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4/3/09  Photo Gallery from Bradley-Holt & Andrade-Tsypko Media Workout

Guerrero opens his own boxing gym TODAY  

Experts favor Bradley over Holt in Showtime Main Event

Jermain Taylor and Carl Froch spoke of their April 25th bout 

 Here's six questions answered by Librado Andrade

Lightweight Lightning up on Saturday night featuring Edwin Valero, Chavez-Katsidis, Diaz-Reyes and Hernandez-Escobedo 

KOFantasyBoxing’s Funny of the Week

3/27/09    SHOCKER!: Mayweather Jr. close to ring-return

Eddie Chambers faces tough test in Samuel Peter

Gabriel Montoya looks at Pacquiao-Antillon gym wars

MaxBoxing reports on Margarito's plaster of Paris hands

Roy Jones Jr returns with stoppage victory over Omar Sheika

Miguel Espino kayos Alejandro Garcia at Playboy Mansion

Don King protests Khan's win over Barrera

Oscar Larios, a tragedy waiting-to-happen

Kirkland-Julio Gallery

Check out the Trailer to this Spring's Sure-To-Be-Smash "TYSON" (video below)

The Big Takeover: Matt Taibi's piece on how Wall Street insiders are using the Bail Out to stage a Revolution

Chris Hedges: America Needs a Moral Bailout

Foreign Policy Focus looks at how Obama will address the issue of American Empire

3/11/09  Fightnews Gallery of Kirkland-Julio card from San Jose, CA

Lucian Bute goes back into the Lion's Den by Graham Houston

Don King visits with FrankWarren.TV, talks about Amir Khan, promoter Frank Warren and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (video below)

FistThingsFirst from Ringside at Mohegan Sun

Remains Unearthed of Suspected Vampire in Venice!

Zoo Chimpanzee "plotted" stone-throwing attacks

 China plundering Africa's Forests Says Jane Goodall

A million migratory birds killed over the past year for "delicacies" in Cyprus

Seven Million Pounds of Garbage Found in World's Waterways

Sea Levels to surge "at least a meter" by century's end

3/09/09  <-ESPN2 FNF from Mohegan Sun Mega-Photo Gallery by Brendon Pierpaoli

3/07/09  Delvin Rodriguez defeats Shamone Alvarez to retain USBA Welter Strap at Mohegan Sun

David Sirota goes into the proverbial belly o' the beast on Fox & Friends with Bill PNAC Kristol (video below)

2/28/09  Tomasz Adamek kayos Johnathon Banks in eight rounds to defend cruiserweight title

Dan Rafael’s Boxing Notebook

Glen Johnson pounds on Daniel Judah in rematch

2/26/09  Ringside Report from Foxwoods MGM Grand: Troy Ross beats Ehinomen Ehikamenor for The Contender Championship

Tomasz Adamek & Johnathon Banks Weigh-in

Adamek-Banks & Miranda-Lorenzo ShoBox Final Presser Quotes

Dennis Andrade added to Mohegan Sun ESPN2 Fight Card

2/25/09  The Contender Series 4 Finale airs tonight...And there will be blood

Jake Donovan of BoxingScene looks at the long road to Lightweight clarification that culminates with Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Juan Diaz

Rocky Juarez ready for Chris John

Pacquiao relinquishes Lightweight strap

Yankee, Si! Cuba, No!  2-time Cuban Gold-Medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux defects to the USA

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal's response to Obama congressional address given poor marks even by Fox News panel

Chris Floyd deconstructs Obama's non-withdrawal withdrawal from Iraq

Jim Hightower video on Corporate Control of Sports "Sports Brandalism" (video below)

2/24/09  Miguel Cotto returns with kayo of Michael Jennings

Kelly Pavlik rebounds from Hopkins loss with one-sided pounding of Marco Antonio Rubio

Mayor of Lansing Michigan brutalizes Fox News Talking Head over Union role in auto-bailouts (video below)

2/21/09  KOFantasyBoxing's Funny of the Week

2/19/09  The Contender 4 Finalists Have Been Announced!

KOFantasyBoxing's New Fighter Adds for the Week

Nate Campbell outguts Ali Funeka in final fight at 135 or thereabouts; Fightnews report & photo gallery

2/14/09  KOFantasyBoxing's Funny of the Week

Nate Campbell fails to make weight for Lightweight Title defense

2/7/09  Darchinyan-Arce & Raimkulov-DeMarco Showtime Championship Boxing Weigh-in!

