News and Results from the Last Week’s Fight Game. OK, it’s quiz time! What do a World Darts champion, an ex-British and Commonwealth heavyweight boxing champion and this writer have in common? Do you give up? We all went to Eaglesfield School in South London. Yes, it’s well known as …
Read More »Zsolt Erdei: Champion of a Proud People.
Stretching from Mongolia to Eastern Europe, the Eurasian steppes spawned many robust tribes throughout the centuries such as the Cimmerians, Scythians, Samartians, Mongols, Tartars, Huns, Hephthalites and Magyars. Lacking the natural resources to sustain their growing hordes, they spread out in all directions, destroying, assimilating or merging with existing societies …
Read More »World Boxing Round-up.
News and Results from the Last week in the Fight Game. We start off in Jack the Ripper’s old stomping (and ripping and shredding) ground of Bethnal Green, East London. On Sunday night, in historic York Hall – surely in the top three worldwide venues for amount of fights held …
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News and Results from the Last week in the Fight Game. In 1240, a dam was built on the Amstel river in Holland thus creating the name Amsterdam. On Sunday 12, June in that beautiful city, Regilio Aaron scored his ninth win in ten fights (six early) with a six …
Read More »Muhammad Ali Sued by Thief!
In an astonishing series of events, a sixty-six-year-old ex-con from Louisville, Kentucky has filed a lawsuit against all time boxing great Muhammad Ali, asking for five percent of the ex-champions total ring earnings. “I’m being generous,” exclaimed Alvin “Crazy Bird Legs” Johnson, who has just been released from the Luther …
Read More »Brand New Heavies.
As the flagship division of boxing, the heavyweights represent our sport to the “Average Joe” fan. While a dominant or exciting champion can generate a lot of interest in boxing, which then tickles down through the divisions, a collection of boring, faceless champions turns many people off the pugilistic game. …
Read More »World Boxing Round-up.
This weeks report kicks off on Sunday 5, when we saw a mega bill in the cherry blossom town of Osaka, Japan with thirty fighters competing in fifteen bouts, ten of which were at bantamweight or below. In a mild upset at light welterweight, Thai import Pongpetch Muangsurin (5-12) knocked …
Read More »The Top Twelve Puerto Rican Fighters.
This Sunday, in New York City, the people of that great metropolis celebrate one of their most colorful events of the year in the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Last year there were over 100,000 marchers and three-million spectators at the event with organizers predicting greater numbers this year. To mark …
Read More »The Big Debate: Miguel Angel Cotto vs. Mohamad Abdulaev.
This weekend, Miguel Cotto faces amateur nemesis Mohamad Abdulaev in a rematch of their Olympic bout in Sydney 2000. Here is why I think that the Uzbekistani can repeat that result. Since very early in his pro career Cotto has been touted as the next big thing by his promoter, …
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A complete recap of the news and results from the last seven days of world boxing. Last week started off with an impressive performance at heavyweight by Luan Krasniqi with a sixth round knockout of big Lance Whitaker, who had never previously been down. Krasniqi, a Kosovo-Albanian with German citizenship, …
Read More »Preview Analysis: Cotto-Abdulaev vs. Tyson-McBride.
June 11, remember that date. Two big bills in two major U.S. cities on the same night at the same time. One, in the political capital of the U.S., is relying on the names of two great ex heavyweight champions to bring the fans in while the other bill, in …
Read More »Preview Analysis: Jesus Chavez vs. Carlos Hernandez.
On paper, this is one of the most evenly matched bouts in years. Both fighters suffered an early career learning loss to OK opposition. Both lost in title shots against Floyd Mayweather in 2001; Hernandez by a clear unanimous decision (although forcing the first count of Mayweather’s career when a …
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