
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Art of Defensive Boxing
In boxing, slipping is the art of making an opponent miss punches. No one in the contemporary era of boxing has done it with more panache and pizzas as Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker.
Whitaker is considered one of the best defensive specialist and counter punchers to lace the mitts. He ended his professional career in 2001 with a record of 40-4-1 (17 KO), and having achieved world titles in 4 different weight classes. Five years later Whitaker was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
The highlight video above shows just how bad Sweet Pea could make an opponent look with his stylistic shake, rattle and roll.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Top 10 NCAA Football Hits- 2008-'09
I will only refer to soccer as football, when the game reproduces the same brutal element featured in this video.
We all know that is not going to happen. Soccer players are notorious for throwing dramatic temper tantrums after the slightest bit of contact and faking injuries.
I have respect for the skill that it takes to play soccer, but not for the game's over-all physical play.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
And I Quote
"Now that I'm 34, I feel at my peak. I'll just work my way forward. I have no set time to retire. I hear David Haye say he's going to retire at 31 - because he's a pussy". Vitali Klitschko has really gone out on a limb; not because he isn't capable of beating David Haye. It's because he is usually quite reserved in showing any emotion at all.
Now with his recent You Tube video challenging David Haye to fight added to the statement that Haye is a pussy, I have a whole new respect for Vitali. Boxing has really opened his social horizons and allowed him to express his inner feelings.
Get'em Vitali, teach that young punk a lesson. You can't let Haye get away with wearing a T-shirt with your head in his hands and his foot on the chest of your decapitated body.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
It's My Turn to Pee in The Cup!
The Chicago Blackhawks have won the Stanley Cup also known as the "Holy Grail". But if legends and traditions follow suit, who knows what un-holy things the Blackhawks will do with it?For those that don't follow professional North American Hockey, you may not know that there are many traditions associated with winning the Stanley Cup. One of them is to have each member of the winning team skate around the ice with the trophy hoisted above their head, as pictured. There is also the tradition of drinking champagne out of the top of the Cup. I mention this one in particular, because when you find out what other things have been allegedly done with the Cup; you may wonder why anyone would touch it, let alone drink from it.
So here is a short list of some of the reported mistreatment the Stanley Cup has endured. Remember, unlike other professional leagues that award a new trophy each year to the champions, the Cup is simply passed from one winning team to the next:
- After the mortgage on Madison Square Garden was paid, the management publicly celebrated by burning the mortgage in the Cup during the 1940-41 NHL (National Hockey League) season.
- Maurice Richard chipped both of his front teeth while drinking from the Stanley Cup, in 1957.
- In 1962, members of the Toronto Maple Leafs dropped the trophy in a bonfire as part of their celebration of having won it. The team was made to pay for the extensive damage to the Cup at their expense.
- In 1964, Red Kelly of the Toronto Maple Leafs had his son sitting in the Cup for a photo, and then later discovered the child urinated in it.
- Clark Gillies of the New York Islanders filled the Cup with dog food, and then let his dog eat out of it.
- The New York Islanders' Bryan Trottier admitted to sleeping with the Cup, as have other players.
- Several New York Rangers took the Cup to Belmont Park, filled it with oats, and then let Kentucky Derby winner 'Go for Gin' eat out of it.
- Kris Draper's daughter defecated in the Cup as she sat in it. The Cup was cleaned, and reportedly Draper drank from it that same day.
- The Cup has been dropped and dented on numerous occasions, along with fans drinking beer from it, and at times just plain forgotten or misplaced.
Surprisingly, even though alcohol, urine, deification, etc. have filled the Cup, some players have had their kids baptized in it.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Demons Be Gone
If Ricky Hatton has demons, it is over his inability to best the number 1 & 2 boxers in the world Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Both prize fighters hammered Hatton in spectacular fashion.
For the sake of argument, let’s say Hatton goes back into serious training and makes some progressive changes to his fight game. He would probably make a better showing against either Pacquaio or Mayweather Jr. in a re-match, but not enough to win. It would be just a matter of not losing as badly the second time around.
Until those two losses, Hatton was undefeated. Fighting anyone other than the opponents he lost against isn’t worth his time, unless it’s a tune-up match. But Hatton's style of fighting 'come forward, swing hard, and then hope for the best' is his un-doing. However to Hatton’s credit it earned him 45 wins in a row without a loss. But that isn’t enough to beat the top 2 fighters in the world. It will take skills that Hatton doesn’t possess, and he never will. I base this on the fact that Hatton claimed to have reinvented himself before facing Mayweather Jr. When the first bell rang, it was the same Ricky Hatton of 45 fights ago. The exact effort was then repeated against Pacquiao, and netted him similar results.
Hatton needs to stay retired. He has nothing to gain by trying to make a comeback.



