Boxing Articles
Last week, I previewed Showtime’s “Super Six World Boxing Classic” and gave my predictions for the first round of fights. When I sat down to write that article, I still felt as though this whole thing wasn’t real. In the back of my mind, I thought that Ken Hershman of Showtime was just playing a…
Recently, it was announced by Showtime that they were putting a super six tournament together, comprising of the six top super middleweights, bar one, a certain Lucian Bute, to face off against each other in order to ascertain the new king of the division. As the WBC and WBA titles are on the line, this…
© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Upon hearing the tragic news about Arturo Gatti’s death, like many, I was devastated. As the details began to unravel in the days that followed, disbelief was replaced with reality in what a senseless death it was. Unlike many fans of the sport, I became a Gatti fan later…
OK, this is a little awkward. When the news broke this week that Showtime has created a six man tournament in the super middleweight division I was, well, ecstatic. I love the talent in super middleweight division, and I think boxing needs something fresh and daring like this tourney. Now those are my honest, gut…
© Ginamarie Russo / Saddo Boxing Lou DiBella of DiBella Entertainment made a recent trip to Puerto Rico to finalize signing of junior welterweight prospect, Joel “Joelo” Torres. DiBella comments, “I have no doubt in my mind that Joelo has the qualities to become a big star in Puerto Rico. “From now on, we will…
© Winfried Mausolf First off, the boxing community is eternally indebted to Ken Hershman, Showtime’s boxing chief. Consider, for a moment, what he has actually managed to do: six fighters with five different promoters across two continents have agree to a 12-fight, round robin tournament over the course of about two years. It sounds like…
There has been plenty of speculation as to where Ricky Hatton can go following his recent destruction at the hands of Manny Pacquiao. There was a huge amount of press and fans alike that were immediately of the opinion that Hatton should retire, hang up the gloves and bow out as a former two-weight world…
© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing As fans of boxing, we all gravitate towards certain fighters for different reasons. Some like a fighter because of their resume of talent faced, others like the knockout artist, while perhaps it’s the fast pace a particular boxer keeps or maybe it’s just because there is a fighter who…
In a year wracked by countless deaths of public figures, boxing has tragically lost one of it’s all-time warriors as former two-weight world champion Arturo Gatti has died in Brazil. Authorities found the body of 37 year old New Jersey resident Gatti in a vacation apartment he shared with his 23 year old wife, Amanda…
“Renaissance†would be the wrong term to describe what’s happening in the super middleweight division right now. That implies a “rebirth,†but never before has the division seen this depth of talent, and more importantly, a group of talent who actually show interest in fighting one another. Remember the Roy Jones Jr./Frankie Liles/Steve Little days?…
18 months ago, Floyd Mayweather Jr announced his retirement, stating “I don’t have the desire I once didâ€. Now, from the sound of that statement, one is led to believe that the motivation that once existed is gone, the desire to train and compete is not what it was so there is no desire to…
A week and a half ago, I finally got a chance to see “King” Arthur Abraham fight in front of his loyal subjects in Germany. It was a fun and exhilarating experience, but I realized while watching King Arthur beat a better than advertised Mahir Oral that the venue is not the deciding factor in…