by Eric "Sugar Foot" Duran Bottom of the ninth, 2 outs, guy on 2nd. "Now batting for the Yankees, number 2, Derek Jeter" Yankee announcer... Fast ball, outer corner. In classic Jeter form, he sat on it and smacked through the right side of the infield. As the right fielder gobbled it up and threw a strike to the plate, the world froze for a second.... SAFE!!! Jeter … [Read more...]
10 Mind-Blowing Boxing Conspiracy Theories
By Alphonso Costello™ "The term “conspiracy theorist” is a label used by the establishment to dismiss the idea that powerful people might get together and actually plan anything." -George Carlin Conspiracies are perceived to be convoluted mind-numbing clustermucks of misinformation disseminated by paranoid aluminum-foil hat wearing kooks. Skeptics like to say people … [Read more...]
What If Title Fights Were Still 15 Rounds?
Welcome to another edition of What If, the boxing column that always goes the full championship distance: When Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini killed Duk Koo Kim in a fourteen-round televised execution on November 13, 1982, the major boxing sanctioning bodies used that as the catalyst to reduce championship fights from 15 rounds to 12. The WBC acted immediately; their first … [Read more...]
The Closers: Part One
by Ted Sares Donnie LaLonde was doing a number on Sugar Ray Leonard at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Novemebr7, 1988, and I was shocked. BAM! He put Leonard down in the first with an overhand semi-cuffing right and, stealing a page out of Leonard’s book, lifted his hands to salute the stunned crowd. Sugar Ray was visibly shaken and went on the defensive as LaLonde pressed … [Read more...]
My Top Ten Best Fighters
by Ted Sares “There’s easier access today to the global scene of boxing, through the internet, and when more information is provided to you more easily, it makes you more knowledgeable about what you’re researching.”—Ed Brophy, IBHOF Though many a pundit has had a go at it, there is no such thing as the “best” or most “correct “pound-for-pound list. In the end, the … [Read more...]