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6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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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3 weeks 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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