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Unified and Undisputed Championship Hopes for 2015

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Dec 28, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By MICHAEL AMAKOR | January 9, 2015 In all sports, particularly in the combat blood sport of boxing, fighters fight each other. The winner then goes on to fight and defeat progressively elite contenders before challenging and defeating the reigning titlist to become Champion. That would be the logical...

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2014 Octoberfest from the chronicles of Boxing’s Saint Michael

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Dec 10, 2014 in Featured Articles | 1 comment

From The Chronicles of Boxing’s Saint Michael By Michael Amakor| December 9, 2014 As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the...

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November 2004 Report from the Chronicles of Boxing’s Saint Michael

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Dec 7, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

From The Chronicles of Boxing’s Saint Michael By Michael Amakor| December 9, 2014 Shannon Briggs started off November securing an impressive 50th career win over a rank journeyman and then flew to Germany and attempted to crash Wladimir Klitschko events in preparation for a title defense against...

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9th Round of 2014 from the Chronicles of Boxing’s Saint Michael

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Dec 6, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor Chief Scribe, FightKings.Com September 30, 2014. Fight Fans, It’s been a while since my last monthly report. There has been so much boxing that I ran out of gas in the 7th round of July – unforgivable, as we expect better conditioning from the fighters we watch – but even...

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Tony Jeter Defeats Lange, Captures NABA Title; Tori Nelson Makes fifth Title Defense!!!

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Nov 20, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor | Ringside November 15, 2014 Venue: Patriot Center, George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia Promoters: Jimmy Lange Boxing & JD Brown & Associates Presented by Jeff Valcourt and Valcourt Building Services Announcer: Henry “Discombobulating” Jones Matchmaker: JD Brown Cover...

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Hopkins Gets Krushed!!! – But Still Determined to Play at a Young Man’s Game.

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Nov 11, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

Ringside Report by Michael Amakor | November 9, 2014 Venue: Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City New Jersey Promoters: Golden Boy Promotions and Main Events Coverage: FightKingsTV Commentary: Michael Amakor, Mudassar A Khan It is a common saying, well, at least in boxing, that you play at other sports, but...

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Count Down to November 8 Showdown between Bernard Hopkins and Sergei Kovalez

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Nov 7, 2014 in Pre-Fight Jabs | Comments Off

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Cruiserweight Boxing News Summary for October 2014

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Oct 26, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor | October 26, 2014 Culled from Cruiserweight Boxing News The cruiserweight division has been in a funk recently. At the beginning of the year we started out with Denis Lebedev (26-2, 20KOs) as champion at the WBA, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (49-3-1, 35KOs) at the WBC, Marco Huck (38-2-1,...

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Golovkin vs Arthur Abraham Should be Next

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Oct 19, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor | October 25, 2014 After Gennady Golovkin’s destruction of Rubio tonite, it is becoming glaringly obvious Golovkin is the real deal. After looking through the middleweight rankings down below: Miguel Cotto: former welterweight champion who just upseated shopworn Martinez is too...

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Chronicles of Boxing’s Saint Michael – July 2014

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Oct 1, 2014 in Editorial | Comments Off

An uncelebrated former titlist who beat former champs John Ruiz, Nicolai Valuev, a pts loss to Povetkin and a win over the unfortunate Fres Oquendo can’t really be that bad of a fighter, We have a new WBA heavyweight Champion and his name is RusIan Chagaev – good for him, but boxing is not going...

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Calzaghe, Oscar De la Hoya & Trinidad inducted into the IBHOF

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Jun 11, 2014 in Other News | Comments Off

COMPILED BY MICHAEL AMAKOR | INFORMATION CULLED FROM WWW.BWAA.ORG OSCAR DE LA HOYA Career: 1992-2008 World championships: WBO Super Featherweight (March 5, 1994 – July 29, 1994, 1 Defense; vacated); WBO Lightweight (July 29, 1994 – 1996, 6 Defenses; vacated); IBF Lightweight (May 6, 1995;...

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Simpiwe Vetyeka Loses WBA Super Featherweight Title

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Jun 1, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor | May 31, 2014 Former South African Bantamweight Champion Simpiwe Vetyeka (26-3, 16KO’s) dropped a fourth round technical decision to Nonito Donaire to lose his WBA Super Featherweight title on May 31, 2014 at the Venetian Resort, in Macao, China. The fight appeared to be even until...

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As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.

In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.