An Olympic boxer who took home the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games was found dead in his home of apparent suicide.
Manager, Frank Maloney, went to 27-year-old Darren Sutherland’s home and found him hanging just after 3pm yesterday.  The discovery was so shocking that Maloney had to be rushed to the hospital after showing signs of shock and tests revealed that the man had had a heart attack.  He will remain in hospital for several days.

Sutherland represented Ireland at the Olympics and was defeated by Briton James DeGale in Beijing.  DeGale had the following to say about …read more

Here are my Olympic Boxing Semi-Final predictions for the middleweight and heavyweights. These bouts will take place on Friday the 22nd at 3:00 a.m. EST (middle) and 3:30 a.m. (heavy). We’ll analyze how I did on Saturday. (Jabandgrapple picks in bold)

Middleweight Semifinals
Darren Sutherland (IRL) vs. James Degale (GBR)
Sutherland likes to scrap and that makes him a jabandgrapple favorite. He throws punches, combination even! He boxes, he engages his opponent, he doesn’t dance and he works hard. These shouldn’t be unique qualities in a boxing tourney but these Olympic Games aren’t just any competition. In the quarters he beat the …read more