Boxing Links (1-4-12)
My boxing wishes for 2012 ESPN (blog) The Super Six World Boxing Classic plus-1 fight: Andre Ward against Lucian Bute for all the marbles at 168 pounds. • Lasting and meaningful peace between Top Rank and Golden Boy, so that Bob Arum and Richard Schaefer will make the slew of fights … See all stories on this topic » […]
Boxing Links (11-27-11)
Denver’s Ron Lyle, heavyweight boxer, dies at age 70 Denver Post By Nick Groke Denver’s Ron Lyle, the son of a preacher father and missionary mother who brawled with the best during a golden age of boxing heavyweights, died Saturday morning. He was 70. With Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier and others, … See all stories on this […]
Boxing Links (11-3-11)
Performance-Enhancing Drugs: The Conversation Boxing Loves to Avoid Bad Left Hook If America, and the sporting media cared about boxing like they cared about baseball in the 90’s and early 2000’s maybe it would result in a sort of witch hunt that baseball saw. A guy like Andre Berto, who earlier in his career was a little softer and … […]
‘Diamond Elite’ attracts worldwide media publicity for Martinez vs. Dzinziruk, Lee vs. McEwan
Tonight on HBO World Championship Boxing live from MGM Grand at Foxwoods MASHANTUCKET, CT (Mar. 12, 2011) – The rising popularity of World Boxing Council (“WBC”) and The Ring Magazine middleweight champion, 2010 Fighter of the Year “Maravilla” Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KOs), has never been more evident than now as he prepares to step into the ring tonight […]