BEST I FACED: MARCO ANTONIO BARRERA P.20 THE BIBLE OF BOXING ® + FIRST MIGHTY LOSSES SOME BOXERS REBOUND FROM MARCOS THEIR INITIAL MAIDANA GAINS SETBACKS, SOME DON’T NEW RESPECT P.48 P.38 CANELO HALL OF VS. ANGULO FAME: JUNIOR MIDDLEWEIGHT RICHARD STEELE WAS MATCHUP HAS FAN APPEAL ONE OF THE BEST P.64 REFEREES OF HIS ERA P.68 JOSE SULAIMAN: 1931-2014 ARMY, NAV Y, THE LONGTIME AIR FORCE WBC PRESIDENT COLLEGIATE BOXING APRIL 2014 WAS CONTROVERSIAL IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE BUT IMPACTFUL SERVICE ACADEMIES $8.95 P.60 P.80 44 CONTENTS | APRIL 2014 Adrien Broner FEATURES learned a lot in his loss to Marcos Maidana 38 DEFINING 64 ALVAREZ about how he’s FIGHT VS. ANGULO perceived. MARCOS MAIDANA THE JUNIOR REACHED NEW MIDDLEWEIGHT HEIGHTS BY MATCHUP HAS FAN BEATING ADRIEN APPEAL BRONER By Doug Fischer By Bart Barry 67 PACQUIAO 44 HAPPY FANS VS. BRADLEY II WHY WERE SO THERE ARE MANY MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONS GOING PLEASED ABOUT INTO THE REMATCH BRONER’S By Michael MISFORTUNE? Rosenthal By Tim Smith 68 HALL OF 48 MAKE OR FAME BREAK? REFEREE RICHARD SOME FIGHTERS STEELE EARNED BOUNCE BACK HIS INDUCTION FROM THEIR FIRST INTO THE IBHOF LOSSES, SOME By Ron Borges DON’T By Norm 74 IN TYSON’S Frauenheim WORDS MIKE TYSON’S 54 ACCIDENTAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY CONTENDER IS FLAWED BUT CHRIS ARREOLA WORTH THE READ WILL FIGHT By Thomas Hauser FOR A TITLE IN SPITE OF HIS 80 AMERICA’S INCONSISTENCY TEAMS By Keith Idec INTERCOLLEGIATE BOXING STILL 60 JOSE THRIVES IN SULAIMAN: THE SERVICE 1931-2014 ACADEMIES THE By Bernard CONTROVERSIAL Fernandez WBC PRESIDENT LEFT HIS MARK ON 86 DOUGIE’S THE SPORT MAILBAG By Thomas Hauser NEW FEATURE: THE BEST OF DOUG FISCHER’S RINGTV.COM COLUMN COVER PHOTO BY HOGAN PHOTOS; BRONER: JEFF BOTTARI/GOLDEN BOY/GETTY IMAGES BOY/GETTY JEFF BOTTARI/GOLDEN BRONER: BY HOGAN PHOTOS; PHOTO COVER By Doug Fischer 4.14 / RINGTV.COM 3 DEPARTMENTS 30 5 RINGSIDE 6 OPENING SHOTS Light heavyweight 12 COME OUT WRITING contender Jean Pascal had a good night on 15 ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES Jan. 18 in Montreal. Jabs and Straight Writes by Thomas Hauser 20 BEST I FACED: MARCO ANTONIO BARRERA By Anson Wainwright 23 RING CARD GIRL 26 READY TO GRUMBLE By David Greisman 29 OUTSIDE THE ROPES By Brian Harty 30 RING RATINGS PACKAGE 92 LETTERS FROM EUROPE By Gareth A Davies 96 SWEET SCIENCE By Scott LaFee 98 NEW FACES: JULIAN WILLIAMS By Mike Coppinger 100 WOMEN’S BOXING By Thomas Gerbasi 102 RINGSIDE REPORTS By Norm Frauenheim 106 WORLDWIDE RESULTS 108 COMING UP 112 FROM THE ARCHIVE 114 AT THE FIGHTS AT RINGTV.COM BARKER RETIRES PASCAL ONLY SO-SO THE POPULAR JEAN PASCAL MIDDLEWEIGHT DOMINATED LUCIAN MADE A SIGNIFICANT BUTE IN JANUARY CONTRIBUTION TO BUT WASN’T BRITISH BOXING EXCEPTIONAL GO TO: http://bit. GO TO: http://bit.ly/ ly/1cNuh8f LJcae4 DON’T FORGET TO FOLLOW US ON: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/RINGTV @RINGMAGAZINE THERINGDIGITAL HTTP://INSTAGRAM.COM/RINGTV# 4 RINGTV.COM / 4.14 RINGSIDE By Michael Rosenthal generating