Let’s face it-unless you’re a hardcore fan, you’re probably not going to associate bantamweight boxers with the terms “power-puncher” or “knock-out artist”. » Read Full Article
Showtime Boxing Preview: This Is Your Storm Warning
- Leave a CommentIn his most famous essay, “Ahab and Nemesis”, legendary journalist A.J. » Read Full Article
Spence-Jr. vs Peterson Preview: Sometimes Theater Of The Expected Is Still Worth Watching
- Leave a CommentI can’t speak for anyone else, but sometimes, I find myself wanting to watch something a little predictable on TV or in the theater. » Read Full Article
Bullets and Butterfly Wings: A Preview of Saturday Night’s Fights
- Leave a CommentOn November 16, 1974, an accomplished Thai kickboxer named Saensak Maungsaurin made his professional boxing debut against a young California-based Filipino named Rudy Barro. » Read Full Article
Winning Ugly: “The Kapt’n” Huck decisions Kucher
- Leave a CommentAnyone who has followed the course of Marco Huck’s dozen year, fourty-four bout boxing career is likely to say a couple of things about him as a fighter. » Read Full Article
PBC on ESPN Preview: One Last Shot For The Road
-This evening, at Verona’s Turning Stone Casino, a promising featherweight named Miguel Flores (20-0,9KO’s) will face against another prospect with some talent, “The Polish Prince” Ryan Kielczweski (25-1,7 KO’s), in the main event of Premier Boxing Champion’s latest card. » Read Full Article
Rumble, Young Men, Rumble: Vargas And Salido Go To War
-This article isn’t quite what I had intended to write earlier in the week. » Read Full Article
Showtime Triple Header Preview: It May Not Be A Hell Of A Card, But it’s Still Really Good
-One of the best known quotes in A.J. Liebling’s immortal “The Sweet Science” concerned a tough, tricky welterweight contender from the 1950’s named Billy Graham, whom he famously described as being “as good a fighter as one possibly can be without being a hell of a fighter.”
These words have resonated with me ever since I first read them, for they serve as the perfect way to characterize those boxers who lack any one outstanding attribute yet are still capable of achieving success in the ring. » Read Full Article
Mayweather-Pacquiao: It’s Not About Who’s Greater, But About Who’s Better
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The much anticipated, long overdue match-up between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao has featured multiple narratives during the course of its build-up, and has been explored from virtually every conceivable angle. » Read Full Article
Mikkel Kessler Retires: “The Viking Warrior” Sails Off into the Sunset
-This past weekend, as boxing fans focused their attention yet again upon the question of whether Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would finally meet inside the ring, former super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler took to Facebook to address a question of a different sort. » Read Full Article
