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By Cliff Rold - I was all set this week to give the best expert analysis I could to next weekend’s excellent light heavyweight showdown between the best young fighter in the division, Chad Dawson (24-0, 16 KO, WBC titlist) of New Haven, Connecticut, and the next best young gun, Romanian-born Adrian Diaconu (24-0, 15 KO) who now fights out of Montreal.
I had lots of superlatives lined up and everything. I was going to note that it could ‘steal the night’ from the World Middleweight title showdown on HBO; how it could be ‘the best of four’ very good fights going on around the globe on September 29th. It might have been Barney Award winning stuff.
Then Adrian Diaconu went and caught a case of the owwies, an injured wrist to be exact, and that leaves me going to the Source.
Oscar De La Benzino if you will.
Benzino of course was the hip-hop entity whose aspirations to be a recording star came in conflict with a business he co-owned: Source Magazine. Since boxing fans tend to skew older, a little explanation is in order. Source was at one time the most important piece of hip-hop journalism on the planet, an actual institution of its field. Its credibility and stature was such that a five-mic (five-star) rating from the publication meant that a particular album was true genius. [details]
I had lots of superlatives lined up and everything. I was going to note that it could ‘steal the night’ from the World Middleweight title showdown on HBO; how it could be ‘the best of four’ very good fights going on around the globe on September 29th. It might have been Barney Award winning stuff.
Then Adrian Diaconu went and caught a case of the owwies, an injured wrist to be exact, and that leaves me going to the Source.
Oscar De La Benzino if you will.
Benzino of course was the hip-hop entity whose aspirations to be a recording star came in conflict with a business he co-owned: Source Magazine. Since boxing fans tend to skew older, a little explanation is in order. Source was at one time the most important piece of hip-hop journalism on the planet, an actual institution of its field. Its credibility and stature was such that a five-mic (five-star) rating from the publication meant that a particular album was true genius. [details]
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