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• Outside the Ring: Kathy Duva – July 18th, 2014

  Kathy Duva’s apprehension about the fate of boxing is fueled by her concerns about its diminishing fan base…
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Four: 70-61 – July 9th, 2014

  A strategy that literally calls for you to be hit often in order that you might triumph isn’t an easy one to adopt at the very highest level...
  
  

• One Nation Divisible (Ali/Frazier Documentary) – June 27th, 2014

  One Nation Divisible is an excellent documentary on "The Fight" -- the first and most significant of three meetings between The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, and the no less great Smokin' Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden in 1971. This much heralded bout for heavyweight bragging rights was loaded with subplots…
  
  

• Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks – June 27th, 2014

  On June 27, 1988 at the Convention Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Iron Mike Tyson, hailing from Brooklyn, New York, fought Michael Spinks, from St. Louis, Missouri, and the WBC/WBA/IBF heavyweight titles were on the line. Tyson was undefeated at 34-0. Spinks was undefeated at 31-0. The fight was…
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Two: 90-81 – June 20th, 2014

  Jeffries was bathed in the setting sun of the greatest era in the history of the sport but all the great fighter saw was a half century of sanitization...
  
  

• Greatest Moments in the Ring – June 11th, 2014

  
  
  

• Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson – June 7th, 2014

  Passing the torch is a formality not limited to boxing. The young supplant the old, the new replaces the worn, and the world turns. On June 8, 2002 at The Pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee, WBC/IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, from London, England, defended his titles against former WBC/WBA/IBF…
  
  

• Mike Tyson vs. Pinklon Thomas – May 30th, 2014

  On May 30, 1987 at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada, WBC/WBA heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, hailing from Brooklyn, New York, defended his titles against Pinklon Thomas, from Pontiac, Michigan. Tyson was undefeated at 29-0 coming in. Thomas was 29-1-1. The fight was scheduled for 12 rounds...
  
  

• Return of the King – May 18th, 2014

  Mike has mental issues that my counsel could likely resolve, and I’m ready to help, and even promote his new career as a thespian, if he wishes…
  
  

• Mike Tyson vs. Trevor Berbick – May 15th, 2014

  Over the years we've come to know Mike Tyson as many things: song and dance man, reality show star, loose cannon on radio talk shows, celebrated guest at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, convicted rapist, et cetera, et cetera, and all that jazz. But once upon a time he was just known as Iron Mike,…
  
  

• Collision Specialists: B. Ware The Nightmare – May 9th, 2014

  “This is a do-or-die fight for me, man. I’m not a paycheck fighter. I’m not a fighter that’s going to be a gatekeeper. I’m in the sport to be a champion…”
  
  

• Bob Foster: Monster Man – April 14th, 2014

  “I like chasing crooks. I drive through town at eighty miles an hour, my red light flashing and my shotgun on my lap. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun...”
  
  

• The Devil Inside: The Life of Angel Manfredy – April 3rd, 2014

  As a teenager, Manfredy lived and trained against a backdrop of a desolate, gray-toned scene of hard labor in an industrial landscape…
  
  

• For Crying Out Loud – March 31st, 2014

  
  
  

• The Chronicles of Riddick… and Andrew – March 27th, 2014

  MMA kamikaze missions to Thailand aside, Bowe should be remembered as one of the nearly-greats of modern heavyweight boxing…
  
  

• Tyson Fury: The Great White Hope? – March 25th, 2014

  Something still rankles in trying to rate him as a great fighter. It seems too early. There is an inchoate aura around him…
  
  

• Amped for Canelo-Angulo? – March 8th, 2014

  The psychological and emotional experience of dealing with a loss can sometimes elevate a good fighter into a great one…
  
  

• One Bad President – March 6th, 2014

  Only four months after pummeling Chris Byrd the young contender got into an altercation with a call girl in a Las Vegas hotel…
  
  

• Song for Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston – February 25th, 2014

  “I was used to excitement. I was made for excitement,” Pacheco told me. “But that night was something else, something beyond excitement…”
  
  

• When Harry Met Ali (Documentary) – February 24th, 2014

  There are no shortage of documentaries on Muhammad Ali. Some are good, some are not so good, and some are better than most. The documentary "When Harry Met Ali" is better than most and is narrated by British boxing writer Harry Carpenter, who followed Ali from his earliest days to the end of his remarkable…
  
  

• Tyson Fury—Let Him Eat Cake – February 12th, 2014

  Fury’s on again/off again career is on again this Saturday when he meets Joey Abell at the Copper Box Arena in London, England...
  
  

• A Mythical Top Ten Pound-for-Pound – February 9th, 2014

  Every mode of fiction lends itself to boxing. Boxing is absolutely fundamental in a way no other sport is, but it is also combative and bloodthirsty...
  
  

• The 23 Steps to Boxing Enlightenment – February 7th, 2014

  Most champs—Matthew Saad Muhammad, Floyd Patterson and Johnny Tapia—were tortured souls who sought boxing psychotherapy…
  
  

• Winds of change? – February 4th, 2014

  Is the landscape of the Heavyweight division about to alter dramatically? With the WBC Championship now vacant and Bermaine Stiverne and Chris Arreola scheduled to re-match for the prestigious green belt we know that at least one of the four major blue ribbon titles is going to find its way back to American…
  
  

• We Be Crooks – January 29th, 2014

  
  
  

• The Five Best of 2013 – January 22nd, 2014

  In boxing, more than any other sport, the protagonists’ identities shift before your very eyes...
  
