by Ted Sares Hopefully, former heavyweight fighter Magomed Abdusalamov could be leaving Helen Hayes Hospital soon to continue rehab at home as he recovers from life threatening injuries suffered in his brutal bout with Mile Perez in November 2013. According to the following Bad Left Hook article by Ben Chan, Abdusalamov's attorney spoke with RingTV.com: "He is scheduled … [Read more...]
Heat Treatment: Heavyweight Division Sizzles With Title Eliminators and Other Treats for 2014
by Johnny Walker If boxing's heavyweight division was, as this writer has contended, underrated in the value it provided in 2011 and 2012, there's no getting around the fact that in 2013 it did kind of suck. When even Klitschko fans can't really defend an aesthetic disaster like the world champion Wladimir 's Povetkin fight, you know times are tough. Actually, even the … [Read more...]
The New York State Athletic Commission And Their Inept Ring Doctors: Perfect Together
by Myron Usher In the movie Gladiator, Russell Crowe’s character, Maximus, stands exhausted in the center of an arena after brutally slaying a dozen challengers and angrily asks the blood-thirsty audience “Are you not entertained!? Is this not why you are here!?” Hand to hand combat is one of mankind’s earliest spectator sports. From depictions of wrestlers in prehistoric … [Read more...]
The Moralists, The Swine, and You; Magno’s Monday Rant
"Quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt" "Of what avail empty laws without [good] morals?" -- Horace Boxing's current set-up makes it the shell game of modern sports. It's a hustle. Sleight of hand. Watch the ball, watch the ball, where's the ball? Only a true insider knows that the ball isn't under any of the shells. Rigged to only pay off for the hustler, the shell … [Read more...]
Come You Masters of War; Magno’s Monday Rant
Violence is the byproduct of desperation, when necessity meets uncertainty and fear. Fine-tuned rage is the currency of boxing; brutality puts asses in seats. These are two facts that even the highest of the high-minded can't bury beneath reams of flowery boxing prose and college boy philosophy. While technical mastery and clinical dissertations in ring defense leave some … [Read more...]