0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/29/2014
It was Australia Day on the weekend, so it’s fitting that there are a lot of Australian boxers fighting this week. Above is a member of our federal parliament skolling a can of beer upside down at an Australia day party, so yeah, beat that. It’s a quantity, rather than quality kind of week, but […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/22/2014
(via) Muhammad Ali turned 72 last week, so take that hilarious Jerry Quarry impersonation as belated happy birthday from TQBR, champ. I found the vid on Reddit’s r/boxing page, which (as I’ve said before) is definitely worth a visit if you’re interested in random and/or funny boxing stuff. This week is the first truly packed […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/15/2014
I don't know which boffin at HBO/K2 Promotions had the bright idea of taking middleweight wrecking machine Gennady Golovkin to the Golden Globes, but whoever it was is a genius. Not only was GGG snapped with Lloyd from Entourage (why not?), he also got cheeky pics with Matt Damon, Michael Douglas and Tom Hanks. The […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/7/2014
(via r/boxing) What can you say about a schedule this meagre? Not much, so I won’t. Take a look at those lovely ladies punching each other in the face up there. More of that, I say. There was meant to be more going on, but Afghani-Canadian junior lightweight whirlwind Arash Usmanee confirmed his status as […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 12/31/2013
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OfWcrjFg3cY?list=UUSAKHhhVMjKZxApVg5nfuYw Happy New Year, everybody — boxing is back. But before we get ahead of ourselves, why not check out Gorilla Productions’ retrospective of 2013. It really was an amazing year. Some of the fights that hold the most promise this week are actually still in 2013. I think the Japanese have mixed up New […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 12/20/2013
Tim Bradley started 2013 as a pariah. He emerges from it triumphant. The Queensberry Rules’ Fighter of the Year beat out Floyd Mayweather for the honour, the biggest attraction and best boxer in the sport, and a tier of men who made their names in 2013: Danny Garcia, Guillermo Rigondeaux and Adonis Stevenson. And he did […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 12/18/2013
Merry Christmas, boxing fans. Unfortunately I do not have a glittering weekly schedule to put under your tree. Instead, I have a bunch of once respected icons brawling in the gutter (metaphorically, of course). It’s not a packed week and there’s not much analysis to be done, so consider this whole column like you would […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 12/11/2013
Who knew that Disney movies had such badass characters? Maybe they could make an animated movie about Marcos Maidana. It could be called “The Ballad Of El Chino.” I’d watch, but I guess it might scare the children. Apart from The Ballad Of El Chino (AKA his welterweight fight with Adrien Broner), there’s a fair […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 12/3/2013
Your humble correspondent is in Vietnam, a country better known for its crazy scooter-riding than its boxing. The Vietnamese’s sole claim to pugilistic fame is tough-as-nails featherweight Dat Nguyen. Being called Dat Nguyen in Vietnam is a bit like being called John Smith in America, but it lends itself to many more jokes along the […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/27/2013
Has the sport of boxing shrunk? It always seem like it the week after a big pay-per-view. You don’t have to go cold turkey, though, because there’s at least a bit of quality headpunching on. Macau makes way for Montreal on HBO, with a light heavyweight-centric card headlined by that division’s champion, Adonis Stevenson. As […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/24/2013
(Zou Shiming, via Top Rank) MACAU — These are the results for the four main undercard fights to support the main event of Manny Pacquiao Vs. Brandon Rios: In the final supporting bout, featherweight Billy Dib just couldn’t turn around the dynamic that saw him lose his belt to Evgeny Gradovich in March, and lost […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/23/2013
(Manny Pacquiao makes weight; photo courtesy Top Rank) MACAU — Today’s early morning weigh-in at The Venetian went by largely without a hitch, with Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios both in fighting shape and under the welterweight limit. Pacquaio came in at a muscular 145 lbs, while Rios was a slightly softer 146.5 lbs. The […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/22/2013
(*Garcia chuckle*) MACAU — Greetings again from paradise the novelty size chandelier capital of the world. I heard you like notes, so I put some more notes in your notes. The main action today was a pair of roundtables with trainers Freddie Roach and Robert Garcia. Roach is a media tart (and I mean that […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Manny Pacquiao vs. Brandon Rios on HBO pay-per-view on Nov. 23. Previously: a special edition of TQBR Radio; what’s at stake; the undercard, previewed; the camp fight, broken down; notes from Macau; keys to the fight. Next: a final preview and prediction. Brandon Rios knows how to have a […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/21/2013
(That’s not a footprint on Freddie Roach’s chest, in case you were wondering) MACAU — So it turns out that Macau is actually a pretty strange place to hold a big boxing event. Having never been here before, I had it in my head that it was some kind of Bizarro-Asian-Vegas. But the comparison only […]
