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Trust in Oscar: He’s No Monopolist
Oscar De La Hoya is shortsighted, misguided or just naive, but – please – he isn’t an enemy of the free-market system in comments...
Q & A Leva Kirakosyan
Earlier this year Leva Kirakosyan came to Britain in a bid to become a two time European Super Featherweight champion it ended up being...
“BOX: The Face of Boxing” by Holger Keifel with Thomas Hauser
Photographer Holger Keiffel has chronicled the living face of boxing in lush black and white portraits which glare off the page, offering a stark...
Q & A with Daniel Woodgate
It's possibly no surprise that your wondering why I'm interviewing a guy whose boxed only once in the professional ranks, a points win against...
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BOX: A New View On The Faces Of Boxing
Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather Jr.? For those reluctant to let go of boxing...
Q & A with Morouti “Babyface” Mthalane
At the start of September Branco Milenkovic promoted a star studded bill in South Africa that contained two world titles fights & two world...
Hauser’s writing is . . .
Eight years ago Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post’s longtime book critic, mentioned his policy about reviewing friends’ works. He doesn’t do it. ...
Thanks, November, for chance at a comeback
The last month has been about Floyd Mayweather Jr,’s arrest and racist rant, Ricky Hatton’s trip to rehab after looking like a drug cartel’s...
Kennedy-Becerra preview!–WATCH LIVE ON GFL
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Teon “The Technician” Kennedy (15-0-1 6 KOs) of North Philadelphia, PA looks to improve on his undefeated record while Alex...
Q & A with John Murray
This Saturday European Champion John Murray 29-0(17) will make the first defence of his title against grizzled veteran Andriy Kudriavtsev 34-7(15). It wont be...
Kassim Ouma: Beginning the Dream Anew
The powerful rags to riches story of Kassim Ouma has been well publicized in print, television and most notably in a documentary feature film....
Boardwalk Empire
“Atlantic City is dying.”
That’s if it’s not already dead.
The proclamation that the east coast gambling hub is “dying” passed through the lips...
Q & A with Mzonke Fana
Recently Mzonke "The Rose of Khayelitsha" Fana 30-4(12) won the IBF Super Featherweight title for a second time when he beat countryman and former...
What I did with $8 on Saturday instead of paying $44.95 for “200”
SAN ANTONIO – There was an excellent festival here called “Jazz'Salive,” downtown, Saturday. Some rain and lots of clouds, too. The rain...
Tarvis Simms looking for a big fight
Nearly one year ago Allan Green was featured by Showtime in what many considered a “bullpen” type of fight, before Green was asked to...
Mayweather smiles, but felony charges are no joke
The self-proclaimed face of boxing was captured last week in a booking photo. Floyd Mayweather Jr. looks as if he has a chance to...
A League is Born
In what may be the most ambitious move in boxing since an Attorney General told Frankie Carbo that the sport would be better off...
Magnificent Seven preview
This Saturday several of the best fighters in Britain appear on a bumper Frank Warren promotion called "The Magnificent Seven" Though a few weeks...
I welcome you to Munchkinland: The remainder of 2010
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole” -- Oscar Wilde.
Simply put,...
Q & A with Matthew Macklin
The eagerly awaited clash between Matthew Macklin & Darren Barker was disappointingly cancelled when Barker was forced to pull out with a hip injury...
Orlando Salido: Second Chance at Recognition
Fourteen-year veteran Orlando Salido rode an up-and-down career en route to winning the IBF Featherweight title earlier this year – a win that has...
A most offensive combo: Mayweather and Haye
Boxing and decorum have always been strangers, but even by standards of a sport without one, the last seven days have been staggering.
Within...
Q & A with Lucas Matthysse
Just last week it was rumoured that Argentinean power puncher Lucas Matthysse 27-0(25) 1 No Contest would make a quick return after his impressive...
Floyd Mayweather, Charlie Goldman and a Ring Education
We are, in a sense, in between bouts at the moment and I find myself thinking about Charlie Goldman and the rantings of Floyd...
The Dangers of Being A Narcissist
A few months back I penned an article focusing on the upside that new media has presented the boxing industry. I encouraged athletes...
2010 Buzzkill; Reasons to be optimistic
It didn't bode well when last Christmas the entire Boxing world's focus was on whether or not Floyd Mayweather Jr & Manny Pacquiao could...
Laborious dudgeon everywhere
Another bad month in a dreadful year. Dudgeon is high, patience low. Civil disagreements between smart folks deteriorate into fights. Even...
Klitschko fights for future shot at an enduring spot
If all the great heavyweights aren’t NFL linebackers these days, they’re fighting in Germany.
That means there aren’t many in the dinosaur...
Jan Zaveck: First Jackiewicz, and Then the World?
During a recent HBO broadcast, an onscreen graphic depicted the top welterweights in the world according to the network. One name likely unfamiliar to...
Margarito, Capetillo and the Not So Long Arm of the Law
With all due apologies to T.S. Eliot and Carlos Acevedo, boxing is the cruelest art. But it is also, strictly speaking, a series of...
