Category: Boxing

  • The Sweet Inexact Science: Haney v. Lomachenko PPV Boxing

    The Sweet Inexact Science:  Haney v. Lomachenko PPV Boxing

    Haney v. Lomachenko PPV Boxing Notes.  The sweet science is an inexact science.  I wanted Lomachenko to win.  And, I’m burying the lead. However, it is rather interesting to see the seven steps of grief timeline. The ESPN portion of the broadcast Nico Ali Walsh v. Danny Rosenberger Frankly, I thought Rosenberger won despite being…

  • Pacquiao v. Thurman PPV: Notes from the Spit-Bucket

    Pacquiao v. Thurman PPV:  Notes from the Spit-Bucket

    The Pacquiao v. Thurman PPV from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, provided a night of knockouts, tough fights, and assorted amusements. Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao v. Keith “One Time” Thurman Pacquiao affirmed the notion that he is one of the greatest of all time and did it at the world-weary boxing age…

  • Pugilist: The Shocking Story of Jimmy ‘Lectroshock Dimtone

    Pugilist: The Shocking Story of Jimmy ‘Lectroshock Dimtone

    Pugilist:  The shocking story of Jimmy ‘Lectroshock Dimtone.  While no man ever beat him, aside from the comas, he met his match in the fabulous Mitsy. Jimmy Dimtone was born on May 5, 1950, in Lawton, Oklahoma, which, as everyone knows, is the biggest drug town in Oklahoma. Accordingly, at the age of four years…

  • Top Secret and Classified Future Big Fight Naming Rights

    Top Secret and Classified Future Big Fight Naming Rights

    TOP SECRET:  Details of CLASSIFIED negotiations and naming rights to all thirteen editions of the upcoming big fight, including subsequent rematches. CLASSIFIED:  These details are currently in negotiation and have been leaked, The Very Fake News has revealed, by way of an unnamed source deep within the bowels of the janitorial water closet at the…

  • Frazier vs. Ali 1971: Remembering The Fight of the Century

    Frazier vs. Ali 1971:  Remembering The Fight of the Century

    The well worn tag of The Fight of the Century has once again resurfaced.  The 1971 Frazier vs. Ali fight was also dubbed The Fight of the Century. In my lifetime, there has never been a sporting event, much less a fight, that was as hyped as 1971’s Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali:  The Fight…