Tag: Mickey Ward

Micky Ward & Kevin McBride Named Honorary Captains in Boston dual

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (February 26, 2018) - One of boxing's most beloved boxer of all-time, "Irish" Micky Ward, and the Irishman best known for knocking out legendary Mike Tyson into retirement, Kevin "The Clones Colossus" McBride, have been selected as honorary team captains, respectively, of Team USA and Team Ireland for the first leg of the three-city 2018 USA vs. Ireland Northeast Boxing Tour. The tour commences Monday, March 12, at the newly renovated Royale Entertainment Complex in Boston's famed theater district. The Boston stop, which is being presented by Budweiser, have general admission tickets for $20.00 and a limited amount of $30.00 reserved tickets on sale and are available to purchase online here. Ward, 52, is the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts, where he is a living Read more [...]

Auturo Gatti-Mickey Ward, They Deserved Better By Bernie McCoy

The first fight was the best, probably the best of this generation. The return bout wasn't quite as great, it couldn't have been, there's never more than one Taj Mahal. The third fight was the least of the three, but will probably be better than 90% of the boxing matches we'll see in the next five years. When Arturo Gatti and Mickey Ward finished the last round of their ten round segment of thirty rounds of boxing on Saturday night in Atlantic City, they stopped punching for the first time in thirty minutes of ring savagery. They  then  stood in the middle of the ring, forehead to forehead and muttered words to each other that only they were privy to, words that, in a true sense,  only they should have been privy to. There was no prancing around the ring, no jumping on the ring ropes, Read more [...]