DOG COMMENTARY: This fight holds a very special place in this lil ole Chiweenie Sportsphile’s heart…..cuz the trip that Bone Daddy made to Las Vegas to see this fight live…..tipped the scales at the UNBELIEVABLE level for a sports fan….and the first Sportsphile that I have ever known….the original Sporsphile….at ;east from my short four-legged…
DOG COMMENTARY: Davey Moore was an American world junior middleweight champion boxer….the second of two professional champions who shared the name in the second half of the 20th century….with each dying around the age of thirty….the first Davey Moore (born 1933) as a result of punishment in a fight….the second in an accident at his home. The…
DOG ASIDE: Frank Tate’s 6th and 7th professional middleweight bouts verses Calvin Prejean and David Barrows as seen in this video…..are early bouts in the career of another great boxer during the golden age of boxing (1964 – 1995)….who gets overlooked as a result of the plethora of super great and legendary boxers during this…
DOG COMMENTARY: This world middleweight title fight was between a super great boxer (Hagler) and a great boxer (Antuofermo) during the golden age of boxing from 1964 – 1995….as this was their first fight for the middleweight title….when Antuofermo was the middleweight champion coming into the fight…..while Hagler was just coming up the ranks and…
DOG COMMENTARY: Michael Nunn is another one of those great boxers who simply got lost in the cornucopia of super great and legendary boxers of the golden age of boxing (1964 – 1995)…..who held the IBF and lineal middleweight titles….as well as the WBA and lineal super middleweight titles….for the fact of the matter is that…
DOG COMMENTARY: Michael Dokes entered the fight as the WBC Continental Americas Heavyweight Champion….winning the vacant title when he stopped James Pritchard in seven rounds on April 28, 1988….which led to the December 9, 1988 title fight between Champ Michael Dokes vs Evander Holyfield….after fighting on the same card in Atlantic City, New Jersey when…
DOG COMMENTARY: The simple sentence on the T-shirt that Evander Holyfield wore Friday before his lightweight title fight with Dwight Muhammad Qawi read: ”I’m going to win!”….and that is what he did when he entered the ring at The Omni in his hometown of Atlanta….when he won the World Boxing Association junior-heavyweight title from the…
DOG COMMENTARY This WBA light heavyweight title fight between Champ Monte Parloff vs Marvin “Pops” Johnson took place in Marsala, Sicily…..the island off the coast of Italy….for this was a fight that had generated a great deal of interest with the locals on the Isle of Sicily…..who like the Italians, just love boxing…..however, there was…
DOG COMMENTARY: This NABF cruiserweight title fight between Champ Henry Tillman vs Bert Cooper was a huge action fight…..with both fighters throwing many bombs which when landed almost knocked the other down…..as at least 50% of the bout is fought on wobbly legs by both. This video just shows rounds 2, 3, 7 and 12…..as…