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Written by Michael Woods
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Friday, 24 May 2013 10:03
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 Max Kellerman believes the Saturday scrap in London between Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler will be a good one, maybe a really good one, but he will reserve judgment on who he thinks will have his hand raised until he assesses the two men at fighter meetings today. The HBO analyst chatted with TSS on Thursday and gave us his take on the rematch between the two top-tier super middleweights, as well as the state of the division, and the man who casts a cold shadow on everyone beneath him at 168, Andre Ward. "Andre Ward reduces the stakes of everything that happens in the super middleweight division," said Max (seen in above photo, center, between Joel Diaz, Tim Bradley, Manny Pacquiao and Freddie Roach during Pacquiao-Bradley "Faceoff"). "This is a case of be careful what you wish for, you want clarity, you got that now." Reminder: HBO is showing... Read more...
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Written by Frank Lotierzo
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 14:18
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 One of the most common things repeated by many boxing fans and writers today is how there are not many great fighters/boxers around today. And though I'd endorse that, I do think there are some great fighters currently campaigning, but not as many in each weight division as there once was. What stands out more to me is how we are inundated with so many counter-punchers. With the exception of Manny Pacquiao, a majority of today's greats and dominant fighters, like Floyd Mayweather, Andre Ward, Juan Manuel Marquez, Bernard Hopkins, Carlo Froch, Sergio Martinez, Adrien Broner and Vitali Klitschko, are at their best and most effective fighting as a counter-puncher. There are less than a handful of active fighters today who are close to outstanding let alone spectacular fighting as the aggressor and pushing the fight;... Read more...
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Written by David A. Avila
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013 23:08
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 Pomona’s Sugar Shane Mosley returned to the boxing ring after a less than one-year retirement and defeated Mexico’s hard-nosed Pablo Cano by unanimous decision. It wasn’t easy but Mosley’s win was emphatic and proved he still can fight. “I’m not washed up,” Mosley said by cell phone the day after. The win by Mosley (47-8-1, 39 Kos) over Cano (26-3-1, 20 Kos) took place in Cancun, Mexico, where the Mexican contender was the beneficiary of the pro-Mexican crowd. It helped but couldn’t deflect those blows coming from the former lightweight, welterweight and junior middleweight world champion on Saturday on the Golden Boy Promotions fight card. Many boxing fans frowned when they learned that Mosley (seen above versus Canelo in 2012 ) was returning to the boxing ring after announcing his retirement... Read more...
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Written by Bernard Fernandez
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013 09:48
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 The most enduring of boxing champions, 48-year-old Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins, knows that controversy sells, even when he’s not intentionally trying to sell it. He has the sometimes unfortunate habit of saying what he thinks and doing what he feels like doing, even when it is politically incorrect to say or do it. Think not? Consider just a few of the incidents that have garnered the most publicity for the Philadelphia ring legend in recent years. *Throwing down the Puerto Rican flag at two public gatherings prior to his Sept. 29, 2001, middleweight unification showdown with Felix Trinidad. The second such incident, on Trinidad’s home turf in San Juan, nearly caused a riot. *Pronouncing that “no white boy can beat me” during the lead-up to his April 18, 2008, light-heavyweight bout with undefeated Welshman... Read more...
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Written by Michael Woods
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:01
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 Jim Lampley is like all of us, in that he is a boxing fan. It so happens that he operates on something of a higher mental plane than most of us, I dare say, and it's because of his ability to reason at a lofty zone that I enjoy picking his brain every now and again, getting an extra dose of his analysis apart from his time on HBO's fights and his periodic "The Fight Game" half hour magazine show. I chatted with Lampley on Monday for a spell, getting his take on HBO's forthcoming slate, and the state of the game as a whole, especially pertaining to the bifurcated landscape which was fashioned when HBO decided eight weeks ago to spurn content provided by promoter Golden Boy. First off, Lampley seemed jazzed about HBO's Saturday super middleweight scrap, which pits Carl Froch, the cocky... Read more...
