Based on our inclusion of Mike Tyson in the list of “Top Ten Dominant Athletes“, you can tell we’re big fans of the game Punch Out. The following video is a parody of the game involving two of our buddies from the 1990s: Michael Jackson and Macaulay Culkin. Culkin plays the role of Lil’ Mac, while Jacko is his opponent. Both the knockout and Michael’s morphing make the video worth watching.

After the May 5 fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. most people probably forgot that the sport of boxing even existed. It turns out, that’s probably for the best for some people involved in the sport. Just a few weeks after the Mayweather v. De La Hoya matchup, three time boxing champion James Toney fought Danny Batchelder in San Jose, CA. Now on the heels of that fight, it is being reported that both men tested positive for steroids.

Just when you thought boxing couldn’t possibly lose any more fans, I think they just did. It seems unfathomable that both men would ‘roid up before the fight, fully knowing that they would be tested, but it turns out that is exactly what they did. Toney, at 38, has probably seen his last fight. He has already tested positive for steroids before, a test that took away his victory over then heavyweight champion John Ruiz, and the result of this positive test is a year long suspension. That year off will surely end an impressive career, one that included 70 victories, and being heavyweight champion three times, however that career will forever be tainted by steroids.

So now the sport of boxing must sit back and figure out what to do. Clearly there is a steroid problem in boxing, as there is in almost every other major sport. What can boxing officials do about it though? Is a one year suspension enough? True the punishment is more than what every other sport hands down, but if the fighters just schedule a fight a year from now they can just train for that entire year before coming back for the fight. Regardless of what these boxers end up doing, this is a major hit for the sport.

You would think an eight-time boxing champion would have enough money to buy anything he wanted. But in the case of Hector “Macho” Camacho, it appears he’d rather steal things instead. Camacho was sentenced to seven years in prison for burglary but, as is the case with celebrities, can reduce his sentence to one year of house arrest.

Camacho had bought a laptop from the business but left it there for work on technical problems. He was trying to retrieve his computer and was “crazy” on tequila, he said, when he crawled through the ceiling of office space he shares with the computer company.

Wayne Woodall, the store owners’ attorney, claims Camacho fell through the ceiling and left with seven laptops and about $5,600 in checks and cash.

I suppose you can’t blame Camacho. After all, after taking a few shots, I’m always down to break through ceilings and steal shit. Macho Camacho may be a boxing great but he’s a true dumbass. Along with this thieving case, he’s set to go to trial for drug possession after ten Ecstasy pills were found in his hotel room. The thought of a boxer falling through a ceiling to steal computers is simply mind-boggling.

It’s up to Puerto Rico to save Camacho’s ass. If they decide to monitor him, all he’ll serve is a year of house arrest and two years of probation. That’s a small slap on the wrist for a guy that was arrested at the age of 16 for auto theft. Maybe he’ll just steal the Puerto Rican judge’s gavel so he can avoid punishment altogether.

10. Albert Haynesworth. The first entry in the Cheap Shot Hall of Shame goes to Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, who stomped on the face of a Dallas Cowboys player. Sometime during the play, Andre Gurode lost his helmet and paid the price.

9. Craig Bellamy. Much like a later entry on this list, Bellamy’s attack wasn’t directed towards an opponent but a teammate. Following a night on the town, a drunken Bellamy raged into teammate John Arne Riise’s room and attacked his legs with a golf club. The following week, he parodied the incident while celebrating a goal.

8. Zinedine Zidane. This could also qualify for one of the most badass send-offs in sports history. Zidane, an all-time great, was given a red card in the final of the 2006 World Cup. In the final match of his career, Zidane gave the entire world something to talk about.

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First it was George Foreman claiming that he was drugged when he faced Muhammad Ali. Now it is Antonio Tarver who is speculating that perhaps he was drugged when he faced Bernard Hopkins last June. It seems very convenient and easy to blame a loss on being drugged up.

True, these two fighters were clearly not at 100% when they fought these bouts. They seemed to be moving a bit slower, but perhaps that’s from a lack of preparation, or maybe even over working themselves before the fight. I’m not saying that they couldn’t be drugged, but it just seems like a conveneint time to come up with this excuse, for the both of them. Foreman is coming out with a new book, and while he says the story was told in Sports Illustrated back in the day, it doesn’t hurt to get some publicity when a new book is being released. As for Tarver, he is scheduled to fight a week from tomorrow and it can’t hurt to get even more publicity for that fight.

These two guys are great fighters, and I want to believe what they say. But at the same time, they, and their managers, should be very careful about what comes around them before the fight. They need to know exactly what is entering their bodies, it really isn’t that hard to find a sealed bottle of water. Maybe backstabbing is too commonplace in boxing, but there has to be a way to avoid this.

In a noble effort to sell books and get his fat ass in the news, former heavyweight champion George Foreman decided to create some nice lies. In his fictional novel new autobiography entitled God in my Corner, Foreman claimed that he was drugged during the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” fight with Muhammad Ali, one of the most famous sporting events in history.

“I almost spit it out … [I told my trainer] ‘Man, I know this water has medicine in it,’” Foreman wrote. “I climbed into the ring with that medicinal taste still lingering in my mouth.”

“After the third round, I was as tired as if I had fought 15 rounds. What’s going on here? Did someone slip a drug in my water?” he wrote.

There’s a couple hunches I have about this famous fight and none of them involves Foreman being date raped by his trainer. Considering this fight took place 33 years ago, why is this the first time that Foreman has come out with this information? I’m sure it doesn’t coincide with his new book release, I’m sure his motivation behind all this isn’t to sell books but tell the truth. Nice lie George. Go grill a chicken breast and drink the grease from the drip tray.

Foreman was exhausted because he was done in by the best ring strategist in history. Ali must have recognized Foreman’s lack of stamina at some point in the match, which gave him the opening to use the “rope-a-dope” strategy that had Big George gassed by round eight. Ali was ready for the humid climate in Zaire, Foreman clearly wasn’t. So now he’s making excuses.

The sad thing about all this is the timing. Everyone but Foreman thinks he was beat cleanly by Ali in 1974. Unfortunately, Ali can’t defend himself because of the advanced stages of Parkinson’s Disease he’s suffering through. It would have been great to hear what sort of response “The Greatest” could fire back at Foreman. Maybe Foreman’s old trainer will make a statement about this nonsense.