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Heavyweight Unification: Klitschko-Ibragimov Preview And Prediction

Some fights are more important than whether they’re any good or not. It’s like when you’re a kid and your parents tell you to eat some vegetable that you’ve never tried and are scared to — eating it is the right thing to do, and if it’s delicious, well, that’s bonus. Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe, in […]

Ring Reports Pound-For-Pound List Part 2

Pound-for-pound lists are a lot like Britney Spears, flashy and attention grabbing but lacking of any real substance.  Of course that does little to stop my need to share my own subjective list of boxing’s current best.  My renown colleague Tim did an excellent job on sharing his pound-for-pound list and while we share similar taste […]

Disheartening Heavyweight Unification Coverage

So here is boxing, finally setting about the business of fixing something that all of its critics have always said is one of the major reasons the sport has faded — its muddled heavyweight division — and the stories in major newspapers this morning say, in effect: Boxing Dead Because Of Muddled Heavyweight Division That’s […]

Debut Of The Ring Report’s Pound-For-Pound Lists

We’re in the season where change is afoot on everyone’s list of the best active fighters, weight differences aside. So here at Ring Report, the idea is to throw out the first stab at it now that a fight has transpired in 2008 that shook things up — Saturday’s rematch between Kelly Pavlik and Jermain […]

Off To MSG For The Big Heavyweight Show

Back from vacation, but I’m about to leave again momentarily. I’ll be ringside — or wherever they station reporters for Madison Square Garden fights — Saturday night for one of the more meaningful heavyweight bouts in years, Vladimir Klitschko versus Sultan Ibragimov. It’s the showcase fight of the weekend in Week Two of a solid […]

Hopkins On Set

20″ style=”width:100%; height:550px;” class=”mceEditor”>You know sometimes it’s nice to catch a glimpse of superstar athletes unscripted.  Other times it’s freakin’ hilarious as this clip of Bernard Hopkins reveals.

Punch Drunk Ramblings – All-Star Weekend Edition

Dwight Howard may have won this years NBA slam dunk contest but Pavlik-Taylor II was the real all-star event.  Let’s get Punch Drunk! Pavlik Wins Again Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik looked even more impressive in earning a hard fought 12 round unanimous decision over Jermain Taylor in their highly anticipated rematch.  While some were calling […]

Pavlik-Taylor II: Prediction, Preview For One Of 2008’s Biggest Bouts

Every sour thought you have about Jermain Taylor, the fighter, is probably right. The one-time burgeoning star middleweight (160 lbs.) has gotten worse, not better, over time. He makes too many mistakes in the ring. He’s an athlete who just happens to be a boxer, and he gets by too often on instinct. He struggles […]

A Captivating Read

Those of you who happen to frequent Ring Report know that from time to time my trusted colleague Tim and I like to share links to interesting stories as we find them in our daily net surfing. In that sense I would like to share with you all a very captivating article by Greg Smith entitled […]

Amateur Shows – Feeding Life Into The Sport

Boxing is alive and well here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. contrary to the perception of the majority of the population as well as the mainstream media.  Financially, fighters are making more than they ever have in the history of the sport and pugs are crossing over into mainstream appeal with regularity.  But […]

Pot (A Certain Notorious Alphabet Sanctioning Organization Chief) Calls Kettle Black

Reuters, 2/12/08: Greed has replaced pride and honor in boxing, says Jose Sulaiman, the long-serving president of the World Boxing Council (WBC). Secondsout.com, in an undated Thomas Hauser piece after Kelly Pavlik defeated Jermain Taylor in September for the middleweight (160 lbs.) title: After referee Steve Smoger gave Kelly Pavlik his instructions in the dressing […]

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