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CompuBox Punch Stat Reports for the Top Rank PPV
I know a lot of people love sports where there are a lot of stats (I know I do), and boxing has stats that aren't always widely discussed. For those interested as I am, here are the CompuBox punch sta...
Ranking the Middleweights: February 2009
Coming off of Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik's successful middleweight championship defense against Marco Antonio Rubio last night, it's time to look over one of boxing's glory divisions once more. Today, ...
Pavlik and Cotto win easy in comebacks
Middleweight world champion Kelly Pavlik and welterweight star Miguel Cotto won easily in their comeback fights on tonight's Top Rank pay-per-view, recovering with no trouble after their first career...
Bad Left Hook Fight Night: Pavlik v. Rubio and Cotto v. Jennings
If you aren't ordering tonight's pay-per-view, Bad Left Hook is the place to be for live, round-by-round coverage and scoring of the fights. The round-by-round will be updated live in the comments --...
All make weight for Top Rank PPV
From the weigh-ins: Middleweight Championship Kelly Pavlik 159 Marco Antonio Rubio 160 WBO Welterweight Title Miguel Cotto 146 Michael Jennings 146.5 Middleweights John Duddy 162 Matt Vanda 162 E...
Official picks thread for Saturday's Top Rank PPV
Last week we did the HBO triple-header, this week we're going to do the Top Rank PPV. This should have been a four-fight picks card, but instead is just a three. I'm not going to include Matt Korobov'...
HBO cutting back on pay-per-views, boxing not
When HBO Sports said that they would be cutting back on the number of boxing pay-per-views, which had to be at least somewhat influenced by a brutal American economy and the massive flops of Calzaghe...
Tomato Cans: January 29, 2009
And it's finally done. It's finally done. The May 2 clash between junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao is signed and completed. Hatton and Pacquiao will m...
Bad Left Hook's Top 20 Fights of 2008
I don't profess to having seen every fight, but I try to see every major fight (at least) that's available live, and I try to catch big overseas fights, and if someone says a fight was good, I sure tr...
The 2008 Bad Left Hook Awards
Since the year is all but over and there are but a few even semi-major fights left, and no big American TV cards (I'm not counting the Valuev-Holyfield PPV circus as a big card), it's about time to ge...


