IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks back at notable one-round knockouts including upsets, surprise capitulations and memorable performances that finished in quick time. Felix Verdejo looked good blasting out Will Madera last week. It was just the sort of win he needed after his career seemed to be running out of steam. While Verdejo is never […]
With British boxing enjoying worldwide supremacy in the heavyweight division with both champions as well as a number of leading contenders and prospects, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks back at the forgotten golden era of British heavies where Henry Cooper, Joe Erskine, Brian London and Dick Richardson battled for contention. Daniel Dubois and Joe Joyce […]
IBHOF inductee and boxing betting expert Graham Houston looks ahead to WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s trilogy fight with Deontay Wilder from the current gambling perspective. The Covid-19 pandemic has KO’d a number of big fight dates. But things look hopeful for Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder to meet for the third time before the […]
With the WBC contemplating further rule changes, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston weighs up the pros and cons of instant replay, and reflects on past revisions of boxing’s laws. Things change, but not always for the better. A newsletter from WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman headed ‘Resistance to Change’ got me thinking about this. Boxing has seen many changes […]
Debatable draws are nothing new. IBHOF inductee Graham Houston reflects on stalemates from the 15-round era with ringside memories from Maurice Hope-Eckhard Dagge, Michael Dokes-Mike Weaver II and more. Boxing history has its share of myths and misconceptions. One of them is that there are far more draws now, with 12-round bouts, than in the […]
We think of Panama’s great boxers and the name of Roberto Duran immediately comes to mind, and perhaps that of Eusebio Pedroza, the long-reigning featherweight champion. And then there is Ernesto Marcel, who died on June 29, aged 72, after struggling with health issues. Marcel was WBA featherweight champion from 1972 to 1974. He retired […]
IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks back at some of the notable occasions where a gargantuan, last round effort has saved the day for a fighter with that little bit extra left in the tank. You’ve probably heard it many times. The fighters are in their corners waiting for the bell to sound for the final […]
In his latest column, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks at the confusion surrounding the scoring of even rounds and explains why professional judges are still supposed to pick a winner in the closest of sessions. It was just a four-rounder, but the bout in Las Vegas between Mike Sanchez and Eric Mondragon this past week […]
After the confusion surrounding the finishing time of Shakur Stevenson’s comeback victory last week, IBHOF inductee Graham Houston analyses incidents that have influenced a fight’s outcome from a betting perspective. Boxing slowly got under way again this past week with two Top Rank shows in Las Vegas, a promotion in Poland and another in Germany. […]
It’s a widely held perception that the boxer usually prevails against the fighter in an even match. Yet that’s not always the case. IBHOF inductee Graham Houston looks back at some memorable occasions where the fighter emerged victorious. A boxer vs fighter pairing has long been considered the ultimate match-up, a contest likely to produce […]
Curtis Cokes, who passed away on May 29 at the age of 82, was a beautiful stylist who perhaps never got the credit he deserved when an active boxer, even though he was undisputed world welterweight champion in the 1960s. He was deservedly inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003. Cokes, the […]
Upsets have happened all through ring history. Sometimes the favourites really shouldn’t have been favourites at all. Other times, the odds were ridiculously close. During the Coronavirus downtime, I’ve been looking at some of these fights. All were fights where a sharp player could have made the proverbial killing. Here are three famous fights where […]