Roberto Duran vs. Sugar Ray Leonard: No Mas Hugh McIlvanney was a true heavyweight of his craft. So eloquent and powerful with his words, he had few equals. The great wordsmith said of Sugar Ray Leonard after his frightening ordeal from the fists of Roberto Duran in their first meeting that Leonard had gone to … Continue reading Roberto Duran vs. Sugar Ray Leonard: No Mas
A Boxing Memory: Steve Robinson Steve Robinson ended his career with six straight defeats. After turning professional in 1989 with little fanfare, Robinson lost nine times in his first four years as an aspiring underappreciated pro. Life on the road. Life in the away corner didn't treat him well. But that isn't the full story. … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Steve Robinson
A Boxing Memory: Hugh McIlvanney By Garry White “It’s only words, and words are all I have,” sung the Bee Gees back in the flare trousered, and open-shirted 70s. Yes, the Bee Gees, and not Westlife or Boyzone or whichever one, it was of Louis Walsh’s pre-packed vocal combos that had the temerity to bastardise … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Hugh McIlvanney
The Heavyweight Trilogy: Fury vs. Wilder They shared a ring on three separate occasions. Thirty rounds in total. Multiple knockdowns. Controversy on the scorecards. We even had a court judgement that made the trilogy possible. Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder took plenty out of each other. Arguably, both have never been the same. Three heavyweight … Continue reading The Heavyweight Trilogy: Fury vs. Wilder
A Boxing Memory: Dave 'Boy' Green “He was the hardest puncher I met. Even my father thought I was dead.” Dave 'Boy' Green told Boxing News in remembrance of his fight with Sugar Ray Leonard in 1980, in what would prove to be his last attempt at becoming a world champion. That fight in Maryland for … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Dave ‘Boy’ Green
A Boxing Memory: Noel Quarless Noel Quarless had thirty-one fights. He barely had a winning record. Twelve defeats littered his record. Many of those reversals came by way of stoppage. It is on the surface, an unassuming resume. The look of a journeyman. An ordinary record of an ordinary fighter. But in many ways, Quarless … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Noel Quarless
A Boxing Memory: Jerry Quarry By Garry White What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies,” shrugs John Garfield in his role as boxer Charlie Davis in the noir classic, Body and Soul. Moments earlier, Davis’s professional honour had ensured that he won the fight and at the same time double-crossed the hoodlums that waited at his … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Jerry Quarry
A Boxing Memory: Howard Rainey By Garry White Jonathan Rendall may have intended his much-admired ‘This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own’ to be a missive on getting out of boxing, but for me, it was quite the opposite. Rather than get me out, instead his artful narrative, revisited after a long estrangement … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Howard Rainey
The Greatest Fight Hardly Anybody Saw [Darren Gibbons vs. Aaron Green] By Garry White It would be tempting to term it the ‘Greatest Fight You Never Saw’. But to do so would be to engage in pure hyperbole. Boxing has enough of that already without me adding further to the already pungent cocktail of bullshit. … Continue reading The Greatest Fight Hardly Anybody Saw [Darren Gibbons vs. Aaron Green]
A Boxing Memory: Ricky Hatton: By Garry White If you are from my generation and maintain even the most casual interest in boxing, then there is only a finite volume of British names that you are likely to immediately recall. If you don’t want to tax the grey matter too much, then Tyson Fury or … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Ricky Hatton
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