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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Darryl Pinckney Sends Us A Major Knee-Bender: GIF Spotlight


Undefeated prospect Luis Leija, cousin of Jesse James Leija, was 14-0 going into his featherweight match with Darryl "The Nightmare" Pinckney. Pinckney was deceptively 19-19-2. It was 1995 and the year before this Darryl had stopped Junior Jones in three rounds. This man was one dangerous 50/50 fighter and "The Nightmare" was not an ironic nickname. He would reaffirm this point with Leija.



Pinckney KO1 Leija. If you ever wake up in life and you're staring at the full sole of one of your shoes. . . there's a good chance something went wrong for you. Leija would go on to rumble with several names but most notably he was stopped in two against Floyd Mayweather Junior. Pinckney was quite a story before and after, and he'd still go on to fight major titlists Oscar Larios, Jesus Chavez, Mauricio Pastrana, Freddie Norwood, Robert Garcia, Guty Espadas Junior and Juan Manuel Marquez. He would knockout Espadas Junior while Junior was still undefeated in 1996. He even gave Juan Manuel Marquez a scare that year.


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Serious Journeymen Are A Nightmare: GIF Spotlight

Journeyman Darryl "The Nightmare" Pinckney was a thunder-fisted seek-and-destroy man who either destroyed or got stuck seeking until the end of the fight. In October of 1994, Pinckney would take on Junior Jones with less than a week's notice, in typical journeyman fashion. Darryl was 18-18-2, while Jones was a sterling 33-1-0. It couldn't have been more obvious who would win this bout. Through round one and two it still could not have been more obvious. Until Pinckney kindly clarified the situation by abruptly one-punching Junior Jones all over the canvas.



As you can see, Jones got up and tried to play it off like nothing, but his legs were gone when the fight resumed and he tackled his opponent to the canvas, while trying to hold on until he recovered. Referee Earl Morton made the call after the tackle. Pinckney TKO3 Jones. Jones would go on to take the 0 of Mexican great Marco Antonio Barrera and beat him in a rematch. Pinckney wasn't done pulling upsets in his career and, though losing, he also dealt Juan Manuel Marquez his first surprise knockdown, if I'm not mistaken. Pinckney would finish his career at 24-42-3 and Jones at 50-6-0. The life of a journeyman is not easy. But you can still raise a ruckus while you're living it. Darryl Pinckney raised multiple ruckuses. Cheers to The Nightmare.


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Brandon Rios Gets Down: GIF Spotlight



Brandon Rios did an interview for Fight Hub TV while training for his match with Manny Pacquiao in 2013. Being known as a gym clown, he began to dance for the camera, then segued into a demonstration on what a Zumba class is like. Brandon Rios is pure entertainment, in and out of the ring.



Fight Hub TV Link Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cgNkg7VpeM


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Friday, February 23, 2018

The Dangerous Art Of Circus Boxing: GIF Spotlight



British Pathé, a treasure trove archive of everything, issued a video for these brave chimpanzees boxing from 1955. This is coverage of the Bertram Mills Circus. Obviously, these fellas ain't hurtin' each other. It's probably fixed. The mafia got into everything in the fifties.

The full video clip is here:




God bless British Pathé.



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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Larry Merchant Is Having None Of Your BS! (GIF Spotlight)

In January of 1997, Daniel Zaragoza defended his super bantamweight title against Wayne McCoullough in a match that left Zaragoza to say McCullough had the best chin he ever came up against and McCullough saying Zaragoza was the smartest fighter he'd ever been up against. Zaragoza took a split decision over the undefeated young challenger but a McCullough fan decided to crash Larry Merchant's interview with the old champion by yelling "He was robbed!" So, Larry Merchant...



Larry apologized (not to the fan) but to his interviewees, claiming he wasn't used to using "strong-arm tactics" to conduct his interviews. It's really too bad Ricky Hatton wasn't there to fix his hair up properly.


