0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/3/2014
When Russian lightweight Petr Petrov was interviewed in Spanish on an American English-language TV channel, my head exploded. But once I put it back together, I realised just how global this sport of ours is. It makes sense, then, that we tend to put fighters from different parts of the world into different categories. It […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/2/2014
There is no boxer in the world today with a CV as good as Carl Froch’s that gets so little respect. Could that have something to do with his smug, punchable face? I think so, but maybe I’m biased. In the wake of Froch’s definitive KO win over George Groves in their super middleweight rematch […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/27/2014
(photo via r/boxing) Like this picture of David Haye, Darren Barker and Matthew Macklin as horny adolescents standing next to (presumably) the first girl they’d ever seen, there’s so much boxing on this weekend, I don’t know where to look. The biggest fight of the week is the rematch between super middleweights Carl Froch and […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/26/2014
At some point in the history of boxing, someone decided that it was compulsory for every fighter to have a nickname. And since that point, the sport has been plagued by awful nicknames. Rather than being something you have to earn, nicknames are something your manager thinks of before your first fight. For every Juan […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/19/2014
Another week, another schedule, another picture of animals fighting. But don’t worry, it’s not just animals, there are humans fighting this week too. There are the “Boxcino” tournament finals on ESPN and light heavyweight champ Adonis Stevenson (booo!) is fighting on HBO. There’s also the premier of an HBO “2 Days” documentary about “The Siberian […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/17/2014
Boxing’s return to fabled Los Angeles venue the Inglewood Forum proved a massive success on Saturday night, with Juan Manuel Marquez turning in a completely typical performance in an action-packed decision win over Mike Alvarado on HBO. When I say “completely typical,” that’s no rub on Marquez. This welterweight fight had everything that makes Marquez […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/16/2014
Delvin Rodriguez looked like a dog’s breakfast on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights, but he did deserve to beat Joachim Alcine. Instead, he got one of those special Montreal-flavoured draws. It wasn’t a particularly high level junior middleweight fight and it wasn’t all that enjoyable, but that doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t have been fair scoring. […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/13/2014
Yes, it’s feared Argentine badass Lucas Matthysse playing the ukulele (via friend of the site
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/6/2014
There’s not much boxing on this week, so it’s possible that you’ll be reduced to watching praying mantises fight. That’s okay, though, they do look pretty cool with their dukes up. There are really only two fights of significance this week, with junior flyweight #2 contender Kazuto Ioka moving up to flyweight to face Amnat […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/2/2014
Never forget where you came from, not even if you’re making millions of dollars from a pay-per-view. Just a piece of advice, totally unrelated to this post’s featured image of young Marcos Maidana. Anyway — you’re generally not a big boxing guy but have heard a bit about Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana and […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/1/2014
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest bouts of 2014, Floyd Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana, on May 3 on Showtime Pay-Per-View. Previously: the basics of Mayweather-Maidana; TQBR Radio on Mayweather-Maidana; the undercard, previewed; keys to the fight. Next: preview and prediction. Floyd Mayweather’s latest opponent is so well known that everyone knows how to spell his name. […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/29/2014
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest bouts of 2014, Floyd Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana, on May 3 on Showtime Pay-Per-View. Previously: the basics of Mayweather-Maidana; TQBR Radio on Mayweather-Maidana. Next: keys to the fight. Damn son, that koala looks as high as a Mayweather Promotions fighter. Is that a low blow? I’m […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/27/2014
Abner Mares leads this edition of Quick Jabs with his supposedly
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/26/2014
At their worst, heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s fights can seem less like contest and more like a macabre, repetitive mechanical process. Jab, jab, right hand, step off, stiff-arm, jab, jab, right hand, rinse and repeat. It still might not have been sporting, but freed from the need to worry about being punched back by the hopelessly […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/23/2014
The Queensberry Rules does not endorse street violence… unless of course it involves lightsabers, in which case, go for it. In this edition of the schedule, there’s lots to cover. A predictable heavyweight title fight, predictable fights on Showtime and some more rewarding fare. Let’s just get straight into the schedule-ising. Keith Thurman vs. Julio […]
