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The live crowd got what it paid for. Not much. 😒

Oh and speaking of Micky Ward I saw him this weekend in Lowell at Lowe’s, he was there with his wife Charlene. It looked like they were returning something. I didn’t get a chance to say hello or to talk to him and because it was Easter weekend, more people were trying to get selfies with the...

I enjoyed attending the writers dinner the year I received an honorary mention for a story I penned on TSS about Micky Ward. Unfortunately the organization didn’t live up to my expectations. I see they just put out some new writer awards but that TSS (Arne) didn’t receive any recognition and...

George Foreman’s death has me looking back at Hagler’s death. Both were known to have taken the jab. When Hagler died at just 66, Thomas Hearns tried to tell people that it was vaxx related and the media pilloried him for it and so did Hagler’s widow Kay. Well, Hagler’s blood son James says...

Fighting (and beating) Boom Boom Mancini on regular old network television like he did really made Bramble more famous than he would have been otherwise. Think how many guys have won some slice of the lightweight title since then and you just know there’s a lot of obscure names on such a list...

Excellent use of the terms “rent” and “smote” here, I think Reverend George would have liked that. It’s easy for the world to see the boxing accomplishments as the greatest thing in Foreman’s life but I’m sure George would put his relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ on top as his greatest...

Bernard, condolences again on the loss of your wife. I too have a “Foreman and my wife” story and so here it is. In 2003 when George was inducted into the IBHOF, my wife Mary Grace and I went to induction weekend. It was great time. Iran Barkley couldn’t keep his eyes off of Mary at Graziano’s...

I didn’t expect Thurman to emerge from Down Under in victorious fashion. I figured he’d bitten off more than his aging legs could chew against a hungry young lion in the lion’s den. I expected Thurman to retire on the stool after absorbing a beating. That kind of result is obviously more likely...

Greg Haugen definitely had one of the best most solid chins in boxing history, may he rest in peace.

The latest update in the George’s saga is disappointing. New owner Hamilton Rodriguez ran the venerated restaurant into the ground. He changed it from Italian food to Latino food and his politically motivated culinary operation recently went out of business. What happened to all the boxing stuff...

Tyson Fury, who almost had himself a little AJ meltdown in the ring after the fight but thought better of it said the decision was a “Christmas gift” from the judges to the champ Usyk so a reporter asked Usyk about this at the post fight and he said, “ok good, if it was a Christmas gift, not...

Tyson Fury is now past his expiration date. He’s still edible but his level of freshness is highly questionable. He doesn’t just throw almost all arm punches now, he kinda throws hand punches if you know what I mean. There’s some truth to the claim that Fury manipulates his gloves during...

Mungia could have a continued. He deserved the right to overcome adversity. The ref was a little quick to stop.

No controversy was manufactured. It was basically a real fight aside from Jake carrying Mike and not putting him away. Very lame!!! 😒

People who known me as the boxing guy have been asking me who will win this fight. If (a big IF) it’s a real athletic contest where both competitors come to win, then I don’t see how Tyson can win. He’s too old. He was absolutely washed 20 years ago and what’s he been doing since? Smoking pot...

Enjoyed reading this. It all does seem like just yesterday. 🥹

A couple more of the new Hagler statue. 🤩

The Hagler statue is unveiled. 🤩

Wow, no “gaffing” was necessary when I hit a slot machine in Boston for an 11 thousand dollar jackpot recently! They’re in no rush to pay ya tho lol 💵

Wilder should hang them up. He doesn’t look or sound good. This latest loss was very predictable.

Something is wrong with Wilder and it may have to something to do with Tyson Fury’s bludgeoning fists and whatever hallucination inducing drugs Wilder got himself whacked out on recently. He’s not hungry for anything in boxing except for money and attention; the latter of which he is desperate...

Usyk is an incredible champion and a funny dude. He’s grown on me. The Fury win was a win but it was very close and will need to be duplicated or improved upon if possible. If he wins the rematch he should make a few defenses, maybe against Parker and Wilder? And then he could retire undefeated...

Great fight! Usyk is truly incredible. I liked that both men hugged it out in the end, gave the glory to Christ and both men kissed the cross hanging from Usyk’s neck. There are no losers when no matter who wins, a white Christian is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Amazing 🤩

After stopping Vito the Mosquito on cuts in the bloody Boston rematch, Hagler said, “I knew he wasn’t the same guy I fought back then in 79 because he was much too easy.” Hagler also thanked Vito for helping him buy his mother a house!

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Munguia was a worthy challenger and he came to win but he ran into a great fighter who is still great. Canelo definitely still has it. Mungia will learn from this experience and come back even better. It’s funny to think we were sold on the notion that he was too fragile for GGG. The opposite I...

Ryan Garcia is right when he says that he gets hatred and derision from the world because he supports Donald Trump and the Lord Jesus Christ, the wicked world’s two least favorite people of all time. A rematch should sort this mess all out.

The “acting out” before a fight is basically as old as Cassius Clay doing it to the disgust of most everyone back then who saw it and wondered what was wrong with him. Is this boy crazy? What a disgrace to Joe Louis they probably said. Sonny Liston saw the same thing that Devin Haney saw (a...

