Just makin’ sure…Us keyboard tappers don’t always follow up adequately when powers that be assure us that someone has been injured. Without a doctor’s note, and even then, it is hard to prove. Just want to make sure we aren’t get played….

Kelly Pavlik will fight Miguel Espino on Dec. 19, Top Rank announced, somewhat surprisingly since a staph infection forced the Youngstown hitter from a Dec. 5 date with Paul Williams.
He’d previously put off a October tussle with Williams because of the staph infection on his left hand.
The fight against journeyman-level Espino (20-2, just 9 [...]

I will not post the results of Saturday Showtime fights until they conclude on the TV, FYI.
Most of our readers want to see the fights without knowing the result first, so even if we lose a few “hits” to other sites reporting the action from Berlin and England, hey, what can you do?
So [...]

Didya see we put those little boxes at the end of stories, so you can sling cool stories onto your Facebook page, MySpace and a few other sites I personally am not familiar with, but I am certain some of the more tech-savvy readers are?
Are we not planted firmly in 2009, or what? Should we [...]

TSS condolences go out to Freddie Roach, who lost his younger brother Joey to a heart attack.
Mike Marley reported that Joey Roach, who worked in telemarketing, died on Saturday.

For so many of us, boxing is the filter through which we live our lives. There is something about the stark struggle in the ring, the willpower on display, something so poignant about the moment of capitulation when the hopes of one man, previously so confident, are dashed after he’s been rendered the weaker of [...]

Mexican junior welterweight Marco Antonio Nazareth died at a hospital in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, four days after suffering a brain hemorrhage in a loss to Omar Chavez, the youngest son of ring legend Julio Cesar Chavez.
The 23-year-old Nazareth was knocked down in the first and stopped in the fourth round of their scheduled six rounder [...]

Couple days ago it was super talented under-the-radar welterweight Antwone Smith. Today, Lou DiBella scooped up an underused super middleweight who was in the Don King stable, Marcus Johnson (16-0, 13 KOs). One week, two rock solid prospects. Good week for Lou.
DiBella set himself up with two fighters who could easily be fighting for [...]

The bill to sanction MMA in New York couldn’t make it out of the State Assembly to the Senate, for a vote, as the legislature is bogged down with the after-effects of a GOP power grab on June 8.
There are simply too many bills, of greater import to a wider segment of the New [...]