tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19036543419745234622015-09-16T11:58:00.153-05:00This is just a blog where I post stuff about myself and others. Kelsey McCarsonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903654341974523462.post-3595465234684816722014-07-22T12:47:00.002-05:002014-07-22T12:47:31.044-05:00

So obviously I'm not going to keep up with this little blog like I thought I would! If you're looking for the stuff I write, you can find it below. http://www.thesweetscience.com/columnist?a=10013 http://bleacherreport.com/users/2333892-kelsey-mccarson/archives/newest?rel=nofollow Thanks for the support! Kelsey McCarson

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One day, when my father was a little boy, right around five or six years old, he and his cousin, Don, were scampering around the neighborhood looking for trouble. More often than not, these two would find exactly what they were looking for, and if not, they’d create it for themselves. As a boy, my dad lit his family’s house on fire, threw a pair of scissors into the back of his older sister and

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Ready for Sergey Kovalev vs. Cedric Agnew? I wrote lots of stuff about this weekend's fight. Why not do me a solid and have a look at it?  First, read about the Eastern European explosion in boxing. Next, read about how Kathy Duva and company discovered Kovalev.  Then, read about Main Events long road back to HBO.  (Honestly, I was really happy with those three pieces and they

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You're welcome.

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FIGURE STAKING RULES THE WORLD I was offered an opportunity to step outside the boxing world a bit to write about the upcoming Winter Olympics. I jumped at the opportunity. No one gets anywhere worth going by saying no to opportunities.  The first three assignments I got were figure skating. It has been interesting to play catch-up on the sport. Like most people, I only really pay attention

Kelsey McCarsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903654341974523462.post-43392416275471135912014-01-07T14:00:00.000-06:002014-01-07T14:00:16.073-06:00

SHOULD PACQUIAO FIGHT BRADLEY OR PROVODNIKOV NEXT? My latest at Bleacher Report dives into this topic. Here's a bit from there: While Provodnikov might offer a more scintillating showcase of two fighters with great offenses who absolutely love to fight, the truth of the matter is that he would fair quite poorly against Pacquiao on fight night. Despite the adage, one does not actually fight

The Boxing Stophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14464948834343878639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903654341974523462.post-47514152012991677322013-12-30T23:29:00.002-06:002014-01-07T22:27:33.992-06:00

FIGHTER OF THE YEAR? Here's video of Al Bernstein, Michael Woods, Marcos Villegas and I giving our picks for 2013 Fighter of the Year. http://www.boxingchannel.tv/who-is-the-best-fighter-of-2013-here-are-our-candidates-and-choices  I ramble on a bit. Deal with it. 

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Bleh. 

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Well, with Anderson Silva snapping his leg into two pieces on Saturday night, what's Roy Jones, Jr. to do?For some reason, Jones has his mind set on fighting a MMA fighter. I'm not sure if he wants to box one, compete by MMA rules against one or do some sort of hybrid match.  But he seems to have his mind made up. I'm never one to tell a fighter he should retire. A boxer has every right to fight

The Boxing Stophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14464948834343878639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903654341974523462.post-68754462101909490222013-12-28T21:55:00.001-06:002013-12-28T21:55:19.721-06:00

Here's a cool pic of Leo Santa Cruz Rachel took before his last fight. 

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Despite inroads made by rival Showtime this year, the folks over at HBO Boxing still consider themselves to be the leading television platform for the sport of boxing in the U.S...Read more over at TSS. http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles-frontpage/17790-is-hbo-still-top-us-television-platform 

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FLOYD MAYWEATHER, XMAS TROLL? Floyd Mayweather spent his holiday season being an internet troll. Can you imagine Ray Robinson doing something like that? Or Ray Leonard? Or Henry Armstrong? Or Joe Louis? Different times I guess... Anyways, Mayweather released this image on Dec. 25: Manny Pacquaio mixed with Freddie Roach. Meet my friend, Manny Roach pic.twitter.com/CCFAaeWza7 —

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ERISLANDY LARAI wanted to practice overlaying some audio over video so I dug up some old footage I captured from last year when I was invited to visit Erislandy Lara in camp.  The main output of that was this TSS special - Erislandy Lara Was Born To Fight. Anyways, here's some footage. Please note the punch sequence at the end is actually a double jab, left uppercut and overhand left. I

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MERRY CHRISTMAS! I wrote a letter to Santa Clause asking for various things boxing needs to move into the future. You can read it over at TSS. Another great read at TSS right now is from Michael Woods. Woodsy visited Magomed Abdusalamov and family in the hospital. It's a moving read about what happens after tragedy, something we should all probably think more about.The nature of tragedy is that

The Boxing Stophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14464948834343878639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903654341974523462.post-55168904264949918562013-12-24T22:08:00.001-06:002013-12-27T00:57:35.356-06:00

CHECK OUT BOXING CHANNEL STUFF I went over to Plex last week to chat with Danny Arnold, Ronnie Shields and their fighters as they prepare for 2014. Ronnie trains lots of solid pros there including Erislandy Lara, Jermell and Jermall Charlo and Brian Vera.  First, have a look at Plex Boxing with fitness guru Danny Arnold who trains world class athletes from all over the globe. I put in

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If you missed it, here's a great read from Michael Woods where he defends the sweet science from those who aim to see it abolished: Every day, at least one kid walks off a street of a slum, in America, and the world over, and comes under the spell of the ring and, hopefully, one or two role models who see themselves in that little boy lost. And a boy adrift and headed for the shoals of sorrow is

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