Ward & Molina win; SHO-Box Results

KOFantasyBoxing's Funny of the Week

2/6/09  Vic Darchinyan vs. Jorge Arce Final Presser Quotes

 Joe Calzaghe is retiring

Vic Darchinyan still looking for respect

Hatton vs. Pacquiao tickets are ON SALE NOW

Showtime Championship Boxing has a great record with the Little Men!

Delvin Rodriguez set to battle Shamone Alvarez at Mohegan Sun

Margarito & his camp await results of handwrap investigation

NY Congressman Gary Ackerman takes on Bush Era SEC honchos at Madoff-Ponzi Scam Hearing and rips them up (video below)

Keith Olberman's Special Comment for Citizen Dick Cheney (video below)

Economist Paul Krugman points out that bipartisanship isn't likely when GOP "take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh"

TV News loves indignation! GOP outnumber Dems in Cable News Stimulus Debate 

Naomi Klein on the Building Public Revolt Against Rip-Off Rescue Plans

1/28/09  Tim Smith looks at the strained relationship between Boxing and MMA

 Tickets On Sale Now fo Glen Johnson-Dan Judah Rematch

Louis Collazo Speaks! Open Letter to Berto & DiBella

Juan Urango looks for Redemption versus Nqoudjo in Montreal

Dave Zirin looks at the non-birth of a political Tiger Woods

Jon McCain is still kinda Mavericky; for better or worse

If we don’t prosecute Dubya forget the American Republic

John W. Dean asks if we are civilized enough to prosecute Bush war crimes

Economic Ruin? It ain’t so bad if it makes us reexamine how we live our lives

KBR needs to be held accountable for deaths of US Servicemen

The Myth, the Legend, the Horseshit; Reagan Mythology and how it is still distorting American politics 

1/26/09  Sugar Shane Mosley stuns Antonio Margarito

Mosley deserves Mayweather Superfight

Mosley wants just Mega-Fights from here on out

Bob Arum interviewed by MaxBoxing's Stve Kim

Patrick Cockburn looks at Israel’s detachment from reality

Counterpunch looks at the breadth of Israel’s doctrine of destruction in Gaza

Alexander Cockburn’s final Hail to Chief Dubya

Robert Fisk on what was missing fom Obama’s inaugural

Obama un-does layer of Bush Family secrecy with Executive Order

Fun with Megalomania! Gov Blagojevich likens himself to Gandhi,  Mandela & Dr King in NBC interview

Finally, a Just War! The War on Water Bottles is heating up!

1/20/09  President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address...

An Inaugural Poem by Elizabeth Alexander...

The Inaugural Benediction by Rev Joseph Lowery...

1/15/09  David Avila writes about Shane Mosley fighting middleweights

Undefeated Southpaws kick start the year for ShoBox: The New Generation

MSG Presser Quotes from Miguel Cotto & Kelly Pavlik

Star Boxing looks back at 2008

Antonio DeMarco fights Almazbek Raiymkulov on Darchinyan-Arce undercard

British foreign secretary David Miliband writes idea of War on Terror was a mistake

Glen Greenwald looks at Thomas Friedman's justifications of Israeli war crimes

Salon asks whether the army is lying about friendly fire deaths

Putting Vets First?  Until 2006, army routinely assigned unlicensed therapists to aide troops who sought mental healthcare

1/14/09  Sechew Powell tells Benny Henderson he intends to "end this fight violently!" 

Darchinyan in Vegas to finish prepping for Arce

Thomas Gerbasi recaps the FNF Cuban Invasion at MaxBoxing

DemocracyNow! talks with veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas about final Bush Presser & Dubya's Legacy

Glenn Beck is Not Smart: cites TV's 24 to justify use of torture

Chris Hedges on Gaza & The Language of Death

Counterpunch has an Open Message to Barack Obama 

Joe The Plumber says media "should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting" on war 

1/5/09  Daddy Bush still holds out hope for another Bush Dynasty

Israeli democracy acting very un-democratic in blocking press from Gaza, Fisk asks will it backfire again?

