San Diego Fight and San Diego Boxing
I am five months older than Erik Morales. We grew up about two miles away but in completely different circumstances. I, on the north side of the border, in a working class neighborhood full of Mexican, Filipinos, African-Americans and Caucasians. He in one of the worst neighborhoods of TIjuana if not the western hemisphere, the [...]
With the April Fool’s Day right around the corner, the boxing season is about to set sail and give us huge fights almost every weekend of the month of April and culminating with the mega fight between Filipino congressman Manny Pacquiao and Pomona, CA’s own “Sugar” Shane Mosley. Following are my thoughts on a number [...]
In this week’s “In the Squared Circle”, I offer you more of my thoughts of the past seven days’ happenings in the world of boxing, enjoy: *in the shot heard around the boxing world, Nonito Donaire landed the perfect check hook on the right cheek of Fernando “KOchulito” Montiel this past Saturday night at the [...]
I know that it has been some time since we’ve had an edition of “Flurried Ramblings” so here are my thoughts on the latest happenings in the “red light district of sports”, boxing: *Over the weekend, I took in the return of ring legend Marco Antonio Barrera. Like his arch-rival Erik Morales, Barrera is trying [...]
The great Thomas Hauser, who in my opinions is the best boxing scribe out there, put together a great piece detailing the move of Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto to Showtime from HBO. If you have not read it, please click HERE. In the story, Mr. Hauser details how certain decisions by the top brass [...]
Like everybody else, I want to jump on the bandwagon and give out some end of the year of awards. With that in mind, I present to you the first annual SDFightys! Because of budget cutbacks there is no trophy, medal or even a certificate. The winners only have the satisfaction to be named as [...]
If one thing can be said about Top Rank’s Bob Arum is that he has always done things his way. Now with the pending Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley mega fight looming for May 7th in Las Vegas, NV, that rings more true than the liberty bell in Philadelphia. The man whose most famous quote is, “”Yesterday [...]
With the holidays upon on us and December 25th just around the corner, I feel that I have been a really good boy this year. Ok, a couple of trips to Sam’s Haus Frau doesn’t help my case but other than that, I am a picture perfect case of goodness. With that said, here is [...]
In the auto industry, the days after Thanksgiving are as busy as in any other retail business. People take advantage of the sales the car manufacturer’s offer and they come out in droves to the dealerships. Since I work in that business, I am extremely busy for those last 4-5 days of November. So once [...]
With the boxing world full of events in the near past and near future, here are my thoughts on the festivities in the latest installment of my “Flurried Ramblings”: Que “Maravilla” Martinez! In what many believed to be the #1 candidate for Fight of the Year, defending WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez turned into Knock [...]
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