Madison Square Garden will play host to Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa on October 10th and although the pair will be treading the same boards, we must show patience before we see them exchanging leather. The Top Rank promoted ‘Latin Fury 12’ card they co-headline is all part of the audition process, a showcase [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Lopez & Gamboa: Megafight Brewing
Posted in bob arum, carlos ortiz, celestino caballero, david reid, evander holyfield, felix trinidad, fernando vargas, jeff lacey, jermain taylor, joe frazier, juan manuel lopez, juanma lopez, julio cesar chavez, latin fury 12, meldrick taylor, muhammad ali, ricardo lopez, riddick bowe, rosendo alvarez, top rank, wilfredo gomez, yuriorkis gamboa on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Super Six Promo Video
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Popcorn & Punches
Posted in andre dirrell, carl froch, courtney fry, floyd mayweather, frank warren, jason booth, joe frazier, juan manuel marquez, kell brooks, martin rogan, michael hunter, michael jennings, miguel cotto, muhammad ali, nathan cleverley, paul holborn, paul smith, sam sexton, tony jeffries, tony quigley, trevor crewe on August 25, 2009 | 9 Comments »
In a time of change……this summer…..two men….one ring…four fists….one immense marketing campaign…..from the people who brought you…. ‘The Dream Match’… and… ‘The World Awaits’….comes an event like no other……hold onto your hats….batten down the hatches…..for the blockbuster of 2009……one’s dangerous…..the other’s stinking rich……together……they’ll have a boxing match…..’Numero Uno’….starring Pretty Boy Floyd and Juan Manuel Marquez…(certificate [...]
Jones & Hopkins: A Reversal of Fortunes
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Many of you will have caught the latest instalment of the Roy Jones-Bernard Hopkins public feud, this one played out over the airwaves on The Calvin Murphy Show, if you haven’t, here’s a link:
http://www.975theticket.com/TicketOnline/Podcasts/CalvinMurphyPodcasts2/tabid/807/Default.aspx
I enjoyed the verbal sparring between the pair (good old Calvin must have wondered if Santa had delivered early) and it left [...]
Rating the Heavyweights of the Decade
Posted in andrew golota, chris arreola, chris byrd, evander holyfield, george foreman, hasim rahman, james toney, john ruiz, kali meehan, kevin bacon, lamon brewster, lennox lewis, michael moorer, mike tyson, nikolay valuev, oliver mccall, ray mercer, riddick bowe, roy jones jr, ruslan chagaev, samuel peter, vitali klitschko, wladimir klitschko on August 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With merely a handful of important encounters left on the heavyweight horizon before the sun sets on another decade of prizefighting, the time seems right to offer an opinion on the top ten big men of the noughties.
This was a far more daunting task than I first imagined, such has been the inconsistency within the [...]
Hook, Line & Stinker?
Posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Now then shipmates, just a quick post (you’ll see how quick by the quality….ahem) to keep my hand in after being struck down by flu of the porcine variety aaaarrRRRGGGHHH (that’s pirate for ‘oh bother’)…………and before I set sail on the high seas for a week’s well deserved (in my book at least) break in [...]
Much Hullabaloo About Nothing?
Posted in chris arreola, david haye, lennox lewis, mike tyson, vitali klitschko, wladimir klitschko, tagged chris arreola, david haye, lennox lewis, vitali klitschko, wladimir klitschko on August 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Word is beginning to circulate that unbeaten heavyweight prospect Chris Arreola is the latest punter to go up against one half of the Klitschko monster (big brother Vitali) next month and this, we are being informed rather loudly, is a very exciting occurrence.
Now unless I’m missing something (wouldn’t be the first time my friends)…..I don’t……quite…..get….it.
The boys over [...]
Prospect Watch: Trevor ‘Wrecking’ Crewe
Posted in joe louis, muhammad ali, sonny liston, tony jeffries, trevor crewe, tagged tony jeffries, trevor crewe on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I hail from a region in England where Sonny Liston once paraded down the high street atop a gleaming white horse, where Muhammad Ali recited poetry to an agog Civic Centre and Joe Louis was forced to peddle his sad one man act at the seedy La Dolce Vita nightclub when he was flat broke and down [...]
Bradley-Campbell & Witter-Alexander Picks
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Once again I’m plodding along at the back of the field when posting up my picks for tonight’s quality Showtime light welter double header, I have a horrible habit of wanting to see what kind of nick the fighters are in at the weigh in before making up my mind, however I [...]
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