Happy for Ryan. When you confess the name of Jesus Christ as Lord and King amazing things happen. Holy over Tyson and the list goes on. Jesus easily trumps Allah, always. The referee was terrible, so was the judge who saw a draw. Where did their envelopes come from?? I honestly thought Garcia...

Chris Rock said of the O.J. verdict: “Black people too happy. White people too mad.”

This win by Fundora is a testament to the fact that in boxing, how “hungry” a fighter is plays a huge role in how they perform. We all know for a fact that Fundora is younger and hungrier than Thurman would have been. It’s hard to even see Thurman as hungry at all there days. When Fundora was...

If this fight is a real fight and both guys are actually trying to win, there’s no reason to think Tyson will be anything but outworked and outfought by the younger and yes, better, Jake Paul. Tyson is an ancient pothead who shouldn’t even be licensed to fight a real fight at this point. If it’s...

Ortiz is a stylist not a runner. He’s had his share of action packed fights and thrilling moments. He had the right strategy to deal with Lopez and he neutralized the heavily favored “superstar” and outboxed him, beat him. It’s a shame he’s being maligned and insulted for successfully BOXING in...

Lopez is such a loudmouth bore. Ortiz did enough to win but he’s quiet.

Quote possibly the most premature referee stoppage I’ve ever seen in all my years of watching boxing. What the heck was Weeks doing? I loved seeing Barroso get that unexpected KO in 1 tho. 🤩

It’s hard to tell what ruined Wilder more. Was it the unbelievable beatings laid upon him by world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury? Was it Wilder’s insane insistence that Fury was cheating? Or was it Wilder’s training for Parker on a steady diet of hallucinogenic drugs? Either way, he’s trippin...

It’s hard not to root for Garcia now after he’s been forced to rebuke his own promotional team, the perpetually pickled Oscar De La Hoya in particular. Hopkins, still better at promoting his own ego than the interests of others, is really no better. Those two deserve each other and Garcia...

In 2001 on the streets of Lowell, Mass, a young 5x Lowell golden gloves champion boxer named Luis Ayala was gunned down and killed at an intersection not far from where I lived at the time. He’d tried out for the 2000 Olympics as a super lightweight and was just 23. His murderer was tried and...

Saw this TKO result coming like the foregone conclusion it always was. Andrade has avoided any/all meaningful matchups for his entire professional career and this beatdown by the better man is the natural consequence of it. Benavides is a real fighter and real fighters make avoidant pretenders...

Rather than watch this sleeper, I rewatched Hagler vs. Marcos Geraldo from 1980 on YouTube. This was Hagler’s final non-title bout and a spirited little ten round tussle. If Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns could have had a boxing baby, it would’ve looked like the lanky Latino Geraldo. The...

Fury is frequently a victim of rabbit punches that put him down. Fury also frequently gets up to win fights like champions do. Despite the ridiculous scorings and bleating overreactions from casuals and cage fight fans, it’s evident that Fury won a close fight legitimately and then showed great...

Credit to Usyk. He got up from a knockout to win lol 😂

Spence was utterly trashed and exposed. I seriously doubt we see much more from him.

Bernard pretty well nailed it.

Why do neither of these two fighters look like hungry, lean, ready to make weight welterweights? Am I the only one seeing this? The pudgy faces. The shocking lack of intensity? These guys both look like overfed actors playing the role of boxers.

It was close and competitive as expected. When scoring fights live, like the judges do at ringside; we are able to not only see punches land (tho not always) but what we can do is HEAR them and their various degrees of impact. To mute a live fight on TV is to mute out the limited access to the...

Loma going home to live the dream and be a good Christian. 👏

That poster featuring a dry game of chess. Perfect.

Can’t wait to see this Christian film about the salvation of Big George Foreman in the Lord Jesus Christ. They told George, “we thought you wuz dead!” And George says, “I was!” because until we are BORN AGAIM we are all dead.

Well, Pryor-Arguello this surely was not. Nice that they actually fought though.

They say power is the last thing to go. In the case of Anthony Joshua, it was first. Tyson Fury creams him.

I saw Kevin McBride last night, talked to him. Always enjoy him. He introduced me to his son Kevin Junior who’s 15 and starting to box. The Ring’s Doug Fischer was there. So was Ron Borges. Micky Ward was spotted. I chatted with Gerry Cooney and took a photo with him, me being taller. Dana White...

Rest in peace Mills Lane, or as he might say: “Let’s get it on come on!” Arguably the greatest referee in boxing history. Only bent to pressure once as I recall as he let Tyson come back out to criminally assault Holyfield, again.

It’s a high profile tune-up but I’m excited to see the fight on Saturday. Fury is very entertaining and he tends to beat the crap out of his opponents. The Ukrainian Usyk should be next and no matter who wins, a white Christian will be the undisputed heavyweight champion of the whole world. My...

