Posts Tagged ‘Oscar DeLaHoya’
Floyd Mayweather, Welterweight, HBO, Oscar DeLaHoya, muhammad ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Joe Frazier, Bob Arum, Top Rank, Manny Pacquiao, Thomas Hauser
In Boxing, Fight Previews, Fight Reports, Sports on November 18, 2009 at 11:41 am
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 with such aplomb last weekend he is now widely projected as the sport’s pound for pound number one. That most unhelpful of yardsticks. And in Floyd Mayweather, he has an opponent of equal brilliance and renown against whom to push his abilities to their limit and in doing so, just maybe, entice and ignite a whole new generation of prize fight followers.
Read the rest of this entry »
Bernard Hopkins, Erik Morales, evander holyfield, James Toney, Joe Calzaghe, Kelly Pavlik, Oscar DeLaHoya, Roy Jones Jnr.
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on November 10, 2009 at 10:34 pm
There was a time recently when boxing fans were entitled to wonder if a next generation of top-level fighters were ever going to emerge. The class of the 90′s hung on. Reflecting the ageing demographic tag which was readily hung on the sport as it struggled for relevance among the emergence of UFC and amid the strain of nefarious sanctioning bodies who tore it apart from within. Maybe, almost a decade too late, the new class is here. I hope a rejuvenated Kelly Pavlik is among them. Read the rest of this entry »
Arturo Gatti, Floyd Mayweather, Ivan Robinson, Joey Gamache, Micky Ward, Oscar DeLaHoya
In Boxing, Sports on July 13, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Photo by Robert Ecksel
Thousands of words have already been written about the demise of Arturo Gatti and still more about the life in boxing that preceded it. News of his death, aged just 37, has shocked a legion of fans for whom Gatti is synonymous with courage, exhilaration and entertainment. Recently betrothed, Arturo Gatti leaves behind a young son and wife, Amanda Rodrigues Gatti – to whom responsibility for Gatti’s death is expected to be attributed following her arrest today. Read the rest of this entry »
Floyd Mayweather, HBO. Light-Welterweight, Joe Calzaghe, Oscar DeLaHoya, rocky marciano, Welterweight
In Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on March 24, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Still too early to suggest Joe Calzaghe will stay retired but instinctively I believe he will, but contemporary Floyd Mayweather Jnr was never likely to remain retired irrespective of the wealth he has accumulated, throwing hundred dollar bills from nightclub balconies has a way of dwindling the coffers. It has to be enforced doesn’t it? After all, the mooted Oscar DeLaHoya match up of last year would have earned him another multi-million purse and a thick wedge of associated earnings. He retired not needing that pay day. Something changed. Read the rest of this entry »
Antonio Margarito, Floyd Mayweather, Frank Maloney, Lennox Lewis, Manny Pacquaio, Miguel Cotto, Oscar DeLaHoya, Paul Williams
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on October 8, 2008 at 9:12 am
Amidst a global credit crunch it could prove harder than ever to defend the choices of a multi-millionaire like Oscar DeLaHoya and harder still if he is to assume the role of the big guy in his David and Goliath showdown with Manny Pacquiao. However, for all the criticism his selection of the Filipino piranha, instead of the entirely more imposing challenges of Paul Williams and Antonio Margarito, drew, I for one believe it is a sensible match-up for a fighter who operates outside boxing’s accepted parameters. Read the rest of this entry »
Arturo Gatti, Floyd Mayweather, HBO, Manny Pacqauio, Marco Antonio Barrera, Oscar DeLaHoya, PPV, Timothy Bradley
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on September 18, 2008 at 1:17 pm
More astute judges than I have pointed to Ricky Hatton’s ebbing level of performance, greater students of fighters and their techniques have dissected his growing faults and weaknesses and plenty of wiser minds than mine claim his out of “monastery” habits will shorten his elite career drastically. I couldn’t agree more but most of that is tired ground. Read the rest of this entry »
Bob Arum, Floyd Mayweather, HBO, Oscar DeLaHoya
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on September 16, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Regular contributor Andrew Mullinder, from the sanctuary of the Russian front, cast his eye across the tabloid reports of Floyd Mayweather’s fiscal misfortunes. From stolen jewels to counterfeit Lincoln’s the retired superstar could be finding the chill wind of recession blows a little colder without twice-yearly deposits from HBO. Mullinder wonders whether his retirement may yet prove short-lived, a concept sure to be well received by mess’s Hatton, Pacquiao and DeLaHoya. Read the rest of this entry »
Alfonso Gomez, Joe Calzaghe, Miguel Cotto, Oscar DeLaHoya, Paul Williams, Sergio Mora, Shane Mosley, Vernon Forrest
In Boxing, British Boxing, Contender Series, Fight Reports, Sports on September 15, 2008 at 9:31 am
The Contender series wasn’t a reality show in the popular sense of the word. I’m always disgusted when mainstream reporters refer to its contestants, when partaking in significant out-of-show bouts, as “reality show winners”. It misleads the uninitiated, implying those who featured were not ‘real’ boxers but talented wannabees, celebrities even. Fighters like Steve Forbes, Peter Manfredo and Alfonso Gomez were professional fighters long-before their participation in the ground-breaking series.
