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PAUL WILLIAMS-KERMIT CINTRON PREVIEW
Paul Williams and veteran Kermit Cintron lock horns on Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, in a fight with considerable implications for the junior middleweight division. The…Read More
Comedy of Errors: Top Rank Live Rankles, Klitschko Is Rank, & More Weekend Results & Non-results
On Saturday night “Top Rank Live” continued afflicting viewers with dismal fare worthy of fines from the FCC. The opening bout featured two raw featherweights many websites consider “prospects”…Read More
Sound & Fury: Mayweather-Mosley Nastiness, Tavoris Cloud Befuddles Yet Again, Nevada State Athletic Commission Shenanigans, & How Much $$$ Would It Take For You To Let Nonito Donaire Break Your Face?
The Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley mini-media tour has already dipped its toe into boorishness and it is a shame that Mosley, one of the classiest fighters to step into the ring over the last 20 years,…Read More
THE UNTOUCHABLES: How the Biggest Promoters Get Away With What They Get Away With
It looks like the Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey undercard is as “official” as anything in boxing can be at this point, so now is the right time to state, unequivocally, that the matches Bob Arum and…Read More
SOUND & FURY: Yuriorkis Gamboa, Top Rank on Fox Sports, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Juan Manuel Lopez, Strange Happenings At Showtime, Crummy Eulogies & Your Boxing Experts At Work
Yuriorkis Gamboa played wrecking crew last night at the WAMU Theater in New York City, demolishing normally granite Rogers Mtagwa in two explosive rounds. It was a rout and Mtagwa never got a chance to…Read More
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Aftermath: Some Fallout from Pacquiao-Mayweather
Now that Pacquiao-Mayweather is smithereens, it might be interesting to sift through the rubble. Then…Read More
SOUND & FURY: The Inexplicable Edition, Featuring Juan Diaz, Paulie Malignaggi, HBO, Tim Bradley, Shills, Kevin Johnson, Vitruvian Man, & That “Savior of Boxing” Kid, Yet Again
Larry Merchant likes to refer to boxing as the “Theater of the Unexpected,” but more often than…Read More
Fat City: Chris Arreola TKO 4 Brian Minto
Pudgy Chris Arreola, back to being paid exorbitant amounts of money to beat up on ham-n-eggers instead…Read More
Boxing Is Taking Over America!!! (Or Is It?)
(In an effort to show that not all boxing blogs have to be off-the-cuff ravings devoid of analytical…Read More
Notes from the Underground: On Ward-Kessler, Or, A Confederacy of Dunces
The final bout of Group Stage 1 of the Super Six tournament saw Andre Ward score an upset over Mikkel…Read More
Sound & Fury: Afterthoughts on the "Firepower" Undercard; Boring Fighters Who Do Not Qualify for HBO Handouts; and, Can The Super Six Tournament Rise Above Boxing?
Daniel Santos, who looked dreadful losing a lopsided decision to maligned Yuri Foreman, chose a bad…Read More
THE-NONE-TOO-CLEAN: Why Golden Boy Promotions Is Just As Dirty As Any Other Double Dealer, or, The So-Called Future of Boxing
Two weeks have passed since Golden Boy Promotions pulled a nifty short con on the public with its “mystery…Read More
Sound & Fury: Notes on Circuit Fighters, Kessler, Ward, Showtime, Montiel, Chavez Jr., Set-ups, A Man Named Shelby, and The Highland Rim
All fighters deserve respect, but Shelby Pudwill must qualify as perhaps the worst pug ever to appear…Read More
Notes from the Underground
1. When Bernard Hopkins said he was willing to substitute for Kelly Pavlik against Paul Williams, another…Read More
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: CHAD DAWSON & THE INFERNAL STAR MAKING MACHINE
Although 2009 began with great promise for HBO, it soon began to bog down with mismatches involving…Read More
MAGIC NUMBERS: Kelly Pavlik & the Search for a Junior Middleweight
Kelly Pavlik, not content with trouncing pacifist Marco Antonio Rubio and running out on poor Sergio…Read More
"Bring Your Own Bum" HBO & The Mysterious Star Making Machine
Not long ago, HBO anointed certain fighters–among them Victor Ortiz, Robert Guerrero, James Kirkland,Andre…Read More
Sound and Fury: Strange Notes on a Strange Weekend
Marcos Maidana KO6 Victor Ortiz Apparently lost in the shock of seeing Victor Ortiz crash and burn at…Read More
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