After finishing NBC’s first Olympic boxing broadcast my first thoughts are WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!
The 150 minute-long pugilist extravaganza aired last night starting at 2 a.m. on CNBC and Universal HD. Nearly all of the day’s matches were shown!
Who was announcing the events? The great Bob Papa accompanied by a subdued Teddy Atlas […]
Quick thoughts on the Middleweight Olympic boxing draw.
Official Link to the Middleweight Draw
Middleweight (75kg / 165 lbs)
The first round of the Olympic middleweight tourney is over and we’ve already seen a rematch of a 2007 Chicago World Championship quarterfinal bout. Bronze winner Bakhtiyar Artayev from Kazakhstan began his difficult Beijing path by defeating Said Rachidi […]
Quick thoughts on the Heavyweight Olympic boxing draw.
Official Link to the Light Heavyweight Draw
Light Heavyweight (81kg / 178 lbs)
Even before today’s first round Light Heavyweight session, the draw’s bottom quarter looked loaded; three of its eight competitors medaled at the 2007 World Championships in Chicago. After today two of those three competitors are gone, including […]
The whole idea of constant Olympic boxing coverage made my head spin so I made I schedule of when every event happens and its corresponding eastern standard time beginning. This schedule reflects only the events themselves and NOT the television schedule. But if the first night’s coverage is any indication the first sessions […]
The U.S. Boxing team got off to a good start in the ring as American middleweight Shawn Estrada coasted to a 10-2 victory over Argentina’s Ezequiel Maderna. Estrada jumped out to a solid 3-0 first round lead which he extended to a commanding 7-1 edge after the second.
Estrada will face Great Britain’s James Degale in […]
When it comes to sports, everyone has their favorites, right? Favorite sports, favorite teams, favorite players, favorite stadiums, and so on. Well the fabulous b5media sports bloggers wanted to talk about their favorites.
Sandy kicks off the favorite talk with her favorite Olympic sport at Light the Torch.
Sandy also discusses her favorite golfer - Tom Weiskopf […]
August’s b5media sports channel theme day is “favorites”. Presumably I’m supposed to tell you about my favorite pro wrestler and/or boxer. The thing is, as a sports blogger/expert analyst journalism ethics tell me that I can’t show favoritism. I can’t root for one fighter over another. It would destroy my credibility. It would severely undermine […]
Let’s hope Paul Williams hasn’t read ESPN.com’s recap of the Joshua Clottey - Zab Judah fight. What does it say? That despite Judah’s loss he might be next in line for the recently lionized welterweight champ Antonio Margarito.
It seems that Clottey tore his bicep in the fifth round of that fight. That’s right, the […]
Last night on HBO welterweight Zab Judah added yet another disgraceful end to his litany of dubiousness. After impressively standing toe to toe with powerful Ghanian Joshua Clottey for eight rounds a cut was opened over Judah’s right eye in the ninth.
How that cut manifested itself became an object of contention. Multiple replays indicated […]
Fight fans were busy last night with bouts broadcast on both HBO and Showtime. Let’s start with the Showtime, fast becoming my favorite of the two boxing-wise.
Showtime’s main event brought together two stellar junior bantamweights, Armenian-Australian Vic Darchinyan and Russian Dimitri Kirilov. Darchinyan predicted a knockout and made gone on his promise by felling […]
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