Archive for April, 2010

CHARLEY BURLEY AND THE BLACK MURDERERS’ ROW

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

CHARLEY BURLEY AND THE BLACK MURDERERS’ ROW
By ; Harry Otty
This is one of the best books I’ve read this year. Charley Burley was a
special fighter in a time when there was a vast surplus of good boxers. The
author Harry Otty takes you on a journey that covers much more then the life
of [...]

ROY JONES JR. ; WAS HE THE BEST SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT ?

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

The ” Super Middleweight ‘” division with a 168 pound weight limit was conceived by the International Boxing Federation in 1984. On March 28th of that year rugged Murray Sutherland pounded out a fifteen round decision over Ernie Singletary in Atlantic City to become the first champion of this bastard weight classification. . The World [...]

DREAM FIGHT ; LENNOX LEWIS -VS- IKE IBEABUCHI

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Ike ” The President ” Ibeabuchi scored his twentieth and last victory on March 20, 1999. It was an impressive knockout stoppage of unbeaten, future WBO and IBF heavyweight champion Chris Byrd. Twenty one months earlier he had handed David Tua his first defeat. Ike was a serious heavyweight contender but then he took a [...]