To be perfectly honest, I’m not quite sure what the ESPY Awards really mean. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. Like many events that are created solely for television, the show has no cultural purpose other than to serve pop culture itself. But on the positive side, it offers …
Whether you loved or hated it, Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Babyâ€? is the most celebrated boxing film of the last 25 years (since “Raging Bullâ€?). Winner of Best Picture, Best Director for Eastwood, Best Actress for Hilary Swank, and Best Supporting Actor for Morgan Freeman, the 3-disc DVD of “Million Dollar Babyâ€? goes on sale …
In case you didn’t catch it, this past Thursday the family of Bradley Rone, a heavyweight who collapsed and died in Cedar City, Utah in July of 2003, filed suit in Salt Lake City against the Utah Athletic Commission and its executive director, Richard Weinsoft. Top Rank was also named as a defendant, as were …
They’ve packed up the bunting, the American and Ukrainian flags, and they sent the high school marching band marching. Despite the clamoring of their fans, despite the motions of their high-priced attorneys, despite the shenanigans of their advisor Shelly Finkel, despite their love affair with HBO, the Klitschko boys, Vitali and Wladimir, and the groundbreaking …
On a cold January night in 1976, Bobby Watts walked into the Spectrum in his hometown of Philadelphia and pinned the first career loss on future middleweight champion Marvin Hagler. Within the surroundings of the legendary Blue Horizon, Charles Jay speaks with the man they called “Boogaloo.�
In the latest of my many marathon discussions with legendary boxing historian Hank Kaplan, he happened to mention reports he had heard of a recent upsurge on the club show circuit. I told him it would great news if it were true, but that I hadn’t seen any overwhelming evidence to that effect.
We both agreed …
“We’d like to wish a happy Fourth of July to all boxing fans, with a reminder that the REAL fireworks will be happening twelve days from now, when Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor square off for the world middleweight title, live on pay-per-view.�
That’s the kind of thing I would likely have written in my early days as a publicity agent for promoters. Sure, it’s a little corny, but there is a part of the media that really eats up that kind of thing, and wants more and more of it. Of course, they’ll eat most anything, if it’s free………
Boxing writer and veteran observer Rein wins CJ Award for May — Abramson, Smith are runners-up, with special mention to Graham
Talented freelance boxing writer Joe Rein has a style all his own. And that style now manifests itself in his being named over an accomplished field of candidates as winner of the May 2005 CJ …
