By: Sean Crose The first fight that aired on Showtime Saturday night from Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center featured rising star Jemall Charlo, a 25-0 first time middleweight, facing off against Jorge Sebastian Heiland a 29-4-2 Argentine who had previously defeated the likes of Austin Trout and Cornelius Bundridge. It was all …
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McMayweather Inc. – The clash of the content providers inches closer and closer By G.E. Simons A cross-over combat sports encounter between MMA’s premier champion Conor McGregor and boxing’s ‘retired’ star attraction Floyd Mayweather, continues to evolve from whimsical ‘what if’ rumour to clickbaity content provision, to public relations lever …
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Is Mayweather vs McGregor Another Barnum & Bailey Show? By: Ken Hissner Roy Jones, Jr., 64-9 (46) had a contest and in March of 2016 the winner of the contest would fight Roy. Vyron “The Cannon” Phillips was the winner. The only boxing background he had was 6 amateur bouts. …
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Mayweather-McGregor If It Happen’s It Must Be an Exhibition! By: Ken Hissner On March 20, 2016 the former 3 division world champion Roy Jones, Jr., 63-9 (46), was permitted to fight Vyron “Cannon” Phillips who was making his debut as an opponent. Phillips had 6 amateur bouts. Phillips was 33 …
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American Boxers Fighting Out of Japan Back to 1961! By: Ken Hissner Japan is a hot bed for boxers with quite a bit of activity on the small island. In the past such boxers as America’s Steve “Flasher Ishibashi” Smith was one of those boxers to win Japan‘s National Title. …
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Muhammad Ali In Fat City History By: Jorge Martinez Recent events have exposed fissures in our union and rocked our national identity. It is in this venue that I share the following story of two “Fat City” residents and Muhammad Ali. One is Mayor, Joan Darrah, the other is Ralph …
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Why It’s No Longer Crazy To Think Incompetent Judging Can Impact Mayweather-McGregor By: Sean Crose Picture, if you will, Las Vegas abuzz with screaming Irish fans and intense American fan boy love. The subject of all this wild admiration? One Conor McGregor. Now picture, if you will, McGregor doing more …
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When Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson Fought Pete Rademacher, A Champion Facing a Debuting Boxer By: Ken Hissner With all the big hoopla today about Floyd “Money” Mayweather 49-0 a month away from his match with Colin McGregor 0-0 who has no credible amateur experience since he was a youth this …
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By: Ken Hissner Ken Hissner’s 100 Club July 2017 Reggie Strickland US 66-276-17 LKO 25 Peter Buckley UK 32-256-12 LKO 10 Kristian Laight UK 12-248-8 LKO 5 (still active) Jason Nesbitt UK 10-195-4 LKO 18 (still active) Tiger Bert Ison UK 114-179-41 LKO 46 Arnold Sheppard UK 95-169-38 LKO 14 …
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Oscar De La Hoya On Mayweather-McGregor Super Farce: “Our Sport Might Not Ever Recover.” By: Sean Crose “Our sport might not ever recover.” Those words came from Oscar De La Hoya in a no-holds-barred Facebook post regarding the potential Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor super farce the public is enthralled with. Although …
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