This was the big sports event of the weekend. UFC 193 and the knockout defeat of Ronda Rousey in Australia on Sunday by fellow American Holly Holm. In case you missed it, here are the dozen seconds or so that ended the fight — with Rousey on the canvas, bloodied and concussed.
Entries Tagged as 'Boxing'
‘Greatest Ever’ (on Very Little Evidence) Ronda Rousey Knocked Out
November 16th, 2015 · No Comments · Boxing
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Floyd Mayweather and Letting Others Do the Heavy Lifting
May 3rd, 2015 · No Comments · Boxing
Yes, more about the fight of the century. While doing research on fights I covered at the MGM Grand, I realized I had, in fact, seen Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight there, against Oscar De La Hoya. On May 5, 2007. I am going to paste the column I wrote, on the night of May X […]
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Fight of the Century? Must Be a Boring Century
May 2nd, 2015 · No Comments · Boxing
Floyd Mayweather defeated Manny Pacquaio tonight via unanimous decision in their “mega” fight, often described over the past months as The Fight of the Century. We are more likely to look back on it as a fight puffed into an enormous scope because of the pent-up demand of fight fans to see those two in […]
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Many Manny Photos
April 7th, 2015 · No Comments · Boxing, The National
Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Manny Pacquiao is a big deal in the UAE, too. Interest seems to be high, and most of it seems to focus on Manny. In part because the UAE is home to about 500,000 Filipinos. In part because Mayweather seems a bit arrogant, from the other side of the world. His […]
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The ‘Gullible’ Hoopster Manny Pacquiao
February 23rd, 2015 · No Comments · Basketball, Boxing, NBA
In the “emperor has no clothes” category, boxing division, we have Manny Pacquaio, elite pugilist, apparently being told by so many fawning people that he can play professional basketball … that he is attempting to do so. This, when anyone paying attention knows that the 5-foot-6, 36-year-old fighter is, at best, a decent pickup-game player. […]
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Floyd Mayweather and the UAE
February 19th, 2014 · No Comments · Boxing, Sports Journalism, The National, UAE
We spend a lot of time in the UAE thinking about Floyd Mayweather Jr. No. Really. We do. The strange part of that is … he is an American boxer, on the other side of the world from us in the Gulf … and he is a boxer in an age of UFC … In […]
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Biting? No One Compares to Iron Mike
June 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Boxing, Football, soccer, Sports Journalism
Luis Suarez, the Liverpool forward and one of the elite bad boys in modern soccer history, made news today when he bit the arm of the Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic. Got to give Suarez some credit. He fairly rooted around till he had brought his teeth to bear on Ivanonic’s upper arm, and gave him […]
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