1/4/09  Toshiaki Nishioka retains title in Japan

Who says boxing is dead or dying?  Proves cash cow for Nevada in `08

Dicky Eklund charged with agttempted murder

Pavlik back in training today

Blago the Behemoth! Soon-to-be Indicted Gov. Blagojevich boxed in the Golden Gloves

SportingNews’ weekly boxing notes

Once upon a fight: Pep vs. Robinson in Norwich CT

Sechew Powell looks to improve in 2009

12/27/08  Daisuke Naito defeats Shingo Yamaguchi

Kyowa & Niida retire, do American fight fans care?

Karmazin defeats McKart: Major Photo Gallery at Fightnews

Marty Mulcahey offers a list of “books” for boxing’s biggest & brightest

Rafael tabs PacMan FOTY for 2008

Rafael’s top Kayos of 2008

Winky to face the Punisher in 2009

BoxingTalk speaks to Yuriorkis Gamboa

On-Line comic features life & times of Jack Johnson, first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World

Israel kills scores of civilians in Gaza airstrikes

Israel pummels Gaza; airstrike likely to increase support for Hamas

White vigilantes murdered blacks in post-Katrina NOLA

Study critical of Bush admin for borrowing to pay for Iraq & Afghanistan Wars

Counterpunch has a first hand account of the coal ash flood in Tennessee

Coal Ash spill much larger than first reported

Pakistan moves 20,000 troops to Indian border

Cheney still at large and still lying

Counterpunch on the unrepentant Cheney’s war crimes admission

Enviro-activist disrupts Bureau of Land Management Auction of Public Lands

Karl Rove beats Dubya in book-reading contest

2008’s top ten myths about Iraq

12/18/08  Glen Johnson is disgusted with even the thought of Dawson-Tarver 2

Holyfield confident of victory over giant Valuev

Lee Groves on the IBHOF inductees

Juan Manuel Marquez to take on Juan Baby Bull Diaz

Kendall Holt outpoints Demetrius Hopkins

Toney wins squeaker versus Oquendo

Ron Borges on The Real Deal

Our warmer wetter world is a lot weirder too: Snow on The Strip

Patrick Cockburn looks at those Shoes Worth a Thousand Words

Rachel Maddow looks at Cheney torture admission and his re-writes of the run-up to Iraq with Ron Suskind(video below)

Part two is HERE

12/13/08  Is Rahman just going through the motions versus Wlad Klitschko?

Adamek vs. Cunningham, fight of the year?

Adamek defeats Cunningham

Chris Mathews talks to William Ayers about how the Republicans used him as an attempt to smear Obama's character -video below

12/8/08  With De La Hoya behind him Pacquiao likely to rest till May/June

De La Hoya out of hospital & headed home; Golden Boy looks to make Paquiao-Hatton bout in spring

Philippines slows to stop to watch Pacquiao-De La Hoya

Filipino communities worldwide celebrate PacMan win

De La Hoya should consider retirement

Pacquiao victory over De La Hoya puts Filipino in elite company

Obama has little intention of ending US occupation of Iraq

Transition Mania!!

Robert Parry looks at Nixon’s sabotage of `68 Paris Peace Talks

12/7/08  PacMan Beats Goldie-FightNews Mega Gallery 

Pacquiao demolishes De La Hoya--Steve Kim's Live Fight Blog

Pacquiao win redemption for Roach

Obama picks Shinseki to head Department of Veterans Affairs  

12/5/08  KOFantasyBoxing League Begins TONIGHT!!

KOFantasyBoxing's Pacquiao-De La Hoya LINK-O-RAMA

SecondsOut De La Hoya-Pacquiao Preview Angelo Dundee & Freddie Roach interviews-video below

12/4/08  The Sports Network: Look out Darchinyan, here comes Oscar

Pacquiao-De La Hoya links at KOFantasyBoxing

Dana the Debunker: Perino claims the Downing Street Memo has been refuted in exchange with Helen Thomas

12/3/08  New Grand Prize League Open Now at KOFantasyBoxing.com!

