Daily Archives: November 18, 2012
The three most notorious turkeys in the annals of prizefighting
Happy Thanksgiving wishes to everyone! In tribute to the holiday, below are the three most notorious boxers in the annals of prizefighting. 1) Mitch “Blood” Green Green (19-6-1, 12 KOs) won the New York Golden Gloves four times as an amateur and the World Boxing Council once ranked him as high as seventh. Classically, “Blood” donned a hairdo like Randy Watson in Coming to America and is crazier than a shithouse rat. In August 1985, Green lost for the first time as a professional to future WBC champion Trevor Berbick. The following spring, Green was again defeated when he lost … Continue reading
Adrien Broner is Floyd Mayweather, Bernard Hopkins and Oscar De La Hoya ‘all wrapped into one’
In the aftermath of Adrien Broner’s destruction of tough Mexican Antonio DeMarco last Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, “The Problem’s” promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, claimed the WBC lightweight titlist is a mixture of himself, Floyd Mayweather and Bernard Hopkins. Broner (25-0, 21 KOs), often compared to Mayweather (43-0, 26 KOs) due to dominating roughly 300 amateur pugilists, is a cocky and flamboyant youngster who has been featured as a top ten prizefighter in multiple divisions by Ring Magazine. “For me, personally, Broner, to me, is Floyd Mayweather, Hopkins, myself, you can name them all, … Continue reading