One thing I noticed about Martinez (when he came to New Hampshire to fight) was how, in a world of unrelentingly undignified people who’ll do anything they’re told as long as it makes zero sense whatsoever, Martinez presented himself with the utmost dignity. I didn’t see him wearing a cloth...

Nothing but endless hard luck, tough breaks for Arroyo.

All this money, all this effort and all this yapping and Lou D puts on a forgettable card featuring nobody against nobody and Williams in another meaningless matchup. This whole show could’ve just as easily been put on in Dedham Massachusetts and been promoted by Chris Traetti’s Granite Chin...

Another 15-round fighter is gone with the wind. Rest in Peace Buster Drayton. 🙏

Nice write up. When KO Digest interviewed Fenech in 2014 we got into this decision, he said: “Can anybody watch that fight and give Azumah Nelson more than three rounds? I threw a hundred punches more. The fight wasn’t even close. Of course, it was a great fight, it was one of the greatest...

Rewatched this outstanding/entertaining contest again last night. Look, 117-111 is disgusting BS. 116-112 ain’t much better. Terence Crawford is right, this fight was arguably close enough to be a draw and as time goes by I suspect we will see more and more folks willing to admit that what they...

I asked Hartford Connecticut’s Popeye Rivera for his thoughts on #LomaOrtiz and here’s what Richie had to say: “I thought he did great. I’m a huge fan of Jamaine Ortiz especially after his last performance. I’m very proud of him. Is there things in a boxing fight that he could have done better...

So interesting. An inexperienced kid from Worcester does better against an elite opponent than 44-0 Zurdo Ramirez!! That trainer in his corner was funny like he knew he was on camera and had to act accordingly.

Every decade or so, Worcester Mass produces a fighter who reaches the world stage and makes a name for himself. Jose Antonio Rivera, Edwin Rodriquez, and now Jamaine Ortiz. Anyone who’s ever seen him fight or knew one thing about the “Technician” knew he was going to absolutely compete with Loma...

I definitely thought Helenius had a chance to compete, maybe even win. But Wilder truly is at the “happy weight” in his life and it’s good to see him making himself more likable as a man and as a professional fighter. His power is undeniably real but so too is the chin and heart of Tyson Fury...

The graven aspersions of those of Fury cheating. I contend Wilder will wise up and recant that BS.

Wilder looked/seemed happy at that presser. Much more comfortable in his own skin. Suddenly he’s very likable. 😃 The Furious beatings he took are doing him good. Soon he won’t even cast such graven aspersions.

What an unbelievable disappointment this “fight” and GGG in particular. Canelo was not much better but he is better and there is no way for history to ignore the fact that Golovkin was not (is not) a great fighter. He had 36 rounds to get it done with the best fighter he ever faced and could...

Ted’s Obit 🙏

One more from my time with Ted. This from February of 2020. ✍️

Ted and I at our first Breakfast of Champions. This was 2019 in Glen NH at Sunrise Shack. ☀️

Amen to that Ron. Indeed Ted was treated poorly by the BWAA. All the fight writer guys like he and me and we ever wanted from that peculiar organization was what they purported to be. Instead we found a partisan confederation of egomaniacal weirdos who trend to the far left and treat outliers as...

I just dropped off a sympathy card at Ted’s house in North Conway on behalf of all of his writing friends and colleagues at TSS. I signed and delivered it for all of us here who knew him and respected him. When I get more information about services etc I will post it and of course I will be...

Ted and I shaking hands. June 25, 2022. ☀️ Ted’s Yard Sale in North Conway, NH.

A few weeks ago Ted told me in a text that he was very sick but because he is (was) such an iron horse I knew he’d be fine. What can I say? I was wrong. What a life he lived though. Famous in his home town. Stronger than its young men. And a fight fan for life. Ted was my friend and I found the...

Samaritan is the Friday night movie here at Camp KO! 🔥

So I was asked, what will it take to supplant Demetrius Andrade from the top stop and replace him with Jamaine Ortiz. Hmm 🤔 well here’s the answer. If Andrade fights Parker at 168 and fails to impress while Ortiz beats or memorably competes with Mr. P4P Lomachenko then we have the makings of a...

No. It’s ok to call a midget a midget. Just like people feel free calling me whatever they like.

Like when angry AJ actually told Usyk, “You’re not strong!”

Ring announcer John Vena is lamenting the fact that I didn’t include Ryan Kielczweski in the ratings and he may have a point but Ryan K doesn’t win anymore and he’s much older now than when he had world stage opportunities. As I told him, I don't disagree with him necessarily but these ratings...

I chatted briefly with “Popeye the Sailor Man” Rivera today and I asked him what’s next after the Jack disappointment. “I’m filing an appeal. I’m not sure what will come of it but I definitely want a rematch with Jack on US soil. Whether or not I get the rematch I’ll still be training and...

You got that right Ron!! So I finally scored the fight. Rivera really did outbox Jack for most of the night. Popeye won the first 5 rounds. No doubt. Hit and don’t be hit. In the sixth Jack cracked Rivera once good but he still got out-worked by Popeye. It’s 6-0 Popeye after 6 rounds. Jack...

