The Network Boys: Desperate House Fighters

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By Patrick Kehoe
Photo © Ed Mulholland/FightWireImages.com

HBO boxing might not quite have the galaxy of superstars it had during the late 1990s and early 2000s when Oscar De La Hoya, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Arturo Gatti, Felix Trinidad, Roy Jones, Shane Mosley, Eric Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera and Bernard Hopkins were plying their near enough to prime talents for the adulation of North American boxing fans. Yes, Home Box Office still does support a battery of battling beauties who collectively constitute a ‘Featured Fighters’ listing that remains the envy of boxing broadcasters the world over. It’s just that in 2007, HBO’s talent pool seems super-stardom light, the semi-retired Oscar De La Hoya eternally exempt. [details]

[Old Yankee]

Prize-Winning Prose

Nice "capture" of the current state of HBO's fist-scape.

[Dirt E Gomez]

Kelly Pavlik beating the stuffing out of a dehydrated Edison Miranda isn’t enough, no matter Jim Lampley’s emphatic falsetto.fist-scape.

Classic. Good read though.

[jakeameyers]

excruciating prose

Let's see if I can describe my reaction to this article in a way the author can understand:

Endeavoring to perceive directly with the intellect Kehoe's literary composition was analogous to enduring the extraction of the hard, bonelike structures (composed of cores of soft pulp surrounded by layers of hard dentin coated with enamel at the crowns) rooted in sockets in my jaw. Lest I be deemed a hypocrite, I reluctantly acknowledge that I too obtain Brobdingnagian gratification in utilizing polysyllabic combinations of sounds that symbolize and communicate a meaning and consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes. However, as respects this discrete nonfictional literary composition relating to the sport of fighting with the fists according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent, I became physically aware through the senses of a feeling of sickness in the stomach characterized by an urge to vomit that greatly exceeded a normal, usual, reasonable, or proper limit.

[niceguy45]

great article, boxing is back and it si getting interesting, too bad mayorga/vargas wasn't mentioned, maybe cuz showtime has this bout