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Boxing: Reassembling a defeated fighter, Kevin Mitchell begins to convince

Posted in Boxing, tagged , , , , , , , on June 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The winning of a prizefight is decided by a complex equation. Combining as it does the unquantifiable x and y’s of the scientific and the visceral, the physical and the emotional. Each aspect of a fighter’s make-up contributes to his equilibrium and the tipping point between winning and losing. These variables are infinite and even at a fight’s conclusion, the outcome can remain [...]

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Old school, new school? Cleverly and Bellew spat

Posted in Boxing, tagged , , , , , , , on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

For those of a certain antiquity, the increasingly ubiquitous press conference rumpus between world-class Light-Heavyweight contender Nathan Cleverly and champion of the Commonwealth Tony Bellew will have proven distasteful. Others of more recent vintage will be torn. Nurtured as we were on the polarised demeanours of the ever urbane Lennox Lewis, the pantomime charm of Frank Bruno and the caustic atmosphere of all things [...]

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McCloskey smashes Lauri to the canvas in the 11th

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , on June 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Irishman Paul McCloskey plucked a world-class right hook to knockout veteran Italian Giuseppe Lauri in dramatic fashion to retain his European title and preserve his aspirations of securing a world-title shot in the near future. Just moments before there had been concerns about his swollen right eye between rounds and he’d had a point deducted for [...]

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Gavin Rees added to McCloskey v Lauri card

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I was interested to read that pocket battleship Gavin Rees has been added to the under card of Paul McCloskey’s encounter with veteran Italian Giuseppe Lauri this weekend. Rees has fought once since winning the Prizefighter 140 pound tournament, defeating three former European Champions in the process, and appears to be a promotional free agent in the absence [...]

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Barrera. The pudgy-faced geriatric.

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As a white-collar worker with the thinnest of fistic endeavour behind me I cannot ever bring myself to discourage professional fighters from doing what they do best whether a chasm removed from their prime or not. The likes of Evander Holyfield, Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins all earned the right to make their own decisions [...]

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Ricky Hatton, Danny Williams and the search for common sense

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Fagan back on track

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , on October 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Strange how fighters flicker in and out of boxing’s VIP lounge. Irishman Oisin Fagan has twice dipped beneath the ropes dividing the obscure and the revered, first in a razor tight defeat to Mum’s favourite Paul Spadafora and then more recently by knockout to Lightweight star Amir Khan – a defeat tinged with melancholy as Oisin [...]

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Wrestling with fog, Golden Boy seeks to tame Guzman

Posted in British Boxing, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

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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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Save the boxing martyrs; BringBackBunce.net

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come, our country’s rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction’s doom: We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will, we will be free!” wrote George Loveless in 1834, ahead of his transportation to Australia as one of [...]

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Boxing relies on Don King and Terry Dooley for sense and integrity!

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , , on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For a man accused of every sin possible within the parameters of boxing, a man capable of bamboozling writers with quotes and sentiments drawn from Twain to Churchill it says a lot about the sport, that veteran promoter Don King is the sole voice of reason in the aftermath of the Khan v Barrera contest. [...]

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Guest: Barrera’s bloody mess obscures the true worth of Khan’s victory

Posted in Ben Carey, Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Having clung tight to my £14.95 last weekend, Amir Khan is not presently a pay-per-view attraction regardless of the affection with which I hold his opponent – in this case Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera, I’m delighted to provide a forum for guest writer Ben Carey’s view of the contentious clash between the aspiring Khan [...]

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The Great Guzman and the WBA’s weight of responsibility

Posted in Andrew Mullinder, Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It might be the stiff wind from the Urals which makes guest writer Andrew Mullinder such a cantankerous observer of the noble art. Mullinder is not implored to write by the science or the beauty of boxing, only the muck, the politics and the fractious infrastructure of the sport evoke his withering invective. His latest [...]

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Nowhere to Hide, not that old chestnut

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m sure the revelation Delia Smith, who famously coined the phrase “lets be having you” during an impromptu half-time plea to the insipid Norwich City football crowd, is looking to sell her stake in the club has nothing to do with the impending return of boxing maverick Herbie Hide to the region, but Hennessey Sports’ [...]

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BoxingWriter.co.uk Fighter of the Month; September

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Thus far the BoxingWriter.co.uk Fighter of the Month award has been won by Monte Barrett for his destruction of Tye Fields’ flimsy standing as a heavyweight contender, Antonio Margarito’s thrilling suffocation of Miguel Cotto’s resistance and latterly Cedric Boswell’s destruction of pampered prospect Roman Greenberg. I found the stand out performance in September was much [...]

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Guzman better not rely on hunger

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Joan Guzman doesn’t strike me as a fighter who bases his strategy on assumption. He’s played the sanctioning body game shrewdly, most recently choosing to abdicate the WBO Super-Featherweight belt to earn a #1 ranking with the same body at 135 pounds. Placing him firmly in the sight-line of Nate Campbell, a fighter with a [...]

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Setanta, Skywalker and Bunce; Boxing’s New Hope

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , , on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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Oliver Harrison, Amir Khan and the final word; blame

Posted in Andrew Mullinder, Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m struggling to summon a fight in recent memory to which more attention has been paid. Certainly, the column inches afforded to Amir Khan’s humbling defeat is entirely disproportionate to the superficial importance of the Inter-Continental bauble he and Breidis Prescott scuffled over on Saturday night. Of course, Amir Khan is not merely ’just another’ fighter, Andrew [...]

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Video: Amir Khan mimicks Judah’s ‘chicken dance’

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Seeing Amir Khan laid out like a flat-packed bookcase on Saturday, with his head propped against the ring post in the style of a teenager watching Batman re-runs on the portable reminded me of one of the first times he came to the public’s attention. Coincidentally, he was mimicking the Zab Judah inspired ‘chicken’ dance [...]

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“Nobody is invisible”, Amir Khan explains

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It is hard to know where to begin a review of the shattered remnants of Amir Khan’s fastidiously constructed repute. Following 4 years of painfully cautious match-making, three trainers and a deluge of column inches, platitudes, award ceremonies and celebrity television appearances the 21-year old demonstrated holes in his fistic education large enough to drive [...]

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