NO HOLDS BARRED

SecondsOut Radio with Eddie Goldman

On this week's edition of SecondsOut Radio, host Eddie Goldman begins by commenting on yet another woeful heavyweight title fight, this past Saturday's 11th-round knockout by IBF-WBO champ Wladimir Klitschko over Tony Thompson in Hamburg, Germany, and the state of the heavyweight division.

The subject of the actions and inactions of ringside physicians once again came to the fore during the June 28 Humberto Soto-Francisco Lorenzo 130-pound title fight, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. After Lorenzo had been knocked down in the fourth round and then took a knee after a barrage of punches by Soto, he was struck in the back of the head, while still down, by Soto. The fight was over, but the ringside officials took several minutes to discuss the impact of that foul by Soto, and to decide whether to award a TKO victory to Soto or to disqualify him for the foul. While all this was going on, Lorenzo was lying on the canvas, bleeding and hurt, by legal and/or illegal blows.

Dr. Margaret Goodman, a neurologist and former chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, is a long-time fighter for the health and safety of boxers. Now, she is speaking out in criticism of the failures of the ringside physicians in the Soto-Lorenzo fight, as well as in the July 5 Kendall Holt-Ricardo Torres fight, also held in Las Vegas. In the latter fight, Holt was knocked down twice in the early seconds of the first round, but rallied to knock Torres out cold, all in just 61 seconds.

Dr. Goodman has also written an article entitled "A Barely Noticed Death" for an upcoming edition of The Ring. This piece focuses on the death on March 19 of this year of journeyman boxer Rafael Ortiz, who had last fought March 8 in the state of Washington, and the disgracefully inadequate prefight and postfight medical examinations he received.

This week we spoke at length with Dr. Margaret Goodman about these medical failures, and what we can do to fight for fighter safety.

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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, Francisco Lorenzo, Humberto Soto, Kendall Holt, Margaret Goodman, Nevada Athletic Commission, Rafael Ortiz, Ricardo Torres, SecondsOut Radio

SecondsOut Radio with Eddie Goldman

On this week's edition of SecondsOut Radio, host Eddie Goldman begins by commenting on this past Saturday's fights between Manny Pacquiao and David Diaz, Humberto Soto and Francisco Lorenzo, and Monte Barrett and Tye Fields, including the controversy in the Soto-Lorenzo fight, which ended with Soto being disqualified for a foul.

In our main interview, we speak with the award-winning boxing writer and author, Thomas Hauser of SecondsOut.com.

Recently he wrote a lengthy and sharp critique called "HBO: 2008", which called into question the direction being taken by HBO, the most important television network in boxing.

That article has been widely discussed, and we continue that discussion, both about HBO and the state and future of boxing, on our show this week.

It is free to listen to SecondsOut Radio, but you must register to gain access to it. Just click here, and listen, learn, and enjoy.

Labels: boxing, David Diaz, Eddie Goldman, Francisco Lorenzo, HBO Showtime, Humberto Soto, Manny Pacquiao, Monte Barrett, pay-per-view, SecondsOut Radio, Thomas Hauser, Tye Fields

NO HOLDS BARRED on PodOmatic

On this edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman offers a preview of what many consider to be a potential fight of the year candidate.

This coming Saturday, Nov. 17, the undefeated WBO junior lightweight champion Joan Guzman (27-0, 17 KOs) takes on the hard-hitting Humberto Soto (43-5-2, 27 KOs) at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, N.J. This fight will be shown live in the U.S. on HBO's Boxing After Dark after the replay of last week's memorable battle between Miguel Cotto and Shane Mosley.

The crafty Guzman has been inactive for almost a year because of an injury to his left hand, while Soto has stopped every opponent he has faced in the last two years. Despite acclaimed boxing skills, both men have languished outside of the main spotlight of boxing, reserved for fighters with more well-known names who have received bigger pushes from their promoters and networks. Now it is time for either Guzman or Soto to try to advance to that next level of notoriety in this HBO main event.

We spoke with both Joan Guzman and Humberto Soto at a New York prefight news conference Wednesday to let them each state his case why he thinks he will win this crucial fight.

Later that evening, I was once again a guest on the nationally-syndicated "Joey Reynolds Show".

We play the segment where Joey and I discuss boxing. We discussed the Cotto-Mosley fight, as well as criticisms of the media seating at that fight where many long-time members of the media were relegated to faraway auxiliary seats or left to watch the fight on a TV in the media room, while ringside seats in the media section were given to fans who were obviously not journalists of any sort. Expect to hear more about this controversy, hopefully soon.

The "Joey Reynolds Show" is a national radio broadcast in New York on WOR 710 AM and on 100 other stations via the WOR Network. The show airs live beginning at midnight EST and runs to 5 AM EST.

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