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 need every ounce of his wealth and charisma to play Midas to ‘Lil Tyson’s’ stuttering career. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged ‘Alex Arthur’
Wrestling with fog, Golden Boy seeks to tame Guzman
In British Boxing, Sports, TSS.com Archive on July 28, 2009 at 11:14 pmSetanta, Skywalker and Bunce; Boxing’s New Hope
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Fight Reports, Sports on September 12, 2008 at 8:58 am
Watching Steve Bunce’s Boxing Hour last night on Setanta Sports 2 I was struck by a number of things. Firstly, how good it is to see a magazine show for the sport where debate, discussion are preeminent over the gloss Sky once applied to their weekly Ringside presentation. True, big Buncey isn’t to everyone’s taste and it took me a while to ‘get’ his role, persona and style, to understand that enthusiasm and energy were his selling points and that he had his tongue firmly in his cheek. But I do now and it works. A boxing night isn’t the same without his animated contribution. But the Setanta hour is more than just Bunce let loose. Read the rest of this entry »
Monday digest: Khan, Diaz and all that
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports on September 8, 2008 at 9:01 am
An amazing weekend of action, nothing like a good upset to stir boxing fan’s interest. Pampered protege Amir Khan was unceremoniously exposed as a chinny, naive pretender, while there were good wins for Nicky Cook, American heavyweight Kevin Johnson and Juan Diaz among others. Read the rest of this entry »
Harsh home truths for Alex Arthur
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on September 4, 2008 at 8:38 am
Until Alex Arthur starts beating world-class fighters instead of simply being trained by them his tenure as WBO Super-Featherweight champion will never be widely regarded as anything other than opportunistic. It isn’t that Arthur is without ability, nor I suspect, is it because the Edinburgh man fears the division’s elite contenders, but with the long-shadows of Jim Watt and Ken Buchanan falling across his achievements, he will need to beat someone like Joan Guzman or Juan Manuel Marquez to be taken seriously alongside his predecessors. Read the rest of this entry »
PPV featuring Amir Khan, Alex Arthur and erm…
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports on September 1, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Bad luck is just that. Bad luck. Contingencies can be prepared up to a point, but the misfortune befalling Frank Warren’s compilation of a value for money PPV card this weekend is going beyond what any matchmaker could allow for. First, Paul Smith’s revenge mission with Steve Bendall fell by the wayside, then Martin Rogan couldn’t quell the pain in his hands to face Harrison and now Stephen Foster Jnr has pulled out on Femi Fehintola with less than a week to go.
Video of Amir Khan foe Breidis Prescott in action
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on August 28, 2008 at 10:15 am
I’ll not be indulging SKY next month, there is no hope what so ever of the satellite broadcaster’s flashy advertising campaigns convincing me that Amir Khan is a PPV attraction. Nor will I succumb to the overt and subliminal suggestion his opponent, Colombian Breidis Prescott, is a foe of such brilliance that to miss the PPV could mean I miss Khan being beaten. Read the rest of this entry »
Limond a “worthy” foe for Salita
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on July 23, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Scottish lightweight Willie Limond, a capable, diligent but oft undervalued performer, will have to wait a little longer for his moment in the spotlight versus Dmitriy Salita at Madison Square Gardens, as the repercussions of Joe Calzaghe’s wrist injury domino through the postponed September fight-card. Read the rest of this entry »
“World title belts, get ya belts ‘ere, fiver a pair!”
In Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on May 16, 2008 at 9:32 am
Boxing is a cruel enough sport for fighters without crass sniping from commentators like me but the news Alex Arthur has been awarded full world champion status by the WBO left a sour taste. I’m sure it did for Arthur too, a proud fighter and one who, publicly at least, yearned for a shot at the genuine big time. Not the pretend big time, but the real, genuine big time. His proposed fight with now abdicated champion Joan Guzman would have been just such an opportunity. Read the rest of this entry »
“Is that you Arthur?”, Arthur and Guzman await purse decision
In Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on January 31, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Life in the world run by the World Boxing Organisation must be a curious experience. Most of us operate only on the periphery, interested and bemused bystanders to the WBO’s alternative and parallel universe. For those dependent on the Puerto Rican sanctioning body for clarity, objectivity and consistency it must be an entirely frustrating and perplexing existence. Talented and affable Scotsman Alex Arthur is one such subject. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Arthur’s Revolving Door
In Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on October 9, 2007 at 8:48 pm
It may be unfair, it may be unjust but the constant changing of trainers by Scottish Super-Featherweight contender Alex Arthur continues to bemuse most observers. For such an affable character on the cusp of genuine world title opportunities, it once again appears a peculiar time to change a such a crucial aspect of his camp. Read the rest of this entry »
The Michael Gomez Story: The Movie
In Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on June 5, 2007 at 7:52 am
Every fighter has a story. A few take on mythological proportions, from Sonny Liston’s rise and fall to Johnny Tapia’s regular dance with death. British fighter Michael Gomez’s own story may lack the brevity attracted by the former’s professional success but it has a similar sprinkling of pain and misfortune. Of course, Gomez isn’t finished yet, despite the death knell being sounded on his career more than once – and he returns to action again soon, but a low budget British film based on his life this far is being promoted on his website. Read the rest of this entry »
