Status: WBC Heavyweight Champion. His record is 39-2 (37 KO’s).
Ht: 6-7 Wt: 250
DOB: July 19, 1971 IN: Belovodsk, Soviet Union
Nicknames: Dr. Iron Fist, Iron Chin.
Hobbies/Leisure Activities: “Chess, wakeboarding, kitesurfing, jet skiing, scuba diving, table tennis.”
Childhood Dream: “Spaceman or astronaut or do karate like Bruce Lee [smiles].”
Age Started Boxing: “13.”
First Boxing Memory: “Losing my first fight.”
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BoxingInsider.com columnist Scoop Malinowski recently appeared on Marc Lichtenfeld’s “Through The Ropes” radio show and Tim Palesky’s “Knockout TV” on North Jersey Cablevision to discuss his book “Heavyweight Armageddon: The Tyson-Lewis Championship Battle”. Here are some of the transcripts from those appearances.
Question: What inspired you to do this book?
Scoop Malinowski: It was a major event [...]
Two weeks ago at the Klitschko-Haye press conference in New York City, I gave a copy of my book “Heavyweight Armageddon: The Tyson-Lewis Championship Battle” to a leading character in the book Emanuel Steward who was the long-time trainer of Lennox Lewis.
Since he was involved in the fight and knew much of the inside story [...]
