The Fights Page 79 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
The Punisher and The Nightmare Electrify Ontario
The brand new Citizens Bank Arena in Ontario, California played host to an HBO Boxing After Dark card highlighted by Paul "The Punisher" Williams and Chris "The Nightmare" Arreola, with both men recording rather dramatic knockout victories. Arreola, the overweight heavyweight knockout machine, rema...
Mayweather Jr. Makes It Rain With Monopoly Money, Loses Street Cred
Now that Pacman Jones has vowed to straighten up and fly right, who's going to toss enormous amounts of cash into the air so that random strangers can clutch at the loot in a screaming frenzy? Floyd Mayweather Jr., that's who. One glitch, however. Apparently Pretty Boy Floyd's money is fake. As in c...
The Inevitable Showdown Between Women's MMA And Adult Entertainment
In my old job, it was sort of an unwritten rule that moment you or your work enters the zeitgeist, it takes about 5.3 seconds for a porn company to make a movie about it. So fans of female mixed martial arts should be very pleased to know that their favorite sport is now the setting for a hardcore l...
Hatton and Kirkland Win With Ease
Ricky Hatton debuted a more refined style in his first fight under Floyd Mayweather Sr. and he delivered in a big way, becoming the first fighter to stop Paul Maligniaggi as a professional. The Magic Man is still arguing that the fight should not have been stopped in the eleventh round, but that's j...
Tonight's HBO Show Headlined By Hot Chicks With Douchebags
I love boxing. I love the strategy, the head games, the athleticism, and of course the unparalleled drama it can offer. However tonight I'll be watching for another reason entirely. To put it simply, I want to watch Ricky "Hitman" Hatton and Pauli "Magic Man" Malignaggi beat the shit out of each oth...
Blogger Choked Out By MMA Fighter For Fun And Profit
If you're a sports blogger, some sort of initiation rite is mandatory before you can attain any real credibility (mine was standing on a milking stool and having Leitch pelt me with ears of corn). When you specialize in mixed martial arts, then having Frank Shamrock choke you unconscious is the pref...
Evander Holyfield Will Not Go Quietly Into The Night
If you're still stepping into the boxing ring at 46 years old, something has gone horribly wrong in your life. Sometimes it means you're not talented enough to allow you to retire to a life of afternoon mimosas and luxurious silk shirts. Other times you stay in this long for a pure love of boxing, w...
It Happened: Brock Lesnar Is Your New UFC Heavyweight Champion
In only his fourth professional MMA fight, Brock Lesnar defeated UFC legend Randy Couture in a second round TKO. The severely undersized Couture held his own in the first round but got caught by a few nasty blows from Lesnar in the second and when you get caught by a guy of that size, it's over. The...
Holyfield Will Fight Valuev, And he Means It
... Anybody Want A Peanut? Of course Andre the Giant comes to mind when we find out that Evander Holyfield, age 46, has an agreement to fight 7-foot-2 Russian WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev, on December 20th in Zurich, Switzerland. But I draw more of a comparison to Hulk Hogan in Rocky III...
The Continuing Saga of One Online MMA Community and an Angry Martial Artist Pestering Rick Chandler
A little less than a month ago, you may remember the story about MMA fighter Lloyd Irvin and how he disarmed an intruder at his family's home using a fancy sambo technique. In the initial post that Rick wrote, he was skeptical about the report, which resulted in a few testy email exchanges with Mr. ...
Roy Jones, Jr.'s Boxing Future Annulled by Calzaghe
Joe Calzaghe fluttered Roy Jones, Jr. with a million love taps and took a unanimous decision at MSG over the man who seemed to have married into the Pound-for-Pound-Champion clan in the late 90s as it seemed to become his surname. That divorce is final as Calzaghe, 36, recovered from a bit of a surp...
Fight Night: Roy Jones Jr. Takes On A Different Sort Of White Meat
Apologies to Joe Calzaghe, the man opposing Jones tonight, who just happens to be lightweight champion of the world. In tonight's matchup, Calzaghe chases down the big bag of money that the cachet of Jones still brings into the ring. For Jones, he'll get another shot at a title. Tonight's fight is o...
Darchinyan Lives Up to His Promise, KO's Mijares
In a busy night of boxing, it was Vic Darchinyan who stole the spotlight. Not everybody believed Darchinyan's assertion that he'd knock out Christian Mijares, one of the world's top fighters, but in the ninth round he did just that. ...
And1 Trades Kicks For Kicks With MMA
As the marketing monstrosity that is MMA continues it is attracting sponsors who want to break out of their one sport reputations. Enter AND1, basketball gear company and newest sponsor of the bloody sport. The company has announced its partnership with MMA fighter Nate Quarry. ...
World's Worst Boxer Is Down For The Long, Excruciating Count
British welterweight Peter Buckley gets knocked down, but he gets up again, and they ain't never gonna keep him down. At least not until after his next fight, the 300th of his career, which he says will be his last. That's an impressive number of professional bouts, but not nearly as impressive as h...
UFC 90: Sweet Home Rosemont
Not only do we have a World Series game (in theory) and a decent college football matchup tonight, but we also have UFC 90 on pay-per-view. Unfortunately, we don't live near Rosemont to see the card at Allstate Arena tonight (home of the Chicago Wolves, DePaul basketball, and numerous Wiggles concer...
Nothing's More Fun Than A Boxing Controversy!
There's nothing quite like a good ol' fashioned boxing fix, especially when it's extremely obvious. There's something almost pure about how it simultaneously deceives and yet has the balls to not even care if anyone notices. Last night's fight in Montreal between Canadian Lucian Bute and Mexican-Am...
The Fact That Kimbo Slice Lost is Purely Coincidental
Even though Elite XC said that Kimbo Slice's controversial loss to pink-haired Seth Petruzelli wasn't the death knell for its slipshod fight promotions company, it appears that proclamation was 100% false. Today, ProElite Inc., the owners of the EliteXC has officially closed up its sweat shop foreve...
His Ad? An Actual Attack
Matt Lindland is a former Olympic silver medalist in wrestling and a current MMA fighter for Affliction. Oh, and he's also running as a Republican for a seat in the Oregon State House. His Democratic opponent in Oregon's District 52 is Suzanne VanOrman. The Fightin' 52nd, you say? Not if Suzanne has...
Ageless Wonder Hopkins Executes Pavlik (Metaphorically) in Big Upset
Did you ever play that game where you tried to figure out how old you would have to be before you could finally take your dad? High school was too soon, because he had the insurmountable "man strength" intangible. You figured your first real shot would come in your mid-to-late 20s, when you would b...