drama, the lifeblood of VOLUME 93, NO. 4 | APRIL 2014 the boxing business. Consider his fght against Victor Ortiz in 2009, which launched FOUNDER him into international prominence. Nathaniel Fleischer (1888-1972) Maidana went down three times but put Ortiz down twice and EDITOR Michael Rosenthal made him quit. High drama. Consider his fght against Amir ASSOCIATE EDITOR Douglass Fischer Khan in 2010. Khan, the much quicker and skillful of the two, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR was dominating when Maidana Brian Harty hurt him badly with a right and ART DIRECTOR followed with a ferce barrage in Lamar Clark the 10th round. Khan survived RING CARD GIRLS COORDINATOR WHY WE and won, but Maidana provided Heather Shanholtz the thrills. CONTROLLER LOVE And, finally, consider his fight Deborah L. Harrison against rising star Adrien Broner CIRCULATION DIRECTOR in December. Maidana provided Kenneth J. Gudaitis MAIDANA the usual ingredients – passion, ADVERTISING INQUIRIES fearlessness, power. 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Printed in U.S.A. off his energy and his knack for with the guy. PASCAL: HERBY WHYNE; MAIDANA: HOGAN PHOTOS WHYNE; MAIDANA: HERBY PASCAL: 4.14 / RINGTV.COM 5 OPENING SHOTS Takashi Uchiyama (right) survived a knockdown in a wild 10th round to outpoint Daiki Kaneko and retain his WBA junior lightweight title on Dec. 31 in Tokyo. It was Uchiyama’s eighth successful defense. Naoki Fukuda NAOKI FUKUDA 6 RINGTV.COM / 3.14 4.14 / RINGTV.COM 7 8 RINGTV.COM / 4.14 Floyd Mayweather Jr. was well received at the Dube Boxing Gym in Soweto. The world’s No. 1 fghter traveled halfway around the world to help revitalize the sport in South Africa. 10 RINGTV.COM / 4.14 Vitali Klitschko was sprayed with a fre extinguisher during a demonstration in Ukraine that turned violent. Klitschko, a presidential candidate, is fghting to reform a corrupt government. EFREM LUKATSKY -AP EFREM LUKATSKY COME OUT WRITING combinations and then grabs, holds, then pushes down on his opponent. These are fouls in boxing, but he gets away with it constantly. Why his opponents’ cornermen don’t get on the referee and the governing body or commission is beyond me. Can you imagine Klitschko doing that to one of Lou Duva’s boxers? Duva would punch the referee. Klitschko is one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. He has proven that with his continued dominance and longevity as champion. He’s also the most boring to watch. If he had his brother Vitali’s fghting spirit to go along with his intelligence and athleticism … now that would be a heavyweight GIVE BRADLEY he might have won that bout because worth watching. CREDIT he was able to maul Mayweather.” Danny Kisner Tim Bradley is about to fght Manny Then I watched Miguel Cotto do Glen Burnie, Md. Pacquiao again in April. That means reasonably well against Floyd, and his last four fghts were Pacman, I thought, “If he was a little more FOND MEMORIES Ruslan Provodnikov, Juan Manual persistent and a little younger, he The recent death of former world Marquez, and Pacman again.