verno phillips Stories - Bad Left Hook
Last Five Fights: Paul Williams and Kermit Cintron
This Saturday's junior middleweight fight between Paul Williams and Kermit Cintron is one of those fights that happens for both sides out of necessity, but in the same regard, is a bit rare. Guys aren't always willing to take the best possible fight they can -- with Kelly Pavlik and Sergio Martinez...
Bad Left Hook Boxing Rankings Update: Spotlight on Junior Middleweight
Rank Fighter Record Last Rank 1 Sergio Martinez 44-2-2 (24) 1 2 Sergiy Dzinziruk 36-0 (22) 2 3 Kermit Cintron 32-2-1 (28) 4 4 Alfredo Angulo 17-1 (14) 5 5 Yuri Foreman 28-0 (8) 6 6 Cory Spinks 37-5 (11) 3 7 Ryan Rhodes 43-4 (29) NR 8 Deandre Latimore 20-2 (16) 8 9 Vanes...
Bernard Hopkins leading the charge for old men in combat sports
Bernard Hopkins will turn 45 on January 15. One day later, his old rival Roy Jones Jr. turns 41. And if they have their way, the two of them will meet sometime in the months after, in a rematch that has been brewing for almost 17 years. Both have obstacles to get past on December 2. Hopkins will...
Bad Left Hook Best of the Decade: Junior Middleweight
Now that 2009 is getting close to wrapping up, it means this decade is almost over. Before the end of the year, I hope to get through all the weight classes, presenting to you some choices for the best fighter in a given weight class in the decade. I'm not going in any particular order here, but...
Wednesday Morning Notes: No evidence in Pavlik assault claim
WFMJ is reporting that there is "no evidence" to support a 45-year old man's claim that middleweight world champion Kelly Pavlik punched him in the groin, which is hardly a surprise. Ronald Cappitte was claiming that Pavlik and his trainer Jack Loew had gone downtown to Chinatown on him, which...
Ranking the Junior Middleweights: June 1, 2009
The division between glory classes welterweight and middleweight often gets ignored, but it has recently become one of the more active and TV-featured classes out there, thanks to some good young fighters, some good rising and not-so-young fighters, and one freak of nature whose closest thing to...
WBC stuns world by doing the right thing and ordering Forrest-Martinez
The WBC put the kibosh on Vernon Forrest and promoter Gary Shaw's idea to have the WBC junior middleweight titlist face Charles "Killa" Whittaker in the Cayman Islands in April, and has ordered that a purse bid go forward immediately for a fight between Forrest and interim titlist Sergio...
Williams punishes Phillips, Arreola-Walker fireworks steal the show
Paul Williams won his third straight fight in his third straight different weight class, beating Verno Phillips by doctor/referee stoppage after eight rounds of body bashing, and Chris Arreola won a three-round barroom brawl over Travis Walker on tonight's Boxing After Dark from Ontario,...
Bad Left Hook Fight Night: Paul Williams v. Verno Phillips
The show starts at 10pm ET on HBO, and we'll be here with live, round-by-round coverage and scoring. The holiday weekend is winding down, and what better way to relieve yourself the stress of wanting to tackle family members than watch grown men paid to punch one another? If you're new to the...
Money Talks: Williams-Phillips and more
Personally, I don't think Ted wore the white outfit nearly enough. As always, odds are taken from Bodog. Paul Williams is a MASSIVE favorite (-1100) against Verno Phillips (+600) in the HBO Boxing After Dark main event tomorrow night, which probably went without saying. Williams (35-1, 26 KO)...
Showing 1 - 10 of 13 Next
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
