Bad Left Hook

I'm in a band, because I am such a big boxing fan it works out that quite a few of my songs wind up being about boxing. If you click the title you can hear one that was released today.

"I'll probably be puking in the morning but right now I am feeling fine.
Watching a man and his hurting so that I don't have to think of mine.
Tonight I got whiskey, beer, and boxing to try and help keep you off my mind.
A man on the tv is taking punches, blowing blood, and swelling round his eyes.

Some men are born to take a beating and I can't help but watch my kind.
The only reason he's still standing is because he's got that foolish pride.

Oh there's just one reason that I'm not crying,
it cuz I've got my foolish pride.

Oh I'll probably be puking in the morning but right now I am feeling fine.
Watching a man and his hurting so that i don't have to think of mine.
Oh I'll probably be puking in the morning but right now I am feeling fine.
A man is on the tv taking punches, blowing blood, and swelling round his eyes"

The Boxing Hall of Fame announced yesterday that Sugar Ray Leonard would be in Canastota for its annual weekend.

The folks in Canastota are putting together a great lineup of returning hall of famers again this year. I heard two more names last night that should be released soon. It's going to be an exciting year.

Over the last few days, it has been insinuated that Chavez took PEDs or diuretics, that Rubio tanked it, that Chavez "ducked" a post-fight drug test, and that there is a vast conspiracy involving the WBC and the Texas athletic commission to make sure that Chavez got away with using banned substances. Anybody who knows anything about boxing knows that commissions are usually staffed by political hacks and that these commissions are object lessons in cronyism, dishonesty, conflict of interest, ineffectuality, and corruption. However, more than anything, these state agencies are often comprised of bumbling fools. Ditto sanctioning bodies, where deceitfulness is often merely idiocy dressed up in villainous sackcloth. Only in boxing can such limited imaginations make millions, and this is proven by the fact that sanctioning bodies are actually bankrolled by their victims. From The Cruelest Sport

Beyond the ring, Chavez, 44-0-1-1 (31), may be a dilettante or a bourgeois slumming it out in the beak-busting business, but between the ropes, he works as hard as anybody, and, in fact, harder than many who have mastered the strange knack of generating fanfare without fans. If Chavez brings his silver spoon to the Alamodome, Rubio will try his best to knock it out of his mouth and into the third row. From The Cruelest Sport