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Oscar De La Hoya – Manny Pacquiao: Final Preview And Prediction

Saturday night, in the biggest fight of 2008, all the questions about Oscar De La Hoya versus Manny Pacquiao — boxing’s top star and its finest practitioner — shall be answered, and all the storylines shall be brought to an end. We will find out if the 35-year-old De La Hoya is too old, or […]

Oscar De La Hoya – Manny Pacquiao: The Undercard

(We continue our daily De La Hoya/Pacquiao coverage, leading up to a live blog Saturday night. See here and here for “Keys To The Fight, Parts I And II” and here for a little about the fight’s high stakes. Tomorrow: the official prediction.) I fear no reprisals, so I must go against the grain and […]

Oscar De La Hoya – Manny Pacquiao: Keys To The Fight, Part II

(Please join us all week long for daily De La Hoya/Pacquiao coverage, leading up to a live blog Saturday night. Today: How the two men stack up in some of the areas that will decide the fight’s outcome.)Strategery. Boxing is about more than just the physical elements. There’s also the sweet science to consider in […]

The Contender – Meet the Fighters

Much of the criticism surrounding the Contender reality series has been pointed at the participants of the show themselves.  Far from world beaters, the fighters showcased on the show typically were little more than regionally popular club fighters.  Now for me that wasn’t an issue but for others, it was a subject of much debate.  […]

Little-Seen Kendall Holt – Ricardo Torres I To Air On Showtime

If you’re like me, you’ve only seen some relatively grainy footage of the controversial junior welterweight (140 lbs.) title fight between Kendall Holt and Ricardo Torres in 2007. If you’re like me, you’ve seen the likewise controversial Holt-Torres II earlier this year several times over. And if you’re like me, you’re eagerly looking forward to […]

Oscar De La Hoya – Manny Pacquiao: Keys To The Fight, Part I

(Please join us all week long for daily De La Hoya/Pacquiao coverage, leading up to a live blog Saturday night. Today: How the two men stack up in some of the areas that will decide the fight’s outcome.)Maybe Manny Pacquiao is too small; maybe Oscar De La Hoya is too old. Maybe Pacquiao trainer Freddie […]

The Return of the Contender

While this Saturday’s mega fight between Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya may be monopolizing fight fan’s attention the fact remains that other news abounds in the world of the sweet science. Tim has been doing an excellent job of highlighting this year’s biggest event and given that we share many of the same […]

Boxing’s Future Looks Very Russian

This being a pro boxing-oriented blog, I confess I’d never seen world amateur boxer ratings until today, via Boxing Along the Beltway/D.C. Amateur Boxing. The man who provided the rankings to D.C. Amateur Boxing, the U.K.’s Michael Smith, appears to have been a well-regarded authority on the matter for any number of years. In the […]

Jorge Linares, Edgar Sosa And Shawn Estrada In Other Weekend Results

We’ve got a whole week of Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao coverage ahead for you, starting today (with some slices of other things, like this week’s premier episode of “The Contender” on Versus), so let’s clear the deck from this past weekend. Above, in an admittedly poor quality video, Edgar Sosa completed his junior flyweight […]

Live Blog Of Williams-Phillips, Arreola-Walker

I’ve never used this “Cover It Live” live blog application before, so in advance of the live blog I anticipate doing for Manny Pacquiao-Oscar De La Hoya next weekend, I’ll give it a test run tonight so I can be safe rather than sorry. (I won’t do as good a job this week as I […]

Boxing Nicknames Without Peer

Whatever your opinion of boxing, I think you’d be forced to admit that it is without peer among sports in one vital category: nicknames. For years, nicknames in almost every other sport have been going downhill, and steeply. The whole “first initial dash last name” trend has gotten way out of hand. There are some […]

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