Very interesting! But Tyson Fury is right. The fight was shite. And he’d annihilate both dossers in the same night. 🥊

This is uniquely interesting. Both heavyweight champions are now Christian white men. Both give God and Lord Jesus Christ the glory. Bring on Fury-Usyk ❤️

As advertised, Popeye Rivera is “strong to the finish!”

Because it’s true. Because Garcia (and countless other fighters) thank God.

There comes a time in a writer’s life… 😉

You seriously don’t understand what I said?

Oh wow I’m the only fight scribe on earth picking AJ to win this rematch. Ya’ll gonna be surprised when it’s not quite the same Usyk you all fell in love with who shows up. Anyway, may the best man win and it be exciting. Speaking of exciting, New England’s top up and comer, Jermaine Ortiz is...

Real fighters thank the source of their strength. And give the glory to He who earned it: God. 🙏 Props to Ryan Garcia for his acceptance of the truth.

These bohunks needed naps before they fought. They were both exhausted; hanging all over each other.

Hamilton Rodriquez who now owns George’s restaurant is also now throwing his hat into the political ring, running as a conservative Republican for congress in the Massachusetts 8th district. He calls for an end to the “tyrannical rule” of Nancy Pelosi. He calls for a restoration of...

I’m feeling the love. 😎

Fashionable? I live in rural Maine and wear brown work boots.

I, like Sugar Ray Leonard, am a die-hard nonconformist.

Here’s the truth. If you want to truly live, the ego must die. Most cling to it, and protects it at all costs. That reminds me, when KO Digest interviewed world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in 2014, he opened the conversation by talking about the Brewster fight and how it almost...

This is nice that writers take care of other writers and routinely put their buddies in the boxing hall of fame. A few days after the the big three-way induction weekend I got a call from the former world welterweight champion Marlon Starling. I asked Moochie if he went to the hall and he did...

Yes this is how I was treated by the BWAA. They spied on my social media postings, consolidated my posts across a few different platforms, presented them to me ostensibly as evidence against me and it was Rat Joe himself who told me I could defend myself to him. Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious...

Listen Ted when I come over to your house on Saturday afternoon for the Sares Family yard sale (old stupid books for a nickel 😉) Billy Cuccio the January 6th Patriot who hosted a TRUMP RALLY across the street from your house at his lobster 🦞 restaurant better be there!

Obviously I was hoping for Lewiston, Maine. Or even Portland. Hagler used to fight there. I hope AJ can right the ship, fight Fury. 👑

I’m glad he mentioned Governor Ron DeSantis. ❤️ Many of us Patriots can’t decide if it should be him or President Trump who takes over for Sleepy Joe soon.

Russians are kicking asss in the ring. And in Ukraine. Be all over soon fellas.

May his soul Rest In Peace. I met him at the Hall and he signed a card for me.

Smith didn’t “panic” as suggested by TV. He was overwhelmed. Outclassed. And as the Russian said, “He’s very…open.”

Haney-Lomachenko, let’s go promoters!!

Nice! 👏 The e-mail lightweight champion is now UNDISPUTED!

I dubbed him “the wannabe Macho Camacho of his day.”

Lewiston is way up there. And I live in Maine! ☀️ Actually covered a Brandon “The Cannon” Berry fight in the same building where Liston dived against Ali. That was a few years ago. There was a like a little museum in there about the fight with pictures and newspapers framed. Not much going on...

Larry is cool. We (Brocktonians) forgive him. He made his amends.

Tank didn’t hit him hard enough in the mouth. I know this because Rolly is still talking that trash.

What’s the issue, can you please elaborate? I’m not on Facebook.

Zurdo’s ring temperament reminds of John Ruiz.

Nothing at all like that going on in occupied America.

Charlo was better the first time they fought and he was demonstrably better last night with the KO finish. Imagine Charlo had to spend 22 rounds proving what was known after 12?!? Anyway, the Charlos are impressive. One of them should get a chance to fight Mr. Genny Golovkin. Either or really.

That’s so great. Russia has beautiful people. ❤️ 🇷🇺

Yes Bivol won. And he dominated. It’s a good thing he did because those judges were predetermined to protect Canelo from defeat unless it became impossible to do so. They sure as hell tried. If they could have they would have rendered a draw and if they could have they’d have awarded the win to...

Have those judges been arrested yet? 💰 That was conspiracy, attempted robbery in plain site.

The dead should be left to rest. Not exhumed for some shiity book.

Tyson Fury for P4P #1 now.

Bivol need not attack the super middleweight division. Heaven forbid he might hurt their feelings. He’s the man at light heavyweight. Bivol vs Beterbiev-Smith winner. Go Go Joe 🇺🇸

The Russian Bear Bivol had as much a right to fight and beat Canelo as the Russians have in combating and beating Ukraine. That reminds me, my legs hurt from standing so hard with Russia. 🇷🇺 Go Go Bivol!!! 🇷🇺

I think GGG3 makes the most sense now. Bivol is just too big and good for Alvarez. Nelo ran into his Joey Maxim, back to middle.