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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

What Does Valium Do For You? (GIF Spotlight)



In an incredible meeting of the minds, Freddie Starr and Muhammad Ali met each other on Parkinson. English comic Freddie Starr actually out-talked Muhammad Ali. Oh, the moxie, I tell ya! With Michael Parkinson barely getting a word in, and Muhammad Ali barely getting a sentence in, Freddie Starr went bananas and monopolized the conversation, though what he said was all about The Greatest. On this GIF, Muhammad is asking Freddie about Valium:




Freddie said he gets so nervous before he watches Ali fight that he eats a Valium sandwich. If you've seen the interview, you're left with the impression that this man has ingested something very different from Valium.


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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Muhammad Ali Grabs A Word While George Chuvalo Punches Away: GIF Spotlight






I am reflecting on one of the toughest fighters to ever lace 'em up in Canadian heavyweight contender George Chuvalo. There are murmurs about him being essentially abducted at the age of 80 recently, in what is just one more very sad tale of George's complex family life. He has been a truly wonderful ambassador for the sport, in addition to one of the roughest contenders of the division's history. Here in March of 1966, Muhammad Ali shares a very intense moment with George in their first fight, with Ali defending his title on the road in Chuvalo's backyard.

If I recall correctly, Ali said Chuvalo was the toughest man he ever faced, and Chuvalo said the same about Muhammad. Here, you see George's tough inside body mauling and Ali's habit of holding the neck and back of the head as part of his attempt to assert his physical dominance over his opponent. That glove would work its way around, to the chagrin of a few referees as much as the opponents, whenever his opponent was pressing inside where Ali was less effective. He tried to pull down and tire them out, rough them up, stop them from continuing to work. Chuvalo kept working though, and Ali went to the hospital after winning, due to blood in the urine. They would fight again, still in Canada, still with Ali taking a hard-fought decision, and they'd be friends until Muhammad's passing in 2016. Well wishes to Mr. Chuvalo.



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Friday, February 16, 2018

The Race For 2018 Fighter Of The Year: Who has taken the lead?




BGB's pick for 2017 fighter of the year: Vasyl Lomachenko, with Terence Crawford the runner-up
BGB's current leader for fighter of the year: Vasyl Lomachenko, with Wisaksil Wangek aka Srisaket Sor Rungvisai Nakornl and Terence Crawford as runners-up, close by: Oleksandr Usyk, Murat Gassiev, Naoya Inoue and Terence Crawford
First call:
27th of January:
Usyk takes the lead for me because of his defeating the undefeated Mairis Briedis in Briedis' home country to unify major world titles in his fourteenth professional match. That was a big one.

1st Update:
3rd of February:
Murat Gassiev takes runner-up status.

2nd Update:
24th of February:
Wisaksil Wangek's close victory over Juan Francisco Estrada has taken the lead, I'm thinking. This fight was incredible.

3rd Update:
12th of May
Vasyl Lomachenko takes on lightweight champion and titlists Jorge Linares in his third titlist and first true championship weight class and stops him on a terrific body shot in a very good fight where he needed to come off the deck.  It's big enough to regain the lead. Lomachenko in the lead with Wangek as runner-up, for me. A great achievement for Lomachenko. Crawford, Donnie Nietes and the winner of Usyk/Gassiev are going for it too with their own big fights.

4th Update:
26th of May
Naoya Inoue moves up in weight to shut down Ring's #2, and I believe TBR's #5 ranked Bantamweight and take his major title from him...IN ONE ROUND.  In his 16th professional fight, making him a major titlist at Light Flyweight, Super Flyweight and Bantamweight.  He is in the race.

5th Update:
Ninth of June

Terence Crawford enters the race by technically dominating and physically beating up undefeated Jeff Horn by ninth round TKO and capturing his WBO welterweight title to make three major title weight classes for Bud.



Comment and we'll talk as it progresses.


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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Evander Holyfield Scores A Timber KO: GIF Spotlight

In May of 1986, one-time prospect Terry Mims, well-worn survivor and then journeyman, making ends meet, did his best to stay upright and upset Evander Holyfield. Evander was burning through the ranks to get a title shot against Dwight Muhammad Qawi while still very short on professional experience. Holyfield was 10-0, while Mims was 13-12, according to Boxrec. During the fight, he was announced as 18-11, winning 15 by knockout. Nobody has to be right, but somebody has to be wrong. Holyfield put Mims down with a humdinger of an uppercut while Mims was trying to press ahead and had just landed one of his own to far less effect. Holyfield also goes down at the same time, because an invisible Emanuel Steward is tackling him.



