I am not picking "Bad" Chad Dawson (26-0, 17 KO) because he and I share the same surname. At this point of his career, he’s simply a better, but more importantly, fresher fighter than Antonio "Magic Man" Tarver (27-4, 19 KO).  It will be a bad night for Tarver on Saturday, October 11. I know, […]

When this fight was first announced I thought to myself, "yeah right, we all know that Klitschko will twist his ankle, lose a nail or come down with a new version of the bird flu, forcing this heavyweight title fight to be postponed or cancelled." Right now, I have been proven wrong, as it looks […]

It’ll be like taking candy from a baby, when "Sugar" Shane Mosley, 44-5 (37 KO), takes on Ricardo "El Matador" Mayorga, 29-6-1 (23 KO, this Saturday at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA in a 12-round junior middleweight bout. Nearly every time that Mayorga has stepped up in competition, Vernon Forrest notwithstanding, he has either been outboxed (by […]

It’s good to be back, predicting big fights again (yes, I missed you too).  August was a quiet month for the sweet science, but I stayed busy by obsessing over my fantasy football draft a few weeks ago and following major league baseball’s suddenly-intense pennant races. With baseball on the minds of many, it’s appropriate […]