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My thoughts on this past week’s boxing stories: *This past weekend many of us witnessed a part of boxing history when Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was crowned the first Mexican born middleweight in history. Chavez Jr. defeated German Sebastian Zbik via a close majority decision last Saturday night at the Staples Center in downtown Los [...]
Manny Pacquiao is truly a world wide phenomenon. I realized that when I stopped off at my local pharmacy that doubles as a liquor store by my place in Tijuana last Saturday night hours before Pacquiao won a lopsided decision over shot “Sugar” Shane Mosley in Las Vegas, NV. As a laid two twelve packs [...]
My boxing weekend began on Friday night after intense two hour traffic filled drive up the 15 highway from San Diego to Temecula, CA’s Pechanga Resort and Casino. The casino is pretty impressive, so much so that once you step foot in it, you can imagine being in Las Vegas with how plush and expansive [...]
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 [...]
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