Hola amigos y enemigos, welcome to a completely uncalled for, emotionally-crushing edition of Panama City's highest rated, most money-squandering proper pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch - we know you secretly touch yourselves while watching Gennady Golovkin's knockout highlight reels. This week we are taking a quick peek at a few hoops that the Kazakhstani Cremator will need … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2015
Historical Fight Night: Carlos Palomino vs. Carmen Basilio
by Fox Doucette It’s Social Media Week here at Historical Fight Night—your columnist has had the pleasure of interacting with two of the four combatants in this week’s edition. James “Quick” Tillis, fighting the late Scott LeDoux in the co-feature, is a longtime Facebook friend, and Carlos Palomino, who takes on the Upstate Onion Farmer Carmen Basilio in the … [Read more...]
This Week in Boxing History: October 5th – October 11th
October 5 1931: Pittsburgh, PA. Fritzie Zivic’s pro debut. Fritzie Zivic KO 1 Al Rettinger. 1936: New York City, NY. Jimmy McLarnin W 10 Tony Canzoneri. 1937: Los Angeles, CA. Baby Arizmendi W 10 Albert ‘Chalk’ Wright. 1952: Havana, Cuba. World Welterweight Championship. Kid Gavilan W 15 Billy Graham. Retains title. The first fight televised in the U.S. from outside the … [Read more...]
Golden Boy’s Big Book of Fail; Magno’s Monday Rant
It's hardly Golden Boy Promotions' fault that Lucas Matthysse took a full ten-count on his knee last Saturday night against Viktor Postol at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Nor is it their fault that Matthysse had to take a difficult styles match-up in Postol in order to compete for the vacant WBC belt. But the whole sad sack affair, right down to Matthysse's … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Tony Zale vs. Gene Fullmer
by Fox Doucette The oldest one in the book in boxing is “styles make fights”, so what happens when you take an old-school guy who lunged and leaped and generally had no concept of positioning if it meant delivering a power shot and put him in against one of the most fundamentally sound straight-up boxers of all time? We find out tonight with a middleweight contest, as Tony … [Read more...]