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Bernard Hopkins cast himself as the people’s champion, a proclamation that was perhaps nevermore poignant than in the fight’s preceding weeks as he shared promotional duties with boxing golden boys Oscar de la Hoya and Jermain Taylor, fighters bred for stardom, walking a designated route upon which they would make no mistakes. Click for larger…
Eastman, Magee and McCullough all come up short. A certain aging American middleweight champion was not the only fighter to be unlucky this weekend as three British fighters found themselves in the losing column after giving their all in title fights. Two went down the tubes in Germany while a third did not find Las…
National Geographic once captured an infant crane falling into piranha-infested waters somewhere in South America. That is the feeling I got from the morning boxing chat forums. Did people really need to call Bernard Hopkins overrated that many times? Did people have to dismiss Jermain Taylor as predictable and unimaginative? The main thing that mystified…
If you are anti-Hopkins, this was the fight for you; if you are a hardcore Hopkins fan, then this fight left you yelling at the television screen. Now, if you are a boxing fan who loves the sport for the overall content of warriors battling until the end, you can use the option of walking…
Bernard Hopkins’ twenty-first title defense ended with him on the losing side for the first time in twelve years. Jermain Taylor walked in victory and gained the undisputed middleweight title in only his fourth year as a professional. The judges’ tally had it 116-112 for Hopkins, 115-113 Taylor and 115-113 for Taylor. The main point…
Mark Krence stepped into a British Heavyweight title fight against the formidable Matt Skelton, replacing Danny Williams at the eleventh hour, and did much better than anyone expected before getting stopped in the seventh round. Krence was able to use his greater skills to good advantage and frustrated the stronger British Champion over much of…
Olympic Silver Medallist Amir Khan makes his greatly anticipated professional debut tonight in his hometown of Bolton, England on the undercard of Matt Skelton’s British Heavyweight title defense against late replacement Mark Krence. The eighteen year old lightweight is riding an unprecedented crest of public goodwill and is arguably responsible for the return of terrestrial…
Citing the flu, Danny Williams has pulled out of his British Heavyweight title bid against reigning champion Matt Skelton at the last minute and been replaced by former English beltholder Mark Krence. It was only yesterday that Williams weighed in for the much anticipated bout in Bolton, England’s Reebok Centre and scaled a surprising 283lbs….
On 4 July 1910, Reno, Nevada was proclaimed “The hub of the universe.” This was a bout that many thought would never happen. Johnson, born in 1878 in Galveston, Texas, had many jobs before becoming a boxer. When he became a fighter, he was forced as a Negro to participate in many humiliating contests such…
Zab “Super” Judah is the ideal definition of rebuilding from the bottom and ending up on top. Boxing and the welterweight division have evolved over the last few years and Judah has much to do with this. When Judah had the pleasure of fighting Kostya Tszyu in the junior welterweight division, I really had Judah…
You know fight fans, I can remember that at a very young age, my older brother Benito, and I would sit with our parents on Saturday afternoons and watch fights on cable television. I grew up on boxing and always loved the sport. In my teen years, I used to watch U.S.A. Networks Tuesday Night…
(Tuesday Night Fights in Boston, MA) I was not too familiar with the boxers scheduled to fight on ESPN2’s Tuesday Night Fights, but the main event was in the middleweight division, so I figured I was very likely to be entertained. Little did I know that the real entertainment would come in a four-round under-card…