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Venerable, one-time mass circulation Reader's Digest carried a regular feature entitled "My Most Unforgettable Character" in which an author would then introduce and explain an offbeat or colorful person he had personally encountered.
All indications are that on Friday, May 6, in Las Vegas--the night before the "Sugar" Shane Mosley-Manny Pacquiao bout at the MGM Grand Hotel we'll see some new faces copping the top two honors from the Boxing Writers Association of Amercia.
Tickets for the hotly anticipated boxing showdown between undefeated junior welterweight champions Tim Bradley and Devon Alexander are moving like coldcakes--no, make that frozen cakes--at the Pontiac Silverdome, site of the bout which is being televised by HBO.
Showing some imagination, undefeated WBC junior welterweight champion Devon Alexander's manager/trainer, Kevin Cunningham, compared Jan. 29 HBO foe, the also unbeaten 140 pound beltholder Tim "Desert Storm" Bradley, to ukelele virtuoso and national joke Tiny Tim.
Former world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes must have felt like the guy who was called on stage to sing after Frank Sinatra just wowed an audience.
Maybe, by joining formidable forces, they can deliver Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao, the super fight the world is getting tired of waiting for.
Kevin Cunningham, formerly in the Army and then for 8 1/2 years a cop on the meanest streets of St. Louis, is all about attitude and discipline.
In one sense, I applaud Preisdent Don Jose Sulaiman of the World Boxing Council for mandating that light heavyweight champ Jean Pascal give 45-year-old Bernard Hopkins an immediate rematch.
Trainer-commentator Teddy Atlas has put Alexander Povetkin's promoter Kalle Sauerland on blast, labeling Wilfried Sauerland's son as a spoiled rich kid ("a wolf in sheep's clothing") and telling Bokser.org in a video interview that he may be done training fighters completely.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who it must be conceded is one of the two best 79-year old boxing promoters extant, thinks that disappointed Manny Pacquiao "suitor" Juan Manuel Marquez is either woefully misinformed or financially illiterate.