If you’re of a certain age, you might remember spending your Saturday watching the likes Matthew Saad Muhammad and Danny “Little Red” Lopez on network TV, as they engaged in one impossibly exciting shootout after another. » Read More
Theater Of The Unexpected: A Looking at Boxing’s Weirdest Moments in 2018
-As 2018 approaches its end, the boxing community has inevitably focused its attention upon the year that’s transpired, and many of its members have debated the most appropriate choices for awards such as Fighter and Fight of the Year. » Read More
Monster Mash: Inoue Ices Payano, And Wins The Weekend
-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 More
Showtime Boxing Preview: This Is Your Storm Warning
-In his most famous essay, “Ahab and Nemesis”, legendary journalist A.J. » Read More
Spence-Jr. vs Peterson Preview: Sometimes Theater Of The Expected Is Still Worth Watching
-I 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 More
Bullets and Butterfly Wings: A Preview of Saturday Night’s Fights
-On 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 More
Winning Ugly: “The Kapt’n” Huck decisions Kucher
-Anyone 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 More
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 More
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 More
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 More