(This week Floyd Mayweather admitted to reporters in Las Vegas that he won’t fight Manny Pacquiao because of health concerns and again accused the Filippino of using PEDs without any evidence. This is the article I penned two months ago for BoxingInsider.com about Floyd admitting his fear and cowardice of Pacquiao.)
March 4th, 2012
By Scoop Malinowski
Now [...]
Saoul Mamby boxed Duran on May 4, 1976 in Miami Beach, FL in a non-title fight. Duran was 24-years-old and in the midst of his reign as World Lightweight champion. From the Bronx, Mamby was 28, with an unspectacular record of 19-8-5, in his seventh year as a pro.
BoxingInsider: Were you intimidated going into the [...]
Suspicions of fixing fights and protecting certain boxers have plagued the sport since it’s earliest days. The great author Budd Schulberg even wrote a novel in 1947 titled “The Harder They Fall” which was about a boxer whose fights are fixed. The book was later developed into a popular film of the same title in [...]
This is a piece I penned for www.BoxingInsider.com…
Andy Roddick recently befriended Tim Bradley at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, CA.
Roddick, the 2003 U.S. Open champion and a boxing fan, shared his views on what he thinks will happen when Manny Pacquiao clashes with Bradley on June 9. “I talked to (Bradley) [...]
Best Punch I Ever LandedWe posed this question to several fighters including Wladimir Klitschko, Tito Trinidad, Mitch ‘Blood’ Green, Arturo Gatti, Antonio Tarver, Winky Wright, among others: You have thrown thousands maybe millions of punches in your life. Is there a particular one that stands out as the best, most memorable punch you ever landed?
Wladimir Klitschko: “In the [...]
Is Wladimir Klitschko The Next One? (2003)By Scoop Malinowski
(This article was originally published in Boxing Digest in April 2003.)
Sullivan…Johnson…Dempsey…Louis…Marciano…Ali…Holmes…Tyson…Lewis. This is the linear line of boxing’s nine dominant heavyweight champions. The question now is who will be the next and tenth man to join this exclusive brotherhood? There are indications that suggest it could very well be Wladimir Klitschko.
“He’s the one,” [...]
Musician and friend of Federer, Gavin Rossdale was at the outdoor area of the U.S. Open player’s lounge this year on a sunny afternoon and he was kind enough to sit down and discusses his love of tennis…
“I grew up playing tennis and just loving it. I used to get a kick out of watching [...]
You’ve all heard the old saying, “As goes the heavyweight division, so goes boxing…”
Well, newly-appointed HBO Sports chief Ken Hershmann sounds like a man who doesn’t fully subscribe to that age old maxim.
“(The heavyweight division) has just languished for so long,” Hershmann told journalist Keith Idec of The Record. “It’s really no fault of the [...]
Presenting a collection of exclusive BoxingInsider.com interviews with the Hall of Fame beloved legend Angelo Dundee…
It’s always a pleasure and honor to to talk boxing with the Hall of Fame great Angelo Dundee. Here’s the latest observations from the one and only Angelo, read on as he talks about Sam Peter, Jones-Tarver III, Ricky Hatton, [...]
We all know about the legend of Muhammad Ali, inside and out, but to celebrate his 70th birthday, I present to you a new, different perspective of “The Greatest.” Here is a collection of diverse, personal memories of Ali from various sources associated with boxing, opponents, fans, media, etc…
Mike Schreck (Boxing Fan): “I met Ali [...]
Mayweather Finally Admits Cowardice: Health Concerns Are Why He Ducked Pacquiao | 
Saoul Mamby: When I Boxed Roberto Duran | 
Some of Boxing's Biggest Frauds | 
Talkin' Boxing with Andy Roddick | 
Gavin Rossdale On Tennis | 
HBO To Continue To Ignore The Klitschkos | 
Angelo Dundee Tribute: My Interviews With Boxing Legend | 
Muhammad Ali Collection: Memories of "The Greatest" | 
