"My title challenge against Cleverly was a monetary amount that the King of the '80s or even '90s would've laughed at, but for me that was an opportunity that I may never see again. A time in my career and life that cannot be recouped," Coyne said. "King refused to try to work with us, but readily uses every resource to prevent me from fighting. It has now gone from an issue of … [Read more...]
Heavyweight Division No Longer Boring
As the dust settles on this weekend's melee in Munich, the morality police in the sports media have already more or less picked clean the bones of David Haye and Dereck Chisora. Fair enough I suppose, as it's not every day you see grown men smashing Corona bottles over each others' heads and publicly threatening to find somebody on the streets of London and shoot them. Before … [Read more...]
Zab Judah – Vernon Paris in IBF Eliminator, March 24 on NBC Sports Network
On Tuesday, Main Events won the purse bid for the IBF junior welterweight title eliminator between Zab Judah (41-7, 28 KOs) and 24-year-old Vernon Paris (26-0, 15 KOs) and will air the bout as the featured attraction on the March 24th edition of NBC Sports Network's "Fight Night." In his last bout, the 34-year-old Judah lost his IBF 140 lb. title when he was stopped in five … [Read more...]
Boxing’s 10 Dirtiest Scandals
Check out Paul Magno's exclusive piece for Yahoo Sports: Boxing's 10 Dirtiest Scandals … [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...]