Canelo’s P4P, gone, like tears in the rain. Time to die.

And shame on the Klitschko brothers for their stated belief that Bivol should have been denied his opportunity to fight and beat Canelo because he’s Russian. That’s some deplorable shiiit right there. And respect to the judges for not bowing to hysterical anti-Russian sentiment and robbing the...

Congratulations to the Russian. 🇷🇺

I don’t know. Is Nico ready for GGG???

Yes Ted. I actually saw the fight.

The judges hosed Amanda. She shellshocked Taylor and was just better in there.

So Shakur Stevenson’s mama started a brawl with the media at the post-fight press conference? What DA?!? This is an embarrassment to dignity and evidence that Shakur is a mama’s boy beta male! Undisputed mess!

I have to agree with celebrity influencer (lol I mean promoter) Jake Paul who lamented that Serrano won the fight and it was “a draw at best.” He’s right. They kinda jobbed Amanda. Imagine his being the only voice of reason last night at Madison square garden and you kinda get an idea of the...

Benn crazy enough to go to 160 to see GGG? That I would pay to see! 🤩

Awesome but predictable knockout victory. Whyte gets sparked out by uppercuts. It’s his thing. Tyson Fury is white power personified. And all in the name of our savior Jesus Christ. ❤️ Amazing champion please don’t retire!

Bring on Spence-Crawford. 🔥 If boxing can’t produce this matchup, it’s officially dead and efforts to liberate boxing from itself must be considered by outside forces. Are you hearing me Elon Musk? Free up the suppressed speech on Twitter and then please sir, consider making boxing great again.

Skipped this girl fight and the other girl fights. Fundora-Lubin was worth staying up late for tho! 🔥

Golovkin gets hit like it’s his job, which I guess it is. I suspect Canelo will reject a third GGG fight. Frankly, Golovkin hasn’t done dick to earn it. Unless being an inactive sore loser counts.

Nice fight so far. I have it 3-2-1 Golovkin after six.

Hey Arne thank for the info about air time. Watching live now waiting for GGG. Hoping for a big drama show in Japan.

My boxing nickname is JFree as given by Bernard Fernandez. My God Son goes by Steals. 😄

Ted can you tell me how you came up with your screen name?

Great photo of Ted and I in New Hampshire in 2019. This the first of a few boxing writer breakfast of champions.

I don’t really understand this decision but it is what it is. I’ve enjoyed getting to know Ted Sares in real life and I’ve made real world memories with the man I proudly call a friend. Enjoy your fandom Ted. One thing I have always been is a radical non-conformist. Nothing changing here. The...

The Triangle. ❤️ Strongest because the 3 sides all the support the other.

I am in full agreement with the esteemed Clarence George who writes: “Of course Russian and Belarusian fighters shouldn’t be banned. We don’t punish people for their nationality. As Paul Sorvino said in Goodfellas (1990), “We’re not animali.”” No indeed we are not sir. I’m pleased your reply...

He also used to drink at Cafferty’s nightclub in Brockton. 🍻 That was over by the mall and westgate lanes. 🎳 What’s your point Tedomir Bullovich?? 😎

In the spirit of sportsmanship and international competition, here is my integrated Russian/Ukrainian top ten ratings to include all “active” boxers from both neighboring countries, Russia and Ukraine. Nobody gets canceled from these rankings. 1. Oleksandr Usyk 🇺🇦 (heavyweight champion) 2...

Regardless of the reason or reasons why, Hagler’s never look back retirement is what sets him apart from so many other desperate souls who held onto boxing and sacrificed their bodies and minds rather than letting their ego die. Hagler let his ego die (it’s the hardest thing in life to do) and...

This is conservative pundit Candace Owens. 🗣 Just so there is no confusion. 😎

What a shocking finish. Strange too because earlier in the day I was randomly watching the Hagler-Hamani fight (in Portland, Maine in 1980) on YouTube and Hagler brutally ejected Hamani from the ring because the ropes were so ridonkulously loose.

There’s a reason Toney-Tibieri is held up as the most rigged decision in the modern era of boxing. Dave won. Dave was robbed. Reminds me of 2020. The following is a bit I wrote in my review of Scoop’s Donald Trump book: Kallen also remembers the day in 1992 that her fighter, James Toney...

OK back to sleep Ted. 😉 Back in 2013 at Foxwoods I covered the boxing offering there one night and Russian featherweight Evgeny Gradovich went to war with Billy Dib and took his title. I made a prediction ahead of time that Gradovich would win. He did, making me feel good in press row that...

Apparently, the repugnant desire to discriminate against (and persecute the livelihood of) Russian sportsman Dmitry Bivol continues apace as though its animated and funded by an entertainment company posing as an embattled government. Strange. Obviously Russia Russia Russia-mania in boxing will...

Rest In Peace Mike Marley, cool cat. I met him a couple times. Great read Arne. 👍

A little bit more from the KO Digest interview with then reigning world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko regarding politics in Ukraine and Russia. From 2014 when the conflict really started to get warm: “If we talk about politics right now, politicians are trying to divide and conquer...