Holyfield KO5 Terry Mims. I believe Mims was hit squarely on the nose by the uppercut and he was bleeding on the canvas from it when he was trying to get back up. Holyfield would get Qawi in his very next match and fight something tantamount to the cruiserweight version of Ali/Frazier with him. He would win the fight also. Mims would go on to lose most of his fights after this, but he would still get the most high profile name under his win column in Leon Spinks, despite that.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Murat Gassiev's Highleet Reel KO Against Jordan Shimmell: GIF Spotlight

PBC and FS1 delivered a card in May of 2016 where then 22-0 prospect Murat Gassiev took on fellow prospect 20-1 Jordan Shimmell. While a good match on paper, it wasn't particularly competitive.



Gassiev KO1 Shimmell. Gassiev is now looking to try and unify all the major cruiserweight claims to the championship against Oleksandr Usyk, with his reputation as a puncher proving more and more weighty as he goes. Jordan Shimmell hasn't fought since this match.


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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Urkel VS Fuffner: Skill VS Brute Strength (GIF Spotlight)




This is Jaleel White showing off the slickness as Steve Urkel on the sitcom Family Matters. Urkel has a boxing match with school bully Willie Fuffner (Larenz Tate) in the 1990 episode entitled Requiem for an Urkel. I don't want to be a buzzkill, but Urkel did not win this one on merit, but rather a technicality when the crowd got involved. This should've had a full investigation and an immediate rematch. This was bad for boxing, no matter how skilled Urkel was. Sitcom boxing needs better commissions and higher standards. That's just my opinion. Fuffner was robbed.


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Monday, February 12, 2018

Juan Manuel Marquez Always Has A Follow-Up Punch: GIF Spotlight

"Dinamita" is not Juan Manuel Marquez's nickname for nothing. In Coeur d'Alene Casino, in Worley, Idaho, October of 2001, he took on Johnny Walker. Many have taken on Johnnie Walker, but this is the fighter, Johnny Walker. Walker was known to give his opponents a gift before the fight. You guessed it, a bottle of Johnnie Walker, as a sign of competitive respect. Gimmicks can really help. This time, not so much. Walker would go from 18-3, before this match, to 18-21 after less than one minute of action with the future Mexican legend. The fight was also another demonstration of JMM pretty much always having a follow-up punch in the knockdowns he scores. They're like shrapnel.  

The first knockdown, with that tail-end left hook to start:


The second and final knockdown/knockout, 56 seconds into the first minute of the first round:

Walker seemed very disoriented for some time as his people told him to sit in the corner. I don't think he believed in the stoppage. It was a rough one. The back of his head hitting the canvas was as much a doozy as the punch. But boxing needs its Johnny Walkers like it needs its JMM's to make the sport go around.


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Andrew Golota Gets To Feelin' Peckish At Work: GIF Spotlight


Tongan heavyweight prospect Samson Po'uha was 15-1 when he took on another prospect in 23-0 Polish gentleman, Andrew (Andrzej) Golota. "Gentleman" may be something of a misnomer. He was unofficially nicknamed "The Foul Pole." It was May of 1995, in Atlantic City, and a wild affair that Michael Buffer rallied the crowd for at the official finishing announcement. Golota was in pretty serious trouble as Po'uha, who'd recently rallied back from nearly being stopped himself, turned the tide and was laying down a whooping. Golota knew he had to do something to get through the round. But apparently it wasn't using his gloved fists first.



In his defense, it's not like you get to have a snack time at work when you're boxing on TV. If he was hungry, what's he going to do? Eat his gloves? He's not some glove-eating barbarian! His blood sugar was low! He's only human!  


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Sunday, February 11, 2018

Darchinyan Rages & Shifts To KO Mijares (GIF Spotlight)


In 2008 and 2009 Vic Darchinyan put his historical stamp on boxing. He'd had a good run as a major titlist at flyweight, as a blunt object, beating all contenders about the head. He proved one of the most p4p physically imposing titlists, and as awkward a stylist as he was an imposing hulk of the lower weights. This is a combination few could seemingly overcome, until a young Nonito Donaire, the year before, had figured him out and shut him down with awesome ease. Darchinyan moved up to super flyweight and went back to the drawing board. It wasn't long before he broke down Freddie Roach's Dmitry Kirilov to win one of the four major belts in his new division. In November of 2008, only a few months after Kirilov, Darchinyan would match Mexico's Cristian "El Diamante" Mijares. Mijares, held two of the four major world titles. He was a smooth, conventional operator, and a name in the p4p conversation.

