Canelo Alvarez and Turki Alalshikh
Thomas Hauser explores the evolving attitude of the chairman of the General Entertainment Authority towards not only Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, but Canelo's livelihood as a whole...
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David Diamante To Return On Chocolatito-Martinez Card, March 5
On December 20, ring announcer David Diamante was critically injured in a motorcycle accident. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to regain a sense of normalcy in his life. This Saturday - March 5 - he will return to the ring for Matchroom Boxing's fight card on DAZN headlined by Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez vs Julio Cesar Martinez - which takes place at Pechanga Arena in San Diego.
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David Diamante Provides Update On His Condition
As reported earlier on BoxingScene.com, on Monday, December 20, David Diamante was involved in a serious motorcycle accident. David has asked that I share the following with the boxing community:
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David Diamante Critically Injured in Motorcycle Accident
David Diamante (one of the preeminent ring announcers in the world) was involved in a serious motorcycle accident on Monday while riding on Third Avenue in Brooklyn beneath the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
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Boxing Books - Holiday Reading: 2021
Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be the best books about boxing. That list, updated to accommodate recently published titles, follows. Taken together, the books offer a compelling look at the sweet science from bare-knuckle days to the present. Some of these books are now out of print. But with the proliferation of online services like Abebooks.com and Amazon.com, all of them can be found. I’ve listed the US publisher for each book, but many of them have been published in the UK as well.
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Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Damage in Boxing
By Thomas Hauser - In 1928, a doctor named Dr. Harrison Martland wrote an essay titled "Punch Drunk" that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. People knew that fighters could be severely injured in fights or even die in the ring. But there were also fighters walking around who were derided as "cuckoo," "goofy," "cutting paper dolls," or "slug nutty." Martland called these fighters "punch drunk" and believed that roughly half of all boxers would fall victim to this condition if they fought long enough. He studied what was happening to men who were being hit in the head again and again in fights and in sparring. And he concluded, "I am of the opinion that in punch drunk there is a very definite brain injury due to single or repeated blows on the head or jaw which cause multiple concussion hemorrhages in the deeper portions of the cerebrum."
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Fred Levin: An Appreciation (1937-2021)
By Thomas Hauser - Fred Levin, the Pensacola attorney who with his brother Stanley guided Roy Jones through the glory years of Jones's ring career, died on January 12, 2021, of complications from COVID-19. He was 83 years old. Levin, like Jones, was born and raised in Pensacola. After graduating from the University of Florida School of Law in 1961, he began a legal career tha...
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The Tyson-Jones Exhibition in Perspective
By Thomas Hauser - There was a time when people who understood boxing talked about Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones as a real fight. In 1996, I had a long sitdown with Roy. Tyson had been released from prison a year earlier and had reclaimed the WBC and WBA titles by knocking out Frank Bruno and Bruce Seldon. Jones was undefeated and gaining recognition as...
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What If Deontay Wilder Had Accepted DAZN's $100 Million Offer?
By Thomas Hauser - On December 1, 2018, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury fought to a twelve-round draw in Los Angeles. The fight generated a modest live gate of $3,515,122 with an estimated 315,000 buys on Showtime Pay-Per-View in the United States and 420,000 more with BT Sport in the United Kingdom. But their anticipated rematch was expected to put up...
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Wilbert "Skeeter" McClure Dies At Age 81
The sad news made its way through the boxing community today. Wilbert "Skeeter" McClure has died at age 81. McClure won a gold medal for the United States in the light-middleweight division at the 1960 Olympics. He turned pro in 1961 and won his first 14 fights. Then he went in tough twice against Luis Rodriguez and lost both times. The most notable entry on his pro ledger is a 1966 draw against Ruben Carter. He retired in 1970 with a 24-8-1 ring record.
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