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Michael Amakor is a rabid fan of the sweet science which he views as the epic struggle of every man trying to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles on his path to greatness- if only he can get past the man in front of him.
He serves as the Chief Scribe for FightKings which he created in 2003, he is also a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America.
He has attended several fights both as a casual fan, and as a ringside reporter. In his spare time he enjoys watching old fights clips, and indexing his massive fight collection. His numerous articles have been published on several websites.
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THROWBACKS VERSUS YOUNG BLOODS:
February
25, 2007 - Gone
unnoticed this weekend under the cloud of the Heavyweight unification
bore-fest (I actually dozed off during the fight, and skipped to the end
during the recorded replay) this Saturday night was the amazing split
decision victory of former Light Heavyweight champion Reggie Johnson
over former WBO Light Heavyweight Champion Julio Cesar Gonzalez to seize
the vacant International Boxing
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Fighter of the Year:
December 31, 2007 - As is typical in
boxing, several fans, writers, and magazines who should know better have
been temporarily blinded by they recent victories of certain media hyped
celebrity boxers and have crowned them undeservedly as the fighter of
2007. But let’s get real; the fighter of the year is Kelly “The Ghost”
Pavlik - a boxer puncher. More |
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My 2007 Fight of the Year : You may not have been a fan of the contrived and carefully edited boxing series “The Contender”, you may also not have been enthusiastic about the mix of 168 pound super middleweights fighters assembled in the third installment which in the end pitted the very experienced 28 year old Sakio Bika (24- 3-2, 14 ko’s); a former Olympian More |
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Unified and Undisputed in 2008: 2007 was another great year for the sweet science, and historians will trace the renaissance of boxing to this decade. Who can honestly say boxing is dying, just look at the pay per view numbers for Mayweather vs. Hatton and Oscar De La Hoya, Cotto vs. Zab Judah and Mosley, |
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Calzaghe Remains Undisputed at 168: Saturday November 3rd, 2007 - The decade rule of WBO Super Middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe continued uninterrupted as he comprehensively out-boxed the game, strong but technically overmatched Mikkel Kessler to annex the WBA and WBC titles to seal his legacy and supremacy in the 168 pound division in front of over fifty thousand partisan fans at a converted rugby pitch in Cardiff Wales. The combatants spent the first round trying to figure each other out, but Calzaghe was quicker and subtle imposed his will on the Dane landing body shots from different angles to steal the 2nd and 3rd rounds |
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THE NIGHTMARE SURVIVES BIG TIME: October 6, 2007: Newly Crowned WBC Interim Heavyweight Champion the "Nigerian Nightmare" Sam Peters suffered three ignoble knockdowns from an
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EMMANUEL NWODO TRAINING CAMP NOTES - HE MAKES HIS FIRST USBA CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE DEFENSECLICK HERE TO VIEW TRAINING VIDEO Baltimore MD, (June 27, 2006) Right in the middle of inner city Baltimore lies the graffiti like painted and spacious Mack Lewis boxing gym opened with much fanfare in 2002 and named after the owner who once trained former middleweight champion Vincent Pettaway and Reggie Gross. Adorning its walls are posters of long forgotten fights of local legends, ocassionally Baltimore’s best boxing pugilists like former heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman and others have found their way into its confines to train. More) |
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IBRAGIMOV DETHRONES BRIGGS: Atlantic City, NJ (June 3, 2007) - Former WBO Asia Pacific Heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov stepped up in class and claimed the highly coveted WBO Heavyweight Title from defending champion Shannon Briggs who was making the very first defense of his title at the Boardwalk hall in Atlantic City. His victory completes the final sweep of all the recognized belts in the heavyweight division by fighters of Soviet extraction, leaving the United States without a belt holder in the division for the first time in living memory. Continue to Mega Fight |
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IBRAGIMOV DEMOLISHES MORA
New York (March 10, 2007) WBO Asia Pacific Heavyweight Champion Sultan Ibragimov needed just 46 seconds to destroy overmatched Javier Mora at the theater in Madison Square Garden, in New York City. Continue |
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WILSON BOMBS OUT DAVIS
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Sam Peters Gets Past Lights Out Toney: In another cross roads fight that helped showcase a dominant contender aspiring to become the Supreme overlord of the heavyweight division, NABF Champion Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peters annexed the IBA title from the rugged trash talking James "Lights Out" Toney on September 2nd at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in a fight featured on Showtime.Continue |
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The Dream of Tyson Lives On: On Saturday June 11, 2005, former undisputed heavyweight champion Iron Mike Tyson suffered another humiliating and shocking defeat after his well publicized comeback, in a fight no one thought he could possibly lose.Before the fight we caught glimpses of the old Mike Tyson uttering vile invectives about Kevin McBride, describing him as a tomato can.” I’m gonna gut him like a fish" he barked convincingly. His rants made us all reminiscent about past bombasts from a younger Tyson who once declared “There is not a man alive today that can beat me?” Everybody was pumped up and excited because this was the trash talking Mike Tyson we had come to love and we all jumped on the roller coaster ride predicting all kinds more |