Boxing historian Christopher James Shelton, a multi-time guest on The Ringside Boxing Show, told us what "The Sweet Science" was like 3,000 years ago in Turkey, when Achilles was a warrior and stud wrestler -- not just a fragile heel tendon -- and a sportswriter named Homer became the world's first boxing writer.
This lively history lesson is typical of the sensational stuff Chris Shelton brings to our show every time he's on.
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Posted in sports, boxing, Ringside Boxing Show, Interview, Christopher James Shelton, history, Austin Trout, Travis Hartman, Rizwaan Zahid, Hector "Macho" Camacho, Paul Mendez on Dec 2nd, 2012 Comments
Expert analysts Travis Hartman and Rizwaan Zahid break down Austin Trout's sensational performance against Miguel Cotto, Paulie Malignaggi's astute and articulate commentary as Showtime's guest analyst, and the speculate about what "Macho" Camacho might have thought about the catfight that disrupted his funeral.
Then super middleweight prospect Paul Mendez joins us to talk about his upcoming gig in the main event of the Dec. 15 Golden Boy Promotions/Don Chargin boxing event in Salinas, as well as how his life and career have changed since joining Garcia Boxing's stable.
This is the first half of our Dec. 2, 2012 show, featuring a colorful conversation with boxing historian Christopher James Shelton after the break.
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Christopher James Shelton, the official historian of www.ringsideboxingshow.com, told us the story of Yankee Sullivan, Tom Hyer, and the strange world of the bare-knuckle boxing world in the 1840s.
Shelton is a meticulous researcher with a gift for unearthing fascinating stories, as well as a talent for telling those stories on the air. As always, he gives us a colorful history lesson on the Dec. 2, 2012 edition of The Ringside Boxing Show.
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Posted in boxing, Robert Guerrero, history, Andre Berto, Don Chargin, Hall of Fame, Bill Caplan, Travis Hartman, Rizwaan Zahid, Tino Avila on Nov 26th, 2012 Comments
Expert analysts Travis Hartman and Rizwaan Zahid join Dennis Taylor and "Irish" Joe O'Rourke to gush over the previous night's spectacular brawl between Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero and Andre Berto, then undefeated super bantamweight Tino Avila talked about his life, his career and his upcoming fight.
This is the first half of our Nov. 25, 2012 show featuring a sensational walk down memory lane with Hall of Famers Don Chargin (promoter) and Bill Caplan (publicist).
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Two of the iconic figures in West Coast boxing history, legendary promoter/matchmaker Don Chargin and celebrated publicist Bill Caplan, teamed up on the November 26, 2012 edition of The Ringside Boxing Show to give us a lively and humorous reminiscence of LA's famed Olympic Auditorium, spinning colorful stories about Bobby Chacon, Mando Ramos vs. Sugar Ramos, the 1964 Ebihara-Torres riot, the funeral of the original "Golden Boy," Art Aragon, and much more. We simply didn't have enough time to hear a lifetime of colorful stories from these two boxing icons.
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John J. Raspanti, lead writer for doghouseboxing.com, joined co-hosts Dennis Taylor and "Irish" Joe O'Rourke for the entire hour of this show.
In this segment, Raspanti reviews all of the action from the previous night's fights in Los Angeles (where he sat ringside), Las Vegas, and Hamburg, Germany, including analysis of Wladimir Klitschko's place in heavyweight history, whether Abner Mares has earned a spot on boxing's Pound4Pound list, Nathan Cleverly's U.S. debut, the upcoming Berto-Guerrero megafight, and much more.
Scroll down to hear Part II of this same show.
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This is the second half of our Nov. 4, 2012 show featuring John J. Raspanti, lead writer for doghouseboxing.com.
In this segment, Raspanti tells us about having lunch the previous day with the legendary "Schoolboy" Bobby Chacon, he reviews James Curl's new book, "Jersey Joe Walcott: A Boxing Biography," and he joins Dennis Taylor & Irish Joe O'Rourke to tell some very unusual & little-known stories from boxing history.
This was a fun and interesting show. Enjoy.
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Angel Manfredy fought in a dozen world championship belts during an 11-year career, knocking out the likes of Jorge Paez and Arturo Gatti, beating Wilson Rodriguez, Ivan Robinson andJulio Diaz, losing close decisions to Stevie Johnston and Paul Spadafora.
But he lived as wrecklessly as he fought, delving heavily into alcohol, cocaine and loose women, a near-lethal cocktail for the boxer who called himself 'El Diablo."
Manfredy spoke candidly about his life on the Oct. 21, 2012 edition of The Ringside Boxing Show, during which he took us on a tour from his early life as a streetfighter to the fateful night when a cocaine binge nearly caused him to blow his own head off in his bedroom.
Don't miss this riveting interview with one of the most compelling personalities of his time.
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Posted in Uncategorized, sports, boxing, Ringside Boxing Show, Interview, author, history, boxing writer, Mark Kriegel, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini on Sep 16th, 2012 Comments
The biography of former lightweight champion Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini is more compelling as a true story than Sylvester Stallone's "Rocky" fable.
Former New York Daily News staff writer Mark Kriegel tells this riveting tale in a sensational new book, "The Good Son: The Life of Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini," a masterpiece that seems destined to become his third book to reach the New York Times Bestseller list.
The author of "Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich" and "Namath: A Biography" takes readers down the amazing road that was Mancini's life and career, including the idolization of his father, once a No. 1-ranked lightweight contender himself until a war injury ended his career.
Kriegel joined us on the Sept. 16, 2012 edition of The Ringside Boxing Show to discuss a fighter who, in the 1980s, became a towering example of The American Dream.
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In a scintillating biography that took more than 30 years to research, author Paul Gallender pulls back the curtain on multiple truths, myths and rumors that surrounded the meteoric and troubled life of heavyweight legend Sonny Liston.
Gallender appeared on the Sept. 9, 2012 edition of The Ringside Boxing Show to discuss "Sonny Liston: The Real Story of the Ali-Liston fights," a book packed with things you never knew about the former heavyweight champion of the world, and the two infamous fights that destroyed him as a viable boxing commodity.
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