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Chad Dawson Beats Glen Johnson, Winning Respect But Not Love

Chad Dawson is a true talent, as he showed in his dominant win over fellow top light heavyweight Glen Johnson Saturday on HBO, but whether you like him or not is a whole different matter. The reviews are pretty positive about Dawson today, from a boxing standpoint — he’s like a bigger Floyd Mayweather, he’s […]

Quick Jabs: Breakthroughs On Shane Mosley – Andre Berto, Paul Williams – Sergio Martinez And Juan Diaz – Paulie Malignaggi II; The WBC’s Reality Eclipses Parody; More

Manny Pacquiao’s looking pretty much like a bowss right there on the cover of Time mag, the Asian edition. I’ll have more to say on his latest publicity blitz in half a minute. Mainly I’m just happy that a few fights I’ve been writing about every week for months are getting unstuck to varying degrees, […]

Losing Winner: Chad Dawson – Glen Johnson II Preview And Prediction

It’s lonely here on Pro-Chad Dawson Island, where at any moment we’re prone to being invaded by The Principality Of Anti-Chad Dawson. Whereas we few Islanders see an ultra-talented, young American star with considerable skills, a pretty deep resume and an offensive-minded boxer who doesn’t back down, The Principality’s many citizens see a boxer who […]

Nicolay Valuev – David Haye Preview And Prediction: Ultrasize Vs. Ultraspeed

“David Haye as savior of the heavyweight division” may always have been a little far-fetched, what with the way he didn’t exactly handle getting punched in the face by smaller men all that well in the cruiserweight division he once ruled. But I saw enough potential there to get somewhat excited. Haye is fast, skilled, […]

Open Thread, Unconventional Definition Of “Boxing Movie” Edition

The Madness. Oh, The Madness. Speak what’s on your mind, people, boxing-related or no.   Although I’d like it if you took a moment to address these brief items of business: 1. Talk about what you thought of “Irish Thunder,” this month’s book club book. 2. Select from these options for next month’s book club […]

Yonnhy Perez Topples King Kong As He Defeats Joseph Agbeko

You just don’t see fights that often with the pace of Yonnhy Perez-Joseph Agbeko, a bantamweight battle on Showtime Saturday night that featured an astronomical number of hard, clean power punches. Perez came out on top with a unanimous decision in a raucously entertaining and well-fought war. I had him winning eight rounds to four, […]

Quick Jabs: Whom Not To Put In The Hall Of Fame; Tomasz Adamek – Andrew Golota Is A Smash; Next For Chad Dawson, Paul Williams And Juan Manuel Lopez; More

Happy Halloween. What do you think would happen if Manny Pacquiao (at right) fought the actual Batman (not his trainer Freddie Roach dressed as the Dark Knight, at left)? Answer if you’re a Pacquiao fanatic: “Pacquiao would make him taste the canvas in one round and then knock out Superman in the 2nd round!!!!” Answer […]

Joseph Agbeko – Yonnhy Perez Preview And Prediction: A FRIGHTFULLY Good Fight

There are little pockets of the boxing schedule that offer dark horse opportunities for one of the best fights of any given year to emerge, and Saturday on Showtime brings the latest. You can’t say the bantamweight bout between Joseph Agbeko and Yonnhy Perez is a well-kept secret, or that people think Perez can’t win, […]

The Week’s Boxing Schedule (Except Joseph Agbeko – Yonnhy Perez): “Muhammad And Larry,” A Boxing Doc Getting Gushing Praise; A Fight Almost As Sad As Muhammad And Larry; More [UPDATED]

I know I said in the headline I wasn’t going to talk about Joseph Agbeko-Yonnhy Perez — I’m going to give the bantamweight bout its own preview later this week — but that picture needed to run immediately. The contrast between the smiling mugs of Agbeko and Perez, and the eye-bulging look on the face […]

Weekend Afterthoughts: Referees MUST Crack Down On The Kind Of Fouls Which Badly Injured A Fighter Friday; Video Of Fight Of The Year Candidate Ryan Rhodes-Jamie Moore; More

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bD-aUQKnTw The video above (more like “at left” at least on my computer, because of ongoing technical difficulties with the site) starts us off on a good note — it’s the first of three clips you can watch of the stirring Fight of the Year-caliber bout between Ryan Rhodes and Jamie Moore. Later on in […]

Showtime Needs To Stop Dancing With Its Mr. Brownstone, Gary Shaw, Exclusively — Unless ShoBox Is Going To Feature Journeymen From Now On

Any time a ShoBox main event pits two 30-something “prospects” against each other and the most intriguing question of the accompanying fight is how the journeyman whose last opponent died after the fight will bounce back emotionally in his undercard fight against a future journeyman, you know it’s time to kick the habit. Showtime, you […]

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