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.