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Mid January 2014 Report from the Chronicles of Boxing’s Saint Michael

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

By Michael Amakor | January 15, 2014 Welcome to 2014, I was too busy toasting the end of 2013 and celebrating the holidays that I am only now getting back to the business of boxing reporting, updating these Chronicles, and combing the archives for upcoming 2013 boxing awards. Since our Dec 7th update, we...

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Dates to Remember in January

Posted by Richey Jones on Jan 21, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Richey S. Jones – Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. January 1 1903: Joe Gans DQ 11 Gus Gardner, New Connecticut. Retains world lightweight title. 1907: Joe Gans KO 8 Kid Herman, Tonopah, NV. Retains world lightweight title. 1908: Abe Attell Draw 25...

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Media Day— Kevlar, Peanut Jacket and The Alien, Jennings, Hart & Hopkins

Posted by George Hanson., Jr Esq. on Jan 20, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

The Mouthpiece By: George H. Hanson Jr., Esq.| January 15, 2014 Photos by Darryl Cobb Jr. (www.dcobbjr.com) Philadelphia gained notoriety as the boxing capital of the world long before heavyweight contender Bryant “By-By” Jennings and super-middleweight phenom Jesse “Hard Work” Hart ever laced on a...

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Greg Robinson-Crusoe – Last Man Standing

Posted by George Hanson., Jr Esq. on Jan 20, 2014 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

The Mouthpiece By: George H. Hanson Jr., Esq | January 20, 2014 Photo by Darryl Cobb Jr. (www.dcobbjr.com) (The Mouthpiece – June 15, 2013) – With the shuttering of The Legendary Blue Horizon in June 2010—Peltz Boxing Promotions moving most of its shows to Atlantic City and Bethlehem,...

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Unified and Undisputed Championship Hopes for 2014

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Jan 6, 2014 in Featured Articles | 2 comments

By Michael Amakor | January 6, 2014 In all sports, particularly in the combat blood sport of boxing, boxers are expected to fight each other with the winner going on to defeat a successive line of progressively elite opponents to become the ranked contender that challenges and defeats the reigning titlist to...

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Winter Gloves – Amateur Action 12-20-13

Posted by PATTEE MAK on Dec 19, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

Interview by Pattee Mak | December 17, 2013 Let’s end the 2013 calendar year out right with some head to head and toe to toe amateur boxing. On this Friday, December 20, 2013 at the Merrick Recreational Center in Washington, D.C. fists will collide on what is going to be an exciting night of boxing. I had...

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Will Victor Ortiz Dance Around Luis Collazo on 1-30-2014?

Posted by PATTEE MAK on Dec 19, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

Interview by Pattee Mak | December 17, 2013 Welterweight Luis Collazo (37-5-0, 17 ko’s) former WBA welterweight world champ will be starting 2014 off right. On January 30, 2014 he is scheduled to be the main event against Season 16, Dancing with the Stars contestant “Vicious” Victor Ortiz (29-4-2, 22...

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Amandla!-The 13th Man

Posted by George Hanson., Jr Esq. on Dec 15, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

The Mouthpiece By: George H. Hanson Jr., Esq. | December 13, 2013 (December 5th – my Facebook post) Nelson Mandela – One of my saddest days! We lost the last of the great, truly great Freedom Fighters! Mr. Mandela was an inspiration and role model. There will never be another one like him. As...

The Chronicles of St. Michael – December 7, 2013

Posted by MICHAEL AMAKOR on Dec 14, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor | December 12, 2013 December 7, 2013, another day that will live in infamy in the annals of boxing. On that day, we had two excellent fight cards on rival HBO and Showtime TV networks forcing fight fans to alternate between channels so as not to miss the action. The most impressive fight of...

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The Chronicles of St Michael – November 2013

Posted by admin on Dec 13, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Michael Amakor | November 27, 2013 In Boxing, we usually have three blind as mice judges score fights so badly leaving a bad leftover taste in the mouth of the fans and savagely victimizing the losing combatant at the receiving end. This time however, the culprit was the referee who stopped the explosive...

