On different fight paths
Tastray after having to withdraw from hisufcbout next week due to injury (Fight Club, page 39).
Hunt is no spring chicken and his battles in and out of the octagon have been well documented in this newspaper. Hedoesn’t have the luxury of Parker, there can be no measured build-up – the clock is ticking on his fight career. The impact he has made over the last fewufcfights and fans he has won – Hunt has over 12,000 Twitter followers – is crucial for his final push to the top echelons of the sport and bigger paydays. The cruel fact is that in the fight gamemomentumis crucial and Hunt will rue an opportunity lost.
To characterise Shane Cameron’s defeat to David Tua as an opportunity lost is like saying Mike Tyson only nibbled on Evander Holyfield’s ear.
The impact of the demolition on the Kiwi boxer stopped his fight career in its tracks and left mental scars that have taken a long time to heal. As Cameron himself says in our page 32 feature: ‘‘I hate it. I hate it every day. I’m always hindered by the David fight.’’
Three fighters, a trio of contrasting stories.
For the past year or so Sunday News has covered the stories in and out of the ring – and the octagon – particularly in our Fight Club page.
Brutal sports but withhuman tragedy and triumph that make for a compelling read.
Cameronsummedup the fine line the fighters tread in his interview, ‘‘One punch can change a whole fight, your whole career.’’
From this week readers can look forward to even more compelling stories in this newspaper, with our sports section increasing from 28 to 32 pages. Wewill continue to cover favourites such as league, rugby, football, motorsport and netball as well as Fight Club and extreme sport. The extra pages meanwecan devote more space to this year’s London Olympic Games and the pro sports in theus with our Stateside page.
With thenbaandnhlplayoffs underway and early season Major League Baseball providing plenty of interest – not to mention thenfl pre-season not far off – it’s the perfect time to showcase more sportswelove to follow. Motorsport: Nascar Sprint All-star Race Today 11am, Sky Sport 2 For a taste of true Americana, tune in to see the Nascar Sprint All-star Race live from the Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. There’s huge prize money up for grabs, so be prepared to see drivers going hard-out in pursuit of glory. Netball: Trans-tasman series Today 2pm, Sky Sport 1 The furious action of the ANZ Championship rumbles on in Melbourne, as the hometown Vixens take on the Northern Mystics at Hisense Arena, live on Sky Sport. Rugby: Super Rugby Today 6.30pm, Sky Sport 1 Watch as the sides from Australian rugby union’s backwaters battle it out for supremacy in this Super Rugby clash live from NIB Stadium in Perth. Will it be Stirling Mortlock’s Melbourne Rebels or Nathan Sharpe’s Western Force who will triumph? Tune in to find out.