Most kids from Liverpool dream of making a living with their feet. Others, like British super middleweight champion Tony Quigley and former Contender series 3 star Paul Smith, choose to earn a crust with their hands. Tonight, on the banks of the River Mersey, each will be hoping to make the other give in to [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Smith & Quigley hoping for Mersey Paradise
Posted in paul smith, tony dodson, tony quigley on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Giant Killers
Posted in buddy baer, chris byrd, david haye, evander holyfield, hasim rahman, jack dempsey, jameel mccline, jess willard, joe louis, john ruiz, max baer, nikolay valuev, primo carnera, ruslan chagaev on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On November 7th, Britain’s David Haye will challenge WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev in Germany, with the former cruiserweight kingpin hoping to belie the age old adage surrounding good big men and good little ones. “The Beast from the East” will not only outweigh the braggart from Bermondsey by some 7 stones, at 6 foot [...]
24/7 Pacquiao Cotto
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Rhodes upsets Moore for European title
Posted in jamie moore, ricky hatton, ryan rhodes on October 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Andrew Harrison live from the Bolton Arena – Ryan Rhodes wrenched the European light middleweight title away from Manchester’s Jamie Moore on Friday evening with a thrilling seventh round upset victory. In doing so he tore up the form book and left Moore’s world title aspirations in tatters…..(read more below).
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=21646&more=1
War of the Roses Preview
Posted in jamie moore, matthew macklin, otis grant, ryan rhodes on October 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Safesideoftheropes rolls into Bolton tomorrow evening as veteran southpaws Ryan Rhodes and Jamie Moore do battle for Moore’s European light middleweight title. The carrot dangling for both men is a shot at WBC 154 lb title holder, the Spaniard Sergio Martinez, with the bout tagged as being an ‘official’ title elimination match. The intricacies of [...]
Prospect Watch: Gary Sykes
Posted in amir kahn, anthony crolla, gary sykes on October 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Tucked away on Friday’s undercard in Sunderland, super featherweight prospect Gary Sykes extended his unbeaten record to 13-0 (4) after a hard fought battle over 8×3’s with Reading’s rough and ready Ibrar Riyaz. Sykes picked away at Riyaz expertly I thought, showing an excellent repertoir of punches on his way to a 79-74 decision win.
Sykes, rated [...]
Abraham eliminates Taylor; Froch & Dirrell eliminate themselves
Posted in andre dirrell, arthur abraham, carl froch, gary shaw, jean pascal, jermain taylor, john murray, mikkel kessler, tyson fury on October 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m in a Shane Meadows zombie movie.
Trying to find a working toilet in Nottingham’s Trent FM Arena at 1 am, means navigating a course through a thousand and one inebriated punters, some of whom look as though they’re auditioning for a Mad Max remake.
The undercard is awful, so I’m people watching. I see the man [...]
Classy Booth Stops Hunter in Sunderland
Posted in david price, george groves, jason booth, michael hunter, tony jeffries, travis dickinson on October 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Booth v Hunter report; wins for Jeffries, Price, Groves and Dickinson:
by Andrew Harrison live from the Seaburn Centre – British super bantamweight boss Jason “2 Smooth” Booth turned heads in Sunderland on Friday evening with an accomplished beat down of former domestic stand out Michael Hunter.
Hartlepool’s Hunter, a frenetic pressure fighter, was fighting for only [...]
Hares and Tortoises? Carl Froch v Andre Dirrell & Jermain Taylor v Arthur Abraham kick off the Super Six
Posted in andre dirrell, arthur abraham, bernard hopkins, carl froch, herbie hide, jean pascal, jermain taylor, kasim ouma, kelly pavlik, riddick bowe, winky wright on October 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The most talked about event in boxing’s recent history blasts off this weekend, namely Showtime’s innovative Super Six tournament. Saturday evening features two bouts from the first round of three as firstly, Jermain Taylor tackles Arthur Abraham in Berlin before Carl Froch and Andre Dirrell butt heads in Froch’s home patch of Nottingham, England.
Safesideoftheropes will be in [...]
Gambler’s Dilemma: should Arum go for Lopez-Gamboa right away?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Bob Arum had hit pay dirt.
Faced with crafting a mega-fight between two exceptional talents, Arum had encountered a snag. Expert opinion favoured one half of the duo disproportionately over the other and unless the Top Rank supremo could convince his audience that it was more of a two horse race than was being advertised, an inevitable [...]
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