Follwing up on our earlier report, Charles Hackmann met Kimbo Slice last night in a pro-boxing match at the Buffalo Run Casino in Oklahoma. Taking the fight on short notice, the Missouri native and instructor at PEAK Physique went the distance with Slice going four non-stop rounds with the UFC veteran, and had him against [...]
Flying seemingly under the radar, Kimbo Slice will be back in action this weekend, fighting Charles Hackmann at the Buffalo Run Casino in Oklahoma. On Friday, December 30, Kimbo will meet Hackmann in a professional boxing match in the main event of the evening. According to Sherdog, Hackmann is 3-4 and is new to the [...]
Fight Nerd correspondent Syl Peterkin was on hand yesterday at The Edison Ballroom in New York City for the final press conference leading into this weekend’s boxing event in Atlantic City, NJ. The Super Six World Boxing Classic Finals go down on Saturday, with Andre Ward facing off against Carl Froch to unify their World [...]
Boxing jargon is a field ripe for the long winded to wax poetic, with every word holding historical and emotional connotation. But, whenever I’m asked to explain the term “bully fighter,” I do so in three words: “Smokin’ Joe Frazier.” Early yesterday evening, the greatest inside pressure fighter in the history of the sweet science [...]
brightcove.createExperiences(); “You go to the doctor, he sees you are a low, he gives you a [testosterone] prescription. How hard is it to do that? I think they are handing out far too many TRT therapeutic extensions in MMA, and I think some of the higher-up’s know darn well they are doing it. I think [...]
Former Elite XC & UFC veteran Kimbo Slice, aka Kevin Ferguson, needed only 1:52 to register a phenomenal knockout of Tay Bledsoe in last night’s main event on the “Rumble In The Heartland” boxing card, presented by Gary Shaw Productions and Legacy Communications, at Heartland Events Center in Grand Island, Nebraska. Slice (2-0, 2 KOs), [...]
brightcove.createExperiences(); “The problem was Mike Tyson always had trouble with bigger men. Even fighters like Bud Green, “Bonecrusher”, he had trouble with them whether he wanted to or not. He would have had great trouble with Lennox Lewis, particularly since he maximized his shortness by crouching, and he couldn’t fight inside so the guy would [...]
brightcove.createExperiences(); Fight Nerd correspondent Syl Peterkin spoke with Nonito Donaire, who is preparing to fight Omar Narvaez on October 22 in Madison Square Garden, NYC. We asked about strategy for this title bout, his thoughts on being called “the next Manny Pacquiao”, fighting in New York, changing weight classes as his career progresses, and other [...]
Former Elite XC heavyweight star and UFC veteran, heavyweight Kimbo Slice, returns to the ring October 15 for only the second time as a professional boxer, facing Tay Bledsoe in a four-round bout at Heartland Events Center in Grand Island, Nebraska. “Kimbo Slice is a tremendous puncher,” his co-promoter Gary Shaw said. “We believe that [...]
brightcove.createExperiences(); Fight Nerd correspondant Syl Peterkin caught up with boxer Kendall Holt in NYC to talk about his upcoming bout against Danny Garcia at “Believe it or not: Hopkins VS Dawson” on October 15. We get his thoughts on how he feels about the growth of his career and what is next for him after [...]
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