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1 week ago | 
ringmagazine.com | Thomas Hauser
Freddie Roach rayonnait. Alors que le célèbre entraîneur discutait avec des journalistes au bord du ring, dans le théâtre du Madison Square Garden, après le KO au premier round de Callum Walsh contre Dean Sutherland en mars, on ne pouvait lui enlever son sourire. « On s’échauffait une minute et demie dans le vestiaire, et on savait qu’il allait sortir et en mettre plein la vue à quelqu’un, » a raconté Roach.
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3 weeks ago | 
tss.ib.tv | Thomas Hauser
In recent years, there has been lavish praise and extensive criticism regarding Turki Alalshikh’s boxing initiative. Some of it has been warranted and some hasn’t. One issue deserves greater comment. The judging has been pretty good. Scoring a fight is subjective, which can open the door to bias, incompetence, and corruption. Most people in boxing know who the good judges are. But some bad ones keep getting high-profile assignments. Why?
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3 weeks ago | 
tss.ib.tv | Thomas Hauser
A jam-packed fight card featuring a world champion, top contenders and knockout artists delivered the action but no knockouts on Saturday in the Los Angeles area. You can’t have everything. Mizuki “Mimi” Hiruta (8-0, 2 KOs), fresh with a multi-year 360 Boxing Promotion’s contract deal, once again fought and defended the WBO super fly world title and this time against Argentina’s Carla Merino (16-3, 5 KOs) at Commerce Casino. It was expected to be her toughest test.
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4 weeks ago | 
tss.ib.tv | Thomas Hauser
Johnny Greaves was a professional loser. He had one hundred professional fights between 2007 and 2013, lost 96 of them, scored one knockout, and was stopped short of the distance twelve times. There was no subtlety in how his role was explained to him: “Look, Johnny; professional boxing works two ways. You’re either a ticket-seller and make money for the promoter, in which case you get to win fights.
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4 weeks ago | 
ringmagazine.com | Thomas Hauser
L’été en ville. Une période idéale pour certains. Dans le Bronx, la chaleur fait ressortir le pire chez les gens. « C’est littéralement une zone de guerre chaque été », déclare Jose Guzman, ancien boxeur professionnel qui est aujourd’hui salué comme un entraîneur en pleine ascension. « Dès que le temps commence à changer, ma première pensée, c’est : lequel de mes amis va se faire tuer cette année ?
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Thomas Hauser
On 8 June, 14 men and women will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York. Some, like Manny Pacquiao, clearly deserve the honor. Others – in my opinion – don’t. More egregiously, some fighters and other members of the boxing community who should be in the Hall of Fame have never even been on the ballot. I’d like to highlight some of them.
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1 month ago | 
ringmagazine.com | Thomas Hauser
Jim Lampley was nervous. In a matter of hours, the man who was HBO's blow-by-blow commentator for 30 years and is widely regarded as the best ever at his trade would be calling Turki Alalshikh’s triple-championship fight card in Times Square last weekend. Outside of the fighters, no one had more at stake than Lampley. “I didn't expect that more than six years would go by after we said goodbye at HBO without my being behind the microphone to call blow-by-blow,” Lampley acknowledged.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Thomas Hauser
On 2 May, Turki al-Sheikh (chairman of the Saudi Arabian General Entertainment Authority and the architect of his country’s Riyadh Season boxing program) planted a flag in Times Square with a fight card styled “FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves”. Fatal Fury is a combat video game. The Times Square event was presented by SNK Corporation (the game’s developer) and The Ring (now owned by Al-Sheikh) with Golden Boy (Oscar De La Hoya’s promotional company) as the lead promoter.
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1 month ago | 
ringmagazine.com | Thomas Hauser
Antes de emprender su viaje desde Florida hasta Sídney para su primera pelea por un título mundial ante Skye Nicolson el mes pasado, Tiara Brown no solo se preparaba para una pelea, sino también para un vuelo largo y agotador. Y cualquiera que haya hecho ese trayecto desde la costa este de los Estados Unidos sabe que no es precisamente un paseo. Brown había calculado que intentaría descansar lo más posible y leer un libro camino al combate más importante de su vida.
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1 month ago | 
ringmagazine.com | Thomas Hauser
Avant de faire le voyage de la Floride à Sydney pour son premier combat pour le titre mondial contre Skye Nicolson le mois dernier, Tiara Brown ne se préparait pas seulement pour un combat, mais aussi pour un vol. Et si quelqu'un a déjà fait ce voyage en provenance de la côte est des États-Unis, il n'est pas facile. Brown estimait qu'elle essayerait de se reposer autant que possible et de lire un livre en route vers le plus grand combat de sa vie. Alors, qu'a-t-elle fait lors de ce vol épuisant ?
