About

Joe Nixon has is a freelance writer in based in the Los Angeles area. Currently working with several websites including thefightcountdown, PlayerPress.com and Latin Boxing Magazine. For the past several years he has been covering the West Coast fight sceen with Latin Boxing and has interviewed several current and former boxing champions and attended several major title fights in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In addition he has written freelance for a number of journals and magazines. Most recently for The International Herald Tribune/Daily News Egypt in Cairo, Before that for JO Magazine, the largest English magazine in Jordan where he wrote on the Jordanian Olympic team. He is a former Amateur boxer and worked for the Western Baseball League Long Beach Breakers. He is also an accomplished world traveler having visited 5 continents and has been published on three. He maintains a healthy interest in a wide range of sports hopes to bring coverage of a lot of new sports to Bleacher Report: Japanese Baseball, Soccer, World Baseball Classic, The New United Football League, and Horse Racing.

Major Sports (Mis)Accomplishments
* Ran in the 2007 Adidas 5k in Iquique, Chile and won the Fastest Foreigner Category
* Played Flag Football with former NFL Europe Quarterback, Neo Aoga though he threw far
to hard for me to catch a pass
* Wrote a letter to Cooperstown Suggesting that Sadaharu Oh should be admitted into the Hall of Fame because of his 868 Homeruns and managing accomplishments.
* Sandboarding in the Egypt and Peru

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Manny Pacquiao who It was an honor to actually meet and interview, Other Boxers: Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Battling Siki, Archie Moore, Mike Tyson, Felix Trinidad Baseball Players: Sandy Kofaux, Roberto Clemente, Jackie Robinson, Josh Gibson, Sadaharu Oh, Gridiron Football: Brett Favre, Jim Brown, Bo Jackson, Doug Flutie....Racehorse: Secratariat(1973), Cigar(1996), and Black Gold(1927), Bull Fighters: Manolote Football: the Legend Paulino Alcantara and whoever else scores a goal for FC Barçelona

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    FC Barçelona(supporter), Los Angeles Dodgers, Chunichi Dragons(Japanese Baseball team), Green Bay Packers, Montreal Expos, Barcelona Dragons and a lot of other defunct teams, Scottish Rugby team, l'USAP (Le rugby catalan à Perpignan) Futbol: Celtic F.C , CF Pachuca, Seattle Sounders, Los Angeles Sol, Los Angeles Galaxy, Brazil is beautiful to watch, Senegal, Cameroon, I have seen Haiti play, and ofcourse SCOTLAND!!!

  • Favorite Coaches

    Tommy Lasorda

  • All-Time Sports Moment

    Kirk Gibson's Homerun?

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Boston Red Sox at the Coliseum largest crowd to ever see a baseball game or perhaps the Barçelona vs. Guadlajara at the Coliseum was the largest attendence for a Club Soccer game in the U.S. Other than that I would rate a game I saw between the Long Beach Ice Dogs and the Japanese National Hockey Team that saw Long Beach rally three goals in the finaly period and then win in overtime.

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Secratariat's numbers in winning the Triple Crown MLB: Single Season Triple's Record and Cy Young's Records

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Josh Gibson ?

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Joe Montana

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    The Great One

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele was better but Maradona was a more important cultural figure

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Andy Murray is the future! Go Scotland!

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger even if ne never wins another major

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  • Joe Cook posted 677 days ago

    Joe Cook

    hi joe, im joe cook/president of cambodia baseball federation. i loves reading your article, totally true and powerful. hope to hear from you. thx u, joe cook

  • neil williams posted 1117 days ago

    neil williams

    Joe where did you get your info on Graham smith,he lives in cyprus and retired frm football after leaving tamworth.

  • King J posted 1271 days ago

    King J

    Lets take the boxing community to the next level shall we?
    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/297328-meet-your-boxing-community-leader-king-j

  • Nikmah Hudson posted 1307 days ago

    Nikmah Hudson

    Hello Joe,
    Nice..like your articles..very talented! :D just wanna tell you..I am here.. *waves*

  • Huwebes Fernandez posted 1487 days ago

    Huwebes Fernandez

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/161583-devil-pacquiao-awakening-the-dark-side-of-the-pacman

    My newest, yet deep and dark article.

    Enjoy! ^^
    Huwebes Fernandez

  • Huwebes Fernandez posted 1490 days ago

    Huwebes Fernandez

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/159853-fearless-huwebes-anderson-silva-must-bow-down-to-the-real-king-of-war

    see my latest article on how aderson silva of UFC should learn how to be a better king of his sport.

    Critical comments and analysis will be gladly accepted. ^^

    Thanks in advance
    Huwebes Fernandez!

  • Huwebes Fernandez posted 1493 days ago

    Huwebes Fernandez

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/158565-exclusive-pacfans-report-on-global-supremacy-filipinos-invades-the-world

    check out my latest article...an exclusive slideshow about the event called global supremacy... hope to hear from your critical analysis... thanks and good day to you all... hope you leave a comment.. thanks.. :)

  • Huwebes Fernandez posted 1497 days ago

    Huwebes Fernandez

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/155953-edwin-valero-the-explosive-seorita-from-venezuela

    My latest article about the most vicious knock out artist in boxing today!

    Hope you can give me some critical comments.

    Have a nice day! :)

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