Ted Sares
455 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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A Bad Idea for Enzo
By Ted Sares
Whatever happens after March 10, the affable and popular Enzo needs to stay clear of Superman and the Krusher? ?I need fights that scare me. That?s when I?m at my best. I…
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Tepito (Part One)
By Ted Sares
Bad things happen everywhere and there is no one place where bad things happen every moment of every day? ?The gringos have always beaten us in everything else, but not in boxing.??-Cesar…
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The Nobility of Boxing: Part Thirteen
By Ted Sares
Tyson Fury: ?I couldn?t give a f***?I?ll hit him [the referee[ and all.? Tyson Fury to Lennox Lewis: ?face facts u are an old man so forget about fighting, leave it to…
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Two in Australia; Two Too Many
By Ted Sares
Back in March 2015 I wrote the following in the Boxing Tribune about Australian boxer Braydon Smith: ?Hard fight mate, hard fight,?? Bradley Smith, Brayd?s grandfather ?I?m very saddened to hear of…
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Siri?s Will to Win
By Ted Sares
This thrilling and grueling all-action brawl was the highlight of the evening and it plainly stole the show? ?I thought I won the fight?I thought in the first couple of rounds we…
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Donnie Nietes: Front and Center
By Ted Sares
Hopefully this October 17 fight card will be televised and if so, mark it on the calendar. The action is guaranteed? ?He (Pinky Alejo) likes to go inside and is a good…
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Puerto Rico?s Rich Boxing Lineage: Part Two
By Ted Sares
There are so many to list that it?s precarious to try to list them all for fear of excluding some. But here in Part Two are some others who have carried on…
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The Nobility of Boxing: Part Eleven
By Ted Sares
Kellie Maloney: ?Do I fancy men or women or what? So, look, I am a heterosexual woman. There. I?ve said it and that?s the first time I have said it to anyone:…
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Rustico Torrecampo?s Big One
By Ted Sares
He will forever be able to tell his children and grandchildren that he knocked out one of the greatest featherweights to ever step into the ring? ?He?s out. Oh my God, it?s…
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One Fight, Two Careers Destroyed
By Ted Sares
Neither was ever the same again. Let?s hope and pray that their ring deterioration does not extend beyond the ring? ?The 12th round was all heart. A lot of people think I…
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Abcede Stuns Pigmy in Bangkok
By Ted Sares
Lo and behold, the highly focused Jaysever Abcede stunningly stopped Pigmy Kokietgym at the 2:10 mark of round 11? When Pigmy (57-8-2) fought unheralded Pinoy Jaysever Abcede (9-3) yesterday, with the vacant…
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Puerto Rico?s Rich Boxing Lineage: Part One
By Ted Sares
The lineage of great boxers from Puerto Rico is a rich, dramatic and, often tragic one, as many of the great fighter met with difficulties outside the ring or after they finished…
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Saving Jermain Taylor from Himself
By Ted Sares
?It?s time for Jermain Taylor to say when, no matter how many tests he?s passed. Boxing is about to get him. This is a fight that he cannot win?? ?I read that…
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The Nobility of Boxing: Part Ten
By Ted Sares
Oxymoronic, outrageous, and even revealing comments and events continue to stain the already soiled boxing landscape. ************** Deontay Wilder: ?I know Duhaupas is tough and he comes to fight and that?s exactly…
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Jermain Taylor: Say it?s not so
By Ted Sares
"We plan on boxing again, if that tells you something?-- attorney Hubert Alexander ?Nobody who saw Taylor go down in Berlin [against Abraham]- his third knockout in five fights ? needed an…
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Manny Pacquiao Who?
By Ted Sares
Manny suddenly might become yesterday?s news, as fickle and/or fed up fans turn their attention elsewhere? ?He (Mayweather) was running away all the time. I was making the fight by stalking him,…
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Upset: Briedis KOs Charr
By Ted Sares
Mairis Briedis (17-0, 14 KOs) sent favorite Manuel ?Diamond Boy? Charr (28-4, 16KOs) to Syrian Dreamland at the Akhmat Arena, in Grozny, Russia. Referee Irakly Malazonia stopped the fight officially at 2:55…
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Don King Strives to Stay Relevant
By Ted Sares
?Don has been getting away with raping people so long that he got sloppy and sent over some forgery that was easily discovered?? ?When the aura fades, the seams start to show.…
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Provodnikov vs. Rios: Blood Sport
By Ted Sares
This one, if it comes off, will be bloody and brutal and the winner may turn on who has already absorbed too much punishment? ?If Team Rios wants to do it, yes.…
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Roy Jones Jr. Keeps Win Streak Alive
By Ted Sares
If fast fingers and a hardwired sense of swing defined Peterson, fast hands and a seldom-seen sense of reflexes defined Jones? ?Had Roy Jones Jr. defended his heavyweight title even once before…