FANTASY DREAM FIGHTS: Bernard Hopkins Vs. Carlos Monzon
[mpinpage] By: Tony Penecale In the world of sports, significant records will eventually get broken. Often, the holder of the former record will graciously pass the torch to the new record-setter. Hank Aaron was there to acknowledge Barry Bonds. Mark Spitz gave a ringing endorsement to Michael Phelps. But, not always! Carlos Monzon, the […]
FANTASY DREAM FIGHTS: George Foreman Vs. Lennox Lewis
[mpinpage] By: Tony Penecale Two BIG men! Two Olympic Gold Medalists. Two undisputed champions. But other than that, George Foreman and Lennox Lewis were very dissimilar. Foreman, a prodigy of the tough streets of Houston, was a surly destroyer. He came out and destroyed opponents in breathtaking fashion. Lewis, a Brit of Jamaican descent, […]
THE USUAL SUSPECTS PART TWO: CORPORATE CROOKS ON BOTH SIDES OF XYIENCE BANKRUPTCY
From Left to right: Omer Sattar, Kirk Sanford, Adam Frank, Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta By: Rich Bergeron [mpinpage] International Money Laundering, Conspiracy to Commit Fraud, Credit Card Fraud, Bank Fraud, Civil RICO charges, Insider Trading, Securities Fraud, and the list goes on and on. These are just some of the crimes going on […]
THE TORNADO’S FANTASY DREAM FIGHTS: JOE FRAZIER VS MIKE TYSON
[mpinpage] By: Tony Penecale On July 26, 1986, Mike Tyson was on his meteoric path to becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history when he stepped into the ring against Marvis Frazier, son of the legendary Smokin Joe Frazier. Marvis, a decent fighter at 16-1, was most known for his only loss, a […]
UFC 79: CHUCK’S BACK, IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
[mpinpage] Note: this piece has somehow disappeared from our database, so we’re replacing it now. UFC 79: CHUCK LIDDELL vs. WANDERLEI SILVA YEARS-IN-THE-MAKING – THE LEGENDS FINALLY MEET If you missed UFC 79 I do feel sorryfor you; especially if you’re an MMA fan and missed it for reasons not under your control. I […]
THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER POST-SHOW REPORT
[mpinpage] But here’s a synopsis of the THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER for Episode on Wednesday Nov.28, 2007 I saw Tom “The Barncat” Speers fight his first fight in the WEC last night on Versus. His opponent was Sidney Silva (Silva=most popular name in mma). The fight was back in May. It was sort of funny […]
IS XYIENCE’S TURKEY COOKED?
XYIENCE’S NEXT CHAPTER By: Rich Bergeron [mpinpage] Never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect to get invited to a UFC event after beginning my series exposing the ongoing mess over at Xyience, Incorporated. If I doubted that possibility while I was working on the story, I had no good reason to change […]
MORE MMA VS. BOXING THOUGHTS
MIXED MARTIAL-ARTS vs. BOXING………my two cents by: Jack Bratcher [mpinpage] I was recently watching a boxing match where one of the fighters threw over 1,000 punches during the course of the match; one-thousand punches…..and he never knocked his opponent down. Can you believe this? Could you imagine an MMA fight where this occurred? Of […]
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