So, we got a unification of most of the marbles. In modern boxing's confusion, 3/4 of these titles tends to make journalists call you "undisputed" though any idiot can make any dispute they wish. It's not difficult (Ask The Flat Earth Society). Whoever won this bout would technically be the first modern fighter to be called undisputed in the super flyweight division. Due to politics, it's nearly impossible to do it in any division. This is why the current cruiserweight tournament deserves so much attention, I might add. So, for real boxing fans, the fighters may have been small, but the 2008 unification match was big. It was also a classic clash of styles, on paper.

A smooth operator VS a rough banger. It's boxing history on repeat. Mijares was thought to be a bit slick for Vic. And too sharp a counter-puncher for the crablike Darchinyan, who was so notoriously aggressive and unconventional, his skill was often missed. At a glance, it might have been too difficult to figure out what skills made Darchinyan successful. A deeper look showed a craftiness shrouded by Darchinyan's poor temperament, bizarre movements, and arrogance. He used deception, distraction, superior reflexes that normally belong to "cuter" boxers, to land the shots that destroyed body and spirit alike. Mijares and fans who didn't see it would soon find out the hard way.

Darchinyan's style flummoxed and broke the Mexican down through most of their match. If round one looked like this. . .


. . .you can easily see how round nine, with the cards in Vic's favor, looked like this:



A ninth round KO to become the "undisputed" super flyweight champion of the world from the modern era's Raging Bull. Even as he raged forward, there was method to the madness, shifting and forcing Mijares backward, measuring with the right, annihilating with the left. He owned the momentum; he shut down any ability for his opponent to set his feet and counter, and ran him over. It was a tremendous performance.

In 2009, Vic would defend the three titles against Jorge Arce in another dominant exhibition of skill and brute strength. That would mark the end of the three fight streak I assume will eventually put him in the Hall of Fame. He'd still win title fights after Arce, but he'd be waxing and waning the entire way, up until 2017, most recently. His wins against Kirilov, Mijares and Arce mark a brief peak for a truly unique fighter, as I see it. With another move up in weight, the kind of power he lorded over flyweights and super flyweights was not to be seen. It was fascinating while it lasted. Mijares is still fighting as well, and he'd go on to win a few more world title fights, but, to this day, the only man to ever stop him was Vic Darchinyan.


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Saturday, February 10, 2018

Evander Holyfield Lives The Dreams Of A Thousand Fighters: GIF Spotlight


Conan O'Brien hosted Late Night from 1993-2009 and there was a running pugilistic gag. There was also a dark genius who lived in the shadows of Late Night and SNL named Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog). Conan would often have a wide assortment of faked celebrity guests appear on his screen where only the mouths would move in real time on a still photo of the person's face and one of his actors would play their lips. Faux Don King would show up regularly to inflict ebullient verbal torture on Conan, his "potato-eatin', leprechaunical [sic], young friend." One night, he showed up for an interview with Evander Holyfield.



This was after the first Holyfield/Lewis match took place, in the wake of the controversial scoring. Holyfield pretended to do what perhaps every fighter Don King's ever represented has wanted to do. Perhaps they can all watch this GIF as a form of therapy. On Late Night, Robert Smigel also played the lips of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. If you squint, you may see a pattern in it.


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Friday, February 9, 2018

Wladimir Klitschko Shows His Wizardry For David Haye: GIF Spotlight


On Sky Sports, they gave Wladimir Klitschko VS David Haye all the press it demanded, from the first time Haye started to press the issue of potentially moving up to heavyweight and beating both Klitschko brothers and cleaning out the division. He succeeded in cleaning out Nikolay Valuev and John Ruiz, but the rest was much more complicated. There were multiple failed attempts for the parties to come together to make those matches. Promotional disagreements, injuries, mandatories, but they had a very long time to drum up interest in the threat of the cruiserweight destroyer.

