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Mikkel Kessler: Viking Ready to Set Sail

By Ronan Keenan - Some four hundred years before Christopher Columbus landed in the New World, Leif Eriksson led a Viking expedition to the east coast of North America. The mission proved to be futile as the natives eventually drove out the invaders,...

Juan Manuel Marquez: Playing It by the Book

by Ronan Keenan - When Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press the concept of education changed forever. The arrival of the textbook meant students could now learn a craft by adhering to a set of written instructions. If ever there was a f...

Spotlight on Margarito: Running To Stand Still?

If you let something sizzle too long, it will lose its flavor. Unfortunately, the same rationale applies to a fighter. While some are offered a platinum path to the top, others are figuratively forced to wade through mud in a generally wearisome e...

Big Fight Analysis: Israel Vazquez vs. Rafael Marquez – Too Light To Be A Big Fight?

“The only thing that will bring new fans to boxing is fresh, exciting fights,” said Gary Shaw when asked about the future of the fight game. On March 3rd, the promoter will be backing up his words when he presents what is already being labelled a...

Saturday’s Triple-Header: Quantity Over Quality?

William Wordsworth once said to a friend, “I must apologise. If I had more time I would have written you a shorter letter.” On the February 17th, HBO may find themselves in the same predicament. In 2006 the broadcaster re-launched the previousl...

Mosley, Collazo and the Cyclical Nature of History

The 14th century historiographer Ibn Khaldun probably wasn’t thinking about boxing when he wrote his theories on the cyclical nature of history, but his philosophies certainly seem to hold true in today’s version of the fight game.

Is a Character like Rocky Still Relevant to Boxing?

In Rocky Balboa the decimated dog Punchy is used as a tool to represent the state of Rocky’s enthusiasm for life, while in reality it’s a metaphor for the acting career of 60-year-old Sylvester Stallone, which, coincidentally, is in a similar state t...