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Entries tagged with "Emanuel+Steward":

• Boxing’s Small Spaces: Andy Lee Returns – May 15th, 2013

  How hard it must be to experience the wide open horizons attached to glory and then return to spaces where the walls are literally too close…
  
  

• Klitschko's Date with Destiny – May 3rd, 2013

  
  
  

• A Prince Who Burned Out and Faded Away at the Same Time – April 15th, 2013

  Naseem Hamed was spoiled and spectacular. Exciting and egregious. Magnificent and misguided. Ludicrous and legendary...
  
  

• Memories of Emanuel Steward – April 6th, 2013

  “We run a rough ass gym," said Steward. "Some top pros come to work out with us, but they leave because they can't take it…”
  
  

• Top Ten Heavyweight Champions – April 2nd, 2013

  Let us set aside the present and recall the days of more gifted and charismatic champions. Here are the ten best heavyweights of all time…
  
  

• Moist Eyes – April 1st, 2013

  In the audience were grizzled ex-boxers, cynical boxing observers, veteran writers, former inductees, and tough muscular guys with tattoos and lots of jewelry…
  
  

• The Week That Was (February 4-10, 2013) – February 11th, 2013

  A legitimate star was born in Belfast when Carl Frampton scored a highlight reel ninth round knockout over one of the best opponents of his career…
  
  

• The Return of Yuri Foreman – January 18th, 2013

  
  
  

• Monster Ball – January 15th, 2013

  What about a tourney along the lines of the Super Six World Boxing Classic organized by Showtime? Imagine the possibilities…
  
  

• Long Distance Information – December 25th, 2012

  If there was ever a time for the 43-year-old future Hall-of-Famer to gracefully retire from the ring, it would appear that time is now...
  
  

• "After the Last Round" (Documentary) – December 23rd, 2012

  “As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.”—Budd Schulberg Boxing is a compelling sport and a fascinating subject. No other sport, perhaps no other profession, demands of its practitioners what boxing does. The amount of pain one must endure to become an…
  
  

• Khan Looks to Become a Different Kind of Hunter – December 14th, 2012

  If Hunter’s words prove true, then we can expect a special performance by Khan as he seeks to reassert his status as a top pound-for-pound fighter…
  
  

• Larry Merchant: The Ship Sails – December 13th, 2012

  
  
  

• Wilder Thing, You Make My Heart Sing – December 13th, 2012

  “The measure of a champion is someone who knows how to win when all hell is breaking loose and everything is coming apart at the seams around them…”
  
  

• Pacquiao vs. Marquez 4 Predictions – December 7th, 2012

  With their first fight ruled a draw, and their two subsequent fights awarded to Pacquiao by controversial decision, this rivalry remains unresolved...
  
  

• Contenders—Then and Now – November 21st, 2012

  There is so much more to be said about what has been lost. That is why I spent five years researching and writing an entire book devoted to the subject…
  
  

• Is the Referee Counting over Seth Mitchell’s Career? – November 20th, 2012

  In the next couple of months Seth Mitchell will be in the ring with one of the quietest but most profound challenges of his life…
  
  

• The Week That Was (November 12-18, 2012) – November 19th, 2012

  Brian Viloria vs. Hernan Marquez was one of the most anticipated bouts of the year amongst hardcore fight fans…
  
  

• Banks Takes the Wind Out of Mitchell’s Sails – November 17th, 2012

  “I’ll bounce back,” said Mitchell. “It won’t spoil my dreams. Don’t be sorry for me. Be sorry for my next opponent…”
  
  

• In Mayhem We Trust – November 16th, 2012

  
  
  

• Wladimir Klitschko Pitches a Perfect Shutout – November 10th, 2012

  Many of us watching the fight felt Steward’s energy circulating about in that ring, propelling Wladimir to look as dynamic as ever…
  
  

• Klitschko & Banks to Carry Kronk Torch Forward – November 9th, 2012

  Steward’s instincts, tutelage, voice, and soul are a part of Wladimir now—reverberating through his core being like Obi-Won Kenobi to Luke Skywalker...
  
  

• Carving Statues – November 9th, 2012

  The truly great trainers are a kind of practical philosopher, they harmonize with the chaotic flux of fighting, tempering their pupil with sensible instruction…
  
  

• “See it, Use it, Don't kill it.” – November 8th, 2012

  When I talked with Emanuel this summer about the big guy, he confided that he was worried that they were running out of legitimate challengers…
  
  

• Here Comes the Judge – November 6th, 2012

  This 72-year-old sweetheart of a man (some might call him a Mensch) provides one of the continuing high spots in a business that deals mostly in lows…
  
  

• A Master Steward Moves On – October 26th, 2012

  Who could ever forget Manny Steward racing to the ring in a cut-off Kronk shirt—still vascular and in great shape well into his 60s?
  