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Back To Winning, Garcia In Phoenix, Martell Retires

Posted by admin on Dec 7, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

Arizona Boxing News & Notes with DON SMITH Back To Winning, Garcia In Phoenix, Martell Retires Boxing Fans, After two consecutive losses, 34 year old Manny Pacquiao returned to winning with a unanimous victory over a game but out manned Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios to capture the vacant WBO...

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THE MARTIAL ARTS KID

Posted by PATTEE MAK on Dec 7, 2013 in Featured Articles | 5 comments

** Movie Alert ** – THE MARTIAL ARTS KID IT’S NOT ALWAYS THE MOVIE BUT THE ACTORS PLAYING THEIR ROLE Interview by Pattee Mak| December 6, 2013 – Ok you are probably wondering why is Pattee Mak interviewing two world renowned kickboxers, Hamid Lahrizi and his amazing 9 year old son, Nassim...

Irish Joe McCreedy Goes the Distance Against Tyner

Posted by PATTEE MAK on Nov 26, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

[November 23, 2013 – Ringside by Pattee Mak] On a crisp, cold afternoon in Boston, Massachusetts Big Six Entertainment held another fight card at the old Roxy nite club know known as Club Royale. “Royale Rumble” featured “Irish” JOE McCREEDY of Lowell, MA vs. STEVEN TYNER of...

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Finding Sergeant Folly

Posted by George Hanson., Jr Esq. on Nov 26, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

The Mouthpiece George H. Hanson Jr., Esq November 24, 2013 September 15, 2212 (Las Vegas, Nevada) – On the second day of the World Boxing Draft (WBD) with the first pick, the United States Boxing League (USBL) selected Jamaican welterweight Jack “The Axe Man” Hanson signing the twenty-year-old...

Boxing Dates to Remember in November

Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2013 in Featured Articles | 1 comment

November 1, 1886: George Dixon KO 3 Young Johnson, Halifax, N.S. Dixon’s pro debut. 1907: Frank Mantell KO 15 Honey Melody, Dayton, OH. Wins World Welterweight Title. 1908: Georges Carpentier WF 13 Ed Salmon, Mais-Laffitte, France. Carpentier’s pro debut. 1922: Mickey Walker W 15 Jack Britton, NYC. Wins...

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Boxing Dates to Remember in December

Posted by Richey Jones on Nov 23, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

December 1, 1942: Ezzard Charles W 10 Joey Maxim, Cleveland. Sugar Ray Robinson KO 8 Izzy Jannazzo, Cleveland. 1973: Bob Foster W 15 Pierre Fourie, Johannesburg, South Africa. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title. Eusebio Pedroza KO 4 Julio Garcia, Panama City. Pedroza’s pro debut. 1976: Tomasz Adamek...

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Prospects Take Center Stage November 23 in Baltimore!

Posted by admin on Nov 21, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

By Gary “Digital” Williams | November 18, 2013 A number of Beltway prospects will headline the Hardwork Promotions card on Saturday, November 23 at the Patapsco Arena in Baltimore, MD. All the bouts on the card are scheduled for four rounds. One of the busiest boxers on the Beltway scene will be...

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WHAT IF ? FOREMAN -VS- QUARRY IN 1973

Posted by JIM AMATO on Nov 10, 2013 in Featured Articles | 1 comment

By Jim Amato Super Fights.. It is a very over used term these days. Some of the PPV “Super Fights” of today would have been nice Saturday afternoon feature bouts on ABC’s Wide World Of Sports in my day. There were several bouts from the late 1960′s to the early 1980′s I wish would have been...

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The Day I Almost Fought a Legend

Posted by admin on Nov 10, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

The Mouthpiece By: George H. Hanson Jr., Esq. Never underestimate a child – Ok folks so we are in the boxing gym earlier today. And little Legend Wilson (who I am holding in the picture below) came to the gym with his father and USBA cruiserweight champion – Garrett “The Ultimate Warrior” Wilson....

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“BOUT THAT LIFE” Newest Boxing Music Video

Posted by PATTEE MAK on Nov 5, 2013 in Featured Articles | Comments Off

Interview by Pattee Mak – November 1, 2013, Springfield, Massachusetts Who wouldn’t love to watch a boxing hip hop music video? I know I would cause I love boxing. Singer and songwriter Kriss Famouss recently released his newest single entitled, “Bout That Life”. Portions of his music video were...

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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.