Ted Spoon
22 articles · EastSideBoxing.com
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Chocolatito: P4P Personified
By Ted Spoon
For ten years and over three divisions he tore through quality opponents, achieving a KO percentage good enough to make any casual drool? Many factors go into what we call greatness. In…
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GGG & Chocolatito: Reputation vs. Reality
By Ted Spoon
At what cost is the Kazakh willing to wait for his shot at a man who has already relinquished his belt and clearly gets his rocks off at being in control? Barring…
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Way of the Warrior: Warrington Beats Amagasa
By Ted Spoon
This limited fighter continues to grow, assuredly not into multi-weight world championship proportions, but where exactly? With the prospect of Anthony Joshua bumping into Tyson Fury later this year Britain?s boxing scene…
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Manchester: The Jackal Outfoxes Quigg
By Ted Spoon
Carl Frampton leaves this fight with even more momentum behind him, and you better believe the world is paying attention. America certainly is? There had been some unprofessional, even childish moments in…
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Where Art Thou, O? Destroyer?
By Ted Spoon
Skillsets have been poor for so long new trainers have a limited understanding of what actually works if you?re not 6?7? and can move a bit? I can?t deny watching Tyson Fury…
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Manchester: High Stakes
By Ted Spoon
There have been some poor cards this year. Tonight was not one of them. Inside of Manchester?s raucous Phones 4U arena we got as per advertised? Britain is guilty of indulging when…
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Can Manny Do it?
By Ted Spoon
There is definitely more pressure on Floyd, the favorite and defender of an oh-so precious record; not that anyone expects him to choke? It is the emotionally-charged question on which the event…
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Tuning up the Band: Leeds? Warrior
By Ted Spoon
This kind of rowdy atmosphere may not be to every boxing fan?s taste though a fight crowd is not the setting for political debate? We?ve just had our first few days of…
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Bernard: Looking Down Both Barrels
By Ted Spoon
He?s always been there, for the last 24 years, harassing and (mainly) baffling opponents with a museum?s worth of knowhow? In what many consider Bernard Hopkins? magnum opus, The Executioner punched out…
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Ring of Solace, Part 5: Sparkling Debris
By Ted Spoon
Many were polite but disconnected in their silence. Others shed a tear. The old geezers wore a private smile. And snuck back into the Garden? ?I guess I liked Tony so much…
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Ring of Solace, Part 4: Collision
By Ted Spoon
Just eighteen days later saw the inevitable rubber match between McLarnin and Ross. It was back to the Polo Grounds? ?This hoodoo business is getting tiresome. You?d think ring titles were won…
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Ring of Solace, Part 3: Faith in Violence
By Ted Spoon
Rather than lose himself in the fight he made a discovery, something Isidore would have ridiculed. Boxing was a thinking man?s sport? ?With King Levinsky definitely eliminated as a main event performer,…
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The Groves Gameplan
By Ted Spoon
Everyone likes to make analogies with granite and iron, but we?re ultimately dealing with flesh and bone; materials that deteriorate en route to becoming dust? The ticks are getting louder by the…
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Dempsey: An Explosive Spirit
By Ted Spoon
That lovesick puppy was no more. The hobo that had shivered himself to sleep was full of strength. Compassion, the defect, had gone? Almost nobody alive will remember Feb 16, 1918. Only…
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Floyd-Maidana: Something to get my Teeth into
By Ted Spoon
Tactics like these are usually frowned upon, but we all knew Maidana was doing what the doctor ordered ? fighting ugly? I switch off when the fight?s over. At least I try…
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In This Cell: Charles Bronson
By Ted Spoon
In 1993, having taken a librarian hostage, his demands were thus: a helicopter, an inflatable doll, and a cup of tea? ?My journey has been 40 years of hopelessness. A fight I…
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Manchester: Raw and Uncut
By Ted Spoon
To the delight of a roaring audience, Scott Quigg (28-0-2, 21 KOs) wiped out Tshifhiwa Munyai (24-3-1, 12 KOs) at the 1:56 mark of round two? I lived in and around Manchester…
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Bob Foster: Monster Man
By Ted Spoon
?I like chasing crooks. I drive through town at eighty miles an hour, my red light flashing and my shotgun on my lap. It?s dangerous, but it?s fun?? There?s a constant hissing…
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Howard Winstone: Idol of Merthyr
By Ted Spoon
A stoppage is quite different to a points? loss. One says you can be beaten, the other says you can be conquered, and the latter can change a fighter? ?Courage is grace…
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Floyd: Money over Memories
By Ted Spoon
Many years from now, with a silver goatee and an absence of Yes-Men, the fighter spots the businessman who short-changed his legacy? 2013 was a great year for boxing. September 14th left…