0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/5/2014
You think you know all the kinds of boxing, and along comes the chicken variety. A Lousiana state senator, you see, is raising questions about a bill meant to increase restrictions on cockfighting, because he fears it could cut back on the “legitimate” sport of chicken boxing, which, yes, involves chickens with boxing gloves on […]
Thomas Dulorme holds off Karim Mayfield; credit: Rich Graessle/Main Events
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/29/2014
Judging from the 1st round, Thomas Dulorme was going to be too quick, too big and too powerful Saturday night on HBO against fellow junior welterweight Karim Mayfield. But the fight went through a few metamorphoses, ending up with Dulorme pulling out a unanimous decision win that was anything but resounding. Dulorme hurt Mayfield twice […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 3/26/2014
Keeping up with our recent theme of historical headpunching, here’s a picture of “two women boxing” from an unknown year. It’s from Flickr Commons, which, like I’ve previously said, is bloody addictive. This week there’s plenty of the regularkind of non-historical boxing on, with fights in Japan, North Dakota, New Jersey and Mexico. Globalisation is […]
