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Is Wladimir Klitschko The Next One? (2003)

Ukrainian IBF and WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko (L) and British WBA champion David Haye fight during their heavyweight title boxing match in the northern German city of Hamburg on July 2, 2011. The fight has been dubbed the "unification bout" as the winner takes all three major heavy weight title belts. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)  | read this item

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,” [...]

HBO To Continue To Ignore The Klitschkos  | read this item

HBO To Continue To Ignore The Klitschkos

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 [...]

From the archives: Forget Mediation, Fraud Will Duck Pacquiao (1-6-2010)  | read this item

From the archives: Forget Mediation, Fraud Will Duck Pacquiao (1-6-2010)

This article was originally posted at BoxingInsider.com by Scoop Malinowski On January 6, 2010
I’m gonna take a chance and write what I believe today at 9 a.m. on this January 6 Wednesday morning.
Don’t get your hopes up. This is all just another futile charade by the fraud. March 13 isn’t gonna happen, George Peterson [...]

The Only Hope For Floyd Mayweather?  | read this item

The Only Hope For Floyd Mayweather?

(Note: This article was originally published at BoxingInsider.com in 2010.)
The Mayweather ship is sinking fast. And there’s no hope really. It’s inevitable that Mayweather is going to hit the bottom and be humbled. “The humble shall be exalted and the exalted shall be humbled.”
Floyd’s in a no-win situation, really, outside of the money factor (and [...]

Talkin' Boxing with Kassim "The Dream" Ouma  | read this item

Talkin’ Boxing with Kassim “The Dream” Ouma

I’m walking around between fights and out of nowhere pops old friend and former IBF Junior Middleweight champ, one of the nicest people and happiest spirits you will ever come across…the one and only Kassim Ouma. The man from Uganda wants to do an interview…

BoxingInsider: Fire away my man.

Kassim Ouma: “Kassim the Dream, I’m right here in [...]

Talkin' Boxing with Harold Lederman  | read this item

Talkin’ Boxing with Harold Lederman

 Everybody’s favorite judge and HBO’s unofficial scorekeeper Harold Lederman took time out to talk some sweet science. Read on to learn Harold’s thoughts on this weekend, why he believes Floyd will do the right thing and fight the winner, why he likes Paul Williams and Tavoris Cloud and much more…
 
BoxingInsider: We have the big one [...]