July 31st, 2008
Who is Mrs. Jabandgrapple’s favorite boxer to watch? I’m going to hazard a guess and say Zab Judah. It’s not because she enjoys his flashy style or thinks he’s particularly handsome. No sir. For reasons that elude me she hates Super Judah with a passion. She loves to see him knocked out, made a fool […]
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July 31st, 2008
Nine, that’s right nine, www.boxrec.com Top 20 fighters were in action yesterday in a total of six bouts held on three continents. Only one was shown on American television, a surprising ten round domination by Argentine Sebastian Lujan over former world light welterweight champ Jose Luis Castillo seen on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights. Castillo […]
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July 30th, 2008
The New York Daily News is the latest media outlet to examine the lunacy that is the 2008 U.S. Olympic Boxing Team. In an article in today’s paper writer Mitch Abramson reveals that it wasn’t just Luis Yanez who clashed with coach Dan Campbell to such an extent that official repercussions were necessary.
No sir indeed. […]
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July 27th, 2008
Boxing promised us a welterweight fight for the ages and for 11 rounds Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito provided. Margarito charged relentlessly with defiant straightforward abandon while Cotto skillfully bobbed, weaved, counterpunched and scored with inspired boxing. Power punch after power punch from both fighters, bomb after bomb.
But in the 11th it was the Mexican, […]
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July 26th, 2008
Maybe somewhere somehow you’ve read something about Saturday’s Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito welterweight title fight. About how it’s the going to be the greatest fight of all time, about how if there’s one fight you should watch this year this should be it, about how this is the fight to bring casual fans in, […]
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July 24th, 2008
As in me. Yes me! In this post I am going to complain about my Comcast service.
You see today’s New York Times contained an article about how Comcast responds to complaining bloggers via email or even in the post’s comment page. I’ve complained slightly about Comcast in a prior post but I guess […]
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July 24th, 2008
Yesterday at www.jabandgrapple.com we asked “Does Jeff Lacy Still Have It?” and last night on ESPN2’s Wednesday Night Fights we got a resounding answer: not at all. Lacy’s (24-1-0) majority decision victory over Epifanio Mendoza (28-6-1) was due in equal parts to Mendoza’s lack of a finishing instinct and dubious ringside judging.
Mendoza had Lacy […]
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July 23rd, 2008
Jeff Lacy was a rising super middleweight star prior to his March 4, 2006 demolition at the hands of Joe Calzaghe. Since then things haven’t been the same for the 2000 U.S. Olympian.
In December of 2006 Lacy staggered to a razor thin majority decision of Ukrainian Vitali Tsypko although few ringside observers felt Lacy […]
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July 22nd, 2008
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The September 20 light heavyweight title match between Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) and Roy Jones, Jr. (52-4, 38 KOs) has officially been postponed because of a Calzaghe right wrist injury.
ESPN’s Dan Rafael quotes the fight’s promoter as saying “(Calzaghe) told me it’s an injured right wrist,” the promoter said. “I was […]
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July 21st, 2008
The highest Ring Magazine-ranked boxer in “action” last weekend was Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin although it’s not as if his opponent Taurus Sykes actually wanted to fight. Povetkin, Ring’s #5 heavyweight, won by KO in the fourth round. Sykes spent the entire fight grasping and holding. When the White Lion finally managed to graze him […]
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