– I know it’s a little too late to blog about this, but last Saturday’s drubbing of Quentin “Rampage” Jackson at UFC 135 by the brilliant, unpredictable, and seemingly unstoppable Jon “Bones” Jones was quite a sight to behold. I had a kick (pun intended) at Jones’s repertoire of strikes, most of which Rampage had [...]
That was an excellent piece that ran on Grantland last week, an oral history of the 1987 fight between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard. Then, Rafe Bartholomew posted a video of the entire fight as a follow-up. Having nothing better to do Friday night, I stayed home and watched the fight again on [...]
You may either love him or hate him (or even both), but you can’t fault HBO color commentator Larry Merchant for speaking his mind. And it is precisely this outspoken nature and his penchant for calling a spade a spade that earned for Merchant two infamous post-fight interviews with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Below are transcripts [...]
“Well, no matter how you slice it, it’s legal, it’s not classy, and it’s officially a KO. But part of my response here is, frankly, if you’re the best fighter in the world and you’d like to claim that you’re the best fighter in history, you shouldn’t have to do that.”
Strong words from HBO play-by-play [...]
A security guard at the day job (let’s just call him Uncle Fester) lost a bet of around, if I’m not mistaken, a couple of thousand pesos. He had wagered on the Miami Heat in the last NBA finals because, he reckoned, the Big Three would be too much for the Dallas Mavericks who were supposedly [...]