As the match neared, there came a silly element of promotion in David Haye's shirt, and David Haye refusing to shake Wladimir's hand, as well as David Haye finally refusing to even meet face to face with the champion at Sky Sports' studio, even though he was at the building somewhere. Sky had to go to the trouble of split-screening them from their regular studio and wherever Haye was in the building. Days or weeks before, when the handshake issue came up during a presser, Wladimir, not seemingly amused, said "You don't want to shake the champ's hand?"

(Haye held one major title claim, Vitali another, Wlad two others, if that's not too absurd to comprehend-But Wladimir was clearly top dog)

Here, at the split-screen interview for Sky, it got even goofier, as Wladimir began to ask Haye to come and see him and shake his hand. "Shake the hand, dude...Come on." Then, starting to wave his hand up and down across the screen, he began to refer to his hand as the magic hand as he watched himself and Haye in the monitor. "Shake the magic hand." Listen, we all want to believe we have a magic hand, I like to think. But Klitschko's hand was more magic and he eventually won their bout by UD, with no rematch ever seemingly necessary, in 2011.


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Thursday, February 8, 2018

Deontay Wilder's Unstoppable Funk Returns For Johann Duhaupas: GIF Spotlight


I think we've covered how unstoppable the funk of Deontay Wilder really is, and it did not stop when he faced European heavyweight champion Johann Duhaupas, of France in September 2015. Wilder was defending his major world heavyweight title against the large Frenchman. A wild fest of sluggery aired on the PBC broadcast that night. Wilder was lifting himself up off the ground with his own final punches to force referee Jack Reiss to stop the fight.


Duhaupas took a terrible beating but landed a surprising amount of leather himself. He went on to beat Robert Helenius and seems to be scheduled to fight three times this year against unannounced opponents. Wilder is still defending his claim and recently annihilated Bermane Stiverne into a meme, and is about a month away from facing arguably his best opponent yet in Luis Ortiz. I've wanted that fight for some time and am glad it looks to be happening now.


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In Living Color Plays With Mike Tyson & Fire: GIF Spotlight

The brilliant sketch comedy show In Living Color featured impressions of Rocky Balboa, Muhammad Ali, Ray Leonard, and, of course, Mike Tyson during its run from 1990-1994. They weren't what you would call kind impressions, but anyone familiar with the long-running Love Connection show or the Mike Tyson/Robin Givens drama of the time period probably laughed mightily if they saw the episode these GIFs are from. With Jim Carrey as Chuck Woolery hosting Love Connection, Kim Coles as Robin Givens and Keenen Ivory Wayans as Mike Tyson, we have:


1:



2:



3:







Robin is being told how the audience votes for picking her beau between Mike Tyson, John F. Kennedy Junior or Donald Trump, in the third GIF. 34% for Donald Trump is almost prophetic, looking at the numbers today.

PS: This has nothing to do with boxing, but I see no reason to rate a prime Robin Givens over a prime Kim Coles, now that I've thought about it. Someone, back me up on this. Coles TKO8 Givens.


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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Ann Wolfe: Lumberjack (GIF Spotlight)

In May of 2004, Vonda Ward, all six and a half feet of her, fought Ann Wolfe for the Women's light heavyweight title. Ann Wolfe proceeded to land an overhand right that could've been used by Don Quixote to take down a windmill.



I was wrong. That could be used to take down thirty or forty windmills. She might have been a giant, but still Wolfe KO1 Ward. This was Ward's only professional defeat.



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Ricky "The Cosmetologist" Hatton: GIF Spotlight

In January of 2007, the light welterweight champion of the world, Ricky Hatton, defended his title against undefeated Juan Urango and had a rugged contest with the powerful Colombian southpaw. But it was HBO's commentator Larry Merchant who needed a little touch up in the post-fight interview. A moment before this happened, Merchant had his head swiped at by someone's flag being waved around, recklessly.



Faint heart never won fair Larry. Hatton took a risk there, and that's when Merchant truly fell under his spell.


