0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 11/30/2015
The decade long reign of heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko came to an end on Saturday when towering upstart Tyson Fury out-soft-shoed him to sing and dance away with the big boy crown. (More on that singing down the line.) Was this the end of an era or a brief interlude until Klitschko — or Dr. […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 8/1/2015
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Keep coming back here for running updates from ringside on the undercard of the PBC show on ESPN in the Barclays Center, headlined by Danny Garcia vs Paulie Malignaggi. ****** Pritchard Colon Vs Micahel Finney – Junior Middleweight After a solid opening round, Pritchard Colon (14-0) turned up the heat in round […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 6/20/2015
With the boxing megafight to end all fights fully fizzled and fading from our unsatisfied palates, Floyd Mayweather calling Oscar De La Hoya out from retirement for a September showdown, and Manny Pacquiao quietly on the mend and unable to rotate his cuff, boxing loyalists are left to ponder who will assume the throne once the twilight […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 6/6/2015
NEW YORK CITY — Lineal middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4) returned to the ring after a year of inactivity to defend his title for the first time in facing Daniel Geale (31-3) in Brooklyn Saturday night on HBO. Cotto (above left) made a statement by knocking Geale out with a brutal assault that ended it […]
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NEW YORK CITY — Keep checking back here for running undercard results from ringside for the Cotto vs Geale undercard, leading into Saturday’s HBO main event between Miguel and Daniel. Dustin Fleischer vs. Kareem Milner — Welterweight Entering the ring with the support of the local crowd, Dustin Fleischer (1-0) came out swinging against his […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 4/29/2015
Manny Pacquiao has been knocked cold, collapsing to the canvas on his face. He laid there motionless in front of millions. A monster defanged. An idol toppled. It is from this dramatic evidence that we can predict the result on May 2. Floyd Mayweather is a more skilled boxer. His defense rivals anyones in history. […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 4/25/2015
NEW YORK CITY — Wladimir Klitschko (63-3) defended his title Saturday night entering the ring to a raucous near sold out crowd of 17,056 at Madison Square Garden and staved off a spirited effort by Bryant Jennings (19-0) to defend the lineal heavyweight championship of the world. Jennings smiled as the bell waited to gong to start […]
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NEW YORK CITY — Keep coming back here for regular updates from ringside at Madison Square Garden, leading up to a separate post for the headliner of the HBO card, Klitschko vs Jennings. ****** Sadam Ali (21-0), the promising welterweight prospect and Brooklyn native, stepped under the bright lights at MSG to face Francisco Santana (22-3-1) and […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 4/11/2015
BROOKLYN — Danny Garcia (30-0, 17 KO) from the fighting town of Philadelphia met Lamont Peterson (33-3-1, 17 KO) at a catchweight of 143 lbs. in the main event of “Premier Boxing Champions” on NBC on Saturday night at the Barclays Center. The sometimes spirited, sometimes boring fight, ended with a majority decision for Garcia, who staved off […]
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BROOKLYN — “Irish” Andy Lee (34-2-1, 24 KO) and Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (31-0-1, 24 KO) opened Saturday’s “Premier Boxing Champions” broadcast on NBC with a middleweight tussle which had lost some of its luster after Quillin failed to make weight on Friday. Nobody told Lee and Quillin, though, and they fought to a rousing split draw as the […]
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BROOKLYN — There are a handful of “name” fighters on the Danny Garcia vs Lamont Peterson undercard at the Barclays Center, and this post is here to tell you all about how they fared. We’re going in reverse chronological order, so read on and check back, this post will be updated after every fight. ******* […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 1/29/2015
Boxing by its very nature is a troubled sport. When the exact goal of an endeavour is to entice two grown men into viciously attacking one another, it’s evident the entire affair and its surroundings will always be rife with unrest and agitation. Controversy and accusations of cheating are perhaps more prevalent in prizefighting than […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 11/27/2014
What if an entire generation of boxers went missing? Imagine a world where the sport’s salivating spectators were left buying tickets to see aging wonders pushing 50 or past their prime dynamos who’s first major wins came a decade before. What if nearly every promising pugilist that began their career between 2000-2005 faltered and fell off […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 11/12/2014
Everything has its limits. A car stops running, a cigarette burns down, a love affair only goes so long. How things run out of time is maybe more important than that they inevitably will. Watching Bernard Hopkins fight in Atlantic City this past Saturday night one was seeing the slow demise of a once and in many ways still […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 9/12/2014
Grab your phone. Pull up the flicks playing at your local cinema this weekend. Don’t show me the titles. Don’t even look yourself. Want to know what the worst of the bunch will be? Which of those laboriously lazy, hundred million dollar behemoth pictures will almost assuredly waste your time and money? Just skip to […]
