Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I first met Tim Tzsyu and his crew in Townsville when I was down there reporting on the greyhound Cup. I noticed a whole lot of flash cars pulling into the old showgrounds and thought to myself ‘hang on, they are not dog people’, so I waltzed out of the stand and followed them over […]
The word out of the Gold Coast is that Ryan Wiggins has got a new nickname. Sandwich they call him. A cut lunch. I thought it was Sandcastles the first time I heard it. But I guess I was wrong. By the way, are they bruises you can see prominently on R. Wiggins scone this […]
Sally McManus (below), the Boxer Boys (above). From left to right, Australian amateur lightweight champion Jack the Ripper, former NSW Heavyweight champion the Balmain Boxer, and weight trainer extraordinaire, great Australian larrikin, gold merchant, and all round top bloke Digger Dave. The little prick on the left backed 3 out of 5, at odds too. […]
It’s Tim Tzsyu v the World. All the champions are tipping Tony Harrison to beat him. Or so the promoters claim. It’s a load of nonsense. Our man Tszyu is a threes on ($1.33) favorite to put Harrison to sleep, and quite rightly so. Harrison was a great fighter 4 1/2 years ago when he […]
If a harness writer is going to employ boxing metaphors to try and tell a story about the trots, then it would help greatly if they actually knew anything about boxing, or checked their facts. Marvellous Marvin Hagler and Tommy ‘the Hitman’ Hearns didn’t trade blows for 12 rounds in their 1985 fight – immortalized […]
Good Friday was for centuries the most boring day in history. No newspapers, no races, no footy. That was then, this is now. Now the most boring days are the two between the Derby and the Cup. First you watch the T20 and feel depressed after the Poms humiliate us, then you do your form, […]
This little bloke is from Uganda. The chap he is street sparring is a champion. Keen to take the young fella on? Not me. Another African boy waiting to be discovered… pic.twitter.com/SPA3vy3n49 — Tansu Yegen (@TansuYegen) May 24, 2022
Everyone knows the story about how Jeff Fenech was robbed of the WBC super-featherweight title by crooked judges in his bout against Azumah Nelson Las Vegas in 1991. Until now though we didn’t know the story of Australia Nadel ‘Skinny’ Hussein being robbed of his own World title in a fight against Manny Pacquiao in […]
Skinny Hussein, now more than ever, wants those eight seconds back. Wants his soul returned, too. “Because that’s what was taken,” says the man who for 22 years has lived with one of the greatest rorts in Australian boxing history. A Sydney gym owner who way back in 2000 – back when he was 22, […]
I just pushed him off me, I didn’t lift him up or throw him out of the ring US boxer Montana Love, after being DQ’d for through our Stevie out of the Cleveland ring I’m not picking him up … I just pushed him Love again, with the excuses just getting lamer by the second […]
