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Oscar De La Hoya Talks Fantasy Prime Matchups: Mayweather, Pacquiao, Hopkins, and Chavez
Oscar De La Hoya spoke with Lem Satterfield of The RING about various boxing topics, looking back on his career and some of them men he fought, and imagining him in his prime against various foes. It's really quite a good interview, and is pure boxing talk, which is nice. Oscar hasn't done a lot of...
The Ten Best Wins in Boxing Since Duran vs Leonard
Anthony Wilson takes a look back at some of the greatest and most memorable victories in the last 30 years of boxing, since Duran vs Leonard I in 1980, in a special feature piece today for Bad Left Hook. In my debut at Bad Left Hook several months ago, I wrote about Roberto Duran's debut at...
Chavez, Tyson and Tszyu inducted into the Hall of Fame
Iron Mike, Canastota has finally come calling. As expected, Mike Tyson, Julio Cesar Chavez and Kostya Tszyu were all inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame today. Other boxer inductees include the long-deserving Memphis Pal Moore, Jack Root, Dave Shade and John Gully. Non-boxers...
Julio Cesar Chavez to take over training of his sons
Mexican boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez has decided to take over the training of both of his sons, Julio Cesar Jr. and Omar, according to The Record. Chavez feels that the current seven-month suspension for Julio Cesar Jr. is a bit unfair, but also hopes that it gets his son to take boxing more...
CompuBox: Worst Title Fight Decisions in CompuBox History
Note from SC: This was penned and compiled by the editors at CompuBox, and the table is a pretty simple formula. We know that more punches landed (even landed AND thrown) doesn't automatically mean that the fight was a robbery or even a bad decision. Some of these fights (Lewis-Holyfield,...
Mandatory Eight Count: N'dou-Hatton Edition
Magical night for Hattons (Sky Sports)Matthew Hatton intends to show just how good he is on Friday night when he bids to take the IBO welterweight title from Lovemore N'dou. Lovemore is king of the ring (The Daily Telegraph)Australian boxing's ultimate road warrior Lovemore Ndou was born on the...
What is the true legacy of Oscar de la Hoya?
Since I'm still awake from last night as I developed a God awful sinus headache that will still not go away five hours later, I've watched last night's Manny Pacquiao destruction of Oscar de la Hoya three more times. It never changes. It's amazing to behold. And, of course, thinking about boxing...
Further thoughts on Oscar -OR- Why it's hard to like the guy sometimes
I'm sorry. I know Oscar de la Hoya has a lot of fans. And while I respect him as a fighter and as a businessman, as the years roll on and he keeps talking, I'm having trouble counting myself as one of them anymore. What is it about Oscar that has so bugged me over the years? It's his fakeness....
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