by Fox Doucette What a first couple of weeks of Friday Night Fights, huh? ESPN2's weekly boxing extravaganza has given us two weeks of good, solid boxing action, and if one can look past the hideous judging, a Fight of the Year candidate for the year-end FNF awards come August in Usmanee-Barthelemy. Last week's Molina-Williams tilt, while not exactly a very valid matchup in … [Read more...]
Why Boxing’s Hall of Fame Beats Baseball: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette There is no greater blight upon the scribe's landscape than the phrase “...Writers' Association of America.” Boxing's corrupt fraternity of gladhanding media whores has been very well-documented on this site; our Fearless Leader leads by example on that front. I don't know the football and basketball front well enough, but I do know that boxing and baseball … [Read more...]
Writing For Love of the Craft: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette I had to take the time to get up on the soapbox today, and in a nice bit of irony, it is not because a boxing writer pissed me off but because one I respected made me look inward at what is perhaps a philosophical difference. In this week's excellent Monday Rant, our esteemed Fearless Leader Paul Magno took on the gladhanding, self-absorbed, talentless “boxing … [Read more...]
Boxing Day: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette The day after Christmas is known throughout the British Commonwealth as “Boxing Day”, but just try to find a good fight on December 26th---there ain't one. Nobody schedules big fight events for right around Christmas, even though the audience is there, the rest of the sporting calendar relatively barren, and the scene usually set by the fight game's busy fall … [Read more...]
FNF 2013, Will It be Great?: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette Assuming the world doesn't end tomorrow, and possibly even if it does, ESPN2 Friday Night Fights will return in its regular timeslot (which is to say, half an hour after it's supposed to air because an eighth-grade girls' basketball game in Duluth ran long) on January 4 for another season of possibly great, possibly awful boxing. This will be your columnist's … [Read more...]