0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/22/2011
What a purty boxing-themed hockey goalie helmet. Or, at least, half of one. The other half has Sideshow Bob. Via. While the hockey playoffs will inevitably lead to much fisticuffs, here are some events in the works where fighting is the only idea. It’s been a couple weeks since we did this, so we’ll break […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/21/2011
Prior to Wednesday, one could be forgiven for doubting that the most anticipated fight in the heavyweight division — champion Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye — was really going to happen. Sure, they’d signed some contracts, but they didn’t have a location or a television deal, and such details had killed the fight over the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/20/2011
When Roberto Ramirez jumped between Juan Manuel Lopez and Orlando Salido on Saturday night, many thought he was waving off featherweight’s time as one of the sport’s top divisions. It certainly looks like Bob Arum let JuanMa-Yuriorkis Gamboa go off, after marinating in the fridge for too long. But there’s good news, if you’re optimistically […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/19/2011
A rip-roaring April of big-time boxing effectively concludes on Saturday with what began the month as the one event you would not have wanted to miss: The final two bouts of Showtime’s bantamweight tourney. Yet, now, after three consecutive weeks of Fight of the Year candidates, unbelievable upsets and more drama than a teenage girl […]
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There’s your 6th round of Victor Ortiz vs. Andre Berto, if you weren’t up on it yet. Maybe if Berto doesn’t flail so recklessly after dropping Ortiz, it doesn’t end up being such a great round, because one of the things that made it special is that Ortiz scored his own knockdown while still on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/17/2011
The surprises keep coming in boxing, and they simply won’t let up. Saturday’s upsets weren’t as dramatic as last weekend’s absurdity, but the two seesaw main events on HBO and Showtime presented yet more exhibits in the case for this sport’s greatness. Victor Ortiz’ toughness, genuineness and everything else had rightly been the subject of […]
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WALDORF, Md.–A capacity crowd filled the Waldorf Jaycees Community Center on Friday night to see boxers from Maryland and the District dominate their Virginia counterparts at the Washington Golden Gloves regional championships. After finishing our regular training session and scouring the lot for a patch of grass upon which to deposit the car, we made […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/16/2011
(Maybe it should have been “Provodnikovish” fashion, but so be it.) TV-friendly junior welterweight Ruslan Provodnikov returned to Friday Night Fights two fights removed from his first loss, and his opponent this go round was Ivan Popoca, a brawler with his own knack for bouncing back (see: Soto Karass, Jose Luis). Things were pretty competitive […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/15/2011
Amir Khan seems poised for a difficult evening on Saturday in Manchester, yet the man looking to topple him from his relatively lofty perch, Irishman Paul McCloskey, is just part of a multitude of problems stacked high atop his in-tray. Whilst the unheralded Dungiven man will be looking to put the Bolton youngster through a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/14/2011
Three of the four headliners on HBO and Showtime Saturday night have given us something less than what we wanted from them. Victor Ortiz was hailed as a potential superstar, but then Marcos Maidana made him cry “uncle” and a comeback attempt has seen Ortiz fall flat on his face with his foot in his […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/13/2011
In keeping with the three week old tradition of starting the weekly schedule with a more or less random internet meme, here’s poptart cat running to some mesmerising, gameboyish music. It has absolutely nothing to with this week’s boxing schedule, which is a little thin outside of the big shows on HBO and Showtime. On […]
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This past weekend was the most fun I’ve had being wrong since forever. Not much of anybody in their right minds had Erik Morales being that competitive against Marcos Maidana several weight classes too high and years past any remnants of him looking like an elite boxer. Morales, aferward, said his dignity led him to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/11/2011
Welcome to the second edition of the TQBR Roundtable, where TQBR’s staff writers get together to discuss some of boxing’s issues of the day. I’d say that we get aggro, shout, scream and come to Internet-style blows, but it doesn’t really happen like that. We’re a civilised bunch. Instead, hopefully Gautham Nagesh, Tim Starks, Andrew […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/10/2011
NEWARK – Kathy Duva of Main Events informed TQBR Saturday that the proposed 140-pound showdown between Zab “Super” Judah and Juan Manuel Marquez would headline an HBO pay-per-view on either July 30 or August 6. “(Richard Schaefer) is going to meet with Marquez to straighten out his stuff,” Duva said of the Golden Boy Promotions […]
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NEWARK, N.J.–Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek won an ugly contest with a paunchy Kevin McBride on Saturday at the Prudential Center to set up a showdown with champ Vitali Klitschko later this year. The 12-round decision was one of only two fights to go the distance on the lopsided Main Events card carried by Integrated Sports […]
