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Posts Tagged ‘Tomasz Adamek’

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: 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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Adamek to ride shot Gunn

Posted in Boxing, Fight Previews, Sports, tagged , , , , , , on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Bobby Gunn is a curious phenomenon. No other fighter, whether christened Floyd, Bernard or Oscar has engendered the type of readership and commentary that articles about the Celtic Warrior have. I suppose that might say as much about the sporadic readership of this gloomy corner of the blogosphere as any significance Gunn actually holds for [...]

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