Clarence George
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One Ton Tony
Would just another four inches or so have made a difference to his rather lackluster record of 37 wins, 13 by knockout, 30 losses, and three draws? ?Short People got no reason…
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When Japanese Collide
WBA world junior lightweight champ Takashi Uchiyama will defend his title for the eighth time this New Year?s Eve? ?It?s dog eat dog ? the law of the jungle!??When Worlds Collide WBA…
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Nobody Shoots at Santa Claus
Imagine his dismay, and my amusement, when he ripped open the wrapping paper to discover a photo of a white guy in a cowboy outfit? ?Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at…
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You da Mann!
The New York Daily Mirror, grande dame of the yellow press, was around when boxing was in its glory and Joe Louis was its king? ?Galento floors Mann for the second and…
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Mandela vs. Obama
The two young legal wizards of Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama, became rivals upon their first handshake when the right-handed Mandela squeezed Obama?s hand until the latter sighed: ?Oh.? Obama, a…
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Golovkin Meets Adama
Gennady Golovkin, aka God?s gift to the middleweight division, will defend his WBA and IBO titles on February 1 in Monte Carlo? ?I must hurry back to my house and flowers in…
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Through the Door or Out the Window
If cryptozoology is good enough for Nikolay Valuev, then it?s perhaps just the ticket for Roy Jones Jr. and James Toney? ?Out you two pixies go, through the door or out the…
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Gnashing of Teeth
I?m dismayed by all the hand-wringing over what happened to Magomed Abdusalamov following his heavyweight bout with Mike Perez? ?There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.??Matthew 13:42 I?m dismayed by all…
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The Bible of Bad Editing
I came across Doug Fischer?s breakdown of Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios? strengths and weaknesses? ?Mistakes are the portals of discovery.??James Joyce ?Oh please!??Clarence George In reading the December issue of the…
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Rocky and Diana Sitting in a?Money?Tree
It?s difficult to think of ?The Brockton Blockbuster? without bringing to mind Britain?s answer to Jayne Mansfield, the delectable Diana Dors? ?You can keep your Marxist ways, For it?s only just a…
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Arthur De Kuh?s Bathing Suit
Lupe was at the bout, screaming at yet another in a long line of men who came up short: ?You should wear a bathing suit with that sort of diving!? ?The first…
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Tony Galento: The Quest
Given the quality of this gem, why would I need another, and inevitably lesser, Galento autograph? That?s an easy one?I?m greedy? ?Who is this guy, Queensberry? I don?t see anything wrong in…
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The Mecca of Boxing
That was then. This is now. Coming up at the Garden on November 2?Golovkin vs. Stevens. That?s fine. It really is. But I?ll take then? ?New York?s like a boxing match.??John Cusack…
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More Than Magnificent
It?s becoming increasingly difficult to call someone magnificent who today marks the one-year anniversary of last stepping into the ring? ?It?s more than magnificent ? it?s mediocre.??Samuel Goldwyn Super middleweight Dimitri Sartison…
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Et tu, Brute?
?Then fall, Caesar!??Julius Caesar, Act III, scene i Granted, not many have fallen to the massive fists of one of my favorite journeymen, Stephane ?Brutus? Tessier?three of 35, to be exact. Heavyweight…
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The Circle of Life
Dixie was married to middleweight Harry Braelow (21-6-4, 9 KOs), who fought from 1951 to 1958, returning to the ring for a final bout in 1967? ?I told the judge, ?Your Honor,…
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Golovkin vs. Vera?
?If not you, then who? If not now, then when???Hillel the Elder What with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. canceling his September 7 bout with Brian Vera because of a booboo and Gennady…
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Champion of All China
Oh, life could be a dream (sh-boom) If only all my precious plans would come true (sh-boom)?The Chords And Guam. No, not Bob Arum?s Zou Shiming, but Pennsylvania?s Rocky Castellani. I have…
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Jack Dempsey?s Epistolary Etiquette
Please, Mister Postman, look and see Oh, yeah If there?s a letter in your bag for me?The Marvelettes Eighty-six years ago today?July 21, 1927?former champ Jack Dempsey took on wannabe champ Jack…
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Kiss Today Goodbye
?Anyone who still thinks Golovkin is ?hype? is a dipshit. There?s really no other way to put that.??Doug Fischer No reason to be in lockstep agreement with Doug Fischer. I asked The…