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Written by Lee Wylie
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:05
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 Lucas Matthysse (now 34-2 with 1 no contest and 32 Kos) showed why he is arguably the number one junior welterweight in the world –and one of the most avoided men in boxing –with an impressive third round knockout of Lamont Peterson (now 31-2-1 with 16 Kos) in Atlantic City on Saturday night. Peterson, who had never been stopped in any of his previous 33 fights, was dropped by a left hook in the second round and again in the third. After tasting the canvas once more from yet another left hook, referee Steve Smoger deemed Peterson unfit to continue and wisely called a halt to the action. This is now the sixth fight in a row in which Matthysse has managed to take his opponent out before the final bell. Everyone and their mother knows that Lucas Matthysse is the owner of some extremely heavy... Read more...
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Written by Rick Folstad
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Monday, 20 May 2013 12:10
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 He didn’t belong down here.He tried to make it work, took an occasional matchmaking job that came around maybe five or six times a year, but his heart was stuck in Brooklyn and Sunset Park where he grew up and spent most of his life. He still loved the Mets and the Knicks, still liked reading the New York Post. He talked about being able to walk to Madison Square Garden to see a fight, or strolling over to Jimmy’s Corner Bar in Manhattan to have a cocktail or a Pepsi in the days before and after he quit drinking. Those few times he needed a ride, he could catch a cab or take a train or a bus. But mostly he walked. Everything in New York City was close. Which is a good thing because legendary boxing matchmaker John Bosdal, alias Johnny Bos, never drove a car and never boarded a plane. He was afraid to fly.But nothing was within walking... Read more...
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Written by Bernard Fernandez
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Monday, 20 May 2013 09:51
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 ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. _ Anyone who has ever attended a NASCAR race knows there is a world of difference between watching the sport on television and being there in person. On TV, the cars don’t seem nearly as fast, or as powerful, as they really are. If you’re sitting in the stands, especially if you’re close to the track, the noise and vibration of a 190-mph racecar vrooming past is akin to finding yourself at the edge of a tornado. Saturday night, in Boardwalk Hall, referee Steve Smoger had an especially close view of the high-octane thrust of Argentine power puncher Lucas “The Machine” Matthysse, and it was Smoger who decided to wave the checkered flag before the completion of lap, uh, Round 3, lest Lamont Peterson slam into the retaining wall once too often. Peterson (31-2-1, 16 KOs),... Read more...
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Written by The Sweet Science
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Sunday, 19 May 2013 10:11
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 Some of Washington DC traveled with Lamont Peterson up to Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, but their feverish support was not enough on Saturday night, as Peterson succumbed to the punching power of Argentina’s Lucas Matthysse in a third round TKO loss. The two met in a non-title, welterweight catch-weight (141 lbs) bout, broadcast by Showtime, which promised fireworks as soon as the fight was announced. Peterson (31-2-1, 16KO) began the first round using his jab and movement to establish space. Matthysse (34-2, 32KO) used the pressure and aggression he is known for while trying to find his home run shot. In the second Matthysse (140 lbs) continued the pressure and Peterson (141 lbs) complained to referee Steve Smoger about being hit in the back of the head. A solid left from... Read more...
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Written by Michael Woods
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Saturday, 18 May 2013 21:34
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 Lucas Matthysse proved the point that he has dangerous hands, for those who needed it, as he stopped Lamont Peterson in the third round in the main event at Boardwalk Hall in AC on Saturday night, and on Showtime. Peterson tried to box slick early, but a left hook put him down in the second. With his legs compromised, as he tried to regain his full faculties, Peterson had to fight in the third, and it didn't work; a left hook sent him down, he got up, and ref Steve Smoger looked hard at him. Smoger let him continue, but another left hook ended it. The end came at 2:14 of the third, via TKO. Jim Gray spoke to Peterson after. He said he felt OK physically. He said he got lazy with the jab, and got caught. He noted that he was hit behind the head. Did he recover from the first knockdown? Yes, he said. He felt he could... Read more...
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