  

• Emanuel Steward: Singing the Body Electric – October 26th, 2012

  Like the late Angelo Dundee, Steward didn't try to fit his fighters into a mold but instead carefully sculpted their styles to their individual talents…
  
  

• An Unsightly Spectacle – October 26th, 2012

  When the news leaked yesterday that Emanuel Steward had died, from sources both reputable and not, everyone pounced to out-scoop the competition...
  
  

• Remembering the Goldfather Emanuel Steward – October 25th, 2012

  The only thing more ferocious than the 110 degree Kronk heat was the intensity of Kronk sparring matches, and I was mesmerized right away…
  
  

• Ten-Count for Emanuel Steward – October 25th, 2012

  
  
  

• Wladimir on Emanuel Steward – October 11th, 2012

  
  
  

• Emanuel Steward Update – September 25th, 2012

  
  
  

• Say a Prayer for Manny Steward – September 21st, 2012

  
  
  

• Teddy, Sergio, Me and Julio Down by the School Yard – September 14th, 2012

  "It was one of the so-called literate magazines that smart people supposedly read, and it had an article by Pete Hamill on Tyson..."
  
  

• Andre Ward: The Silver Lining – September 6th, 2012

  
  
  

• Eddie Mustafa: Training Amir Khan Would Be a Dream – September 4th, 2012

  Because of Freddie Roach‘s powerful stable of fighters like Pacquiao and Chavez Jr., Khan believes he may not be getting the attention he deserves…
  
  

• Redemption Denied – August 29th, 2012

  In 2001, over 30,000 people died by suicide in the United States. Ricky “Wonderful” Womack was one of them…
  
  

• Dr. Steelhammer Hammers Thompson – July 7th, 2012

  When asked about next week’s fight between David Haye and Dereck Chisora, the heavyweight champion was suitably dismissive…
  
  

• Respect: Klitschko-Thompson II – July 6th, 2012

  
  
  

• Bradley Beat Pacquiao Fair and Square – June 27th, 2012

  Some people are convinced that Timothy Bradley defeated Manny Pacquiao when they fought at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Those who are not convinced might or might not have their opinion swayed by this video. Although selectively edited to reinforce a preconceived notion, it succeeds in its objectives,…
  
  

• El Paso or Bust: Chavez vs. Lee – June 15th, 2012

  If Lee hopes to walk away with the title, he had better knock Chavez out. Or as Al Bernstein wrote on Twitter: “If Lee can get a KO, he has a chance at a draw…”
  
  

• Mayweather’s Red Badge of Courage – May 8th, 2012

  It occasionally felt to me as though Cotto was so deferential to Mayweather that it seemed as though he was in the ring with his employer…
  
  

• A Real Fight: Mayweather vs. Cotto – May 4th, 2012

  It’s sad when a fighter loses his reservoir of skills; it’s justice when he walked on everyone in his path on the way up...
  
  

• Mayweather vs. Cotto: Oscar’s Blueprint – May 4th, 2012

  The jab is to modern boxing what world peace is to Miss Universe; to whit, you need to put it out there if you want to impress the judges...
  
  

• Boxing’s Five Greatest Moments: 2000-2009 – April 6th, 2012

  It’s about the individual moments, indistinct passages of time where, as we’ll see, two minutes can seem like a second and a second can seem like two minutes…
  
  

• Manny Steward on Maravilla – March 18th, 2012

  
  
  

• Mills Lane: Let's Get It On! – March 8th, 2012

  Lane knew he had moved to a new level of celebrity after the fight when he sold his bloodstained shirt to a collector…
  
  

• Klitschko Destroys Mormeck in Dusseldorf – March 3rd, 2012

  Wladimir Klitschko is an unbelievable talent who has developed into an all-time great heavyweight champion...
  
  

• Klitschko vs. Mormeck Preview – March 3rd, 2012

  Robert Ecksel, Editor-in-Chief of Boxing.com, speaks with Rick Strom of TYT Sports about this afternoon's heavyweight contest between Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KOs) and Jean-Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KOs) at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. Many are expecting the bout to be nothing less than…
  
  

• Wladimir Klitschko: The Highest Mountain – March 2nd, 2012

  “I haven't forgotten those experiences in the year 2004," said Klitschko, "when I dropped to the bottom of the sport...”