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 | Boxing12.03.2009 - Larry Holmes - World Heavyweight Champion (1978): “Rocky Marciano wasn’t fit to carry my jockstrap. If I wanted to break his record I could go over to England and break it in a week”. more... |
 | Boxing25.09.2008 - At the Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin, Germany on 17th December 2005, the Russian Nicolai Valuev smashed the record set by Primo Carnera seventy years before, by becoming the largest ever world heavyweight champion with his win against America’s John Ruiz for the WBA belt.
The Beast from the East stood at 7ft 2ins. and weighed in at 23 and a half stone. The split decision verdict was highly controversial with the crowd, who booed lustily at the outcome of the fight when Ruiz’s enraged manager snatched the belt off Valuev’s shoulder and held it in the air, only to be hit by the best punch of the night from one of the new champion’s corner men. more... |
 | Boxing23.09.2008 - It’s almost four years ago since Olympic boxing hero, Amir Khan, returned from Athens to his hometown of Bolton, Lancashire, to be left stunned by the massive crowds who turned out for his homecoming.
As he toured the town in an open top bus, thousands of fans cheered on their new boxing hero who at only 17 years of age had returned with an Olympic silver medal. more... |
 | Boxing17.09.2008 - The welterweight division in professional boxing throughout history has generally been one of the sport’s most glamorous and one of the richest in terms of consistent high level talent.
The division weight range of ten stone seven pounds has produced, over the years, some of the greatest fighters of all time. So I was interested recently when glancing through a list compiled by The Ring Magazine in America to see who they considered the 20 greatest welterweights ever. Their criteria chosen for making their selection was to pick on what the candidates achieved at welterweight – who they beat, their records, how long they reigned (if at all) and most intangible of all, how talented they were by the standards of their day. more... |
 | Boxing11.09.2008 - Dr Summerskill was boxing’s biggest critic at the time when they met head to head on a television programme. It was round one for Henry, who, in 1999, became the first boxer to receive a knighthood from the Queen. After packing in the boxing game he became a successful businessman, boxing commentator, and star of TV commercials. Sir Henry is now as much of a national icon as a sporting hero.
If our ‘Enery was the people’s champion in the 1950’s and 60’s, then undoubtedly Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton is the undisputed people’s champion of today. more... |
 | Boxing10.08.2008 - Ricky Hatton was enjoying himself in his favourite holiday resort in the south of Tenerife a few weeks ago, and when we met, his first words to me were, “Hi George, I’ll bet you’re missing Bernard”, meaning our mutual friend, Manchester’s comedy star, the late Bernard Manning, who incidentally had paved the way for me to interview Ricky in a number of occasions, when Manchester’s other favourite son was over here in Las Américas relaxing between fights. So we spent more time chatting about Bernard than we did about the fight-game.
However, much to my surprise, it appears that The Hitman’s next fight will take place in Las Vegas on November 22nd against I.B.F. light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi, and not in New York’s Madison Square Garden where I anticipated it to be at, due to the fact that Malignaggi is from New York and is a real crowd-puller there, and also that Ricky has always had ambitions to top the bill at the famous stadium. But money talks, and the big money for Hatton is in Vegas, especially after the financial success of his brave defeat by Floyd Mayweather last year, when an amazing 30,000 British fans flew over to support him. more... |
 | Boxing09.07.2008 - Just over two years ago the young Amir Khan, then 19 years of age, stated that he hoped to become Britain’s youngest ever world champion, beating the achievements of Jack ‘Kid’ Berg known as the Whitechapel Whirlwind, who beat Mushy Callahan for the world junior welterweight title at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 18th February 1930 at the age of 20 years and eight months.
Following Khan’s statement I headlined a story “Khan can’t do what the ‘Kid’ did”, but it wasn’t ‘Kid’ Berg I was referring to, due to the fact that the British Boxing Board of Control at the time didn’t recognise the ‘junior’ weights as they did in America, which seems very unfair, for if he was boxing these days, with so many so called ‘world’ title belts on the line, there wouldn’t be any doubt whatsoever about his champion status. more... |
 | Boxing29.06.2008 - If the body can be brought by training to endure the blows of opponents after opponent, to fuel the sun blazing down on the burning sand of the ring, and to last out all day, dripping with it’s own blood, how much more easily could the soul be strengthened to endure the blows of fate without flinching and to rise again after being thrown and trampled on.
Beau Jack was born Sydney Walker in Augusta, Georgia, USA on April 1st 1921 in a broken down farm shack and brought up by his grandmother, who called him Beau Jack and Beau himself never knew the reason why. By the time he was eight years of age he would rise at five every morning and walk almost four miles to Augusta to get the best shoe shine spot, before the cotton farmers arrived. more... |
 | Boxing17.06.2008 - It was August 30th 1937 and the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, Joe Louis, who many people in boxing consider to be the greatest heavyweight boxer of them all, and I for one wouldn’t dispute that, was preparing to enter the ring in the Yankee Stadium, New York, to make the first defence of his world title.
He became a champ by beating three ex-world heavyweight titleholders in a total of 17 rounds, before taking the world crown off James J Braddock, who he stopped in eight rounds. more... |
 | Boxing27.05.2008 - Seneca (4BC – 65AD) Roman philosopher and playwright
“An athlete cannot bring true courage to his fights unless he has sometimes been beaten.
The fighter who has seen his own blood,
whose teeth have been rattled by a blow from his opponent,
who has not lost his spirit even when hurled about the ring,
who every time he has been knocked down, has got to his feet again more pugnacious than ever,
this is the man who faces his next fight with confidence.”
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