Back in 2014 when he was the world heavyweight champion, KO Digest interviewed Wladimir Klitschko by telephone from his camp Germany. He mostly talked boxing but we asked him about the situation in Ukraine, asking him: "What don’t Americans see about what’s going on in Ukraine? We can view the...

As for Jose Antonio Rivera and his Worcester boxing shows, Jose could be at the end of the line. The past two years have been a direct attack on capitalism and Rivera struggled to cover the cost of renting local venues even in good times when capitalism was being protected. Anyway, as noted in a...

Team Technician 🇵🇷 🇩🇴

More that just that Worcester, Mass has been the location of some very interesting fights as well. Leonard-Howard for instance. The history of Mechanics Hall. It has also produced a new Massachusetts State Police Officer. Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez has officially truly really retired and gone...

Golovkin is embarrassing himself talking 💩 about Canelo. Him deluding himself (and us) makes it hard to forget him.

It was great. I was watching that PPV at a soldier lounge at Fort Drum in 97. This was before I actually moved to Lowell and go to know Micky through my journalistic endeavors. He was somebody I was aware of because I loved/watched boxing obviously but at that point I was very unaware of the...

This was a good trip down memory lane Ted the Bull. 👏 And that reminds me. When I interviewed Irish Micky Ward in 2018, I asked him about the verbal assault he endured at the hands of HBO announcers. He said: “They were a little harsh but in all due respect, I wasn’t fighting like I should have...

Several years ago Pollack approached me online about doing something for him but for the life of me I can’t recall what it was. I got the impression he’s a real go-getter and he really is. 👍

Congratulations Bernard. 👏 Send me a copy please.

I’m starting to think Golovkin ducked Mungia. Not buying that story about Jamie being too green.

Happy for Brook. 👏 Khan is a little dosser and it’s his time to exit stage left. Sounds crazy but I’d like to see Brook-Benn in U.K. 🇬🇧

Russell was beaten badly and obviously. It was obvious in the opening round he would be beaten by the bigger man. You’d have to be blind or just “following the science” to not see that. Listening to the biased SHO announcers call the fight as close and competitive was outdone in its foolishness...

Agreed. Nice boxing story about a boxing story teller. 👍

I like Joe Smith. He’s a skilled mauler. I’d like to see him get a crack at Canelo.

Nice write up Ted. 👍 The best round I personally saw live was on the Andrade undercard in ManchVegas. Julio Cesar Martinez and McWilliams Arroya traded knockdowns in a frenetic first round. It was exciting and hopes were high for a great fight. The whole thing went south in the second; it was...

Let’s not forget this one: “Can Donald Trump ‘Make Boxing Great Again’ and Become its New Howard Cosell?” ✍️ 😉

Tony DeMarco was such a nice man. He will be missed. And Steve Lott, another great guy. May they Rest in Peace.

Still so hard to believe the Unknockoutable One is gone. 🙏 May his soul Rest in Peace. And all the souls of the departed.

If Eddie is secretly a jerk he hides it well from reporters. Unlike other less social, more cantankerous barkers.

I was thinking Usyk over AJ but this one is a good choice. 👍

I was thinking Nonito Donaire but this is all well and good.

Still stuck in that cardboard box. He didn’t break through it.

RIP Tony Perez. Get well soon Dave. Just saw him at ringside in Manchester, New Hampshire. A town I’m sure he hopes to never see again.

Something about Parker reminds me of Jose Antonio Rivera. And in Zurdo Ramirez I see John Ruiz. Call me crazy KO! ✍️

Zurdo is a tough guy who doesn’t hit very hard. Or move around very well. He’s right there. Canelo would embarrass him.

I think Ugas warrants the breakthrough consideration. Before he beat/retired Pacquiao as a late substitute opponent he was on the outside looking in at the B side, now he’s one of the main men at welterweight and getting called out for big fights. Ugas! Ugas! Boxing tried to keep him in a...

Sure. If “most likely to hurt Mike Tyson if they really fight” is an award. Otherwise, let’s leave awards to the real pros still out there. 🗳

I liked Loma better when he forced stoppages. Not this guy who asks for it because he can’t get it.

I say move “The Hall” to Brockton, place it not far from the Rocky Marciano statue and of course, George’s boxing themed restaurant. Tie it in to Rox Stadium. Presto. New and better boxing hall of fame in the city of champions. Besides, New York is a leftwing dystopian wasteland and Canastota is...

Mora is the only one who know anything he’s talking about but he’s a fighter not a polished propagandist like Mannix and the shills who shill below him on the DAZN fake news totem pole. Sergio Mora isn’t always the best at communicating that genuine insight he has but it gets through and that’s...

I give you… Larry Elder, Jesse Lee Peterson et al.

A $75 Sunday night boxing PPV featuring an exciting but still emerging star against a B-side guy nobody has ever heard of and who everybody and their mama knew would lose, I definitely don’t understand that. Boo these substandard PPVs 😒

I’m still with Kyrie (and Floyd) on this one. 👍

I think King gets a bad rap. Not unlike conservative black talk show hosts for example.

