THE BEST CAMEOS BY BOXERS IN MOVIES Hollywood has always had an affinity for boxing films. Boxers have appeared in cameo roles as themselves, as other boxers, and other roles as bit parts. Even some boxers like Randall “Tex” Cobb found himself a second career in Hollywood as a character actor. Here are some of the more notable cameos by your favorite boxers including Sugar … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Sugar Ray Leonard, Manny Pacquiao-Salvador Sanchez
by Fox Doucette It's Go Big Or Go Home time on Historical Fight Night, and we're not even charging you a hundred bucks for a pay-per-view (although hey, you want to give us a hundred bucks, I'll name the damn stadium after you, so there's that.) Not only do we have Floyd Mayweather Jr., coming to you live via time machine from the absolute smackdown he gave Ricky Hatton in … [Read more...]
One Champ Per Weight Part 8: Marvin Hagler and the Chamber of Secrets
by Fox Doucette When last we left our middleweight tournament, Vito Antuofermo had pulled what some in the boxing press were calling the Upset of the Year as he scored a 15-round unanimous decision win over Rodrigo Valdez in an 8-vs-1 shocker to kick off the WBA's middleweight tournament to crown an heir to the throne vacated by the retirement of Carlos Monzon. His opponent … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Sugar Ray Leonard
by Fox Doucette Oscar De La Hoya, in his absolute prime and still undefeated, stepped up to welterweight for the first time in 1997 and solved quite possibly the greatest defensive fighter of all time in Pernell Whitaker en route to a unanimous decision. Sugar Ray Leonard, over eight rounds in November of 1980, not only avenged the only loss of his “real” career (let us never … [Read more...]
What if Marvin Hagler Beat Sugar Ray Leonard?
One of the most controversial decisions and biggest upsets in boxing history came on April 6, 1987, as Sugar Ray Leonard outboxed Marvelous Marvin Hagler over 12 rounds en route to a split decision win that ignited a firestorm of dispute at the time but which was, strictly speaking, in line with the press row consensus scoring (Wikipedia, aggregating the scores of the major … [Read more...]