Andrew Harrison
20 articles · EastSideBoxing.com
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The Outsider: Amir Khan?s Battle For Acceptance
Like all teen stars, Amir Khan seems to have been around forever. It is nigh on a decade since an unknown 17-year-old lightweight boxer from Lancashire captured the hearts of a nation.…
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BANG! BANG! BANG! Rating Boxing?s Hardest Punchers (Volume V)
Knockout artists Gennady Golovkin and Curtis Stevens collide in New York Saturday, and so what better time to revisit our annual showcase of boxing?s hardest punchers? The following ratings compile the finest…
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Shock Of The New: Adrien Broner, Paulie Malignaggi, Tyson Fury And David Haye Take Trashiness To The Bank
Habitually mined as broadcasting gold, vulgarity is a modern commodity. Well-placed in order to capitalise, boxing promotion has foregone decency for the sake of a fast buck. Nielsen ratings have taken priority…
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Floyd Mayweather v Robert Guerrero: can this fight fill the void in boxing?
Some of the basics of the Floyd Mayweather story leading into his battle against Robert Guerrero on Saturday are unchanged. He's still the consensus best fighter in the world, his opponent is…
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The Highlight Reel: March 2013
The boxing bits blowing our hair back this month? Alex McClintock For all my moaning about the lack of quality fights on the boxing schedule, there will actually be some good bouts…
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The Highlight Reel: February, 2013
The stuff floating our boats this month? Patrick Connor The last month has left a little bit to be desired for a few reasons, unsurprisingly, so I might take the road less…
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BANG! BANG! BANG! Rating Boxing?s Hardest Punchers (Volume IV)
Who hates the Transnational Boxing Ratings Board? Julio Ceja. Julio Ceja hates the Transnational Boxing Ratings Board, that?s who. For under its former guise and back when The Queensberry Rules? annual guide…
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Demolition Man: David Price Obliterates Sam Sexton, Readies Himself For Blast-Off Onto World Stage
Heavyweight David Price laid waste to another member of the fair-to-middling domestic guard at home in the Aintree Equestrian Centre on Saturday, flattening an overawed Sam Sexton umpteen times before finishing him…
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Myth Behind Bernard Hopkins? Middleweight Reign
A great bumper sticker once noted that during a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. And while Big Brother should not concern itself with murmurings of a…
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It Was A Very Good Year: A Review Of British Boxing In 2011
2011 has already been denounced in some quarters as an annus horribilis for British boxing. As viewpoints go, it?s a tad short-sighted and one probably informed by the nation?s dismal away record…
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All Welterweights Are Equal But Some Welterweights Are More Equal Than Others
?This is a money opportunity sport.? -- (Marvelous Marvin Hagler 1984) I was going to head up this post with a quote from a certain Walter Sobchak; however, after thinking it through,…
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Interview Tips And Techniques: A Fighter’s Guide
Malignaggi, Hamed, Tyson good. Cotto, Oscar, Lennox bad. Everything about being a prize fighter is tough, not least the part which comes directly after the fight, when an erudite guy in a…
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Floyd Mayweather: Call Me Champ… But I’m Not Paying For It
Floyd Mayweather must be awfully tired from all of the standing he?s doing of late. First of all, he took a stance against performance enhancing drugs within the sport, one which, to…
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Anatomy Of A Superfight
In a Boxing Monthly preview piece from 1999, Steve Farhood carried out an analysis of boxing "superfights" over a 20-year period. In order to determine just how many of the sport’s biggest…
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Amid a Sea of Disappointment Lopez v Ortiz is the Real Contest of the Weekend
This weekend, fight fans will be tucking into the remains of what should have been a veritable boxing banquet, however after the bizarre spate of cancellations, sick notes and let downs, the…
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Angels and Demons: Cotto & Clottey Collide at The Garden
Miguel Angel Cotto wears a haunted look these days. The dark and solemn eyes which with a single glance could at once wither a man now look as though they?re searching for…
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The Ring Championship: Are They Winning?
In 2002 and in a bid to restore credibility back to the sport, Ring magazine launched its current championship policy. Hoping to cut a swathe through the veritable quagmire created by the…
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The Emperor?s New Alphabet Belt: A Fairy Tale
Once upon a time there lived an exciting young fighter, whose only worry in life was when he?d become a ?world champion.' Word of the fighter?s ambition spread far and wide, whereupon…
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Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton – Will This Dream Match Come True?
?Remember that scene from Raging Bull when Jake Lamotta is lamenting the fact that his size will forever preclude him from fighting Joe Louis? Don?t you get the same feeling of frustration…
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De la Hoya: A Very Un-Mexican Surrender
?I?d rather be smart than get knocked down five times? -Oscar De la Hoya on Fernando Vargas?s effort in defeat to Felix Trinidad. So this is how it would end for Oscar…
