To Tim Luckenhoff, President, Association of Boxing Commissions : According to Section 11, Paragraph “c” of the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act – “NOTIFICATION OF CHANGE IN...
When I was a kid doing PR work for a promoter many years ago, I distinctly remember one instance where, at the end of a very...
Maybe I'm naive, but I've always been amazed by the veracity with which some of these sanctioning bodies work. And to think that will all of...
If you think the situation we described in the last chapter is anything new in terms of NABF shenanigans, I'd like to take the liberty of...
As of June 10, Golden Johnson was a free man – free, that is, from a promotional contract with Arthur Pelullo's Banner Promotions. But there was...
Negotiations for the Mickey Ward-Arturo Gatti fight were plagued with hostility, to say the least. Petty as it may sound, one of the primary points of...
I don't know if I mentioned that somewhere along the way in this report, there were going to be some pretty radical ideas. Now might be...
There has been a lot of discussion about rematch clauses in boxing over the past year or two; this kind of talk certainly escalated as a...
As he sat in his dressing room on the night of May 10, Kassim Ouma, a junior middleweight from West Palm Beach by way of Uganda,...
As I look at the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act, I see notations about disclosures that promoters are required to make – disclosures to the boxers,...
Looking through the business plan for Sugar Ray Leonard Boxing, one can't avoid encountering the continual references to the company's “integrity”. We won't bore you with...
One of the better heavyweights to come out of the Northeast Ohio area in the 70's was hard punching Ted Gullick. Ted turned professional after an...
“SRL Boxing is dedicated to the integrity of the sport as strongly as it is to the business of the sport” — excerpt from business plan,...
When you think of Mexican fighters it is usually a tough little hombre like a Ruben Olivares, Vincente Saldivar or Julio Cesar Chavez. More often then...
He was possibly the greatest light heavyweight of all time, The wily “Old Mongoose” Archie Moore. The man who scored 140 knockouts in a career that...
There are no direct competitors to SRL Boxing” – from business plan, Sugar Ray Leonard Boxing LLC I know that when you're trying to put forth...
This Friday night, ESPN2 will televise another in its continuing series of fights promoted by Sugar Ray Leonard Boxing. In fact, this will be the Leonard...
The man who can do the most for boxing – the quickest – is not Senator John McCain. It's not the other “boxing” politicians – Senators...
A boxing manager, at least in the theoretical sense, is in a position where he (or she) is exerting a major influence over the development of...
I'm a little different than most people. Actually, I do indeed favor a form of open scoring – at least a version that I can live...