Mannix is such a pathetic shill it’s rather beyond belief. And it really only gets worse from there. When DAZN is in UK tho I really enjoy the British calls.

You’d think Russell Mora would be more on top of low blows.

Not too surprised about Cheney losing his first fight. Technically he’s good but it’s the intangibles he lacks.

I have similar concerns about Cassius Chaney. I’m not sure he survives a significant step-up fight.

Canelo has a good chin and very proficient defense. I’d have thought Golovkin could make him chicken dance. Nope.

Eddie Hearn was right to label Lopez Sr. a “bellend”, aka a dick. Thus we see where the son gets his aggrieved mind. Wanna know the problem with Demetrius Andrade? His father is a chronic alcoholic, oh and his trainer!

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Another headline “scorcher” I love it! 👏 Teo cryin be like Rocky if he insisted he beat Creed first time.

I know one guy who absolutely wants to fight Badou Jack. Of course I speak of Hartford’s Richard “Popeye” Rivera.

Who put the barrier up and why?? Just to be mean? Was it actually put up by other women?? Asking for a friend.

America would be a lot better off if more of us were like the Porters, Kenny and son Shawn. No grievances, no excuses, no complaining…just love, more love and of course, personal responsibility for one’s actions. Up in Maine, I live in the town of Porter and around here a porter is the guy you...

I think Arne’s nickname should be “Box o’ Tricks” 😎 Nice read. 👍 Happy Thanksgiving TSS crew. I’m grateful to be a writer here!

KO’s Monday morning morning bottom line: Andrade was upstaged by a girl from his own hometown.

Crawford’s body language towards Bob Arum at the post fight presser was telling. He basically declared his independence from Top Rank, doing so with his back turned to a sour pussed Bob.

Congratulations on liberating yourself from intellectual bondage.

Finally caught this on replay. What a determined effort by Kiko. The first knockdown was as they called it on TV “a peach of a punch” and dear God was Kid out of it. Kiko walked out next round and hit him flush on the chin with no defensive effort whatsoever by Galahad. Nobody loved him enough...

I hope it lands you a BWAA Bernie award for good writing! 😉

Crawford is great we all know that. 👍 But I’m most impressed by the love and class of the Porters.

He is but I can’t see him dealing successfully with Golovkin. Unless GGG is diminished beyond my understanding. Andrade-Charlo is pick em, I guess. And I think Boo beats Murata. He does need fan/media to demand these bouts. Will they though??

It’s not been proposed or even talked about that I know of but the middleweight division could really use a tournament to determine who the new/real post-Canelo world champion actually is. Doesn’t Golovkin still want to be undisputed and the “real” champ?? What we have are a bunch of belt...

If you have DAZN and didn’t already see it, I’d recommend to anyone to check out that Reis-Camara fight on replay. The women put on the fight of the night and in doing so put most of the men on the show to shame. If women’s boxing can continue to produce great fights like that, women’s boxing...

Oh please, Canelo schools him even easier.

Plant had a plan to turn this bout into somewhat of an “angles nightmare” for Canelo and it worked to a degree until Canelo’s boxing IQ broke through those angles with the fight math needed to level Pant 90 degrees to the ground. Alvarez = modern great.

Rest in Peace Steve Lott, wow, what a loss. Lott was a great ambassador for boxing. 🙏 Very accessible and engaged with the sport.

This is well timed for me. As a kid I was fascinated with boxing and had an Uncle from Brockton who was the then family boxing expert; this owing to his golden glove experience and familiarity with Rocky Marciano. Cut to today and I’m that Uncle. I’ve exposed my young nephews to talk about...

Boxing’s top star has bravely spoken out in favor of NBA superstar Kyrie Irvin’s choice to resist medical tyranny and governmental coercion even if it costs him his basketball career. Kyrie is refusing the mandatory jab and Floyd is speaking out in favor of the modern day Muhammad Ali. “America...

Bobby also loves Trump. 🇺🇸 Smart guy. 🧠

Deontay Wilder could learn a lot by watching 🇺🇸 Herring lose.

Nice and informative flashback Ted. 👍 I was never a Hamsho fan, me being from Brockton and all. Same holds true for Duran, Hearns etc.

Ha, my statue can beat up your statue! Great story Bernard. 👍

Great show on DAZN with Fenech’s prospect surviving trial by fire, a clever boxer winning a world title by upset and the upset in the main event involving Mikey. He fought like he enjoyed the fake couch setup in his “star dressing room” just a little too much. Real boxing is a truth machine. 👍

Same here Ted. I read thousands of words every day across a wide range of topics (including boxing) but rarely if ever do they come from a book. I’ll take 1,500 words of BFERN over 1,500 pages of some random writer’s best mental masturbations and soppy declarations of unrequited love for Harry...

Tony was a very gracious people person. Rest in Peace Champ. 🙏

Also the fight had shades of Lewis-Grant the way Fury was front face locking Wilder and uppercutting him with the free hand. This questionable technique was like a horse tranquilizer to Grant while Wilder took it better and longer. Fury is in many ways an amalgamation of a vicious Lewis and a...

