This Week in No Mas

2/11
No Mas Birthday Grab-Bag
A crazy list of Birthdarians, Eddie Shack, Ginger, and the Wizard of Menlo Park included.

2/12
K.O.W. - The Razor Smash
Our No Mas Knockout of the Week goes back to Razor Ruddock's destruction of Michael Dynamite Dokes back in 1991. Three Razor Smashes, each uglier than the last.

Sugar Alone
Large ponders the fate of Sugar Shane Mosley after his impressive performance last Saturday against Luis Collazo. "Certainly this fight gives us one reference point among elite boxers right now - Ricky Hatton is not in Sugar Shane's league... Collazo ruined Hatton's whole plan for conquering America, and meanwhile for Mosley he provided little more than a respectable chess problem, one that Shane solved in about three rounds."

2/13
Rats
The anniversary of the appearance of the very last Peanuts comic strip, which tragically ran the morning after the death of Charles Schulz.

The Cuban Hawk
A remembrance of Cuban legend Kid Gavilan four years to the day after his death. "The flashy Cuban welterweight is probably best known for three things - 1. Beating Ike Williams twice, 2. A great 15-round loss to sugar Ray Robinson in 1949, and 3. The invention of the "bolo" punch, a mixture of hook and uppercut that he said was the product of years spent cutting sugar cane with a machete in Cuba."

2/14
Torvill and Dean Are For Lovers
A straight-up lovefest. Large, a closet figure skating fanatic, takes us back to Valentine's Day 1984, and the most beautiful pairs long program he's ever seen before or since. Hug it out.

Tyson and Givens Are Not For Lovers
Valentine's Day, 1989 - Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Iron Mike. "It was a full-on war, Lady MacBeth and Kid Dynamite, and after a legendary tussle, the Baddest Man on the Planet damn near came out in a bodybag."

Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta were not lovers
Nothing says "I don't love you" like the Valentine's Day Massacre. "Sugar Ray is merciless once he smells blood, whipping those jack-knife bolos off LaMotta's defenseless head three and four at a time. The beginning of the end occurs with a vicious flurry about two minutes into the eleventh. In the space of ten seconds, the bull goes from hunter to hunted, and the matador reaches for the sword."

2/15
Sharpshootin' with the Franchise
Franchise is all over the debut of Elite XC on Showtime (he personally calls out Krazy Horse Bennett to a fight - anywhere, anytime). He's also hot for Gina Carano, throws some love to Bruno Sammartino, and takes us back to another Valentine's Day Massacre - Stone Cold and Vince McMahon, 2/14/99.

Being and Nothingness
Large is unenthused, to put it mildly, about the upcoming Bernard/Winky showdown in July. Quite a debate ensues in the comments, one that Large is having a hard time convincing himself that he won.

2/16
B.A.D. Indeed
A breakdown of this Saturday's Boxing After Dark card, which features three fights that all have definite appeal and consequence, including the return of the Magic Man, Paulie Malignaggi. "Count me among the many who went into the Malignaggi/Cotto fight wanting to see Paulie Walnuts get sand-blasted, and then after it happened (and oh, did it happen), found myself a newly converted fan of the Magic Man. He took one hell of a beating, and he took it like a man, a very VERY tough man."