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Posts Tagged ‘Manny Pacquiao’

Boxing: Bobby Gunn and James Toney in a room. Never going to be tea and biscuits.

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

It may surprise some readers to learn Bobby Gunn causes the biggest spike in readership whenever I cobble (do you see what I did there) together a news or opinion piece on the plucky prizefighter. Avoyd Mayweather holds nothing on the scrapper once spectacularly referred to as “the most ferocious fighter since Jack Dempsey” ahead [...]

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Boxing: Fur Coat and No Knickers? David Haye retires

Posted in Boxing, tagged , , , , , , , on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Any consideration of David Haye’s career is usually accompanied by a track from my internal Jukebox. It isn’t McFadden and Whitehead’s Aint No Stopping Us Now; his entrance tune, nor is it From Russia with Love, primarily because his nemesis was Ukrainian, I tend to hear the chorus from Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn representing as is [...]

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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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Manny from Heaven set for fair-weather Floyd

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Fight Reports, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »

So the scene is set. Boxing has risen from the canvas to offer the viewing public a fight of such dramatic potential it already draws comparison with the magnetic contests boxing was once able to supply from a position of long forgotten significance on an annual basis. Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino with the smile and an entire people in his corner, neutralised Miguel Cotto [...]

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