Ring Magazine: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

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[FONT=arial, helvetica, times new roman]Charpentier has been stopped three times in his four defeats but his tendency to cut around the eyes was probably the main factor. He has not lost in three years, and the veteran New Yorker Gil Clancy, brought on board by Team De La Hoya to offer advice on strategy, says he has studied the Frenchman on video and considers Charpentier to be a tough customer, definitely no pushover. But one wonders if the former manager of great welter champ Emile Griffith was being just a little diplomatic.[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial, helvetica, times new roman]The overwhelming consensus in the American fight trade is that Charpentier stands practically no chance. But this is De La Hoya's first appearance in six months, after recovering from a nagging injury to his left wrist that caused the bout to be postponed from its original date of 28 February.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, helvetica, times new roman]De La Hoya, who has won 27 consecutive bouts, with 22 opponents halted, says that for the first time in several fights he will be able to punch at full strength with the left hand. He says that he is growing into the welterweight division and feeling stronger than ever.[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial, helvetica, times new roman]In five title fights last year he went the full 12 rounds three times and his only spectacular performance was the second-round knockout over Kenyan David Kamau at San Antonio last June. In his last fight, at Atlantic City in December, De La Hoya dropped Wilfredo Rivera, but it was a cut over the eye that caused the fight to be stopped in the eighth round.[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial, helvetica, times new roman]The fight with Charpentier would seem to be an ideal opportunity for De La Hoya to rev up the knockout-puncher reputation that has suffered a bit lately. If Charpentier was life-and-death in European title fights with Gary Jacobs and capable but unexceptional Valery Kayumba (the latter a majority win in which Charpentier suffered a cut over the eye), how can he hope to hold off De La Hoya?[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial, helvetica, times new roman]This could be over very quickly indeed, especially if Charpentier gets cut. But the crowd probably will not mind because, to many, when De La Hoya is in the ring the fight itself takes second place to the fighter.[/FONT]

 

Crazy when you look back at it.

 

Well, his opposition really went down after winning the 147 title against Whitaker.

Kamau, Camacho, Rivera, Charpentier...and of course, Chavez getting a rematch while Whitaker didn't....and Arum was emphatic about Whitaker not getting a rematch after they fought.

It couldn't have him endeared him to Merchant, who liked Whitaker...it didn't endear DLH to a lot of people at the time.

 

He also stumbled his way through the Quartey fight, dropping his man in the 12th to barely get a split decision, and failed badly in the Trinidad fight, where he displayed no intention of winning the fight in a fashion becoming the occasion and ran for the last 3 rounds, hoping to get a decision. When he later announced that the manner of his loss would not affect his corporate dealings..........

 

It's understandable, he was fighting in mud that night.

 

It's Been @ Least 5 YEARS or More Since REED Last Purchased a RING Magazine...1 of the Gyms that REED Frequents has a Suscription, so he'll Occasionally Flip Threw an Edition, Every Now & Then...




REED:kidcool:

 

You can flip through the February issue...it's free online.

http://thering.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vring11/i2/p1

 

On page 115 there's a nice segment Irish, in particular, should enjoy.

 

Ill never make it that far. I'm reading Nigel Collins article on the great recent 1 punch KO's...I see Matthew Hatton has been mentioned but......

 

Page 115....Bernard and some bum-boy giving boxing lessons via a magazine? Is this was was supposed to annoy me?

 

It's a bit pricey, actually.

 

Annoy you?

No, just figured being the Hopkins fan you are, you would appreciate the finer points of "Setting Traps: Part II".

You're an open-minded kinda guy.

 

Hopkins: "And then I caught this big ass muskrat with my traps, I been setting some traps Richie, I been setting some traps. Check my trappers hat."

Schaefer: "Yeah, Okay buddy, ok."

 

Page 125 does piss me off some.

Ring Magazine now employing ginger-headed female doctors to tell us what fights should and shouldn't be sanctioned?

What a crock of shit.

Fuck off and get your vagina fumigated, Goodman.

 

Figures you wouldn't like reading someone questioning why Klitschko-Briggs was made or why it wasn't stopped...I'm just wondernig why you'd bring attention to it, given how many people shared that opinion (before the fight).

I wasn't aware Briggs had tested positive for a banned substance last year, though...guess I wasn't paying enough attention.

 

I have a problem with a Doctor questioning what fights should and shouldn't be made.

I don't have a problem with a Doctor suggesting it should have been stopped around the 6th round.

I do have a problem with a celebrity Doctor being used to cast aspersions on Klitschkos competition on the spurious and thinly veiled grounds that Briggs was not fit to fight. She specifically says it is none of her business, and then launches into why the fight was not correct. None of her business.

Furthermore the notion that Briggs hurt his arm in the first round.... the attempt to create, as usual, the image of the white heavyweight fighting a damaged, handpicked black opponent is awkwardly constructed and comes off badly. Briggs says he hurt his arm in the first. But he would say that.

As for Briggs failing some drugs test......since when were the Americans in the business of making that kind of thing public and drawing attention to it:scratcher:

When you consider the fact that the so called Editor in Chief was throwing his eye over the best KO's of the year and didn't find the room to talk about Chambers....just caps it all off really.

 

Can you elaborate more on those two?

Both where she stated "spefically" that it was none of her business, and why it is in fact none of her business, and presumably none of our's either.