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 WBC cruiserweight title fight was a really good fight between one great fighter (DeLeon) and a really good boxer (Ratliff) of the golden age of boxing…..as this championship battle was full of action throughout the entire fight…..ending in a split decision. Carlos “Sugar” de León is a Puerto Rican former boxer who made…
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…
DOG COMMENTARY: I do not really understand where the first 9 rounds of the 10 round light heavyweight bout between Dwight Muhammad Qawi and Ossie Ocasio…..but that is all I have on this fight…..however, what is interesting about this fight is the majority decision that went for Ocasio….who apparently was on his bicycle the entire…
DOG ASIDE: Dwight Muhammad Qawi born Dwight Braxton is an American former professional boxer….who won world titles at light heavyweight and cruiserweight….was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004…..and lands on my list of great boxers in the golden age of boxing. Qawi, then known as Dwight Braxton, was born in Baltimore, Maryland….growing up in…
DOG COMMENTARY: The light heavyweight division of boxing during the golden age of boxing from 1964 to 1995 had two legendary light heavyweight champions in Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns….along with two definitely super great almost legendary fighters in Evander Holyfield and Michael Spinks…..and several great to super great boxers….of which Marvin Pops Johnson…