With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, Irish boxing fans are out in support of Matthew Macklin, who will go into The Theater at Madison Square Garden to challenge lineal middleweight champion Sergio Martinez. New York has been called the Mecca of boxing, but with its rich history of Irish fights, it can also be called a Mecca, of sorts, for Irish boxing. Now is a … [Read more...]
Beware the Ides of March: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette When it comes to reaching the height of power followed by a sudden and rapid, “what the hell just happened here?” downfall, the gold standard is Julius Caesar, who on March 15, 44 BC, went from being the conquering hero of Rome to getting stabbed more times than the entire body of work of Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees combined. If that fate sounds familiar, … [Read more...]