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Juan Manuel Marquez's Crossercut KO: GIF Spotlight


In February of 1999, the spectacular Juan Manuel Marquez had recently won a North American featherweight title. He was 27-1, with his one defeat being a disqualification on his pro debut. He'd not yet had a major world title shot. There have been luckier fighters. But he looked every bit the part of a champion. He entered the ring to LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" and he must've had tremendous respect for LL's mama, because he listened and got the job done in round one. He did it with an uppercut he developed somewhere on planet Funkatron, where George Clinton purportedly summers. I call it a crossercut, because it sweeps across as much as it comes up and under. You can call it a Bolo if you think that's what it is. I won't hold it against you.



Whatever you want to call it, it's beautiful. This punch is like a Bond girl. I'm thinking of actually naming this punch "The Ursula Andress." Either way, Marquez KO1 Garcia. To his credit, Garcia got back up, though the referee waved it off. JMM would have to wait until 2003 to get a hold of a major world title. He'd have a major world title in every calendar year for a decade, through four divisions. He'd be spectacular and lethal throughout. Garcia had a very tough time after their match, finishing his career, according to Boxrec, on eleven consecutive losses. If only we could all be legends.

PS: Well, I guess then it would be meaningless, if we were all legends. What a dumb thought I almost ended on.


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Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Paul Williams VS Kermit Cintron: If You're Feelin' Froggy, Don't Do This. (GIF Spotlight)

In May of 2010, the indomitable Paul Williams took on Kermit Cintron. Both former major titlists at welterweight, they met at light middleweight on HBO. It was heating up to become a good fight when IT happened. The strangeness fell upon us, the audience, at home or in the crowd. A thing. Something. A strange something. It happened. What it is will never be understood, as a matter of pugilism, as a matter of medicine, as a matter of sheer physics, what happened that night will never be understood. Here it is:



And, that little leap, ladies and gentlemen, ended the contest in the fourth round. A technical decision was awarded to Paul Williams, and Kermit Cintron left a completely baffled crowd on a stretcher, in a neck brace. Some how. For some reason. There were once brothers. Their surname was Mario. Mario and Luigi Mario. The Mario brothers, some called them. I seem to recall when Mario Mario would put on a green frog suit, it enabled him to swim more efficiently and to jump farther than ever before. Kermit is the name of a famous frog. I'm just trying to connect the dots here. I've almost figured this event out. . .

Yeah, I give up. Regardless, Cintron was recently KO'd by Tyrone Brunson and he is scheduled to fight 8-1 Marquis Taylor on the thirteenth of this month. Taylor is listed as having never scored a knockout. Maybe he can study this GIF to see how to otherwise incapacitate Cintron. But he'll have to break the laws of physics to make this happen again. Watch this space.

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Monday, February 5, 2018

Manny Pacquiao Stars In Fist Of Feather (GIF Spotlight)




From a Fox Sports segment in 2014 with Regis Philbin (the host of all American television) as a referee, Manny Pacquiao demonstrates his stunning loss of power. After a certain point in his career, Manny couldn't even knock out a Miss America winner in Erin Brady. It's not like she's the biggest Miss America winner either. There is simply no excuse for this pillowfistedness. My God, not only did this go the distance, but Pacquiao lost on points. I wonder if Arum had planned a trilogy. Perhaps we'll never know the truth behind it all. 


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Muhammad Ali Meets The Beatles Before Either Were Really Themselves: GIF Spotlight

The first Ali/Liston match was coming up at the end of February, 1964, when the meeting took place. We are a few weeks shy of the 54th anniversary of the first "shock the world" moment for The Greatest. The Beatles were in America, making the rounds, generating attention. Beatlemania was still young in the U.S of A. They reportedly tried to meet with the heavyweight champion of the world, Sonny Liston, and Liston refused to pose for a photo op with those "sissies," as he'd allegedly called the fellas.

So, their next stop was to instead go pose with the loudmouthed and undefeated challenger who would try to take Liston's title, in the very unlikely event he survived long enough to do it. There are several stories about this meeting. Some say Ali had no idea who The Beatles even were. But in the special from PBS that this GIF comes from, American Experience, it seems Ali was still perfectly happy for the opportunity to ham it up with some British rock band if it made them both more press and, hence, more money. So it went:



Ali would go on to defeat Liston twice in a row in that year and the next, and he'd remain an undefeated champion until 1971. Liston would be, for all intents and purposes, blackballed from big fights after the rematch with The Greatest. That's what happens when a fighter takes advantage of Beatlemania and his opponent does not.


