by Fox Doucette Assuming the world doesn't end tomorrow, and possibly even if it does, ESPN2 Friday Night Fights will return in its regular timeslot (which is to say, half an hour after it's supposed to air because an eighth-grade girls' basketball game in Duluth ran long) on January 4 for another season of possibly great, possibly awful boxing. This will be your columnist's … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2012
Broken News: Merchant retires, a King (Khan) returns, and Dana White’s wisdom
Being a member of the independent media isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, like most of the skulking, twitter-addicted, media-day-dwelling shills out there, we here at the Tribune can’t go out in public without having to fight adoring readers off with a tennis racket. But without the steady influx of revenue from the very subjects we’re expected to objectively cover, day … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: mid-week update
Late results from Monday’s action In the Dominican Republic, two IBF world title bouts took place: Dahiana Santana (31-6, 14 KO’s) defeated Helen Joseph (11-2-1, 6 KO’s) over 10 rounds to retain the IBF featherweight title. Santana won the title just over a year ago taking a ten round decision in a rematch with Stacey Reile. This was her third defense of the year. … [Read more...]
Pacland and its pay-to-play culture
Future hall of famer Manny Pacquiao is truly worthy of his eventual place in Canastota. His accomplishments in the ring prior to his lightning-fast rise up from junior lightweight all the way up to junior middleweight – well, almost all the way up to junior middleweight – were probably enough to save his place in the hall. It is his fights dating back to his nine-round … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
In Seoul, South Korea, Ju-Hee Kim (17-1-1, 8 KO’s) successfully defended her four female light flyweight championships with a 10th round stoppage of Thailand’s Ploynapa Sakrungrueng (9-3, 0 KO). This was the second time Kim has defeated Sakrungrueng; the two met in March of this year with Kim winning by a sixth round TKO. Between bouts, Sakrungrueng managed to rack up four … [Read more...]