Read the rest of this entry »
Banner Promotions, Demetrius Andrade, Oscar DeLaHoya, Star Boxing, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns
In Boxing, Sports on September 9, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I appreciate promoters promote. Make noise. Draw the attention of fans, writers and sanctioning bodies. If a promoter can’t enthuse about a young fighter, who can? I know how it works. But I think even within those terms of reference the suggestion Demetrius Andrade “combines the styles of Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns” and has the “talent to be a star like Oscar DeLaHoya and Floyd Mayweather” is setting the bar awfully high for the 20-year old.
Read the rest of this entry »
Light Heavyweight, Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jnr., Joe Calzaghe, Felix Trinidad, Kelly Pavlik, Oscar DeLaHoya, Marco Antonio Barrera, Glen Johnson, Chad Dawson, Erik Morales
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on September 4, 2008 at 10:13 am
For those of us left jaded by the endless recycling of pensionable punchers Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jnr., Antonio Tarver and Glen Johnson, the new season throws up three fights which may finally expunge 75% of the ageing chorus line from the Light-Heavyweight rankings. It cannot come too soon. Read the rest of this entry »
Floyd Mayweather, Kelly Pavlik, Miguel Cotto, Oscar DeLaHoya, Paul Williams, Shane Mosley, WBO, Welterweight, Winky Wright
In Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on September 3, 2008 at 2:56 pm
“Starvin’ Marvin”, as one or two insensitive souls have dubbed Paul “The Punisher” Williams, today featured in a new press release from Aceves PR, one of the busiest promotional houses around in the boxing business. For those who love stats, this was the 62nd I’ve received since October. So if you’re an aspiring promoter or fighter, consider Aceves, they’re busy on your behalf. Someone once asked me, where I was when JFK was shot, I said I wasn’t sure but I bet I was reading a release by Aceves.
Read the rest of this entry »
Don King, George Foreman, Golden Boy Promotions, HBO, Marco Antonio Barrera, muhammad ali, Oscar DeLaHoya, PPV
In Boxing, Sports on September 1, 2008 at 11:17 am
In any consideration of those who transcended boxing over the past 30 years and found a place in the consciousness of the general public; Ali, Foreman and Tyson would surely stand head and shoulders above even Sugar Ray Leonard, Prince Naseem Hamed and Oscar DeLaHoya. Though not strictly a sporting figure, having never seen combat inside the ring, I think the man who stood between Ali and Foreman back in 1974 and who oversaw much of the money-making period of Mike Tyson’s career is arguably boxing’s fourth most recognisable face, Don King. Does this week’s signing of Barrera show an ebbing significance or the beginning of a renaissance for boxing’s most infamous promoter?
