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Grief Stricken? Grief Hit'em!

Hassan N'Dam fought Fulgencio Zuniga with a heavy heart and a torn bicep. His father had passed away a week previously and in the 4th round he injured his left arm and was reduced to just the one appendage for the next 8 rounds. Here is a slightly poetic take on his UD win, with music provided by Malibu Joe.

Prince Charles Martin

Charles Martin is an exciting heavyweight prospect so I just went ahead and made a short documentary about his recent NABO title shot on the King Sports card at the Barker Hangar on April 16th. It's a feel good story about a reformed drug dealer, finding the Lord, mending his ways and then bashing people up in the pursuit of belts. It's not 24/7 because while I am pretentious I am not that pretentious. 

Long Live the King

If I had millions of dollars, I'd take it upon myself to fix boxing. But I don't. Luckily Michael King does and that is exactly what he is planning to do. He's a man with a dream and that dream is simple: Make boxing great again by putting on spectacular shows with competitive fights and to build some sort of respectable farm system in a sport plagued by poor regulation and suspect infrastructure. Did I say simple? 

Speaking to Michael King is downright fun. He is a compelling salesman, bombastic, engaging and passionate about fisticuffs. Boxing fans out there concerned for the future of their sport will be delighted to know that there are millionaire fairy godfathers (possibly billionaires fairy godfathers - anything over 5 figures is a millionaire to me) out there who have their best interest at heart.

There's a story about Michael King when he was a high school discus thrower. He told a reporter under deadline not to worry and just write that King was the winner, even though the event hadn't yet happened. Stories about his confidence and persistence coupled with proof of his success are encouraging. He will need to be confident, persistent and rich to compete in boxing and see this experiment through.

Having syndicated blue chip TV shows like Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy and Oprah King can afford experiment a little. His show at the Barker Hanger on April 16th had all the glitz and excitement he promised in this interview. The crowd was adorned with celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger ( a celebrity so big that his name is programmed into spellcheck!), Tommy Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Tom Jones, Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols even played the national anthem. The UCLA marching band performed and the event was ably and uniquely emceed by Kevin Pollak.The card was very solid. Here is a round up of the action as reported by Mike Coppinger of Ring Online. 

King has two more shows planned before the fall. One at the Santa Monica pier on May 20th he's putting on with Sugar Ray Leonard and another Barker Hangar extravaganza. Ghandi said be the change that you believe in so if you are a boxing fan sick of the cannibalising duo-poloy of Top Rank and Goldenboy follow this story, attend these events and jump aboard the King band-wagon. You won't be disappointed. 

It's time to give N'dam.

N'Dam it ALL!

Hassan N'dam is a very pleasant fellow. American audiences will know him from his thrilling fight with "Kid Chocolate" Peter Quillin in October of last year. What they might not know is that fight against Quillin was the result of some curly-wurly high powered chicanery betwixt Goldenboy and the WBO. The kind of thing that would have made this guy proud -->

The moderator in WBO/Goldenboy negotiations 

Perhaps that's not giving Machiavelli enough credit. According to N'Dam's trainer, Mustapha Ouicher (who also trains Jean Marc Mormek), GB simply paid the WBO to make Quillin N'Dam's mandatory fighter whom he had to face by October 20th or lose the title. Quillin wasn't even on the top 5 contenders list at the time. Coincidentally, GB had booked the Barclay centre that evening for a big night of Brooklyn boxing. N'Dam was on vacation recovering from a gruelling fight with hard-nosed Ukranian Max Bursak and nursing a procedure he'd had on 6 of his teeth. Nevertheless, his former promoter, Sebastien Acaries, did a quick-fire deal with GB without submitting N'dam's medical paperwork to the WBO which could have afforded him extra time to recover and knowing Hassan wasn't in shape and would struggle to get a proper training camp together in time for the fight.  

Never speak tooth to Power

By the time the deal was signed, N'Dam had under a month to prepare for the fight.  In a swashbuckling performance, N'dam suffered 6 knockdowns, due, in no small measure to a procedure he'd had his mouth a few weeks prior. On fight night, he needed 3 injections just to get him to comfortably bite down on a mouth guard. Look, I'm a Brit, and we love to accuse the French of making excuses and generally moaning about how the world is against them even though they only work 3 hours a day with 2 of those spent at lunch, BUT, teeth are sensitive and I needed 6 lbs of hydrochodone the last time I had a filling done. However many pieces of silver Acaries made from the fight, it was the last he made off N'dam's travails as the native Cameroonian has now signed with Gary Hyde.

N'dam scraped off the ring rust with a fight in Ireland against unheralded Anthony Fitzgerald in December.  He is now fighting on Michael King's card at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica on April 16th against Fulgencio Zuniga who has fought James DeGale, Tavoris Cloud, Lucian Bute and Kelly Pavlik. As 2004 Olympian for Cameroon and previously undefeated Middleweight champion. If Hassan wins convincingly on Wednesday at Barker's Hangar, it's time to start (last name pun I promise) giving N'dam.  

Here is an interview I did with Hassan on Monday. Sure it would be nice to embed it like a pro, but until we move to the new website, we will have to make do with Google Blogger's remedial coding. It's N'Dam shame is was it is. Ok that was the last one.