0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/5/2013
The most talked about issue in elite sport right now is head trauma. There’s no question. Sports the world over are struggling to deal with research that shows the dramatic long term effects of even minor brain injuries. In the US, American football and ice hockey have implemented rule changes to try and minimise concussions. […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/3/2013
Last week’s boxing schedule was like a thrift store painting: mediocre, boring, and unexceptional. This week is more like a thrift shop painting with monsters roaming in the background! So much more exciting — and you can buy your very own from artist Chris McMahon. The monsters this week are guys like junior welterweights Marcos […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/27/2013
If you guessed from the headline that there’s not much boxing on this week, you would be correct. The bleakness of the schedule is reflected by this post – such a dead week doesn’t warrant an amusing link. If you’re a diehard fan, this is one of those weeks in which you should take the […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/22/2013
Boxers whose names are more suitable for gunfighters and horse thieves Sonny Bill Williams, Dusty Hernandez Harrison, Carson Jones, Hank Lundy, Frankie Gavin Names suitable for British Prime Ministers Nigel Benn, Clarence Tillman, David Hamilton, Paul Butler Names suitable for philosophers and public intellectuals Schiller Hyppolite, Cornelius White, Phillip Schuster Names in which gender identification […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/21/2013
Gotta love Giovani Segura – not only is he an action hero, but he’s pushing the already stretched frontiers of sponsorship in boxing by emblazoning the name of a registration services company on his Julio Cesar Chavez style headband. Who knows what this week will bring in terms of advertising, but it’ll have some good […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/15/2013
Get excited, there are some good fights this week. There is also a ridiculously cool Game of Thrones poster at the top of this post, designed by Saul Bass and available for $40. We’d really like to see someone do something similar for some vintage fight posters – how cool would that be? Anyway – from […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/9/2013
“Boxing has a nostalgia problem. Any discussion about the fight game is really a discussion about the past and all arguments are really just variations on the barbershop scene in Coming to America.” With that big claim attached to a sexy Eddie Murphy reference, Jay Kaspian Kang has got me to thinking about something I’ve suspected […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/7/2013
Did you know that if you put all the McBain clips from "The Simpsons" together back to back, it makes a mini movie? Isn’t that the coolest thing you’ve heard all week? The video above is just a trailer; you can see the whole shebang here. As for the boxing – it’s a bit of a […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/2/2013
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Floyd Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero on Showtime pay-per-view May 4. Previously: putting Mayweather-Guerrero in context. Next: keys to the fight. Once again we find ourselves less than a week out from a big pay-per-view boxing match. Some things have changed – Floyd Mayweather, […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/28/2013
Martin Murray came close to ruining middleweight champion Sergio Martinez’s homecoming party in Buenos Aires on Saturday, but fell just short. In front of more than 40,000 singing, screaming Argentine fans, Murray put forward a workmanlike effort on HBO against a champion who seemed to be at a little less than his best. Martinez, who […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/24/2013
It’s a big week for split-site doubleheaders. Though that sounds like a type of pimple, it actually refers to fight broadcasts that are sourced from different locations. This week there’s one such card, on HBO, that draws from Buenos Aires and Los Angeles and another on Showtime from Brooklyn and Sheffield, England. Geographically, it’s a […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/19/2013
(photo credit: Stephanie Trapp, Showtime) It’s sad that the best fighting the best is rare enough an occurrence in modern boxing that it warrants special note. But it’s great that two such match-ups will occur within a week of one another on U.S. TV without the need for fans to shell out for a pay-per-view. […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/17/2013
If you like arguing on the Internet, then boxing is the sport for you! Just look at all the people finding ways to disagree about Guillermo Rigondeaux’s impressive victory over Nonito Donaire on Twitter. There are even more fights this week – good ones, too, featuring some of the world’s best boxers. That means there’ll […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/10/2013
Some week’s there’s quality, some week’s there’s quantity. This is definitely more of a quality week. There’s only one world class card and it’s on HBO, a battle between junior featherweights Nonito Donaire and Guillermo Rigondeaux. You’ll have to make do with Juan Diaz’s comeback and a couple of other, lesser events if you’re looking […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/9/2013
Hipster bashing is as hilarious as it is popular, so TQBR thought we'd get in on the act with our list of boxing's biggest hipsters. Never mind the fact that "hipster" style has become so mainstream so as to become meaningless — that just makes it easier. Don't go punching any of these guys […]
