Scoop Malinowski

By Scoop Malinowski Status: Former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion 1979-1981. His ring record was 39-16-3 (29 KOs). DOB: August 5, 1954 In: Philadelphia, PA Childhood Heroes: “Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis.” First Boxing Memory: “Well, I started boxing because I didn’t know who my relatives were. I was adopted. I was ...

By Scoop Malinowski   Status: NABF Light Heavyweight Champion. Pro record is 42-0 (28 knocouts). Next fight is WBA Light Heavyweight Eliminator on Dec. 18 vs. Yunieski “The Monster” Gonzalez in San Antonio. Ht: 6-2 1/2 Wt: 175 DOB: June 19, 1991 In: Mazatlan, Mexico Nicknames: Zurdo de Oro (Golden ...

Status: Heavyweight contender with a 21-0 (14 KOs) record. Holds the WBC USNBC Silver Heavyweight title since 2019 (KO 3 Nick Jones). Next fight is December 2 in NYC against 16-0 George Arias at Hammerstein Ballroom. Ht: 6-6 Wt: 250 DOB: June 7, 1987 In: Baltimore, MD First memory of ...

Status: Former Editor of Boxing News weekly magazine based in London, England from 1995-2009. Today is a strength and conditioning coach at Intelligent Strength in Chichester, West Sussex, UK. First memory of boxing: Muhammad Ali defeating George Foreman in 1974. Too young to be allowed to stay up and watch. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...