Ted Sares
455 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Golden Gloves: Keeping it Simple
By Ted Sares
I fought Golden Gloves ?Anonymous ?Remember this, your first few fights will be decided on conditioning and your will to fight. Neither of you have developed enough skill to where it has…
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GGG Wins, but Dock Makes ?Atrocious? Call
By Ted Sares
GGG Wins, but Dock Makes ?Atrocious? Call ?You want good show, just call me.? Gennady Golovkin He [GGG] punches like a mule.?Carl Froch Things opened up with a dreadfully boring 12-rounder (which…
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Big Fight Preview: Gennady Golovkin vs Daniel Geale
By Ted Sares
Look for former world champion Daniel ?Real Deal? Geale (30-2) to give GGG (29-0) all kinds of issues during the early rounds this Saturday or until Gennady figures him out?whichever occurs first.…
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Nino’s Retirement
By Ted Sares
When a the 6-foot-4-inch, 250-pound Mexican American heavyweight named David ?Nino? Rodriquez ran up an impressive record (on paper) of 36-0 with 34 wins coming by way of KOs, many took notice…
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Smoger: Without Rose Colored Glasses
By Ted Sares
?My proclivity is to allow the fight to go to its natural conclusion, and to let them solve it and to let them resolve it?Sometimes, there comes a time when I have…
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Rabbiting in Vegas
By Ted Sares
I?ll give him a rematch when he learns how to fight.- Canelo I?ll fight anyone, whether they move or not, he was the one doing all the talking and in the end…
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Spadafora?s Final Run
By Ted Sares
Over the years, the rugged and grizzled veteran Hector Velazquez (56-21-3) has fought the stiffest opposition imaginable including the likes of Thomas Dulorme, Jorge Linares, Mickey Bey, Edwin Valero, Elio Rojas, Manny…
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How to become a Famous Boxing Writer
By Ted Sares
??The time has arrived to scope out these literary talents and recognize the very best of those who record the facts and figures, whilst defining the enduring and the ugly events of…
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When a Win Might be a Loss: Katsidis vs Earl 2
By Ted Sares
The fight has drawn criticism in the UK, where there is concern Earl is well past his best and lost the ability to take any punishment in the ring. -- Phil Lutton…
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This Apple fell far from the tree
By Ted Sares
James McGirt Jr., Carlos De Leon Jr., Marvis Frazier, and Buster Mathis Jr. all had good runs in the pro ranks, though they never came close to achieving what their fathers did.…
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Steve Collins: Overlooked but not forgotten
By Ted Sares
?I?ll fight him [Roy Jones] in a phone box in front of two men and a dog.? ?Steve Collins ??it?s like having your teeth broken?Yeah, sickening. That?s what it felt like, it…
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Cotto vs. Martinez: Prediction
By Ted Sares
It would be impossible for me to be at a higher level. No human being can be more powerful than I am. That?s what Cotto?s going up against. He?s facing me at…
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George Groves vs. Carl Froch 2: Prediction and Result
By Ted Sares
"The angry, aggressive, spiteful, bitter, war-hardened, tough, strong, mentally determined dangerous fighter, brutal warrior - that's what I am. You'll see that guy turn up on 31 May I promise you that…
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The Illusory Andy Ruiz Jr.
By Ted Sares
?While Ruiz will have no trouble with Davis, Hanks may prove more competitive. May, but won?t?I?m predicting early-stoppage wins for the abundante Andres. As quintessential fat man Kasper Gutman said in The…
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Froch vs. Groves: The Quintessential Dust-Up
By Ted Sares
The main thing Froch has to change is his attitude. We know his footwork is terrible and his style of boxing is ugly. We didn?t have to see the first Groves fight…
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Briggs: Freak Show Redoux
By Ted Sares
?There is something about this freak show that spells ?one big payday and it?s over? I don?t begrudge any fighter making a good payday, when he has earned it!!!? ?Poster named Jack…
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An Argentinean Sextet
By Ted Sares
As one of my fellow-writers recently and correctly asserts, a power outage seems to exist among today?s boxing stars: see http://theboxingtribune.com/2014/05/power-outage-boxings-biggest-stars/ but if its power and excitement that is in short supply,…
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Mike Alvarado in One War Too Many?
By Ted Sares
Mike Alvarado showed he has the boxing acumen to ignore his brawler?s instinct and effectively outbox his more aggressive opponent. But that was against base-level brawler Brandon Rios. Juan Manuel Marquez is…
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My Top Ten Best Fighters
By Ted Sares
?There?s easier access today to the global scene of boxing, through the internet, and when more information is provided to you more easily, it makes you more knowledgeable about what you?re researching.??Ed…
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Bermane Stiverne in Retrospect
By Ted Sares
2007: Bermane Stiverne, Vernon Paris & Sergio Martinez.? Paris has fizzled but Sergio has more than met my expectations. As for Bermane ?B.Ware? Stiverne, it took him a while but he has…