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Sunday, February 4, 2018

Mark Kriegel On Mazatlan, Child Abuse & Gilberto Ramirez: Quote Spotlight




On last night's Top Rank card on ESPN, commentator Mark Kriegel did a somewhat awkward segment with Gilberto Ramirez where he made a human interest point of going through a list of Gilberto's childhood friends who've mostly been killed. Joe Tessitore complimented the segment and asked him a question for the audience's benefit. They had this exchange:


Joe Tessitore: What did his father give him as a present, when he turned fourteen?

Mark Kriegel: A loaded revolver. I guess by most standards that would constitutes a form of child abuse. In his neighborhood, in Mazatlan, it may indicate a concerned parent.

Joe Tessitore: Kill or be killed is the way he grew up and he has turned out to be a lovely guy, a gentleman, a sportsman, and now a world champion, and is providing for his family. 

Child abuse, he says. The NRA has yet to comment on this message.  


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Saturday, February 3, 2018

Laurence Cole Is Still. . .Laurence Cole.


I think we've all been there as hardcore boxing fans. By that, I mean frustrated with Laurence Cole, who just keeps getting job after job after job on these TV fights. We got a very fine card on paper from Top Rank & ESPN. It was marred. Gilberto Ramirez VS Habib Ahmed was the main event, a second major world title fight on the card. Again, on paper, a fine card. But as I watched a fighter completely out of ideas as to how to be competitive, let alone victorious, literally running away, multiple times, back turned, from a bigger, stronger, more skilled opponent, but too tough to be put down, I also watched Laurence Cole let him do it, until that fighter's corner asked him to stop it, no matter how obvious it should've been that the fight should be stopped. No matter how obvious it was that Habib Ahmed could not fight Gilberto Ramirez.

So, Laurence Cole does it again. I'm sure he'll do it yet again too. I won't go into why. But I'm pretty sure. As for the action, Ahmed did what he could do and brought no shame upon himself. He was outclassed and out-manned. Ramirez may have missed plenty of shots but I think he has a style that uses his offense to keep the most advantageous distance as much as to do damage, and, if so, it worked virtually the entire match. The Mexican Super Middleweight rarity turned in an A performance, for me. So, with certainly no help from Cole, Ramirez TKO6 Ahmed. It may be little consolation to the losing fighters, but neither of them turned in a performance less competent than Laurence, at least.


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Gassiev VS Dorticos, Minus The VS: GIF Spotlight

The World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight tournament is yielding rewards aplenty for us. The cause of a true tournament to sort out the best of a division is not being treated lightly. It's incredible to have accomplished what is taking place right now. Great competitors are always there. The initiative to bring them together effectively? It's often nonexistent on the part of those who run boxing. But it's all going the right way, right now, in this division. Today, Yunier Dorticos, of Cuba, laid his heart, soul and body on the line to fight Russia's Murat Gassiev. His only problem was that Gassiev was prepared to do the same. Reflecting what they both gave in the ring, Gassiev was seen consoling Dorticos in an emotional post-fight presser.



This is the best of boxing. What we're seeing in this tournament is the best of what boxing offers. Usyk, Gassiev, Dorticos, Briedis, this is arguably now the flagship division of boxing in the year 2018. It might finally be the time this division gets recognized as something more than that place between two historically rich divisions-something to be skipped over if you want money and/or glory. The glory is here now, as far as I'm concerned. Cheers to everyone involved.


The clip was posted at World Boxing Super Series' Facebook page, here:
https://www.facebook.com/WBSuperSeries/videos/1045514028919788/


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Mayweather VS Mosley: Gloves For Swords (GIF Spotlight)


In 2010, May's 1st was not May's first.* It was, however, responsible for one of my personal favorite promos, in the lead-up. The gladiatorial HBO promotional for Floyd Mayweather Junior VS Shane Mosley featured Shane Mosley growling like a half-man creature from 300 and the two boxers wielding swords.







