Tomorrow, please log on in the AM for a kick-butt book excerpt, from Steve Marantz’ book on the Leonard/Hagler fight, “Sorcery at Caesars.”
Chapter 10 sheds new light on what was going on in Sugar Ray’s complicated head before he lured the Marvelous One into a showdown.
After a long illness, Top Rank publicist Lee Samuels’ mother, Irene Rose Samuels, 83, passed away over the weekend.
Lee, his brother Curtis and his sister Phyllis have arranged a viewing and service on Saturday, May 3, 11 a.m. ET in their hometown of Pennsville, New Jersey. The address of the funeral home is below. …
It could be argued that Kelly Pavlik deserves a gimme; he may well have one when he fights unknown Gary Lockett on June 7.
Lockett, the WBO’s 31-year-old mandatory contender, beat out Geo Lorenzo for the gig, a shot at Pavlik’s middleweight crown.
Lockett is 30-1, a record built on a thin foundation. But hey this is …
It was 1999, if memory serves. I was at a charity dinner in NYC, at Tavern on the Green. I worked at a newspaper then. Big Warren Sapp was at the dinner, so I sidled up to him. I asked him, I forget the exact phrasing, how much he was weighing at that time. It …
I don’t recall a tastier ShoBox main event, on paper, than this Guerrero/Litzau scrap. Do you guys?
Here are the final quotes from the combatants; the show kicks off with an opener at 11 PM Eastern.
ROBERT GUERRERO
“Training camp has been great. I made the weight much easier for this fight compared to others in the …
Former welterweight champions “Sugar” Shane Mosley and Zab Judah are going to get it on.
The date is May 31, on HBO PPV, reports Dan Rafael of ESPN. It’ll probably be in Vegas, though that hasn’t been cemented.
Quickie poll: how well do you think this PPV does? Mosley is coming off a loss against Cotto, …
Here’s a nice note I got from a fan.
Good for a laugh, I thought. Enjoy…
“You boxing writers are the worst idiots on the planet. Really, send me an
application from wherever it is that you “work”. I could do your job plus 10 other
ones at the same time. You were probably one of the nuthuggers …
Bright and early in the AM, log on to TSS, to read the debut piece from a fightwriter known around the Globe!
Word is that Roy Hewitt, sports editor of Cleveland’s Plain Deale has decided not to send a reporter to Las Vegas this week to cover middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, Youngstown resident and Ohio’s favorite son, in his eagerly anticipated rematch against former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor.
Kelly did the coin toss at a Cleveland Browns …
It’s debut day at TSS on Tuesday.
A fightwrite heavyweight champion boards the SS TSS.
I am a fan, I admit.
His copy can be described as Gorgeous.
