Fight Previews
The Olympian meets the blue-collar champion. Sounds familiar doesn’t it. In February, Hopkins achieved his goal of twenty successful title defenses against Howard Eastman with a points win. Taylor on the other hand is unbeaten in twenty-three professional fights and was a bronze medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Could this be a…
It’s astounding to see a fighter earn fifty wins, and Oscar Larios is five wins over the fifty-win milestone. The WBC super bantamweight champion since 2001 is right back at it, displaying a champion’s heart by entering a rematch title fight with a tougher than average fighter in Wayne McCullough. Bundle up the promotional problems,…
Vernon Forrest was always the type of fighter that nobody wanted to fight. At six-feet and possessing a seventy-three inch reach, he could concoct a game plan to master any fighter. He was a fighter forever overlooked when it came to big paydays and glory. After turning professional in 1992, he sifted along for the…
The wind of boxing is so powerful and foregoing that we can easily allow the breeze to push memories of former fighters out of our mind. Vernon Forrest is the boxer who showed the blueprint on defeating Shane Mosley; again, I must mention the wind of boxing, how strong it can be. This same wind…
At the forefront of boxing is the junior welterweight division. A boxer trying to push and defeat other fighters so that he can be counted in and not out is Junior Witter. Top- notch performances, upsets and redesigning are all part of the junior welterweight division as of late. So, Witter’s comments in his prediction…
“I’m gonna stop him. I don’t normally stop people and I don’t normally say I’m gonna stop people, but I’m gonna stop him. I don’t like him.‖Matthew Barney on his upcoming clash with Carl Froch. If you ask Carl Froch, this fight has been two years in the making, and judging by what Froch had…
Perhaps you might not know who Kassim Ouma is. But I can tell you that he just might be the best light middleweight in the world. Kassim Ouma (21-1-1, 13KOs) was on the fast track to superstardom before being laid out by Agustin Silva in November 1999 and has since had to prove to the…
The boxing world is looking for a heavyweight to come along and make a clean sweep of the division, restore credibility and embody the spirit of past champions that made the heavyweight division boxing’s flagship. It is true that the glamour days are gone and optimism is difficult to find that we will see any…
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 and eventually settling into the…
The heavyweight division is the biggest division in size, in punches and in paying out the biggest paychecks. On the other end, it is also one of the most lackluster and confusing divisions out there. Who is the king of the heavyweights? Don King, spare us the financial profiting you seem to receive while pushing…
Only July 16, an intriguing match-up will take place. Call it historical; call it whatever you wish but this just might be the changing of the guard for an old warrior. Bernard Hopkins (46-2-1, 32 KOs) will square-off against the brightest middleweight prospect this decade in Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor (23-0, 17 KOs) in what…
As the fight between “Pretty Boy†Floyd Mayweather and Arturo “Thunder†Gatti approaches this Saturday, Gatti has been telling many of the media people that he is struggling to make the weight for this fight. This was something he shared with yours truly, when I interviewed the fighting legend. This was also very evident as,…