Revenge or Repeat: Pavlik-Taylor II stirring the echoes of legend
Bad Left Hook —
Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor's fight on September 29, 2007, was the stuff that legends are made of. The champion, still with something to prove. A challenger made to rally around -- big punching, no-nonsense, hard-working steel city boy out of the midwest. The middleweight division's rich history is loaded with great rivalries. Robinson and LaMotta, Benvenuti and Griffith. Taylor and Pavlik won't join those guys, really. For one thing, Saturday night's rematch is at a catchweight of 166 pounds, two pounds below the super middleweight cap, six above the middleweight limit. But with ...
Pavlik/Taylor II: Your OTHER Combat Sport Choice for the Evening
Bloody Elbow —
Below you'll find a very solid (as always) preview of tonight's rematch between Jermain Taylor and Kelly Pavlik by SC of BadLeftHook. If a MMA card headlined by two glorified street-fighters (and don't get me wrong, I dig Kimbo) isn't your thing maybe you'll consider dropping some cash on a legit boxing PPV. I'm up in Michigan for the weekend and will be watching the boxing show followed by the EXC replay and if you have the cashflow I suggest you do the same. The first Pavlik/Taylor bout was a great watch and I don't expect tonight's to be anything less. Check out the write-up by SC and make BadLeftHook a daily ...
Taylor in desperate need of a win against Lacy
Bad Left Hook —
The last time Little Rock's Jermain Taylor was celebrated for a win, Chris Brown's "Run It!" was No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard chart, Roger Ebert was preparing to name the dreadful Crash as the best movie of the year, and Seth Rogen was fourth banana in The 40-Year Old Virgin.
It was December 3, 2005, when Taylor successfully defended the middleweight championship of the world against Bernard Hopkins, the man whose long reign Taylor had ended four and a half months earlier.
Since then, Taylor's career has taken a bit of a swan dive. For whatever reason, Taylor ...
Weekend Wildcard : LeBron James needs to shut the f*** up
HotNonPorn.com —
You've all heard of the back-and-forth banter going on between LeBron James and Charles Barkley regarding LeBron's impending free agency in 2010. In case you have been living in a cave the last week, Charles Barkley said on Dan Patrick's radio show that LeBron needs to "shut the hell up" and stop fueling all the speculation that's been going on about LeBron's potentially suiting up for the Knicks. In response, LeBron called Sir Charles "stupid". I'm wholly with Sir Charles on this one. And I take it one step further : LeBron needs to shut the f*** up. If I were Cavs GM, I'd call in Ohio ...
