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By Terry Dooley - Recognized world Cruiserweight Champion David Haye repelled the challenger to his throne, Enzo Maccarinelli, on Saturday night after 2 clinical rounds of punching. Champion Haye made sure that his last fight at cruiserweight was a tantalizing teaser as to what the fighter can achieve at heavyweight.
By Terence Dooley - Next weekend, Jermain Taylor takes the most difficult step possible in boxing as he bids to become one of the few men to avenge a KO defeat by virtue of immediate rematch. A Taylor win would put him shoulder-to-shoulder with Tony Zale, Floyd Patterson and Lennox Lewis, men who were KO’d brutally but came back to avenge the KO, by KO, in their very next fight. It is an elite group, and a task that requires skill, mental fortitude and conviction of will. Ironic given that these are three areas in which Jermain has been perceived to have come-up short in recent years.
In Part I, we weaved in and out of the parallel careers of Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis to see just how clear it was that Lewis would always beat Tyson. In Part II we will look at the series of events that exploded in 2001, and gave us confirmation that Lewis would win their clash.
By Terence Dooley - In his autobiography, Bill Clinton talks about the idea of a person living parallel lives. Bill applies it to himself, in the absence of an available intern, by showing how he could, on the one hand, steer his country through a relatively prosperous time in terms of international relations (the USA was hated then, it is now merely derided) whilst also, with other hand, putting his political career into the mouth of danger by doing very bad (or good) things with Monica Lewinsky in the oval office.
By Terry Dooley - In boxing, as in life, one rarely comes into contact with the real. Layers upon layers of spin and rhetoric (although there is nothing wrong with rhetoric) obscure it from us. This is not the case when speaking with Billy Graham. Graham spoke with BoxingScene.com about the imminent joust between his charge Ricky Hatton and the mercurially talented Floyd Mayweather Junior.
After months, years even, of waiting for that special fight, Ricky Hatton is about to step into the reality of a true super fight, by that I mean on US soil, when he takes on Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas next Friday.
John Murray hopes to take his first step into domestic title waters this Friday when he takes on Dean Hickman for the English lightweight title at the Nottingham Arena. The fight is on the undercard of Carl Froch-Robin Reid and is being promoted by Hennessy sports.
By Terence Dooley - If Friday’s eleventh round stoppage of game Andrew Facey is said be Jamie Moore’s last defense of his British title, Moore made sure gave his British fans a scare along the way.
By Terence Dooley - Jamie Moore (27-3, 18KOS) returns to the ring for the first time in six-months as he defends his British light-middleweight title against Andrew Facey on Friday night. The fight will take place at the Robin Park Centre in Wigan and is being promoted by Frank Maloney Promotions, and shown live on Sky. The fight could be the final defense of Moore’s Lonsdale belt, a belt he owns outright and with some dominance, as he moves onto the European title scene. The fight could equally, yet negatively, see Moore bidding adieu to his title and picking up a devastating loss at the hands of the erratic but slippery Facey. A mix of high technique and high energy Moore, surely, is now on the cusp of taking the step to the next level his mind and, it will be shown, his body have been crying out for. BoxingScene.com caught-up with Moore and talked to him about the forthcoming fight, firstly there was the question about how hard it must be for him to get-up for another fight with Facey:
Carl Johanneson retained his British Super-featherweight title in Doncaster, England by defeating Manchester’s Michael Gomez over six rounds on a Frank Maloney bill. Johanneson, from Leeds, weathered the early storm before forcing the somewhat premature intervention of referee Mickey Vann after 2:50 of the sixth round.