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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: Nobody gets out on their own terms, not even Hopkins

Posted in Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It was sad to see Bernard Hopkins, a fighter who has battled the boxing establishment, its promotional and managerial cartels and the perceived wisdom that tried to dictate to him for twenty years finished by one of the sports unshakeable truths; nobody leaves the sport on their own terms.  Bernard has spent the past decade [...]

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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: Laugh or cry, matchmaking with the Klitschkos

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »

As a boxing traditionalist, the Klitschko brothers prove something of a troublesome enigma to me. Resplendent though they are at the top of the heavyweight mountain, their individual and collective resumes feature nothing but a procession of mediocrity – some of whom the physically gifted Ukrainians have conspired to lose to. But I cannot always [...]

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Exclusive: Tyson will not fight Holyfield says David Payne

Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve consulted with my much ignored common sense, accessed with the help of a strong mug of Yorkshire tea and low-lighting, and I can confirm that this fight is not going to happen, I’d encourage you all to breathe, take stock and have a similar internal conversation. It will save you time and energy for other more [...]

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Old? Check. Fat? Check. Unambitious? Check. Brian Nielsen next for Vitaly?

Posted in Boxing, Fight Reports, Mike Tyson, Shop, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Did you hear the one about Vitaly Klitschko and the hungry, young contender? No, nor did I. Admittedly, Vitaly Klitschko hasn’t fought during a particularly glowing period for heavyweights. His tenure, interrupted by a now mysteriously cured knee problem, as the leading heavyweight began when Lennox Lewis retired and has continued through soporific contests with Danny Williams, [...]

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Say what you like, but Holyfield v Botha caught your eye, didn’t it?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on November 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Francois Botha has tried many things to stay relevant and keep earning including a hapless foray into that form of combat that needs no introduction beyond its initials.  The veteran South African is in the Autumn, arguably Winter, of his fluctuating career. A career, lest we forget, which has variously included Michael Moorer, Lennox Lewis, [...]

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Tua; beginning to sound like a contender again

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not quite in the camp with the Tuamaniacs, a kind of derivative of the fanaticism Mike Tyson was able to evoke even after the flush of his youthful best had passed, but I must confess to more than a passing interest in the fortunes of the once destructive Samoan. Following an apparent eternity in [...]

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Only in America, sorry Egypt, Williams to face Botha?

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on September 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I love many things about boxing. The occasional absurdity of it is one, the ever-present BritishBoxing.net another. Kevin Taylor’s story today tickled both fancies as he reports British Heavyweight champion Danny Williams, and I think we can now officially add the prefix ‘colourful’ to his title following a meandering roller-coaster of a career, is to [...]

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Resizing the big men; Jack Johnson the 240lb killer?

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

Now the spectre of a new debate about the potential outcome of clashes between the modern day heavyweight and his predecessors will fail to entice those for whom the discussion is a tired exchange of old arguments. However, Andrew Mullinder has found a new mathematical angle which proves far more thought provoking than you might presume. [...]

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Archive: Holyfield ignores the lessons of King Canute

Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Acquiring a taste for Rocky Marciano

Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Rewind five years, amid the period of heavyweight history dominated by Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko, with towering contenders like Jameel McCline, Wladimir Klitschko, Michael Grant, Henry Akinwande, Hasim Rahman, Nicolay Valuev and Andrew Golota and it was increasingly easy to dismiss the chances of bygone greats like Rocky Marciano, Gene Tunney through even to Joe Frazier [...]

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Archive: The Final Curtain – Tyson, Holyfield & Jones Jnr.

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Archive: British Boxing’s Road to Redemption

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Mike Tyson, Ricky Hatton, Sports, TSS.com Archive, tagged , , , , , , 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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