Great fight marred by Wilder’s pisss poor sportsmanship. Typical beaten bully with nothing to say, particularly anything classy or respectful. When Bronzy breaks his silence will it be to blame the referee? Dude was very white and did very little to punish Fury for beating up on Deontay. Oh...

Great fight, Fury pulverizes but doesn’t dominate. And he is the better man in more ways than one. 👑

Credit to those judges who penalized J/Rock for losing. Congrats to that journeyman Hernandez, he bled for it.

Wilder was better, more durable, but Fury owns him. 👑 Sad Deontay can’t show his superior the proper respect.

And I always knew that one of these new age boxing bimbos who pretend to be like pretty faced announcers and interviewers would make such a pathetic spectacle of herself that she’d get infamous from being such an unprofessional little fangirl. The names of these gaggling bimbos are irrelevant...

Yesterday’s presser was a belly laugh. 😆 Wilder sat there like a goof with not a single worthwhile thing to say while Fury towered over him and utterly dressed him down with painful truths and humorous insults. I liked when he called both Wilder and Scott (co-conspirators in the fake “fight”...

From the KO Digest Mike Weaver Q&A: Q: The first Dokes fight was about one month after Duk Koo Kim’s fatal fight against Ray Mancini, and referee Joe Curtis claims that the NSAC stressed that fight so much that he believes he may have overreacted by stopping your fight (with Dokes) with that...

What a long strange trip it’s been. 🤪 The hardest part of retirement is actually retiring. Only time will tell if Manny is really all done with boxing.

Mancini revealed what he believed to be the real reason for the change. Usyk has broken through that massive wall of jaded expectations stacked against him, my own included. I really didn’t see him winning. He’s a very hot property right now. Real fans like us love it when a guy does what he...

This comment from New England boxing ring announcer extraordinary John Vena: “Nice article. Reminded me of the kind of articles I would read in the boxing mags in the 80s and 90s.”

An especially astute reader writes in response: “I like the article and all, I like the way it was written, I like your points but for me it's like it goes in any other sport too…baseball, football, the rules for the sports have all changed so much over the years. I mean yeah you made great...

Thanks Ted, perhaps most interesting of all the WHAT IF scenarios (for me anyway) is the one that could actually become reality, Golovkin-Martinez at middle for whatever belt Golovkin has or for the vacant WBC if they’re able to get it off Charlo’s waist for whatever reason. It seems that Sergio...

So impressed are some boxing writers with the championship accomplishments of Oleksandr Usyk they’ve now declared him a future first ballot Hall of Famer after the former undisputed cruiserweight champion upset heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua by 12-round decision. He’s the new real deal...

Incredibly, Anthony Joshua was nearly knocked out in the title bout’s closing seconds when it looked and sounded like his promoter Eddie Hearn grabbed control of the the bell and rang that thing like no bell had ever been rung early before.

Congrats to new champion Oleksandr Usyk. He proved me and countless others wrong. Anthony Joshua looked too lean, almost thin, and like he had no idea what to do with a little movement.

Plant is now a confirmed “beta male” by crying about his mommy. Canelo will easily beat him, preferably humiliate him even further.

What’s inexcusable is Plant crying about his mommy. Beta male! 😂 Dios mio!

Can we DELETE THIS THREAD please?? It’s hacked.

The marquee matchups are mismatches. Fury annihilates Wilder again, TKO in 8 or less. AJ way too big and good for Usyk, KO in 5 or less.

Ya but ya’ll saw the Canelo-Plant slap fight right?!? Alvarez slipped a slap, slapped the dude’s shades off lol 😎

Maybe instead of “steroids” and “PED” which are both loaded terms we should call them what they are and what they take: drugs. Were it something done by the left in America to gain a political advantage they’d call it “health care” but I digest, I mean digress. Boxers take drugs. Let’s call it...

Who then is hitting 73 homeruns a year in boxing??

I know it’s easily overlooked given all the other very exciting things going on in boxing but even us boxing writers are getting in on the action. I fought 92 year old Ted “The Bullshitter” Sares last year at a Trump Rally in New Hampshire and while he didn’t die, I lived free. Anyone else in...

Boxing PED-use protects the user from death more than it enhances his opponent’s chances of being killed. These particular drugs commonly used in fight sports are not weapons but defensive efforts undertaken to recover more quickly from training and fighting. You might even say these drugs make...

Lee Groves makes good points. 👍 At least boxing ain’t dealing with Danny Bonaduce in 2021! 🤪

No. He came to fight/win but had nothing left. If he could’ve, he’d have done the same to Belfort. Imagine how badly Oscar would’ve been mangled.

Great fight but I’ve always been a little confused about the stoppage, thinking it was a little premature. I saw in the 13th that Hearns was having trouble staying on his feet but in the 14th he seemed to right the ship and was punching back. He got frozen on the ropes in a corner, got hit, and...

Seriously, PEDs bore me too, nighty nite. 😴

“You wouldn’t last two minutes in my world,” says Tyson. ⏰ 🔥