Manny Pacquiao’s looking pretty much like a bowss right there on the cover of Time mag, the Asian edition. I’ll have more to say on his latest publicity blitz in half a minute. Mainly I’m just happy that a few fights I’ve been writing about every week for months are getting unstuck to varying degrees, as [...]
Given the controversy that lingered before and more so after their last fight, Juan Diaz and Paulie Malignaggi knew they were bound to meet again. Gentlemen, get your gloves ready.
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman begins by discussing why upcoming fights like Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto, and the Showtime super middleweight tournament certainly do feature worthy matchups, they still are far from enough for boxing to shed its designation as the "red light district of sports". With highly controversial decisions...
Former Olympic and world champion Meldrick Taylor , Eddie Goldman of No Holds Barred , and Gumersindo Vidot, the publicist for Meldrick Taylor, were guests on the nationally-syndicated "Joey Reynolds Show" late Monday night/early Tuesday morning, Aug. 31/Sept. 1. Eddie Goldman is also the boxing correspondent for the "Joey Reynolds Show". In the first half of our segment, Joey Reynolds...
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman begins by explaining how the lords of boxing completely blew an opportunity this past weekend to showcase a number of top fights and fighters to large audiences on free television, while another event, the UFC, was having another expensive pay-per-view. If you were one of the few to have viewed the Brian Viloria-Jesus Iribe fight, for example,...
Before anyone tries to cast Paulie Malignaggi as some sort of courageous truth-teller , it's helpful to remember that he once wore hair extensions into the ring . With predictable results . Who does that? I'll tell you who: someone who tirelessly works the showmanship angle in order to conceal his own big bag of nothing and who gets rewarded for it time and again with big name fights and televised...
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with promoter Lou DiBella about the in-ring robbery of his fighter, Paulie Malignaggi, in his August 22 fight with Juan Diaz in Houston, Texas, which was telecast in the U.S. on HBO. Diaz, who is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions, was awarded a unanimous decision victory. As usual, DiBella is outspoken in his outrage over what happened this...
Maybe Paulie Malignaggi had a point. But his message after a questionable loss against Juan Diaz was lost in the presentation, Bart Barry says, while explaining that Diaz, despite the victory, should hang 'em up.
Brooklyn boxer Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi has built a career around being a fast-talking, flashy, Italian-American kid from Brooklyn. This past Saturday, Malignaggi fought a bout against Juan Diaz in Diaz’s hometown of Houston and ended up getting robbed by the judges, something that he predicted would happen going into the fight. The scoring was inarguably horrendous. In...
Could Paul Malignaggi Be Blacklisted': "At some point, there has to be accountability for this stuff. It's been going on for years, and some people will go, "Hey, it's been going on for years, whatever," but why should we accept what appears to be absolute corruption within a SPORT? This is not professional wrestling. This is a SPORT. The athletes come in thinking they're competing,...
Let me first say that I did not get to watch Paul Malignaggi’s fight with Juan Diaz over the weekend. If I had, I would have seen what was apparently a pretty close fight. Well, a pretty close fight in the eyes of everyone except Gale Van Hoy, one of the judges sitting [...]
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with our colleague and correspondent Charles Farrell, and veteran boxing journalist and former fighter Frank Lotierzo. We start by analyzing the August 22 junior welterweight fight between Paulie Malignaggi and Juan Diaz, won by Diaz by a unanimous decision which most observers have described as being unfair at best and a robbery at worst....
Paulie Malignaggi lost a controversial decision last night in Houston, and he spoke his mind in the post-fight interview. The jist of which was basically, "boxing is full of shit." Then things got...
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