Boxing Articles
As kids growing up in the Kahn household, there were two things we had to endure that no children should be subjected to. The first was my father’s insistence to be what he called a “hip” dad and use every expression known to youth, so he could, as he would try to explain to my…
Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen Boxing is a sport in which one saying always applies, “Make or Break. The sport has a habit of making some of the biggest sports stars to this day, be it from Mike Tyson to Oscar De la Hoya and all fighters who wish to make their mark on…
In every sport that’s played, the participants will always carry the hopes of their nation in their selected sport. It has been proven at times that nothing can be more daunting that getting involved in an already tough test whilst you carry the hopes of the entire nation, and what can be more daunting whilst…
Will “The Cobra” Be Ready If He Beats Reid? With 21 wins, 17 by knockout, no losses and constantly calling out Joe Calzaghe, it is no surprise that British Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch is gaining the boxing media attention that so many other boxers could only dream of. On ninth of November, the WBC…
As The Ring’s super middleweight world champion Joe Calzaghe and WBO Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Maccarinelli head into their final week of preparations, I was honoured to be invited up to the Newbridge gym by “Big Mac†himself, to watch him, Calzaghe and promising undefeated light heavyweight prospect Nathan Cleverly work a high paced demanding training…
Never in my lifetime have us Brits had it so good in the fight game as we’ll have in the next few months with David “Hayemaker” Haye vs. Jean Marc Mormeck, Joe Calzaghe vs. Mikkel Kessler and finally the biggest fight out there for me, Ricky “Hitman” Hatton vs. Floyd “Pretty Boy” Mayweather. This is…
Are you ready to be big? Then get ready for Retador Azteca, a new boxing reality series, set to debut in the coming year. It will feature up-and-coming fighters in the featherweight division from Mexico versus the rest of North America. SaddoBoxing got the exclusive on this show from producer Ed Rosa, a noted publicist…
Is it time for “The Baby Faced Assassin” to retire before he ends up on everyone’s hit list? Marco Antonio Barrera’s career has been a storied one to say the least, Barrera, who unlike many young men from his native country of Mexico, did not enter the sport of boxing in to make a financial…
I will say that in a rematch that Jermain Taylor could do better against Kelly Pavlik. The fact of it is, Taylor has problems within himself that caused him to lose how he did. Could he ever beat Pavlik? Sure. Will he ever beat Pavlik? No. He obviously has the power to put Pavlik down,…
2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six†Estrada takes on dangerous heavyweight opponent James Northey in the eight-round co-feature on October 12 in “Clash Of The Titans,†promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc., at Twin River Events Center in Lincoln, Rhode Island. In the 10-round main event, Buffalo’s undefeated “Baby†Joe Mesi has…
After a long and highly decorated amateur career, former Captain of the England team Steven Bell turned pro as a super featherweight in May of 2003, but ran headlong into a roadblock on his maiden voyage by drawing with rough and tumble journeyman Jus Wallie at the Kingsway Lesiure Centre in Widnes, England. Undaunted, the…
Ex-championship prizefighter Oscar De La Hoya, now an established promoter and businessman, has given boxing aficionados around the world ample reason to lament following his curious and highly controversial acquisition of the sport’s last remaining link to legitimacy. For those of us who still give a damn, and who, for reasons perhaps unknown even to…