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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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A Muscovite’s view of the Executioner’s song

Posted in Andrew Mullinder, Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It doesn’t matter where you sit. It doesn’t matter from where you viewed Saturday’s spectacle, Bernard Hopkins victory over Kelly Pavlik is arguably one of the most complete boxing clinics since, Barrera schooled Naseem Hamed perhaps? Andrew Mullinder captures the major emerging points from the fight in his regular summary from the chilly confines of [...]

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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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Standing room only; the Calzaghe bandwagon

Posted in Boxing, British Boxing, Fight Reports, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The only thing quicker than Joe Calzaghe’s fists on Saturday night, aside from how quickly one could predict the outcome of the entire under card, was the alacrity post-fight pundits demonstrated hoisting the Welshmen from ‘over-protected’, ‘unfulfilled veteran’ to ‘all-time great’. I cannot extract myself entirely from the criticism of such unsavoury haste having maligned [...]

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Hopkins Returns. Did he ever leave?

Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson, Ricky Hatton, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on November 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Boxing needs personalities. And never more so than in the beleaguered heavyweight division. Yesterday’s announcement, and the worst kept secret in boxing, that former middleweight great and presently consensus Light-Heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins plans to return in the blue ribbon weight class didn’t cause the gasps of disbelief the ‘Executioner’ appears to crave.

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