The end of an era is now official-- ESPN2's flagship Friday Night Fights is finished. In its place will be the Al Haymon-run Premier Boxing Champions series. Along with the ESPN air time, though, will come select afternoon slots on ABC, ESPN's mother company. ESPN/ABC will air twelve two-hour boxing shows annually, starting with a July 11 show on ESPN. Friday Night … [Read more...]
Revisiting The Ring Magazine Scandal
Off in an apartment in Queens, New York, 27-year old underground boxing writer, Malcolm "Flash" Gordon, realized he was on to something bigger than big. Known as a "sewer mongrel" and "beatnik pothead with body odor to boot" by those boxing scoundrels he outed in his writings, Gordon was a fixture on the New York City boxing circuit. Standing out in front of Madison … [Read more...]