Mandatory Eight Count: More Trouble for Tony Tubbs

by SC on Dec 10, 2009 6:37 AM EST in News Analysis Comment 8 comments

Tony "TNT" Tubbs is in trouble once again. (Photo via cyberboxingzone.com)

Mother fights for former boxer (Cincinnati.com)
Tony "TNT" Tubbs is facing another jail term. His 71-year-old mother Leola stays vigilant trying to save him from himself. Boxing has too many of these tales, but I can't help but always feel something anyway.

Diaz hopes to quiet doubters (Houston Chronicle)
Juan Diaz promises to be active and take the lead early in Saturday's rematch with Paulie Malignaggi. Diaz also believes the only reason the rematch is happening is Gale Van Hoy (he's right), and says he still wants to fight Juan Manuel Marquez again.

Timothy Bradley Jr.-Lamont Peterson makes foes of old friends (ESPN)
Bradley-Peterson may well be the most intriguing fight of the weekend, all things considered. The two are friends outside of the ring, but their paths now cross professionally.

Ortiz plans to prove he's no quitter (The Ring)
Victor Ortiz continues attempting to spin his post-fight, eyebrow-raising comments from his June loss to Marcos Maidana. We'll find out a little bit on Saturday when he gets back in the ring.

Haskins fight 'career-defining' (Sky Sports)
Lee Haskins and Don Broadhurst -- the UK's two best junior bantamweights -- meet on Sky Sports this Friday night.

Japanese Manager Wants His Boxers to Seek Titles Outside WBC and WBA (PhilBoxing.com)
Japan's boxing commission recognizes only the WBC and WBA, not the WBO and IBF. But former WBC strawweight titlist Katsunari Takayama is looking to become the first Japanese fighter to win titles in all four bodies.

Boxing: Dunne's hard-knocks tale just one to tick the Christmas box (Independent.ie)
A round-up of some new boxing books available now or soon, including one on Bernard Dunne, the popular Irish battler.

Biographies of Boxing Hall of Fame inductees (USA Today)
A look at the 13 people to be inducted June 13, 2010, into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

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That Tubbs article

while being a little sickly sweet, still makes me think.

I feel genuinely sorry for Tubbs, and his family, and I have never even been a fan of him as a fighter.

Boxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight. (Omar Epps)

by Chaos100 on Dec 10, 2009 7:52 AM EST reply actions

Yeah, I feel the same way

I’m in Cincinnati, so I know the neighborhoods that the article mentions. Rough stuff. Nice to see a shot of the Hawk there. My all-time favorite fighter.

Wear something sexy to my funeral.

by Pops Daniels on Dec 10, 2009 10:06 AM EST up reply actions

Yeah, but 16 kids!!!

"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006

by The Midnight Rambler on Dec 10, 2009 12:13 PM EST up reply actions

The condom must have broken 15 times or so.

A boxer being that irresponsible is nearly unheard of.

Wear something sexy to my funeral.

by Pops Daniels on Dec 10, 2009 12:56 PM EST up reply actions

Story that interests me most is the one about Japan. I personally hope they keep to the OBPF relationship they’ve had all these years and keep out at least a couple of the corrupt organizations involved in boxing. Sure, the WBC and WBA aren’t perfect; far from it. But nothing will be helped by allowing the WBO and IBF to enter the scene.

by VirtualBalboa on Dec 10, 2009 8:20 AM EST reply actions