  

• Ten-Count for Jose Sulaiman – January 16th, 2014

  Sulaiman was an amateur boxer, trainer, promoter, judge and referee, before joining the World Boxing Council in 1968...
  
  

• Heavyweight Boone Kirkman Speaks – January 16th, 2014

  “Back in the dressing room, Zale shook my hand and said, ‘Hey, I like the way you fight, kid.’ All that made me feel good…”
  
  

• "Just wave Joe, you're beautiful baby. God bless ya Joe!" – January 10th, 2014

  Lennox Lewis simply isn’t celebrated enough. Now before you depart, mistaking this statement as a prelude to a tired hit-chasing argument about Lennox always beating Tyson – even in 1993 – or whooping Vitali in the never seen rematch, it points instead to his well timed retirement; faculties in…
  
  

• Hughie Fury—Force of Nature – January 9th, 2014

  I once held a focus pad for Hughie as a joke. "You really want me to hit it?" he laughed. "Go on" I replied...
  
  

• The Week That Was (Dec. 30, 2013 – Jan. 4, 2014) – January 6th, 2014

  Hooks, hooks and more hooks were Barthelemy’s staple as the man nicknamed “Kid Blast” tried to bulldoze his way to the title…
  
  

• Mike Tyson: Sign of the Times – January 4th, 2014

  Cus died a year before I won my first belt, in 1986. With him gone, I had less of an incentive to stay disciplined...
  
  

• On Target in Minneapolis – January 4th, 2014

  IBF super featherweight championship Argenis Mendez (21-3-1, 11 KOs) lost his title in controversial fashion to Rances Barthelemy (20-0, 13 KOs)...
  
  

• Rumble in the Tundra – January 2nd, 2014

  “There is nothing,” says Caleb Truax, “like the kind of commitment that boxing demands. I love every moment of it…”
  
  

• Peek Into the Soul of a Prizefighter—Part Two – December 26th, 2013

  “My favorite boxing books deal with the seamy underside of the sport—Budd Schulberg’s ‘The Harder They Fall’ and Leonard Gardner’s ‘Fat City’”…
  
  

• Alien Life? – December 22nd, 2013

  
  
  

• Brandon Rios's Career in Jeopardy Following Positive Test – December 14th, 2013

  Brandon Rios tested positive for a banned substance following his unanimous decision defeat to Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 23 in Macau. Rios has denied any wrongdoing. Rios tested positive for dimenthylamylamine in his post-fight urinalysis. Both he and Pacquiao, were randomly tested by the VADA, on five…
  
  

• Another Strange Month for British Heavyweights – December 10th, 2013

  When our heavyweights go bad it is in the smallest and saddest of ways, as shown by Herbie Hide’s depressingly needless fall from grace...
  
  

• A Foggy Day in London Town – December 10th, 2013

  No matter how powerful Mike Tyson’s message, London’s message to Michael is stay away, you're not welcome here…
  
  

• Wladimir Klitschko: The Case for the Defense – December 1st, 2013

  I rank Wladimir as a great heavyweight, one of fifteen that have ever lived, but I think Dempsey might have beaten him with that elusive, rhythm-breaking style...
  
  

• Mike Tyson Uncaged (1986) – November 29th, 2013

  The documentary "Mike Tyson Uncaged" dates from 1986, the year he became the youngest man in boxing history, at age 20, to win the heavyweight crown. No one knew at the time what was to come; it looked like he might he remain champion forever. But as unknown as his topsy-turvy future would turn out to…
  
  

• We Are the Hollow Men – November 28th, 2013

  Does anyone seriously believe Corrie Sanders and Lamon Brewster would have knocked out Dempsey, Louis, Marciano, Liston, Foreman or Ali?
  
  

• Mike Tyson on ObamaCare – November 28th, 2013

  It’s hard to believe that the folks who brought flying killer robots to the battlefield can’t create a website that works...
  
  

• The Week That Was (Nov. 18-24, 2013) – November 25th, 2013

  More than 7,000 miles from that bone-chilling scene in Las Vegas, Pacman made it clear that not only is he back, but he might be as good as ever…
  
  

• Pacquiao-Rios: Made in China – November 21st, 2013

  Not to worry. A diamond in a rhinestone world, Pacquiao has more options than Miss America after last call at a bachelor party…
  
  

• Best Heavyweight Jab? – November 20th, 2013

  
  
  

• The Undisputed Foof – November 20th, 2013

  
  
  

• A Legacy vs. 91 Seconds – November 19th, 2013

  
  
  

• “Undisputed Truth” Hits HBO – November 17th, 2013

  In the HBO special, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” Tyson puts on a one-man show that is maddening, marvelous, painful, real, and ultimately redemptive....
  
  

• The Return of Andre Ward – November 15th, 2013

  No matter what Ward does, however skilled, however effective, however beautiful to watch, it will never be enough for some…