 Sugar Shane comes clean on use of doping agent

Dream Match is a Tough Sell in a Bad Economy

Pacquiao & De La Hoya arrive in Vegas 

Oscar gets a statue in his honor, in front of a building where he fought once and lost

Expectations are falling for Saturday's PPV

More Pacquiao-De La Hoya Links at KOFantasyBoxing

Kayo wins rock the new Ontario venue

Boxing doesn’t need saving, it needs to be watched

Danny Garcia fights in first 8 rounder on Pacquiao-De La Hoya undercard

Joan Guzman looking sharp in sparring

Nicholas Kristof of the NYTimes breaks down the lack of good scenarios in Pakistan for Rachel Maddow-video below

12/2/08  Weighty issues behind De La Hoya-Pacquiao

The Dream Match: to buy it or not to buy it

More Pacquiao-De La Hoya links at KOFantasyBoxing

Jeremy Scahill looks at the lack of anti-war voices in the Obama cabinet

Sounds like Duncan Hunter's son is as much of a shitheel as he is

12/1/08  Williams wears down Phillips, Arreola thumps Walker; Massive FightNews photo gallery

 Pacquiao vs. De La Hoya at a glance En Espanol

Steve Kim ponders how personal it is for Pacquiao

Looks like Comebacking Amir Khan has got Pacmania

RingsideReport.com managing editor's pick for Judgement Night

PacMan looks to define himself with a win over De La Hoya

Thomas Hauser on Hatton-Malignaggi

Counterpunch's Patrick Cockburn on Mumbia to Baghdad, by way of Pakistan

Torture makes terrorists, observations from an American interrogator

Obama's Risky Team of Rivals

Can one Buy ONLY American and survive?

Bill Kristol doesn't think 9/11 caused any Islamophobia or Xenophobia

AlterNet pieces together Mumbai Terror Attacks

11/30/08  NBC’s Brian Williams is a disgrace, Glenn Greenwald explains

David Sirota sees the current US predicament foreshadowed in Jon Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China

Weapons are not priority one in maintaining global security

Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell’s former chief of staff, recalls targeting civilians in Vietnam with Nick Turse

11/28/08  Chris Arreola gets into shape in Big Bear, CA 

Ref. Toby Gibson has taken his own life

Ricky Hatton returns with stoppage victory over Paul Malignaggi

James Kirkland takes out Brian Vera in 8

11 Boxing related things to be Thankful for

Old Washington wins in keeping Gates as Sec Def

Counterpunch looks at the Obama "Dream Team"

DemocracyNow! looks at Gov. Janet Napolitano's record on immigration in Arizona

11/21/08  Hatton is “horrible” says Malignaggi

David Haye takes out Monte Barrett in five rounds at the O2 Arena -video below

David Sirota asks if we should be surprised over the love for Joe Lieberman

Robert Parry writes about Obama’s risk of making Clintonian mistakes

Senator Russ Feingold warns us about the coming Bush pardons

An open letter to President-Elect Obama—PLEASE DO NOT APPOINT HILLARY CLINTON SECRETARY OF STATE

Dubya snubbed by G20 leaders?

Tip of the day: When you go to DC to beg for money it's best not to go via private jet

What Change?  Jeremy Scahill examines Obama’s cabinet options

Auto-making dinosaurs unlikely to adapt or go extinct…will DC save the “Terrible-Lizards”?

Detroit needs cash but the public needs/wants electric cars, who wins?

Rumors suggest Obama may keep Gates as SecDef, but is he as bad as Rumsfeld?

Cornel West talks to Amy Goodman about the election of Barack Obama

11/14/08  Sakio Bika stops Peter Manfredo in three rounds

Professional Heavyweight Journey begins: Olympian Deontay Wilder Debuts

Calzaghe beats on and bloodies Roy Jones Jr:Photo Gallery

Fight Chick on Calzaghe win over Jones

Bernard Hopkins beats on Kelly Pavlik:Photo Gallery

11/07/08  Darchinyan crushes Mijares

Roy Jones Jr. Training Conference Call Transcript

Marijuana wins big in Election Day ballot initiatives

10/27/08  Joe the Plumber is a Socialist and so are you!  David Morris explains at Counterpunch

10/09/08  Dawson-Tarver final presser heats up

Steve Kim describes the long journey to Dawson vs. Tarver

Tickets Available Now for Mijares-Darchinyan

Antonio Tarver Workout Quotes

Chad Dawson Workout Pix

Experts Weigh-In on Peter-Klitschko

Pavlik vs. Hopkins Conf. Call Transcript

Can Coal Be Clean?  A Democracy Now! Debate

Palin connected to whacky Alaska secessionist group

Chalmers Johnson on Voting the Fate of the Nation

Robert Parry asks how far Palin will go with the slurs and slams

What's behind McCain's "that one" comment?

