Here’s Episode #2 of the excellent HBO “Ring Life” series entitled “Alone in the Ring:

Hopefully the producers of “The Ultimate Fighter” can pull themselves away from their semen-eating and towel snapping to check out HBO’s new online series “The Ring Life”. Here’s the description from HBO:

The series is inspired by the real lives of eight hopeful boxers with dreams of becoming champions. Each of the promising contenders will …

While it might not be appropriate to label every band in the genre as ‘Viking Metal’, here’s a great band that is somewhat under the radar. If you like Amon Amarth you should definitely give these guys a listen. Nomans Land hail from St. Petersburg, Russia and whether you call them Folk Metal, …

Our pugilistic associates over at THE SWEET SCIENCE have a good roundup of some expert opinion on the forthcoming De La Hoya/Pacquaio megafight:
“People are talking that Manny Pacquiao can beat me,” said De La Hoya (39-5, 30 KOs) during a telephone press conference call. “When Freddie Roach started saying, ‘Oscar can’t pull the trigger’ or …

Gary Shaw’s “downsizing” to a consultant with EliteXC has been known for awhile now, but our associates over at The Sweet Science have an informative behind the scenes with one of Dana White’s biggest (and many) foils:
Shaw hopes to bring some lessons learned back to boxing. He knows that
MMA does a better job at loading …

So sayeth Kevin Iole. The Dana also confirmed what we reported awhile back that UFC 91 would be here in The Rose City:
Though UFC president Dana White had held open the possibility of another fight in Montreal before the end of the year, he dashed Canadian fans’ dreams on Thursday when he said UFC …

We’re honored to have Ralph Gonzalez as part of the SAVSCI staff. He’s simply a fight journalism monster, one of the best in the game not only in his coverage of MMA but of boxing as well. Here’s a few of his recent articles starting with his excellent boxing work over at our …

The Oscar de la Hoya/Manny Pacquaio fight is off for now after negotiations between the two fighters’ management teams broke down. Apparently, Pac-Man’s people wouldn’t budge from his revenue split demands prompting the Golden Boy Promotions team to take their ball and go home:
Talks reached a stalemate Wednesday when neither De La Hoya nor …

Here’s a clip of boxing trainer par excellence Freddy Roach talking about AA’s boxing skills. When Roach says you’ve got potential in “The Sweet Science” you’ve done something right…

Kudos to our associate from….uh…we’re *their* evil twin, so not sure what that makes them…the “un-evil” twin maybe? Anyway, kudos to THE SWEET SCIENCE managing editor Michael Woods, who has a piece on Brock Lesnar’s return to the octagon up on ESPN.com:
When we last saw Brock Lesnar, the former NCAA wrestling champion and WWE …