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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Third time’s a charm? Yeah, maybe... but I doubt it.
In fact, when it comes to this time of year in my incarnation as a boxing writer, I pretty much expect the next couple of days to be filled with myriad message-board potshots and the random “you’re an idiot” lambasting via e-mail inbox drive-by.
Comes with the territory, I suppose.
And it sure beats working for a living.
The mid-autumn topic matter that so stirs up the masses is the annual ballot of fighters submitted for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, tucked away in the timeless upstate hamlet of Canastota, N.Y.
I took my first crack at ballot-preparation two years ago and was an immediate rookie phenom, correctly endorsing the candidacy of all three modern-era Class of 2009 inductees – Orlando Canizales, Lennox Lewis and Brian Mitchell.
The sop****re batting average plummeted from 1.000 to .500, however, when just one of the trio’s eventual 2010 classmates – South Korean 108-pounder Jung-Koo Chang – was checked off as a “yes” vote on the ballot I submitted last October.
The majority of the voting population liked Danny “Little Red” Lopez just as much.
As for me… not so much. [Click Here To Read More]
In fact, when it comes to this time of year in my incarnation as a boxing writer, I pretty much expect the next couple of days to be filled with myriad message-board potshots and the random “you’re an idiot” lambasting via e-mail inbox drive-by.
Comes with the territory, I suppose.
And it sure beats working for a living.
The mid-autumn topic matter that so stirs up the masses is the annual ballot of fighters submitted for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, tucked away in the timeless upstate hamlet of Canastota, N.Y.
I took my first crack at ballot-preparation two years ago and was an immediate rookie phenom, correctly endorsing the candidacy of all three modern-era Class of 2009 inductees – Orlando Canizales, Lennox Lewis and Brian Mitchell.
The sop****re batting average plummeted from 1.000 to .500, however, when just one of the trio’s eventual 2010 classmates – South Korean 108-pounder Jung-Koo Chang – was checked off as a “yes” vote on the ballot I submitted last October.
The majority of the voting population liked Danny “Little Red” Lopez just as much.
As for me… not so much. [Click Here To Read More]
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