Ring Observer Boxing by Scoop Malinowski

May, 2025

• 20 May

  Phil Anselmo’s Roundabout Meeting With Freddie Roach!

  

  From the archives 2008… By Scoop Malinowski Our very own ace columnist Philip H. Anselmo had the good fortune last week to make a totally unexpected connection with one of the leading figures in the sport today, top trainer and all around great guy Freddie Roach – with the assistance ...

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• 14 May

  Biofile Gil Clancy Interview

  

  By Scoop Malinowski Status: Hall of Fame boxing trainer of Emile Griffith, George Foreman, Jerry Quarry, Oscar De La Hoya, Ken Buchanan. Also a top TV boxing analyst for CBS with Tim Ryan and HBO. In 1983 won the Sam Taub Award for broadcasting excellence. (This interview was done in ...

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• 14 May

  Who Will Be The Future “Face of Boxing”?

  

  By Scoop Malinowski Boxing has fallen so far in culture popularity and has a negative stigma after Mayweather’s disgraceful era and Canelo’s is also lousy because he’s basically a protected WWF pretender who runs from threats and challengers who are not “polite.” The public doesn’t trust boxing or respect it ...

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• 4 May

  How Much Longer Will Canelo Rob Boxing?

  

    I stopped watching Canelo Alvarez years ago because all his “fights” look like fake choreographs with hired patsies who can’t resist the free payday to spar soft.  The Canelo franchise has been milking the public for years. Last night he supposedly fought again, winning a dreadfully dull sparring session ...

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April, 2025

• 23 April

  Great Fighters Who Lacked Confidence And Belief

  

  By Scoop Malinowski Mike Tyson said many intriguing things in his book Undisputed Truth and one gem that inspired this article is: “Henry Tillman was one of those fighters who was really great but he just didn’t have confidence in himself. If he had believed in himself, he would have ...

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• 2 April

  Battle For Bobby Czyz

  

    The “Battle for Bobby” fundraiser event was held on Sunday at the Nutley Elks Club in Nutley, NJ, just a few miles down the highway from where Bobby Czyz fought some of his early pro fights at Totowa Ice World. Bobby Czyz, is a NJ born and raised former ...

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March, 2025

• 24 March

  My Many George Foreman Memories

  

    By Scoop Malinowski George Foreman was a pivotal figure in my decision to get involved in boxing. I loved him as a kid, even after he lost those heartbreakers to Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Young on the TV set, I still saw greatness in him. When a boxing magazine ...

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• 17 March

  LeRoy Neiman: Portrait Of The Artist Book Press Release

  

    LeRoy Neiman: Portrait Of The Artist By Scoop Malinowski For Immediate ReleaseTeaneck, NJ —– Author/Journalist Mark ‘Scoop’ Malinowski announces the publication of  LeRoy Neiman: Portrait Of The Artist ($9.99, 122-pages). LeRoy Neiman was a man of talent and vision. He saw things in a way that most people would never ...

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• 2 March

  Davis Reveals Roach Draw Was A Fix

  

    Tank Davis kept his phony WBA title with a majority draw vs. Lamont Roach in Brooklyn last night in a corrupt “fight” which featured a canceled knockdown by Roach  of Davis and the revelation that Davis knew the judges were on his side. Boxingscene.com: …As the fight proceeded into ...

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February, 2025

• 28 February

  George Foreman Helped To Inspire Fred Couples 1992 Masters Win

  

    By Scoop Malinowski It’s immeasurable how much boxing has inspired humanity. The positive energy of the film Rocky inspired millions of young athletes and people in general. The genius of Muhammad Ali motivated millions of athletes in all sports. So many champions like Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson, Arturo Gatti ...

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January, 2025

• 30 January

  Mike Katz Exits The Ring

  

  By Scoop Malinowski Mike Katz was a boxing media pillar back in the 90s, the last Golden Age of the sport, the pinnacle era of boxing. A good old timer, he wrote boxing for the New York Times and New York Daily News, was a ringside fixture at all the ...

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• 8 January

  A Boxer’s Poem

  

  “Irish” Pat Lawlor recited this poem to John Scully in the dressing room a little while before he walked out to fight Vinny Pazienza on July 27, 2001 in Providence. Scully was so impressed he asked Lawlor to please get a copy of it. Lawlor went right over to his ...

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December, 2024

• 23 December

  Usyk Artfully Outboxes Fury Again

  

    By Scoop Malinowski Now we know why Tyson Fury had to be forced into fighting Oleksandr Usyk by Turki Alalshikh’s persistence, money and prodding. Fury, the mad scientist that he is, knew all along Usyk was his worst nightmare. Usyk unanimously decisioned Fury over 12 rounds again by a ...

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• 20 December

  Usyk Fury 11 Minute Staredown

  

  By Scoop Malinowski Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury engaged in an 11 minute staredown after yesterday’s press conference  for their World Heavyweight Championship fight in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Staredowns before fights are always sensational events and this one was as fascinating as any we have ever witnessed in boxing. The ...

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• 12 December

  Usyk is the GOAT?

  

    By Scoop Malinowski Oleksandr Usyk doesn’t say it and will never say it but he could be the greatest of all time. No heavyweight champion has achieved and performed a more perfect career. He beat Glowacki in Poland, Hunter in America, Huck in Germany, Breidis in Latvia, Gassiev in ...

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