It had been 17 months since I last walked down Weirfield St. in Brooklyn and I was heading for the same place, Kidz Fitness Gym. The same imposing sentinel was at the front entrance, Jordan Maldonado, surveying his domain on this unseasonably warm March morning and, as always, loaded to overflow with boxing talk, most
(JAN 6) So we come to another end-of-year award season in the sport of Women’s boxing; a search for the high points in a rather desultory twelve months in a sport that desperately needs to be more concerned with it’s future than it’s past. Shortly after exchanging holiday wishes on the first day of the
(JUNE 9) In television programming it’s known as a “lead-in:” a strong show generating a big audience and “leading” that audience to the following show or, in the case of TV’s most famous lead-in, “The Cosby Show,” leading the audience to an entire Thursday night of viewing. “It’s a technique that has also been used,
(NOV 17) David Selwyn is a New York boxing manager and, like the best of that breed, he keeps the interests of his fighters at the head of his “things to do” list. Selwyn is not, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, a scholar of the Chinese language, but he recently invoked one of those
It is traditional in boxing to commemorate a death by a ritual tolling of the ring bell for a count of ten. It may, soon, be appropriate to begin a toll for the sport of Women’s boxing and it’s life span as a viable sport. Women’s boxing is on the verge of suffering the most
(OCT 15, 2003) Sunshine Fettkether has made the most successful transition from kickboxing to the boxing ring of any athlete in the sport. Sunshine Fettkether has fought and defeated some of the top women boxers including Mitzi Jeter and Lisa Holewyne. On Saturday, last, in a casino near Lake Charles, LA, Sunshine Fettkether stepped up