It wasn’t difficult for boxing fans to pick Roy Jones to win his January 19th showdown with Felix Trinidad at Madison Square Garden. Trinidad, coming back to the ring after a long two year layoff was the heavy underdog. Stylistically, it would be a complete mismatch; Jones’ speed, technical ability and much more natural 170lb ...
Be honest. Your first reaction to the news that Sylvester Stallone was releasing yet another installment of his Rocky series was one of disbelief. You wondered how this was going to work at all. “Isn’t Stallone, like, sixty now?” you asked a friend. And the next question to come was, why? Do we need another ...
It’s odd that a movie about two guys beating the hell out of each other would open during a season of peace and goodwill to men. Even stranger is that one fellow is a young heavyweight champ, and the other is a few years away from being eligible for Social Security. Yet this film is ...
In what appeared to be a ‘less than interesting’ sport in the wake of the absence of ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson, boxing fans needed a new figure to turn to. Besides, the graciousness and ring savvy of fighters such as Oscar De La Hoya, no other fighter appeared with such charisma, skill and craft than Roy ...