10/06/08  Fightnews photo gallery: KO Festival for HBO Show Prospects

Alfredo Angulo brutalizes Andrei Tsurkan

Pure Fiction: Cheney touts Bush Admin’s record of Wildlife Conservation

Trickle-Down Economics has finally trickled up…now we’re all in the piss

John McCain is getting angrier and more allergic to the truth on the campaign trail

10/04/08  Abraham vs. Marquez postponed-King Abraham’s got the flu

Dan Raphael on Vitali Klitschko, also HBO B.A.D. and Israel Vazquez

Steve Kim spotlights Alfredo Angulo before his fight tonight on HBO

A Day in the Life of Future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins

Palin said she was all for divesting in Sudan before she’s actually done it

Palin spent much of debate reading her prepared talking points

Dennis Kucinich’s Statement from House Floor speaking against the Bailout

Chalmers Johnson tells us we’ve got the money, but it’s all in the defense budget

Alexander Cockburn breaks down Biden-Palin Debate

 News from the Corporatocracy: “Liberal Media” isn’t all that liberal despite FoxNewsies best effort to call it such 

William Black on the Keating Five Legacy and Jon McCain

Was it Newt Gingrich’s presidential ambitions that derailed Wall Street Bailout even before Pelosi’s speech?

Politics from the Pulpit, Christian Pastors push McCain on Parishioners despite federal laws banning such action

10/01/08  Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) points out Jon McCain's deregulation-friendly history and connection to Charles Keating (video below)...

News reports explaining the Keating Five scandal and the links to Jon McCain (video below)...

9/30/08  Samuel Peter vs. Vitali Klitschko conf. call transcript

The Pavlik-Hopkins undercard is LOADED!

Pacquiao & De La Hoya begin 6 city press tour to publicize December sixth bout

KOFantasyBoxing’s New Fighters for the Week 9/29

Miranda, McGirt Jr. and Johnson return in Bad Boys of Boxing card on Nov. 11^th

Fightnews Photo Gallery:  Mosley vs. Mayorga

Kirk Lang talks to Mark Brown after the win over Tony Grano

Fightnews Report & Photo Gallery: Wiiliams & Arreola win by KO on Versus card

De La Hoya hooks up with Nacho Beristain to prep for PacMan

William Dettloff ponders whether some of Mosley’s sweetness is artificial

Steve Kim on Sugar Shane’s last second smash

Right Winger Michele Malkin blames Latinos for the Mortgage Meltdown

So intent on calling Iraq a success, McCain refers to Iraq as a “victory” despite Gen. Petraeus’ advice

Minnesota Republican blames minorities for current financial woes

Chalmers Johnson explains where all our money has gone and where it’ll keep going

David Sirota’s top five reasons the Bailout should NOT be passed

McCain and Obama sparred about it, but what did Kissinger really say?

Robert Parry looks at some of the more ominous omissions from Friday’s Presidential Debate

9/22/08 

Fightnews Photo Gallery: Marquez vs. Casamayor

9/11/08  Conference Call Quotes from Nate Campbell, Joan Guzman, Timothy Bradley & Edner Cherry

Doug Fischer's SoCal Notebook

Tom Gerbasi looks at Vernon Forrest's chances in the rematch with Mora

Vitali Klitschko healthy & in training for Peter--pix to prove it!

Steve Kim on Nate Campbell

Ray Mercer calls out David Haye

Andre Berto battles Steve Forbes on Mosley-Mayorga undercard

Counterpunch looks at The First 9/11

Startling poll results about 9/11 show how much US reputation has suffered

A 9/11 What If?

Jim Hightower considers the Faux Populism of Sarah Palin

Woodward book sheds like on Adm. Fallon's days at Centcom working with Dubya & his cohorts

CNN's Michael Ware on McCain's delusions about Iraq and the success of the Surge

Ray McGovern on preemption tactics used to quell dissent in St. Paul

Alaska Senator Ted Stevens loses bid to have corruption charges against him dropped

Climate Change Scientists Urge Decrease in Meat Consumption!