Welcome to live coverage of ESPN2′s Friday Night Fights, emanating from the Times Union Center in Albany, NY. The event will be Star Boxing’s second foray into promoting at the Times Union Center, with their first event marking the return of boxing to the facility in over a decade. The … Continue reading
My introductory post for Spike TV is up! Hey, quit harping on fights that won’t happen like the one between Josh Koscheck and BJ Penn (he already told you he was retired! Leave BJ alone!). There’s plenty of interesting stuff that IS going down this weekend, even if many of … Continue reading
Tonight is Star Boxing’s second foray into promoting boxing at the Times Union Center in Albany. As an added bonus, they’ll be broadcasting live on ESPN2 for Friday Night Fights. I’ll be providing live, round by round coverage of it over on the Mixed Marshall Arts blog, pending technological cooperation from the … Continue reading
Firstly, apologies in advance if there isn’t much up on the blog this week. As y’all probably already know, I have a fight this weekend. As for last weekend, the UFC on Fox and Mayweather/Cotto both competed with my show at Comic Syndrome in downtown Albany. Needless to say, both beat … Continue reading
Chad Dawson just defeated Bernard Hopkins by majority decision to win the Ring Magazine WBC Light Heavyweight Championship. The fight was every bit as uneventful as we expected it to be, with Hopkins’ offensive highlights coming from a headbutt that opened up Dawson early in the fight and a takedown … Continue reading
(Cross-posted from Kevin Marshall’s America) Friday, April 27th The Comedy Gold Showcase The Mine (Broadway, Saratoga NY) 8:00pm; FREE Facebook link Sunday, April 29th Happy Funtime All-Star Variety Show Rumpy’s Tavern (16 Church St., Lenox MA) 8:00pm; FREE Facebook link Saturday, May 5th Phil Spelman featuring Kevin Marshall Comic … Continue reading
ESPN’s Friday Night Fights will be broadcasting live from the Times Union Center in Albany, NY on Friday, May 18th. The card so far includes a Super Middleweight bout pitting Jason “Monstruo” Escalera (13-0-0 12 KO) against Nick “Machine Gun” Brinson (9-1-1 5 KO). The event is headlined by Ray … Continue reading
Imagine you were writing a novel or even a short story that satirized the state of boxing and/or combat sports as a whole. Let’s also say you were lazy and a bit of a hack. What would you do? Well, one of the things you would do is create a … Continue reading
Hey all! This blog’s going to be relaunched, in a sense, fairly soon. In other words there will be posts again. I think I’m going to take a different approach, however. Rather than try to make every single post a super-serious meditation on MMA, it’s going to be a bit … Continue reading
First, from Ben Fowlkes of MMAFighting.com comes the tragic story of MMA and kickboxing legend Gary Goodridge’s recent diagnosis: “When talking to him on the phone, his speech was becoming slurred,” said Mike Mobbs, who’s counted Goodridge as his best friend since the two were nine years old, growing up … Continue reading