Bad Left Hook: FanShots The Best in Global Boxing News and Commentary 2012-02-15T00:58:45Z http://www.badlefthook.com/rss/fanshots 2012-02-15T00:58:45Z 2012-02-15T00:58:45Z Foolish Pride <h3 class="link-title"><a href="http://thisbitchdontfalloff.bandcamp.com/track/foolish-pride">Foolish&nbsp;Pride</a></h3> <div class="description"><p> I'm in a band, because I am such a big boxing fan it works out that quite a few of my songs wind up being about boxing. If you click the title you can hear one that was released today.</p> <p>"I'll probably be puking in the morning but right now I am feeling fine. <br />Watching a man and his hurting so that I don't have to think of mine. <br />Tonight I got whiskey, beer, and boxing to try and help keep you off my mind. <br />A man on the tv is taking punches, blowing blood, and swelling round his eyes.</p> <p>Some men are born to take a beating and I can't help but watch my kind. <br />The only reason he's still standing is because he's got that foolish pride.</p> <p>Oh there's just one reason that I'm not crying, <br />it cuz I've got my foolish pride.</p> <p>Oh I'll probably be puking in the morning but right now I am feeling fine. <br />Watching a man and his hurting so that i don't have to think of mine. <br />Oh I'll probably be puking in the morning but right now I am feeling fine. <br />A man is on the tv taking punches, blowing blood, and swelling round his eyes"</p></div> http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/2/14/2798831/foolish-pride tkeithwhite 2012-02-14T15:29:34Z 2012-02-14T15:29:34Z Sugar Ray Leonard Attending IBHOF Banquet <h3 class="link-title"><a href="http://www.madisontourismblog.com/1/post/2012/02/sugar-ray-leonard-will-attend-2012-boxing-weekend.html">Sugar Ray Leonard Attending IBHOF&nbsp;Banquet</a></h3> <div class="description"><p>The Boxing Hall of Fame announced yesterday that Sugar Ray Leonard would be in Canastota for its annual weekend.</p></div> http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/2/14/2797457/sugar-ray-leonard-attending-ibhof-banquet jimmiejones 2012-02-12T07:46:15Z 2012-02-12T07:46:15Z BOXING RIOT FROM LAST NIGHT *Re-up using ECW theme* <iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DPOApIwcVeU" height="315" width="420"></iframe> <div class="source source-img"><p>BOXING RIOT FROM LAST NIGHT *Re-up using ECW&nbsp;theme*</p></div> http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/2/12/2793048/boxing-riot-from-last-night-re-up-using-ecw-theme Blue Mercury 2012-02-10T13:41:28Z 2012-02-10T13:41:28Z Hagler to Attend Boxing Hall Weekend <h3 class="link-title"><a href="http://www.ibhof.com/pages/inductionweekend/2012/mmh_12.html">Hagler to Attend Boxing Hall&nbsp;Weekend</a></h3> <div class="description"><p>The folks in Canastota are putting together a great lineup of returning hall of famers again this year. I heard two more names last night that should be released soon. It's going to be an exciting year.</p></div> http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/2/10/2789115/hagler-to-attend-boxing-hall-weekend jimmiejones 2012-02-08T03:30:02Z 2012-02-08T03:30:02Z AFTERMATH: Donaire-Vazquez Jr., Chavez, Jr.-Rubio, Hernandez-Cunningham, Gutknecht-Uzelkov <h3 class="link-title"><a href="http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/07/aftermath-donaire-vazquez-jr-chavez-jr-rubio-hernandez-cunningham-gutknecht-uzelkov/">AFTERMATH: Donaire-Vazquez Jr., Chavez, Jr.-Rubio, Hernandez-Cunningham,&nbsp;Gutknecht-Uzelkov</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><em>Over the last few days, it has been insinuated that Chavez took PEDs or diuretics, that Rubio tanked it, that Chavez "ducked" a post-fight drug test, and that there is a vast conspiracy involving the WBC and the Texas athletic commission to make sure that Chavez got away with using banned substances. Anybody who knows anything about boxing knows that commissions are usually staffed by political hacks and that these commissions are object lessons in cronyism, dishonesty, conflict of interest, ineffectuality, and corruption. However, more than anything, these state agencies are often comprised of bumbling fools. Ditto sanctioning bodies, where deceitfulness is often merely idiocy dressed up in villainous sackcloth. Only in boxing can such limited imaginations make millions, and this is proven by the fact that sanctioning bodies are actually bankrolled by their victims. <a href="http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/07/aftermath-donaire-vazquez-jr-chavez-jr-rubio-hernandez-cunningham-gutknecht-uzelkov/">From The Cruelest Sport</a></em></p></div> http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/2/7/2783815/aftermath-donaire-vazquez-jr-chavez-jr-rubio-hernandez-cunningham thenonpareil 2012-02-07T10:56:30Z 2012-02-07T10:56:30Z [ShoBox The Next Generation] 'EL NINO' REYNOSO BECOMING THE PERFECT STORM <iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bFihi5MhOLw?rel=0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> <div class="source source-img"><p>[ShoBox The Next Generation] 'EL NINO' REYNOSO BECOMING THE PERFECT&nbsp;STORM</p></div> http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/2/7/2781834/shobox-the-next-generation-el-nino-reynoso-becoming-the-perfect-storm Blue Mercury 2012-02-04T05:20:34Z 2012-02-04T05:20:34Z BAD COMPANY: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Marco Antonio Rubio Preview <h3 class="link-title"><a href="http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/04/bad-company-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-marco-antonio-rubio-preview/">BAD COMPANY: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Marco Antonio Rubio&nbsp;Preview</a></h3> <div class="description"><p><em>Beyond the ring, Chavez, 44-0-1-1 (31), may be a dilettante or a bourgeois slumming it out in the beak-busting business, but between the ropes, he works as hard as anybody, and, in fact, harder than many who have mastered the strange knack of generating fanfare without fans. If Chavez brings his silver spoon to the Alamodome, Rubio will try his best to knock it out of his mouth and into the third row. <a href="http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/04/bad-company-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-marco-antonio-rubio-preview/">From The Cruelest Sport</a></em></p></div> http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/2/4/2770271/bad-company-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-marco-antonio-rubio-preview thenonpareil 2012-01-31T23:07:43Z 2012-01-31T23:07:43Z Klitschko vs Klitschko The closest either will get to the Ring Heavyweight Championship. About as... <iframe allowfullscreen="true" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mOGoF1HA7Ho" height="315" width="560"></iframe> <div class="source source-img"><p>Klitschko vs Klitschko The closest either will get to the Ring Heavyweight Championship.</p> <p>About as exciting as their actual fights too.</p></div> http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/1/31/2762232/klitschko-vs-klitschko-the-closest-either-will-get-to-the-ring Chris Sarda