I like the way they transform from ancient gladiators to modern gladiators. Fair play, HBO advertising team. Mayweather was severely rocked early in this fight, but came back like a true great to dominate the rest of the match to a fair unanimous decision. CBZ recognized this as a second win of the lineal welterweight title for the Money man. I have no problem with that.


If you need to catch the growl (and I certainly believe you do):




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Juan Manuel Marquez's Right Hand Forces Backward Diving Motion: GIF Spotlight

In July of 2011, after 2010's thrilling war against Michael Katsidis, Mexican luminary Juan Manuel Marquez tried a second time to go north of 135 pounds, only this time it wasn't against Floyd Mayweather Junior. This time it was against 2004 Olympian Likar Ramos. It was also a bit of a safety pick, on paper, before getting another crack at Manny Pacquiao, who was a strong favorite to beat Marquez. The result?



The Colombian Olympian was unceremoniously used, abused and destroyed in the first round. It was so abrupt that Ramos, obviously being a competent professional, was accused of taking a dive. Personally, I think a lot of people "take a dive" when someone knocks the utter bejabbers out of them. They just don't do it on purpose. It's amazing how unpurposeful an alleged dive can be when Juan Manuel Marquez is in the ring with you, and his right hand wants you to imitate Matthew McConaughey at the pool. Also, if it were a dive, he way oversold it. He was on that canvas for quite some time. It was a great shot. Marquez would, of course, go on to lose yet another controversial decision to Manny Pacquiao, then match him a fourth time and put him to sleep like he was Likar Ramos, with another big right hand. I don't know of anyone who accused Pacquiao of taking a dive, however.


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Friday, February 2, 2018

JCC Gives Us An FF: GIF Spotlight


One seriously journeyed journeyman named Silvio Walter Rojas, who Boxrec.com lists over one hundred bouts for, was given a shot, in more ways than one, by Julio Cesar Chavez, Senior in 1993. Chavez was coming off of a 140-pound title defense where he destroyed Greg Haugen and as he often did, he went into this kind of journeyman workout after a high class match, contested a little above the 140-pound limit. The result?



Daddy Julio gave us a nice face-firster for the highlight reels in the third round, while Rojas gave us a true fighter's fight, knowing a shield can be more comfortable in Mexico than anywhere else in the world. Chavez had four title fights in two weights this year.


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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Frank Bruno's Boxing Is Related To Mike Tyson's Boxing, In A Way: GIF Spotlight


Today, I ran across a play-through video on Youtube of a video game starring Mister Frank Bruno. I had to GIF this blessed gem with an interesting rendering of Frank Bruno fighting both "Tribal Trouble" and "Frenchie France," two of the most revered heavyweights of someone's mind.




Yes, that man had a bone in his nose, and, yes, Bruno's hair looks like it could be He-Man's hair. The only thing I could find about this game was that it might be "unofficial" and possibly used the arcade game precursor to Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, called Super Punch-Out!!, as the template for a Commodore 64 game system. It's all Greek to me though. It was either officially or unofficially entitled "Frank Bruno's Boxing" in 1985. . .I think. If you need more than a GIF, like a score, here is the video I found:



There is also an attempt to give the history of it on this Wikipedia page. It should be enough just for you to know that it existed. Things like this do not need explained. They're gifts.


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Why Do They Call Him The Miracle Man? (Quote Spotlight)


In HBO's My Fight spotlight, they featured Danny Jacobs for his bout with Luis Arias in late 2017. As many fans know, Jacobs went from a hot prospect to a cancer survivor to the unlikely position of becoming one of the clear best middleweights in the world currently. Jacobs was told he'd never fight again after a successful surgery to remove a large tumor wrapped around his spine. Jacobs' trainer, Andre Rozier, had this to say about the immediate aftermath and Jacobs' nickname:




In text:

Trainer Andre Rozier on Danny Jacobs' nickname: 

"When he first came back to the gym, he had the full body brace on. He said "I'm ready to hit the bag." and he hit the bag maybe four or five times and he says "I'll see you tomorrow." Through it all, he just kept smiling, and I think his experience- his bout with cancer- formed a new strength and confidence in him, and that's why he's the Miracle Man."


Jacobs went on to defeat undefeated Luis Arias by a dominant unanimous decision and is scheduled to fight in April.


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