If www.jabandgrapple.com were just a boxing blog then I wouldn’t post the following two clips out of respect for the sweet science. Because even though they were technically boxing the celebrity boxing spectacle of steroid-using snitch Jose Canseco vs. former Philadelphia Eagle kick returner Vai Sikahema was more of a pro wrestling-type spectacle than a Blue Horizon event.
As you might have read, Sikahema felled Canseco early in the first round of their Saturday Atlantic City fight which was dubbed The War at the Shore. Canseco looked out of place and clearly didn’t expect his opponent to be an iron-fisted whirling …read more

When the day’s boxing news consists of Jose Canseco and Mike Tyson it only confirms that the sensational matters more than the substantial. At least there is a Wednesday Night Fights on tonight. What’s that you say? There are no fights tonight? They’re being pre-empted by baseball and the NBA playoffs? Ughh.
Nonetheless, since Jodie at b5’s Gossip on Sports mentioned Iron Mike we are b5’s official boxing blog must say something as well despite the fact that Mike’s more gossip than boxing at this point anyhow.
I’ve always loved Mike Tyson. When his name comes up in a bar conversation …read more

Last week the deeply in debt and still 6′4″ 245lb. Jose Canseco issued a $5K boxing challenge to the general public. Headline the July 12 Atlantic City card presumably stocked with duking-it-out D-listers and the moolah is yours. Thankfully, a former athlete stepped up the the plate and we won’t have to see Jose pummeled by Vinnie from south Philly.
That athlete is none other than former Eagle punt return and special teams wizard Vai Sikahema. Sikahema is currently employed at sports director at Philadelphia’s NBC affiliate WCAU. Vai is no stranger to the celebrity boxing circuit. In January of …read more