0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 1/29/2020
I’m on vacation this week which means my brain is too, so today we’re going to do something so pointless it’ll make my usual rambling parade of unfocused dipshittery look like Voltaire on an Adderall bender. First off, let’s get this out of the way right off the hop: I know nothing about contemporary professional […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 1/27/2020
Well, we can’t say he didn’t warn us. After a tough decision loss to Julian Williams last May, Jarret Hurd made sweeping changes to his life, both personal and professional. He moved out of his parents’ house, cut off his signature blonde hair, and hired trainer Kay Koroma, professing a desire to get hit less […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 1/12/2020
In boxing, we’re so concerned with who’s moving up and who’s falling down that we forget most fights, and fighters, exist in the laterally flowing currents of the soft, mushy middle. Try as they might, the powers that be can’t make every fight a pay per view. Outliers can’t exist without a median. So much […]
Adrien Broner (left) is hit by Marcos Maidana during their WBA Welterweight fight part of the “Danger Zone” boxing card Saturday Dec. 14, 2013 at the Alamodome. Maidana won by unanimous decision.
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 1/2/2020
If there’s one overarching sentiment that comprehensively sums up the 2010s it would be spite. Everyone is mad at someone, the planet has taken its rightful revenge on its inhabitants, and there’s a genuine shitposter in the White House. Why bother rooting for something when you can root against everything? And look, I get it. […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 12/27/2019
If you saw it in a movie you wouldn’t believe it. A fight with a backstory so romantically improbable that any attempt to regale a non-observer with it would immediately be met with accusations of exaggeration. Hell, I myself can no longer tell where my real memory of this wondrous night in Saitama, Japan ends […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 12/22/2019
“He earned it. I hate it, but he earned it.” That was a dejected Tony Harrison after his 11th round TKO loss to Jermell Charlo on Saturday night, and despite being the exact thing the judge told my ex upon granting me full custody of our Super Nintendo, this wasn’t Harrison so much squashing a […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 12/8/2019
Historically, the only way to tell twins apart was through a complicated series of funhouse mirrors and a 40-part questionnaire designed by ex-Navy SEALs. Lucky for us, the Charlo brothers — Jermell and Jermall — have a more streamlined identification process. Jermell is the boxer and Jermall is the puncher. Jermell will take you deep […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 11/13/2019
Liking stuff is hard. Even if you didn’t grow up on a steady diet of punk rock and decentralized anarchist propaganda like I did, the human brain’s capacity to enjoy things is finite. One pancake is good. Two are better. Ten is suicide. And so it goes. The more things there are, the more opportunities […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 11/7/2019
People tend to forget that Rocky loses in the end. Though filmed as a moment of triumph, when Sylvester Stallone’s eponymous dipshit is monosyllabically shrieking the name of his sort-of girlfriend, the ring announcer can very clearly be heard declaring Apollo Creed the winner via split decision. Now, “Rocky” is obviously just a single entry […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 10/16/2019
You have some thoughts. You can no longer be alone with them. They involve boxing, so all of your loved ones abandoned you years ago. What to do? Well, you could go out and make some new friends. Haha, just kidding! You’re going to die alone in your parents’ basement, just how god intended. Ha, […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 10/6/2019
Just because the ball dropped doesn’t mean the party’s over. And let’s be clear, the party most definitely rages on for middleweight star Gennadiy Golovkin, but it’s the part of the night where the soundtrack is a skipping Bongzilla record and all that’s left to drink is peach flavored Boone’s Farm with a garnish of […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 9/29/2019
Scoring a Shawn Porter fight is a thankless job. Over the course of his career, Porter (30-3-1, 17 KO) has developed an in-ring style seemingly meant to scramble the brains of anyone tasked with judging his performance. His mauling, face-first approach can appear as high-octane button-mashing until you glance down at your scorecard and realize […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 9/18/2019
You do the crime, you do the time. That’s the law of personal accountability on the streets, and in boxing, it’s no different. Ok, it’s somewhat different. You piss hot, you miss your shot. Or something. This is the situation that Brooklyn based heavyweight Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller (23-0-1, 20 KO) found himself in April […]
September 13, 2019; New York, NY, USA; Devin Haney and Zaur Abdullaev during their bout at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Boxing USA
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 9/14/2019
Achievement Unlocked: Contender Status Acquired Welp, make it a hat trick for Devin Haney in 2019. Three fights, three impressive beatdowns. After a one-sided shutout decision over outgunned Xolisani Ndongeni in January and a Knockout of the Year contender over rugged Antonio Moran in May, Haney (23-0, 15 KOs) put the finishing touches on his […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 8/25/2019
In the end, Anthony Yarde got his moral victory while Sergey Kovalev took home the actual one. Ok, so what angle should we take here? There’s a lot to unpack so how should we approach this? Professionally? Anthony Yarde put forth a valiant effort but ultimately a lack of proper preparation saw him fall short […]
