De La Hoya’s beating on this night draws in my mind comparisons to Julio Caesar Chavez’s 1996 beating at the hands of De La Hoya. If any fight solidified the era of The Golden Boy, that fight was it. And now if any fight solidifies a new era in boxing beginning, this one is it.
Continue reading...Sunday, November 23, 2008
After two tough losses to Kelly Pavlik, many questioned whether Taylor’s career had peaked at the age of 30 and whether a man who was among the best pound-for-pound still had “it.” Last Saturday night, his dominating decision win over Jeff Lacy proved that Pavlik was a bump in the road for the Arkansas native.
Continue reading...Saturday, November 22, 2008
In only his second career fight in the U.S., Calzaghe again wowed the American crowd with another technical marvel of a performance out boxing Roy Jones Jr. so bad that many have now called into question Jones’ future as well.
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 19, 2008
UFC 91 was certainly a historic night for Brock Lesnar, says staff writer Phil Clark, but his title reign will be full of chances for him to prove himself. Read Phil's take on Lesnar and the rest of the highlights from UFC 91 in his latest edition of Let The Debate Begin.
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Inside Fights staff writer Phil Clark takes a detailed look at the state of the mixed martial arts middleweight division. Is there a legitimate challenger to Anderson Silva's throne, or is everyone else simply a pretender?
Continue reading...Friday, November 7, 2008
Inside Fights staff writer Phil Clark takes an extensive look at the death of EliteXC, including his take on where the major ProElite fighters could potentially end up.
Continue reading...Saturday, November 1, 2008
Every time you think Bernard Hopkins is done, he does something to prove you wrong. Such was the case two weeks ago when Hopkins rebounded after a lackluster showing in a decision loss to Joe Calzaghe with one of the most dominating performances of his career annihilating current Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik—unbeaten before the fight—a man seventeen years younger than Hopkins when they met in Atlantic City.
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2008
When Pride Fighting Championships was bought by Zuffa Inc. and the Fertita brothers in 2007, nowhere was it felt more than in Japan. This was not just because Pride was based in Japan, but because the country had just lost its biggest MMA promotion; to put it into context, think about where MMA in America [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 9, 2008
The beautiful thing about this upset is it did what most MMA purists and people who take MMA seriously wanted to see happen at one point: it exposed Kimbo’s lack of experience in MMA. While this seems redundant because it was only Kimbo’s fourth MMA fight, the majority of people who know of Kimbo add his Youtube fights with his MMA fights thus projecting the invincible myth that was Kimbo until Saturday night.
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 30, 2008
After last week’s DREAM 6 show, it appears that the HERO’S/Pride hybrid’s first year as a promotion has ended with two champions crowned and a heavyweight division in disarray and completely up in the air. This week I offer my list of suggestions for New Year's Eve and if you have a problem with most of them being dream matches (hint, hint), just remember that NYE is about dream matches and getting as big of a T.V. rating as possible.
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Monday, December 15, 2008
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