by Fox Doucette The ghost of Don LaFontaine would seem to haunt the Historical Fight Night arena tonight. In a world...where crowds are lulled to sleep by subpar boxing on TV...four men...with heavyweight power...will take the world...by storm. Coming in November to a theater near you, it's... Heavyweight Thunder. That's right, folks, we've got Muhammad Ali, taken from the … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2015
This Week in Boxing History: November 16th – November 22nd
November 16 1906: San Diego, CA. World Featherweight Championship. Abe Attell W 15 Billy DeCousey. Retains title. 1927: While undergoing surgery to remove scar tissue from the area around his eyes, Tiger Flowers, 32, dies in New York City, NY. 1932: San Francisco, CA. ‘Slapsie’ Maxie Rosenbloom W 10 John Henry Lewis. 1934: New York City, NY. Bob Olin W 15 ’Slapsie’ Maxie … [Read more...]
Cotto vs. Canelo: As Good As It Gets; Magno’s Monday Rant
When boxing is at its best, it rises above the stifling politics and maddening business decisions keeping it down. There’s nothing better than an evenly-matched bout between fighters, desperate for the win, who can and will execute at an elite level. The pieces fall into place less and less frequently these days, but when they do, the magic is still there. And this … [Read more...]
Ronda Rousey, Holly Holm And A Boxing Lesson: The Sunday Brunch
Hola amigos y enemigos, welcome to a sparkly purple puffy-paint and watermelon lip gloss-scented edition of Panamá City’s highest rated, most money-spending proper pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch –We still don’t believe they killed off Glen in The Walking Dead. This week we are taking an unprecedented peek into the heavily-muscled, testosterone testing ground that is the … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Erik Morales vs. Wilfredo Gomez
by Fox Doucette We've been hitting the oldest possible old-school of the television and film era quite a bit lately. Carmen Basilio, Marcel Cerdan, Tony Zale...fighters whose last fights were years before most of the readers were even born. Not tonight. We're going back no further than the end of the Seventies and even hitting a few fighters who were in action in this … [Read more...]