Martin Wade
24 articles · DoghouseBoxing.com
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The Price of Immortality
By Martin Wade
We live in funny times. It seems the more worthless the dollar becomes, the more we talk about it. It?s no wonder a guy (Mitt Romney) who plays ?Three-Card Monty? with millions…
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Shane Mosley, “The Political Insider”
By Martin Wade
There's something about the word "insider" that is uniquely American because America's diversity and independent spirit lend to people taking shelter in illicit circles. When you're at the club, you gape at…
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Miguel Cotto and Timothy Bradley, you’ll thank them later
By Martin Wade
Boxing fans are like the beautiful women Chris Rock riffed about in his comedy routine, when you ask them what they want they answer you without skipping a beat, "everything." Mick Jagger…
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Floyd Mayweather vs. Jeremy Lin, Racism or Envy? …
By Martin Wade
Like clockwork Floyd Mayweather injected race into a situation with about as much insight as he exhibits in (24/7) family counseling. Somehow via Twitter (his rightful forum) we are led to believe…
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Martin Wade’s “Loaded Gloves:” The Mayweather/Pacquiao Edition: The tweets heard round the world…
By Martin Wade
In true schoolyard fashion starting last week (January 9th) Floyd Mayweather did the equivalent of telling WBO Welterweight Champion Manny Pacquiao to "meet me after school." Amazingly, the internet as well as…
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Martin Wade’s Loaded Gloves for the Week Ending June 12th, 2011
By Martin Wade
What if I told you that over the last week I've had a change of heart; had one of those "light bulb" moments and somehow found that lifetime network place you call…
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Martin Wade’s Loaded Gloves for the Week Ending May 29th 2011…
By Martin Wade
~Sitting in the back of a Hyundai Sonata~ You see, I got this Boxing "writing thing" on lock and I'm not getting any younger so I "move when I want to move."…
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Martin Wade’s Loaded Gloves for the Week Ending May 14th, 2011…
By Martin Wade
Ever the deadbeat writer I've come home to my article, head bowed and wearing that guilty facial expression. But hey, what the hell can I say? A brotha had some business to…
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Manny Pacquiao and the end of the romanticism…
By Martin Wade
As a father of two adult children I am often the butt of generational jokes, many I can't decode. In return I get to embarrass my kids and pelt them with endless…
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Martin Wade’s Loaded Gloves for the Week Ending March 13th, 2011…
By Martin Wade
I could lie to you and tell you I was getting down like Charlie Sheen with a couple of (cough) ?Goddesses? for my birthday last week but it wouldn?t be manly. Closer…
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Martin Wade’s Loaded Gloves for the Week Ending February 27, 2011
By Martin Wade
I could trouble you with an "intro" but I won't, not after what we all just saw last Saturday night. Hopefully the executives at HBO saw it, and hopefully they see the…
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Martin Wade’s Loaded Gloves for the Week Ending February 7th, 2011
By Martin Wade
Thud That’s was the sound of Boxing's latest installment of the “fight we all need so much to be a good one.??� Bradley vs. Alexander started off brisk enough and it was…
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Martin Wade’s Loaded Gloves, Week Ending January 29, 2011…
By Martin Wade
Forget the introductions and formalities, you know who this is. It’s your boy and I’m starting off 2011 in a column format. Gotta get my consistency on and comment on what the…
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Bernard Hopkins, Age before Intelligence…
By Martin Wade
On December 18th Bernard Hopkins, pugilist-agitator-legend will attempt to prolong the frustrating odyssey normalized by aging fighters in the modern landscape. Hopkins will be jumping ship from HBO to Showtime and challenging…
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Manny Pacquiao, Identity Theft…
By Martin Wade
On the first week of November I went out to do my duty as an American citizen, and lost my damned wallet. Panic set in and I took all of the prudent…
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Why Floyd’s Controversies Won’t Matter, and 154 lbs. Championship Rant
By Martin Wade
Sometime a couple of weeks ago, Ustream, a video platform for the likes of Diva wide receivers and Stephon Marbury, unveiled a new star: Floyd Mayweather Jr. On a lengthy diatribe, the…
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Mayweather-Mosley Can Produce Fireworks. And Split Personality…
By Martin Wade
It's April and like most that enjoy Boxing at the highest level I too am excited by the fact that Mayweather vs. Mosley is approaching. If you're a fight fan of a…
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Fear of a Pacquiao Planet – Part II of II
By Martin Wade
...Shane Mosley, Fernando Vargas and James Toney were all lessened in the ring by steroid use and yet fear of Pacquiao's dominance leads us to believe he somehow got his hands on…
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Fear of a Pacquiao Planet – Part I of II
By Martin Wade
We live in cynical times; cut-throat realities in every segment of life convince us that nothing or no one is what or who they seem. Baseball's apple pie is long replaced by…
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Five reasons the build-up to Mayweather – Mosley will get nasty…
By Martin Wade
Well boxing freaks, they did it! Despite weeks of serious buzz kill and ice-cream headaches following the Mayweather/Pacquiao breakdown we get a real fight. Is it the fight we "want?" Uhm, no,…