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Undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins talked a good fight and even tried to talk Carl Daniels out of fighting him three days before the two met for Hopkins’ WBC, WBA and IBF belts Saturday night at the Sovereign Center. But Daniels showed up and took the champion’s…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Wouldn’t it be nice if a boxing match could again be promoted as a “Rumble in the Jungle,” and then live up to its billing? How about a pay-per-view refund if the bout lasted fewer than five rounds or were 12 rounds of drawn-out junk? Is this too much to ask? Yes, when it comes…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Marshmallows will be the post-fight snack for the loser of the bout between undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins and Carl Daniels Saturday night at the Sovereign Center. Both have vowed to make the other eat them. But it was not Daniels (46-3-1, 30 KO’s), the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →No ear biting, no crying, no hugging. Basically, nothing that you might have seen in the past in a Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis heavyweight mess-up. No, club-style professional boxers can’t afford to play mind games — just throw on the gloves, maybe draw some blood. It helps when…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →On the way to his press conference in this city, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins ran into a major delay because of a flat tire on his burgundy-with-gold-trimmings limousine. The Philadelphia native, once considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, has had his share…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →“Yo, get over here,” yelled the well-dressed man with the salt-and-pepper hair on a snowy Saturday afternoon. Lehigh was down five at home and looking very much like a team that was about to drift even further away from Holy Cross in a Patriot League matchup. Then, Lehigh coach…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Michael Jordan has a ways to go before he catches up to Larry Holmes. His former Airness would have to retire and unretire from the NBA at least two more times. And Jordan, now a Washington Wizard sidelined with a sore right knee, would have to play into his 50s. “I think he…
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Read on mcall.com →Central Catholic entered homecoming Saturday with a 1-3 record and riding on the District 11 playoff bubble. One more loss would have put the Vikings in serious jeopardy of not qualifying for the playoffs. Opponents of CCHS may be in a rush for that to happen, but the Vikings’…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →On June 9, 1978, Larry Holmes stopped having to prove himself. That’s the day he punished Ken Norton to win the heavyweight championship He proceeded to hold onto a portion of that title for the next 7 years. Now, at age 51 and riding a four-fight winning streak, Holmes says…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The hype, the back-and-forth jawing with the opponent, the unstable nerves athletes get as a big competition nears have not been there for Larry Holmes, and probably will not come before he fights Mike Weaver Friday night at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →He’s a farm boy from Front Royal, Va., who punches with deceptive power. He speaks in a soft, polite tone, but Jason Waller has knocked out three of the last four fighters he’s faced in Allentown. Waller gets another chance to punish another opponent in a scheduled eight-round…
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Read on mcall.com →Famed boxing trainer Earnee Butler used to like to corner former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes — in the ring and in the car. Butler always had a story about his own professional boxing career, which included 91 wins and 13 losses as a welterweight. “He used to tell me about…
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