POP CULTURE MISSING BOAT SANS PAULIE
Uniion City, NJ– You know how, in romantic comedies, sometimes the title female character searches far and wide for her knight in shining armor, only to disregard the fact that the boy she is looking for this entire time is right before her eyes?...
JAMES TONEY TRAINING FOR UFC DEBUT
San Francisco, CA– Weeks after slamming Strikeforce for inking 48-year old NFL Hall of Famer Hershell Walker to an MMA contract, the UFC, Dana White in particular, signs James Toney to a UFC deal. The 41-year old Toney, twice caught boxing on steroids,...
Kryptonite Couldn't Stop Him!NOT EXACTLY THE CLARK KENT TYPE
San Francisco, CA– One can go throughout life and never meet a man like Joe Diaz. Without hesitation the 70-year Phoenix, AZ based trainer is one of the most determined and resilient men that I have ever met. With...
LAWYER IN “MELT DOWN” OVER SHANE MOSLEY’S ADMISSIONS
San Francisco, CA- Without going into the details of how I had learned what Shane Mosley had testified to before the BALCO Labs grand jury, when I wrote about this in 2004, that Shane had admitted taking performance enhancing drugs in the...
LISTEN LIVE ON RADIO & WEB, WATCH ON WEB!
San Francisco, CA- When “Ring Talk Worldwide” goes on the air Sunday night at 6:05 PM PT, guests on the longest running fight show in history will include two division champ Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero as he readies for battle in...
PAVLIK: THE UNDERDOG CHAMPION
Pittsburgh, PA- Unless the great champions defend their titles 20-25 times like Bernard Hopkins and Joe Louis, and even sometimes in those cases, their eras are defined by one or two significant defenses. Kelly “the Ghost” Pavlik (36-1, 32 KOs) lingered on the fringes of...
THREE TITLES AT STAKE ON FREE CBS TV
Las Vegas, NV-- Saturday evening Strikeforce will host a stacked card with three title belts on the line. The show will air live and free onCBS and looks like it will deliver the goods. One of the three belts up for grabs...
New York, NY – Highlighted by an intriguing, competitive, and meaningful card (finally) on HBO, boxing’s insanely busy schedule trudges forward this weekend.
ESPN KICKS THINGS OFF FRIDAY
Battle tested, but been bested heavyweight veteran’s Owen Beck (29-4, 20 KOs) and Tony Thompson (33-2, 21 KOs) do battle over 10 purposed...
THE CABOT COVE OF THE DRAGON LADY
Cambria, CA- When I left the house at 10:30 AM, Google Maps, they said the best way to get to Cambria, CA, where boxing promoter Lorraine Chargin’s funeral service was being held, was to drive to Monterey and from that point forward take...
ON PAC’S BLOOD TESTING, I STAND ALONE HERE!
Los Angeles, CA- A solid majority of my Ring Talk colleagues and I agree to disagree on a number of topics, in particular this whole Manny Paquiao (51-3-1, 38 KOs) and Floyd Mayweather (40-0, 25 KOs) blood testing debacle. It has been...
