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Zab Judah: Back From The Crossroads

By Kevin Kincade - Legend has it that Blues Legend, Robert Johnson, sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi to be the greatest blues guitarist who ever lived. That's just a few miles up the road from Tunica, where las...

Chasing Marciano’s Ghost: What’s in a Record?

Just a little more than fifty-one years ago, a short, compact punching machine by the name of Rocky Marciano hung up the gloves for the last time. There are varying reports as to why he retired at the relatively young age of 32; but in doing so, he...

Looking Back - Many Thanks to Angie

Those may not be the exact words; but that was the scene some forty-three years ago in the old Miami Beach Convention Hall after something went terribly wrong in the fourth round in the biggest fight of a young man’s life. As with any World Champion...

Quartey, Wright, and Raging Against Fading Light

What a difference eight years can make. Eight years ago we didn’t know that there was still frozen water on Mars or that it was even a strong possibility that life once existed on that now-dead planet. Eight years ago only a few had heard of a phen...

Requiem for a Matador: Pacquiao-Morales III

Resplendent in his magnificent red and gold satin 'traje de luces' (suit of lights), amidst a flourish of trumpets, he marched on to the Plaza del Toros. The hysterical crowds fell silent as they spotted their adored sun god amongst the parade of foo...

Briggs, Brock and The Soviet Bloc

When you’ve been watching the sport as long as I have, you think you’ve got it pretty well figured out; you think you have a pretty good idea of what’s going to happen when the bell rings. Well, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Shannon Bri...

The Ten Greatest Heavyweight Title Clashes

Boxing fans are a unique bunch in some ways; but not that different from fans of other sports in others. We, for the most part, seek drama; the best that two men can produce in the ring. Just as every football fan enjoys a good “slobber-knocker” of...

Iron Clad: Mike Tyson’s Place in History Pt II

By the time the showdown with Michael Spinks was signed, Mike's world had undergone some pretty significant changes. He was now married to Robin Givens…..and apparently her mother, Ruth Roper; and Mike's long-time friend and co-manager, Jim Jacobs, h...

Iron Clad: Mike Tyson’s Place in History Part I

Is Mike Tyson an All-Time Great? That is, without a doubt, the $64,000 dollar question. There are those who worship the ground he walks on and those who claim he is the most overrated fighter to ever don gloves. So many of Mike’s detractors harp on...

Looking to Hit the “Big Time”: Introducing Terry “Troublemaker” Smith

In the wake of the Calvin Brock-Timur Ibragimov snooze fest, the search continues for an American heavyweight who can keep the public’s attention for longer than the pre-fight introductions. While in Memphis for the Jermain Taylor-Winky Wright Middl...

Shades of Greatness

I don’t know how many times I started to write this piece only to rip it to shreds and start over again. It seems no matter what words I put to paper, nothing comes remotely close to adequately portraying one of, if not “The Greatest of All Time” and...

Banking on Brock

When you start going down the list of American Heavyweight hopefuls you realize what a short trip it actually is; you’ve got Calvin Brock followed by miles and miles of daylight. Oh sure, there are those who cling onto the last thread of hope that S...

Steward Speaks, Taylor-Wright Weigh-In Report

Anticipation and excitement hung as thickly in the air Friday afternoon as the stifling humidity in the city of the Delta Blues. The weigh-in for the World Middleweight Championship was at hand and in true Memphis fashion, the soulful sounds of the...

Was Larry Holmes….”The Greatest”?

I know, I know. There’s only one “Greatest”; but let’s open our minds, get past the rhetoric, and examine the in-ring accomplishments of this often overlooked and unheralded champion. The argument of “who was the best heavyweight who has ever lived”...

Escaping the Shadows: Tarver-Hopkins

In the vacuum of space, the only source of heat and warmth are the massive fusion reactors we call stars. Where there is light, there is heat; where there is none, freezing cold. In our own solar system, we can plainly see the effects of our star,...