The Daily Bread Mailbag returns, with a special second edition for the week, as Stephen "Breadman" Edwards tackles topics such as judging ducked fighters, the career and worth of Pernell Whitaker, fighters with great defensive skills, fighters in 'last stand' fights, and more.
While entertainment and sports have suffered immense damage, society as a whole has suffered even worse. With well over two hundred thousand confirmed cases, thousands of deaths, and almost 7 million people unemployed, the impact of the covid-19 coronavirus is devastating to the masses.
The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen" Breadman" Edwards tackling topics such as former fighters becoming trainers, Floyd Mayweather's status in the history of boxing, the skills of the Charlo brothers, reflecting on fighters of the past, and much more.
By Tris Dixon - He wore a white Bruno-Tyson T-shirt with a flip phone fastened to the belt loops in his jeans. There was a boxing man’s aged wisdom in his eyes and physical signs of a career inside the ropes. He leant against the strands of the ring, passing nuggets of information to a young hopeful inside. You could tell he was an old fighter even though he wasn’t shouting about it and even though there were no crowds around him...
Exhibition bouts in the boxing have become a great drawing magnet among fans. This excitement of getting back into the ring, could be experienced by the ever popular Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzalez, when revealing that he is in a position to put on the gloves again, in the fashion of the eighties and nineties.
Jake LaMotta made a surprise 11th hour appearance in the semifinal round of the eWBSS (World Boxing Super Series) Middleweight Legends tournament, though the shakeup didn’t at all deter ‘Sugar’ Ray Robinson. The man hailed by many as the greatest ever in boxing history soars into the finals after scoring a mercilessly one-sided 7th round knockout Friday afternoon at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Argentina’s Carlos Monzon barely outlasted The Bronx’s own Jake LaMotta, claiming a 12-round unanimous decision Thursday afternoon at Thomas & Mack Center on University of Las Vegas (UNLV) campus in Las Vegas, Nevada. Scores were 115-112, 115-112 and 114-113 in favor of Monzon, who rose from a 9th round knockdown to prevail in the quarterfinal round of the eWBSS (World Boxing Super Series) Middleweight Legends tournament.
Champion. Monster. From November 1970 to July 1977, Carlos Monzon was the latter, ruling the middleweight division through 14 title defenses. He might have been the greatest middleweight who ever lived. Monzon went to his grave as the latter. Over 13 compelling parts, available on Netflix, the mini-series Monzon makes the case for the latter having been present all along both as a product of environment and deep character flaw. It came to a head in 1988 when Monzon murdered his wife, Alicia Muniz, sparking a firestorm in his native country and capturing headlines around the world.
According to Zanfer Promotions CEO Fernando Beltran, his company could resume their activities in June, if conditions allow, after making the decision to dismiss the shows he had planned for May due to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Thomas Gerbasi - By this date forty years ago, 19-year-old Ray Mancini had already fought three times. But he was just getting started, because when 1980 ended, he had gone from 4-0 as a pro to 16-0, fighting 12 times in the calendar year. Yeah, things have changed since then. “I'm so happy that I came up at the time I did,” said Mancini. “And I'm...