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Boxing News by Adeyinka Makinde

• McDermott-Skelton Presser – March 6th, 2013

  LONDON—English heavyweights Matt Skelton and John McDermott came face-to-face this afternoon at the Trad TKO Gym in Canning Town at a press conference to publicize their March 15th showdown at London’s York Hall. Both men have met once before in an explosive one-rounder back in 2005 when…
  
  

• Dick Tiger vs. Henry Hank: A Golden Era of Middleweight Boxers – December 17th, 2012

  For Tiger, the bout with Hank proved to be the final eliminator before challenging and defeating Gene Fullmer for the world middleweight championship…
  
  

• Frank Maloney’s New Deal – December 12th, 2012

  LONDON—Veteran promoter-manager Frank Maloney has today announced a TV deal for his stable of fighters. Speaking in the Oxford Suite of The Grand Connaught Rooms in central London, the former manager of ex-heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis revealed that the package would initially involve…
  
  

• Commentary: Ron Lipton—Missing in Action – November 21st, 2012

  The LaGuardian values of meritocracy have long vied with those of Tammany Hall-like patronage and deeply embedded traditions of intrigue…