Ring Observer Boxing by Scoop Malinowski

November, 2022

• 28 November

  How Floyd And Haymon Ruined Boxing

  

    By Scoop Malinowski When boxing was king the big fights captivated the world. You could not wait those eight weeks to finally see the best vs the best. Today, boxing is mostly all scripted hoax events which end up disappointing because they look like soft controlled sparring sessions and ...

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• 20 November

  Biofile Kenneth Abbott Interview

  

    By Scoop Malinowski Status: Former pro boxer with an 8-2 record (4 KO’s) and sparring partner of Roberto Duran and Aaron Pryor. DOB:  1955  In: Detroit, Michigan First Boxing Memory:  My first memory of boxing was when I was with my dad and he watched Friday Night At The ...

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• 16 November

  Kenny Abbott Remembers Sparring Roberto Duran

  By Scoop Malinowski Former pro Kenny Abbott got the opportunity to spar with all time great, four-division boxing champion Roberto Duran in Miami at the Fifth Street Gym. “My trainer and manager Angelo Dundee got me sparring with Duran in 1978 I believe was the first time. I also worked ...

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• 8 November

  My Interview With Kevin Rooney About Mike Tyson

  

  By Scoop Malinowski Kevin Rooney is one of the most famous figures in modern boxing history because of his important role as the trainer of Iron Mike Tyson, during the former World Heavyweight Champion’s most productive, exciting and devastating years from 1985-1988. A few years ago I had a chance ...

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October, 2022

• 31 October

  Close Encounters With Emanuel Steward

  

  By Scoop Malinowski Boxing world figures remember the great trainer, manager, TV analyst and Hall of Famer Emanuel Steward, who trained 41 world champions including Lennox Lewis, Thomas Hearns, Wladimir Klitschko, Evander Holyfield, Hilmer Kenty, and Julio Cesar Chavez… Steward passed away on October 25, 2012 at the age of ...

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• 25 October

  Ring Magazine Will Shut Down

  

    By Scoop Malinowski The Ring magazine was one of my earliest print outlets to sell my Biofile interviews as a newcomer in the media in 1992. Former editor Steve Farhood liked my Biofiles and hired me to do boxing biofile interviews for the monthly magazine, for $50 per biofile ...

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• 24 October

  Boxing Stories That Never Get Mentioned

  

  By Scoop Malinowski Some of my favorite and forgotten boxing insider stories that never get talked about by the boxing media… Floyd Mayweather and Al Haymon intended to duck Manny Pacquiao forever, because they couldn’t rig the fight in their favor. George Peterson, the co manager of Paul Williams (with ...

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• 21 October

  Tyson D’Amato Proved The Power of Black White Unity

  

    By Scoop Malinowski The power of Mike Tyson and Cus D’Amato uniting their forces proves how powerful black and white can be working together. Fake news agenda-driven media divide & conquer hate evil must be stopped… Mike Tyson was a juvenile delinquent teenager, on the path to nowhere, living ...

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• 14 October

  Shields Admits Marshall Hurt Her Already

  

    By Scoop Malinowski With three decades of experience of observing this sport I see some striking characteristics about this Claressa Shields vs Savannah Marshall grudge fight. I see that Claressa Shields gets very anxious, uptight and upset by Savannah Marshall’s calm confidence, whining incoherently about the past, other opponents, ...

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• 11 October

  When Muhammad Ali Stopped Larry Holmes

  

  By Scoop Malinowski Do you know Muhammad Ali once stopped Larry Holmes at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas? Yes it really happened, but not exactly how you expect. Greg Gonzales, the nephew of former tennis great Pancho Gonzales told me the story… Gonzales would attend a lot of Vegas fights ...

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September, 2022

• 29 September

  Roman Philosopher Seneca Explained Boxing Cowardice

  

    By Scoop Malinowski “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca Seneca, was a Roman stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Born ...

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• 20 September

  Boxing Cheated Golovkin

  

      “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” – Jonathan Swift By Scoop Malinowski We never saw the greatest wins of the prime Gennady Golovkin because all of his top challengers avoided ...

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• 20 September

  Biofile Wallace Matthews Interview

  

    By Scoop Malinowski Status: Former New York Post Columnist, New York Newsday Columnist, New York Daily News Lead Columnist, New York Times reporter, NBC 1988 Olympic boxing analyst and ESPN Talk Show host.  Former President of the Boxing Writer’s Association of America and ring announcer. DOB: January 3, 1957 ...

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• 18 September

  Fakest “Fight” of the Century

  

  Who wouldn’t pull punches, push punches and miss punches on purpose for $20m guaranteed and possibly $45m? Thought Canelo looked ordinary too. The boos and groans started in round 3. The fakest “fight” of the century… And the carnival ring announcer is ridiculous trying to showboat and outshine the fighters, ...

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• 16 September

  My Interview With Kazakhstan Sports Media For Golovkin vs Canelo 3

  

      By Scoop Malinowski Golovkin vs Canelo 3 is a huge fight because two sports media outlets from Kazkhstan have requested to interview me about the Super Middleweight clash of titans. Zarina Kozova from Baigenews.kz asked me these questions… * 1. This fight is actively discussed in the press, ...

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