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By Terence Dooley - Middleweight Champion Jermain Taylor steps into this weekend's fight with Kelly Pavlik with a dark cloud of negativity hanging over his boxing career. In the minds of many people this fight is already a foregone conclusion with Taylor destined to be on the end of a concussive beating from the forever-pumping fists of Youngstown’s Kelly Pavlik.
By Terence Dooley - Bernard Dunne had his undefeated record, his EBU Super-bantamweight title and, one must assume, his confidence ripped away from him in 126 sensational seconds at a literally rocking Point theatre in Dublin this Saturday.
By Terence Dooley - A few weeks ago I went on an interesting road trip with Billy Graham – trainer of Ricky Hatton – as Graham’s charge Matthew Macklin made his comeback from the Jamie Moore defeat, by defeating Antatoliy Udalov in Wolverhampton.
By Terence Dooley - While watching a daringly taken pirate copy of James Toney's fortuitous win over Danny Batchelder (it was close and Toney did little to deserve the win), I was struck by how far Toney has fallen in the past eighteen months.
by Terence Dooley - After destroying Glenn Kelly with the counter-punch to the chin while luring him in while holding his hands behind his back, Roy Jones had a lot to say about perceived slights on his stature.
In the book ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’ there is a scene in which a group of mental patients gather together for what is supposed to be a mutually beneficial group therapy session, it instead becomes what is known in farming circles as a pecking frenzy. As the designated inmate is encouraged to reveal his hopes and neuroses’ the rest of the group jump on him and completely emasculate the character. At its end the character is left destroyed before his peers and fellow patients.
Two years after the tidal wave of euphoria that greeted his win over Kostya Tszyu, Ricky Hatton has had to endure a maelstrom of criticism in recent months. His weight, dedication, longevity and choice of opponents have all been brought under great scrutiny after that hard-fought win over the previously unheralded Luis Collazo (who should boost his stock if he happens to beat Shane Mosley when they meet next month). Claims that Hatton is no longer living a fighter's life have been brought keenly into focus since the Tszyu win despite the fact that Hatton has been playing by the same train hard and party hard rules that kept him fresh throughout his WBU apprenticeship. These claims have been enjoined by other claims that Junior Witter has stolen a march on him by beating Demarcus Corley for the vacant WBC junior welterweight title, that Hatton had a poor 2006 and that his ambition may have faded. With all this said, the fight against Juan Urango becomes not just another title, Juan’s IBF light-welterweight belt, to run at. It offers Ricky a chance to show that he can still fight to his optimum level as well as setting up a big fight with Jose Luis Castillo, a fight that will be bracketed as a mayor one despite minor quibbles some have over Castillo’s effectiveness at light-welter. As Billy Graham went through another pad session with the pupil most responsible for his aching hand and knee bones Ricky did not hold back, he pounded the body-belt then went through his bag-sessions with renewed relish. After Ricky had finished, BoxingScene remarked about how the weight questions we had asked him about in our last meeting, now seemed like a waste of time.
After a prolonged absence from the boxing ring Ricky Hatton prepares to make history this weekend by continuing his impressive run at mayor titles when he challenges Juan Urango for Hatton’s old IBF crown. Perhaps Ricky is overcompensating for his WBU days yet in going for his fifth and sixth titles in fourth fights (the vacant IBO title is also on the line) Hatton is set to set aside a little piece of boxing history for himself and the UK.
‘Magic’ Matthew Hatton and David Barnes – both Manchester-based fighters with their eyes on British title shots – kept themselves sharp, or in the case of David Barnes sharpened-up, at the Octagon centre in Sheffield on Sunday by, each, getting six rounds of boxing under their belts.
Two fights on from the seemingly false, or overcast by poor matchmaking, dawn of the Jeff Lacy win even Joe Calzaghe’s biggest fans must be wondering why this elite-level fighter is now taking on the runner-up from boxings first reality TV program ‘The Contender’ as Joe clashes with Peter Manfredo Junior next April.