Read the rest of this entry »
Antonio Margarito, contender, Felix Trinidad, Floyd Mayweahter, HBO, Manny Pacqauio, Miguel Cotto, Oscar DeLaHoya, Sergio Mora, Shane Mosley, The Ring Magazine
In Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports on August 26, 2008 at 10:28 am
Much though there is to admire in Oscar De LaHoya’s glistening career and despite the perfect role model he represents for any aspiring pugilist his status as boxing’s Golden Boy, and the enormous cheques his crossover appeal allows him to accept and write, is beginning to leave me a little nauseous. Oscar isn’t the Light-Middleweight champion, nor is he a Welterweight titleist – you need to go back to 2002-2003 for the last time he won and defended a belt – and yet he remains the ultimate goal of every fighter from 130 to 160 pounds. With this financial luster comes responsibility. One he will ignore if he opts for Paul Williams.
Read the rest of this entry »
Arturo Gatti, Floyd Mayweather, Lennox Lewis, Oscar DeLaHoya, Prince Naseem Hamed, Shane Mosley, Welterweight, Winky Wright
In Boxing, Mike Tyson, Sports on August 7, 2008 at 9:58 am
Guest writer Andrew Mullinder muses on Floyd Mayweather’s potentially misleading pristine professional record and the less public statistics that strongly suggest he truly is, the once in a lifetime fighter he proclaims to be. Either way, Andrew suggests, his recent retirement is both frustrating and deserved.
Read the rest of this entry »
Billy Graham, Carl Thompson, Floyd Mayweather, Golden Boy Promotions, Light-Welterweight, Luis Collazo, Manny Pacqauio, Ojay Abrahams, Oscar DeLaHoya, Samuel L. Jackson, Welterweight
In Boxing, British Boxing, Sports on July 30, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Avert your gaze from boxing for too long and the constants, the equilibrium on which your perspective of the sport was founded can quickly be disconnected and deconstructed. The notion that the gnarled, sinewy frame of gravel-voiced trainer Billy Graham will no longer be strapped into the renown body belt (pictured left) for 15 rounds of torment from Ricky Hatton is hard to believe. OK, Graham and Hatton were never Morecombe and Wise, but together they’ve moulded and tuned Hatton’s natural physical prowess and thirst for combat to make both wealthy and respected. Curious timing? Perhaps. Read the rest of this entry »
Bill Dwyre, evander holyfield, Mike Quarry, National Association of Black Journalist, Oscar DeLaHoya, Pugilistic Dementia
In Boxing, Contender Series, Fight Reports, Sports on August 14, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Few writers met the news of Oscar DeLaHoya intention to continue fighting with the type of disappointment expressed by Bill Dwyre at the LA Times. Is every other writer too entrenched in the hushed, unspoken agreement to keep boxing relevant, to comment objectively? Is Bill the sole voice of reason? Recycling the last remaining superstars of the 1990’s is a tired but reliable format after all. Read the rest of this entry »
Floyd Mayweather, john duddy, marvin hagler, muhammad ali, Oscar DeLaHoya, Ricky Hatton, roberto duran, Rocky, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns
In Boxing, British Boxing, Contender Series, Mike Tyson, Shop, Sports on July 4, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Begun on an idle whim, the BoxingWriter .co.uk Tribute Wear has proved tremendously popular and exceeded expectation. Sales of t-shirts featuring the likes of Marciano, Hearns and Tapia have been well received and dispatched to satisfied customers within 2-3 days of order receipt and the feedback on quality has been favourable too. Check them out… Read the rest of this entry »
Arturo Gatti, Floyd Mayweather, HBO, Ivan Robinson, Joey Gamache, Micky Ward, Oscar DeLaHoya, Ricky Hatton, The Fighter
In Boxing on February 8, 2007 at 10:55 am
I love Gatti. One of the bravest fighters the sport has seen, the quintessential blue-collar brawler. Memorable for his clashes with Mickey Ward, Ivan Robinson and a cast of dozens of others, his last significant outings, a painful and comprehensive stoppage loss to Floyd Mayweather and defeat to Carlos Baldomir should, perhaps, have represented the final installments in the ‘Human Highlight Reel’s’ Hall of Fame Career. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
