“THE special thing about a unicorn isn’t it’s horn, it’s the fact that it’s the only one.”- Cam F. Awesome
No, my conversation this past weekend with former US Amateur Boxing Champion Cam Awesome did not include unicorns but was mostly about his thoughts on up and coming fights, weight cutting, and who should and shouldn’t be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
My colleague Rica Aquino of Baby Dynamite Sports opines that us fans can salivate until our mouths are dry but the management teams of both Bud Crawford and Errol Spence will still decide whether a fight happens or not.
Awesome thinks a fight between them will be too close to call. We think a fight between these two boxing superstars will be decided by the boxer who can execute his fight plan better and trust me, the margin for error for these two will be the slimmest of slim.
Their respective managements better leave their egos at the door and get it together with Tank Davis and Devin Haney while all four boxers are at the peak of their powers.
Aquino, who competes as a professional women’s boxer, is set to fight in August at 118 lbs. We wish her best of luck in her fight.
Awesome thinks people who work behind the scenes of boxing world champions like sparring partners and cut men should get their due in the hall of fame.
In the second half of a sports podcast filled Saturday night, National Basketball Association basketball writer, author, and lifer, Roland Lazenby was a guest of colleague and veteran sports journalist Brian Yalung’s Sports Bytes.
Lazenby has written hundreds upon hundreds of pages worth of autobiographies from Jerry West to Phil Jackson to the Los Angeles Lakers to the Chicago Bulls to Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan.
Roland and yours truly talked about the Boston Celtics and what it would take Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown to take it to the next level, championship winning level next season to join the aforementioned partnerships.
The next generation of writers should do a book on the Golden State Warriors’ dynasty which would be interesting.
Quick segue, would the triangle offence have worked with either finals team?