.
Archive: “Tonight I’m Gonna Party Like It’s 1999!”
Posted in Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, TSS.com Archive on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Exactly two years to the day since this article was first published on thesweetscience.com, Bernard Hopkins continues to deny the obituary, professional at least, I recorded following his defeat to Jermaine Taylor in 2005. The fact, aged 42, he can still compete at elite level – he faces pound for pound great Winky Wright at 170 [...]
Archive: Sometimes Winning is Just The Beginning
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive on July 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
25/06/2004 It’s hard to believe three years have already elapsed since I interviewed Bobby Vanzie for the second time – the first being shortly before his destruction of Anthony Maynard. Occasionally, the language may seem more contrived than you would anticipate but Bobby preferred to consider some of his responses and respond via email as [...]
Archive: The Dragon That Cried Wolf
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Sports, TSS.com Archive on June 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
25/04/2005 The on-going ‘will they, wont they’ soap opera between the camps of Mikkel Kessler and Joe Calzaghe is not a new phenomenon. Debate on the relative merit of Calzaghe’s career and whether the veteran Welshman will ever have opportunity to deliver on his immense ability in signature bouts has been running ever since he [...]
Archive: Frank Warren, A Boxing Survivor
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
08/09/2005 Close to two years have passed since the first widely whispered rumours of a split between Ricky Hatton and Frank Warren were heard, on the cusp of signing a new ITV contract the timing couldn’t have been worse for Warren who must have relied heavily on Hatton’s star to entice the terrestrial broadcaster. I [...]
Archive: Big Fight Live – Boxing Returns to ITV
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged audley harrison, BBC, Big Fight Live, frank warren, HBO, ITV, Joe Calzaghe, Nigel Benn, Prince Naseem Hamed, Ricky Hatton, Setanta, Sky Sports on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
15/07/2005 As the first contract between British broadcaster ITV and promoter Frank Warren draws to a close, negotiations on a new contract continue, it seemed relevant to pause and remember how the news ITV wanted to return to professional boxing was greeted. In an article for thesweetscience.com, I took an optimistic view of the partnership’s [...]
Archive: The Final Curtain – Tyson, Holyfield & Jones Jnr.
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged Bernard Hopkins, danny williams, evander holyfield, James Toney, Jermain Taylor, Joe Calzaghe, Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jnr., Virgil Hill, Winky Wright on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I penned this article toward the end of 2004 for thesweetscience.com, intended to be the first to provide obituary on the careers of three of the modern era’s finest fighters it now seems premature as only Iron Mike has listened to his body and given up trying to fool opponents and fans that he can [...]
Archive: Harrison Breaks Brodie’s Heart
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, TSS.com Archive on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
05/06/2005 With further clouds brewing over Scott Harrison, it felt pertinent to recall the capable fighter Harrison once was. Next week two years will have elapsed since his clash with Manchester’s Michael Brodie – one of boxing’s most genuine nearly men. It was an engaging contest and, in retrospect, a great shame it didn’t prove the final step before richly [...]
Archive: King to a Republic
Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, TSS.com Archive on May 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
25/08/2005 The news Joan Guzman is to step up to 135 pounds to challenge WBO Lightweight belt holder Michael Katsidas will further endear the enigmatic puncher to boxing fans. Once known as a ‘Lil Tyson’, the proud native of the Dominican Republic prefers to compare himself to Marvin Hagler stylistically and aspires to become a [...]
Archive: British Boxing’s Road to Redemption
Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged Amir Khan, danny williams, Frank Maloney, frank warren, Lennox Lewis, Lightweight, Mike Tyson on May 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An article plucked from back in the summer of 2004, in the days preceding Danny Williams’ challenge to Mike Tyson. With a perspective on the significance of the bout for British boxing as a whole and specifically its hope of sustaining significance and resonance with the next generation of sports fans.
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