Quick links to recent work
I’ve been branching out a bit of late and below you can find links to work I’ve submitted to websites The Boxing Bulletin, Boxing News and The Queensberry Rules.
The first post is an irreverent look at the post fight boxing interview, the second a report from the recent Ryan Rhodes-Luca Messi fight in Sheffield and the third a quick look at football stadium fights:
Interview tips and techniques: a fighter’s guide
Malignaggi, Hamed, Tyson good. Cotto, Oscar, Lennox bad.
Everything about being a prize fighter is tough, not least the part which comes directly after the fight, when an erudite guy in a penguin suit sticks a mic in your grill and wants you to waffle like “The Greatest.”
Some take to it like a duck to water, mind you, from Ricky Hatton’s self-deprecating humour to James Toney’s gangsta schtick. Others sink like stones, and why wouldn’t they? Fighters spend their lives learning to throw punches not punchlines. It’s very much a modern demand all of this personality business, ever since the Ali revolution — I mean, can you imagine how Louis-Carnera 24/7 would have panned out? (read more).
http://queensberry-rules.com/2010-articles/may/interview-tips-and-techniques-a-fighters-guide.html
Rhodes batters Messi-world title shot looms
Luca Messi emerged into the Ponds Forge Arena to the strains of “Firestarter” on Friday evening, yet the outgunned Italian challenger wasn’t even afforded time to gather up his kindling in Sheffield, before European light middleweight champ Ryan Rhodes extinguished his spark, with a punch perfect performance (read more).
http://www.theboxingbulletin.com/2010/5/22/1483070/british-scene-rhodes-batters-messi
Pitched Battles
IT isn’t often we see Manny Pacquiao eclipsed, not by an opponent in any case. The venue which housed his most recent battle however, the shimmering Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, may well have managed it and in doing so, ushered in a new era of stadium bouts in the U.S. (read more).
http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/BN08/detail.asp?id=1726
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