Posts tagged as Boxing
Fat Joe's Story About R. Kelly Beating People Up In An Underground Chicago Fight Club
"As part of a promotional campaign for his The Darkside Vol. 1 album, which was released last year, the PR/Cuban rapper shot a series of webisodes called 'Fat Joe’s Tales From the Darkside.' For Part 3, he tells about the time he was visiting R&B sensation R. Kelly in Chicago and how he didn’t believe Kellz when the crooner told him he was a real bona fide thug." READ MORE
Fire: Actress, Model–And "Boxing Diva" Who Wasn't
Everyone calls Keisher McLeod-Wells “Fire"—or, more formally, “Fire the Boxing Diva." That second one is a bit of marketing hype, though, as she’s generally very un-diva-like, and can often be found working the front desk at Gleason’s Gym, perched behind an old desk from some long-forgotten school. READ MORE
Fight Night: Boxing Is a Bad Job, Badass
Oh! to be a professional boxer. To train and train and train and train, to sweat and bleed and trade blows upon blows, all in pursuit of the glory of beating an inferior opponent, in front of a horrifying crowd of drunk gangsters, in a basement club in Times Square. Last week I wedged into the packed house at BB King's on 42nd Street for Broadway Boxing, an event featuring up and coming fighters-the level of pro who might make it onto HBO one day, but then again, might not. READ MORE
Fight Night: Douchebag as Role Model: The Case of Paulie Malignaggi
"You know who was the first guy to beat up Paulie Malignaggi? Me!" said an older acquaintance of mine at Gleasons Gym. "He came in here when he was 15 and they asked me to spar with him. And I get in and he starts belting me. This 15-year-old kid, belting me! So I,"-and here, he pantomimes crouching down and throwing huge body hooks-"bam, bam, and I cracked his rib. Yeah, I cracked his rib, Paulie Malignaggi." READ MORE
Floyd Mayweather As The Great Black Villain
"Shane Mosley says ‘Floyd Mayweather fights for money.' You fuckin' dummy; I'm a prizefighter. That's what I'm supposed to fight for: a prize. Duh!" – Floyd ‘Money' Mayweather. READ MORE
Fight Night: Five Lessons from the New York Golden Gloves Finals
At Madison Square Garden on Friday night, there came five important lessons in as many bouts. READ MORE
Someone Might Say "Only In New York" About This One
Here's something you don't hear every day: There's a great story about Jews in the sports section. In what might come as less of a surprise, it's about the lead bond lawyer for the financing of Yankee stadium, who happens to be a Jew. His name is Jonathan Ballan. As the Times reports, Ballan "reserved the stadium for his son's bar mitzvah on Saturday, June 5. In addition to providing lounges, the Yankees promised to give the Ballan party access to the stadium's giant scoreboard in center field for 30 minutes." (No word on whether Jay-Z and Alecia Keys will perform "Empire State of Mind" and "Hava Nagilla," but one would think it's a possibility.) Unfortunately the Yankees are now in negotiations with boxing promoter Bob Arum to hold a major bout in the stadium that same night-one which would draw some 30,000 fans to watch the World Boxing Federation's 154-pound champ Yuri Foreman-who happens to be an observant Jew!-fight Miguel Cotto (a shaygetz). So the three parties have to work it out. "The price of the bar mitzvah is at issue," Arum told the Times. You don't say. READ MORE
Fight Night, with Hamilton Nolan: The Glorious Racism of Boxing
John Duddy is the fightingest Irish guy in New York. This, as historic stereotypes go, is right up there with being the chop suey-cookingest Chinese guy in San Francisco. Duddy, furthermore, fights with a fists-forward style that lends him a certain resemblance to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish mascot, minus the jaunty little suit. READ MORE
The Last Sad Gasps of the 'Baltimore Sun'
Tom Scocca: Did you ever read that Baltimore Sun piece? About the hit-and-run? READ MORE
Game Misconduct: Celtics and Bulls, Pacquiao v. Hatton and Mind That Bird at the Derby
Our straight man on sports discusses the Celtics and Bulls, the terrible boxing match of Pacquiao v. Hatton and the triumph of Mind That Bird at the Kentucky Derby. READ MORE
