Mondays with Boxers: September 1, 2008
Here's a new weekly feature that I'll be doing every Monday, which is just a collection of recent quotes, from the absurd to the silly to the smack talkin' to the insightful. Enjoy. JUAN MANUEL MARQ...
The Bad Left Hook Top 20: August 2008
Hear ye, hear ye! Ye olde Bad Left Hook Top 20 was in dire need of an update, so I put out the call to our 16 regular readers, and a few of them actually responded! In total, we had seven voters, a lo...
Tomato Cans: Oscar-Shane, Manny-Ricky, Joe-Kelly
A lot of attention is being paid lately to fights that aren't even going to happen, and I'm kind of tired of dedicating posts to Oscar-Manny and Calzaghe-Pavlik, so let's just do sort of a round-up an...
Mayorga back in the trash talk business
Ricardo Mayora is boxing's greatest villain, and he's a classic villain at that. Sure, he'll thunder his way through the riff-raff, but generally speaking, give him a real challenge against a top gu...
Ranking the Welterweights: August 2008
It's been a huge couple of weekends for the 147-pound division, obviously, so let's re-shuffle the deck and rank the top ten. For the record, I don't think this is the best division in the sport. The...
Cotto: Classy in defeat
Never let it be said that Miguel Cotto is a smack-talking, excuse-making, "oh this and that and that and this happened and then I lost" kind of a fighter. After his first pro loss, all he really ha...
Pavlik-Hopkins: "It's happening," says Arum
Source: Dan Rafael From the Dan Rafael story at ESPN.com: Unable to secure a meaningful opponent to wage a middleweight championship defense against in the fall, Kelly Pavlik will move up in...
Pavlik-Hopkins possible? Change for Mosley-Mayorga?
Steve Kim of Max Boxing is reporting that negotiations between middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and welterweight titleholder Paul Williams have hit a roadblock, as negotations often do, and th...
Mosley-Mayorga in the works
Source: Dan Rafael After brief negotiations to stage a fight between newly-crowned WBC junior middleweight titleholder Sergio Mora and fellow Los Angeles native Shane Mosley fell through thanks...
Oscar's final fight on December 6
Source: ESPN Oscar de la Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions have scrapped plans for boxing's biggest star to fight again on December 6, or for him to fight three times this year, as he initially pl...
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