It was the largest live attendance in boxing history, and the only time in history a boxing ring was surrounded by a moat and barbed wire. It was February 20th, 1993, and more than 130,000 fans came out to Don King’s “Grand Slam of Boxing” to watch their hero, and pound for pound boxing great, Julio Cesar Chavez, lay a merciless beating on Greg Haugen at Estadio Azteca (Azteca … [Read more...]
Hector Camacho, Ultimate Badass: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette (note: This is the first in what I hope will become a series of me playing around with other writers' writing styles like a literary Weird Al Yankovic. I begin with a riff on Ben Thompson, whose site BadassOfTheWeek.com is a Friday favorite of mine that gets me in the right mind frame to watch FNF.) Boxers are, by definition, a pretty badass lot. Any time your … [Read more...]
Friendly Fire: The Rodney Dangerfields of Boxing
by Lamont Eddins For anyone that knows anything about comedy, you know who Rodney Dangerfield is, but then again, you may not. He was a comedian and actor who had a great career but did not get the recognition he warranted throughout his time on stage and screen. His famous line was, “No Respect”. His belief was that as much as he did while performing, the industry … [Read more...]