LIDDELL-ORTIZ II SET PPV RECORD
San Francisco, CA-When you look at the overall Pay Per View picture, the UFC is the 800 lb. Gorilla in the room. Weight wise, boxing hits the scale at 850 lbs., but it is an old and out of shape ape, while the adversary...
24 YEAR OLD AMERICAN COMES OF AGE!
Arlington, VA The light heavyweight division is getting healthy right now but its World championship remains broken. Its been broken for over a decade. More than two decades if you count its long vacancy after Michael...
Kissimmee, FL
–Chad Dawson (24-0, 15 KOs) UD 12 Tomasz Adamek (31-1, 21 KOs) vs. (WBC light heavyweight belt) Scores: 118-108, 117-109 & 116-110. In the pre-fight piece, I asked could the southpaw impose his will? Dawson sure did. Julio Diaz (34-3, 25 KOs) KO 3...
YAQUI LOPEZ, A GREAT 1970S LIGHT HEAVY
San Rafael, CA--Alvaro Indian Yaqui Lopez was born May 20, 1951 in Zacatecas, Mexico. His professional record is 65-15, with 42 KOs. Without question, Lopez was one of the most exciting boxers to not win a world title in the late...
STUFF YOU WONT READ ELSEWHERE!
One of the IPOD (Ill get to that later) interviews that we will begin putting up here tomorrow at www.RingTalk.com will be a three-minute plus chat with promoter Don King. Don talks about his recent Kidney Stones, and the health of his dear wife...
LOOKING BACK AT THE BEST IN WASTED TALENT
San Francisco, CA-In the world of boxing, nothing is what you can call a cinch. You see, for every success story in boxing, there are probably a thousand or more instances of failure. In the mid 1980s, the late writer...
SHANE, OSCAR, NANDO, BERNARD, DIAZ & WINKY
San Francisco, CA-The delayed broadcast of Ring Talk Radio, the longest running talk show in boxing history, is NOW ready for your Online listening! We heard from, Shane Mosley, Fernando Vargas, Juan Diaz, Bernard Hopkins, Andy Nance, Oscar De La Hoya,...
LEFT-HOOK LACY IN A REBUILDING MODE
New York, NY-When you consider the career of Jeff Lacy, youre looking at a guy that was underexposed on the road to being exposed by Joe Calzaghe. Reason being? His manager and promoter, Shelly Finkel and Gary Shaw, decided to deliver Jeff...
BOXING UPDATE MAGAZINE JUNE 1996
DEATH OF A BOXING SCOUNDREL
Capitola, CA–Frank Blinky Palermo died a month ago at 91 but it was 50-60 years too late for boxing. The convicted extortionist who, along with Frankie Carbo and three other less lights, went to Federal prison in the mid 50s,...
IS MOSLEY TAKING THE REST OF 2006 OFF?
If you listened closely to Shane Mosley after his Saturday night stoppage of Fernando Vargas, he seems to imply that unless you can give him a Floyd Mayweather fight in November, hes not fighting again until 2007. With a four fight...
