IBO Boxing Honesty and Integrity
By Scoop Malinowski Renaldo “Mister” Snipes was 25 years old and 22-0 when he challenged Larry Holmes for the World Heavyweight championship at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, PA in November 1981. The fight was televised nationally prime time on a Friday night by ABC, with Howard Cosell at the ...
Read More »Why Did Wilder Reject $120m To Fight Joshua?
Now that the career of Deontay Wilder has crashed after a second stoppage loss to Tyson Fury and his earning power and leverage to negotiate have also endured massive blows, a burning question persists. Why on earth did Deontay Wildel and r and his handlers Al Haymon and Shelly Finkel ...
Read More »Biofile Kathy Duva Interview
Status: American boxing promoter and CEO of Main Events. First boxing memory: Good question because I’ve never heard it before. I think when I went to my first fight with my late husband (Dan Duva) at Embassy Hall in North Bergen. I don’t even know who fought, Randy Neumann, I think? I’ve never seen ...
Read More »The Exploitation Of Arturo Gatti
By Scoop Malinowski [Warning: Explicit language.] “They used me worse than a nigger…” George Willis, the columnist for the New York Post, exited the Hall of Fame induction ceremony on a sunny pleasant summer Sunday afternoon earlier this year. He debated to himself, go to his car and start the four ...
Read More »Did Joshua Throw The Fight To Usyk?
Joe Frazier was punched down a half dozen times by George Foreman in Kingston, Jamaica and somehow picked himself up each time to try to save the World Heavyweight Championship. Vitali Klitschko’s face was a mangled mess after five rounds of enduring Lennox Lewis’ punches in Los Angeles, CA but ...
Read More »Joshua Sounds Strange Two Days Before Usyk Fight
Oleksandr Usyk, as we all know, is coming for Anthony Joshua and the heavyweight titles. “I’m coming for you Anthony.” After the weigh in, Joshua talked about giving a great fight for the fans, that’s the most important thing, he said nothing about winning or conquering Usyk. The interviewer noticed ...
Read More »Joshua vs Usyk: The Best vs. The Best
It’s all too infrequently that boxing gets it right these days and produces a special, thrilling superfight which pits the best vs the best. It’s going to happen this weekend in London, when World Heavyweight Champion Anthony Joshua will try to defy and defeat the challenge of undefeated Oleksander Usyk, ...
Read More »Q&A With Scoop Malinowski About Gennady Golovkin
Sports.kz asked to interview Scoop Malinowski last week about the current stage of the boxing career of Gennady Golovkin… – There is a lot of talk about the December fight between Golovkin and Miura, but so far it has not been officially announced. Do you think this fight will take ...
Read More »Iran Barkley: I Boxed A Legend… Roberto Duran
By Scoop Malinowski Our next edition of the “I Boxed A Legend” series features Iran Barkley on his memories of facing Roberto Duran. The 28-year-old New Yorker fought Roberto Duran during a blizzard in Atlantic City in 1989. After falling short against Marvin Hagler in 1983 and Thomas Hearns in ...
Read More »Did They Conspire Against Manny Pacquiao?
WAS MANNY PACQUIAO TAKEN FOR A RIDE?By: Reynante Pascual Santiago MANNY PACQUIAO WAS DEFEATED ON HIS LAST BOXING BOUT AGAINST YORDENIS UGAS OF CUBA IN THE WBA 147 TITLE CLASH ON AUGUST 21, 2021. THE FIGHT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BETWEEN ERROR SPENCE JR. AND MANNY PACQUIAO WHILE UGAS WOULD HAVE ...
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