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Entries tagged with "Riddick+Bowe":

• The Memory Bank: Part Twenty-Two – May 9th, 2013

  Bert Cooper, coming in at 232, outweighed the in-shape Richie Melito by thirteen pounds, an observation that did not escape me…
  
  

• Heavyweight Champions Respond – April 5th, 2013

  My presumption to rank and write about the Top Ten Heavyweight Champions provoked comments I initially considered severe...
  
  

• Veteran Boxing Organizations – April 1st, 2013

  
  
  

• In Lieu of Flowers – March 28th, 2013

  
  
  

• The Time Warp That Is Gleason’s Gym – March 16th, 2013

  During the 1940s a lot of champions came out of Gleason’s Gym. Jake LaMotta trained there, as did three-time world champion Carlos Ortiz…
  
  

• NY Hall of Fame Inducts Dempsey – March 6th, 2013

  
  
  

• Boxing’s Five Greatest Moments: 1990-1999 – February 13th, 2013

  Here are my picks of the five most heart-wrenching, stomach-churning, adrenaline-pumping, air-punching, on-the-edge-of-your-seat moments...
  
  

• Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe I – February 1st, 2013

  Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe fought an an amazing trilogy in the early- to mid-1990s. All three fights were outstanding, but their first fight might be the most outstanding of them all. They first met on Nov. 13, 1992 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas for Holyfield's WBC/WBA/IBF heavyweight…
  
  

• Dark Heart’s Cowboy vs. The Tortured Soul Kid – January 29th, 2013

  Boxing is more than difficult. It is life and death. It is basic and poetic. It is euphoric and catastrophic. It is tragic and heroic...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• What Becomes The Legend Most? – December 27th, 2012

  The last time Donald fought was in June 2007 against Alexander Povetkin, before he was crowned WBA "regular" heavyweight champion...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe II – November 6th, 2012

  On November 6, 1993 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield from Atmore, Alabama, fought a rematch with Riddick Bowe from Brooklyn, New York. Holyfield lost their first bout and his titles by majority decision a year earlier. The second fight was a chance…
  
  

• Property from the Life & Career of Evander Holyfield – November 2nd, 2012

  On Friday, November 20, 2012, Property from the Life & Career of Evander Holyfield will be auctioned off at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills…
  
  

• High Times: Michael Dokes and Doc Anderson – October 8th, 2012

  Anderson said he heard “the heavy breathing of a large black dude with a big Afro who was trying to get my attention...”
  
  

• Back to Formula – August 19th, 2012

  Knowing his pupil’s weakness was key and to stop him from getting distracted, Futch devised a foolproof plan—keep Bowe busy...
  
  

• Ten-Count for Michael Dokes – August 12th, 2012

  
  
  

• Brownsville; It’s in the Water – July 27th, 2012

  
  
  

• Who Should Wladimir Fight? – July 6th, 2012

  “He’s rangy, and he’s hellified smart,” said Thompson about Klitschko. “He likes to think his way through a fight and it shows…”
  
  

• Muhammad Ali Tops Boxing.com All Time Heavyweight Poll – June 18th, 2012

  The response to the poll from you—our valued readers— was nothing short of fantastic and we thank you all...
  
  

• The Razor’s Edge – May 16th, 2012

  
  
  

• Two Guns, Six Heads and Three Fouls – May 8th, 2012

  In the end, when they tally up the guys who fight under the creed of “anything goes,” Teddy Reid's name will be near the top…
  
  

• Brooklyn’s Judah Outclasses Paris – March 25th, 2012

  “My team put together a great game plan for me and I just went in there and executed,” the relaxed looking Judah said after the fight…
  
  

• First Round KOs – March 21st, 2012

  Here's a look at some of the most significant early KOs ever to grace the sometimes graceless heavyweight division…
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• There’s a Riot Going On – February 16th, 2012

  It was an ugly scene, but not substantially more ugly than when Golota fouled Riddick Bowe into submission in 1996...
  
  

• Vitali Klitschko: One Big Enigma – February 16th, 2012

  Vitali Klitschko is a mystery man—and he’s about to cause more headaches for boxing critics and historians than he ever has with his powerful jab...
  
  

• Ten-Count for Wayne Kelly – February 1st, 2012

  
  
  

• Jim Lampley: Boxing’s Vibrant Expressionist – November 16th, 2011

  “The bottom line is that boxing attracts literate observers because the psychological confrontation between two fighters is so compelling—and so identifiable...”
  
  

• Pacquiao vs. Marquez: A Tapestry of Trilogies – November 8th, 2011

  It had everything. Post-war drama, a rubber match, the Chicago vs. New York big city ingredient, unabashed ethnic pride…
  
  

• Big Daddy: Should He Be Inducted into the Hall? – November 2nd, 2011

  Bowe slaughtered highly touted trash-talking Jorge Luis Gonzalez. He did this like a butcher works on fresh meat…
  
  

• Big Bowe Peep – November 1st, 2011

  
  
  

• New York Boxing Hall of Fame – October 25th, 2011

  
  
  

• Khan/Peterson Square Off at DC Presser – October 6th, 2011

  In a press conference that featured as many political luminaries as it did boxing figures, it was standing room only at The W Washington DC Hotel...
  
  

• Love, Hate, and Boxing – September 26th, 2011

  These days, I look, seemingly in vain, for those fighters who remind me of old-school types—a sure sign that I myself am aging…
  
  

• Postscript to a Bad Night in Vegas – September 20th, 2011

  Come with me as I return to the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas in 1976, a night grounded in the true pathos and ambivalence of boxing…
  
  

• Povetkin-Chagaev vs. Holyfield? – August 26th, 2011

  Holyfield believes that god is in his corner, whispering in his ear, telling his to keep his hands up and chin down, advising him to keep barreling forward…
  
  

• The New Normal in the Heavyweight Division – August 16th, 2011

  In short (no pun intended), Mike Tyson’s glory days ended in 1996 and I doubt we will ever see another 5’10” heavyweight champion…
  
  

• The Return of Andrew Golota? – July 22nd, 2011

  
  
  

• The Long Weekend – June 30th, 2011

  The reason I have the boxing bug this weekend is that I think we are finally going to get some heavyweight fireworks…