0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/10/2011
There was greatness still in the legendary Erik Morales Saturday night, even if it wasn’t enough to overcome the mega-punching junior welterweight Marcos Maidana. Maidana won a majority decision over the aged Morales, but Morales — a 6:1 underdog — fought Maidana on even terms, and in so doing was some kind of emotional winner […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/9/2011
We’re in mourning here at TQBR, since we lost one of our staff guys, Paul Kelly. You might’ve noticed he hasn’t been around lately. He’s had a couple other gigs in his life taking priority, but I was holding out hope that he would find some extra time soon, so we kept him on board […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Marcos Maidana peeled himself off the canvas, the recipient of a vicious body shot from Amir Khan – the type of punch that usually ends fight, a pulverizing liver shot. Maidana made it to the closing bell of the opening stanza, still grimacing in pain from the hard left he took moments earlier. From then […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
NEW YORK, N.Y.–Some misguided fans of professional boxing decry the amateur ranks as little more than prospects slapping and jabbing each other into oblivion. If anyone subscribing to that foolish notion happened to be part of the packed house at Friday night’s New York Daily News Golden Gloves Finals in the Theater at Madison Square […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
For the superstitious-minded, and for the bemusingly large contingent of folk who think Erik Morales has a realistic chance of upsetting junior welterweight Marcos Maidana, the events of Friday evening on ESPN2 and ShoBox have to be something like omens for what comes Saturday night. First, highly-touted middleweight prospect David Lemieux lost on Friday Night […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
After dominating Marco Antonio Rubio for five rounds, David Lemieux looked like he was on the fast track to stardom in front of his adoring fans in a middleweight battle at the Bell Centre in Montreal in the Friday Night Fights main event. He was outworking, outboxing, and thoroughly dominating Rubio, and looked to be […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/8/2011
First of all, let me register my displeasure that Jim Lampley doesn’t scream “Aaaaaiiii, Body!” on HBO, like Japanese commentators do whenever a bodyshot is landed. It would really spice things up. Second, wow. Way to lose in exactly the same way twice, Hozumi Hasegawa. This fight Friday was almost a carbon copy of his […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/7/2011
Scrape away the layer of grotesquery atop Saturday’s HBO pay-per-view — the headlining junior welterweight fight between Erik Morales and Marcos Maidana — and one coating lower is a genuinely compelling, evenly-matched bout between two of the best lightweights in the world. The main supporting bout pits Michael Katsidis, ranked #3 in the division by […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/6/2011
Now that’s an action figure. Wait, are we meant to be talking about “Action Heroes?” What is an action hero anyway? I don’t know. All I know is that the action figure-sized action heroes, Giovanni Segura and Hernan Marquez, heroically gave us some action last week. Now I’m confused. Let’s talk about what’s happening this […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/5/2011
Goodnight, Samuel Peter. Outta nowhere, heavyweight prospect — and now, arguably, contender — Robert Helenius put you to sleep and maybe tucked your career into bed, wrapped it up like a burrito, kissed it on the forehead and turned off the lights. Helenius… I don’t know what to make of him. RingTV’s Doug Fischer is […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/3/2011
An unexpected slog befell heavy betting favourite John Murray at London’s York Hall on Saturday evening as ring rust, lethargy and a most obstinate foe in the shape of Spaniard Karim El Ouazghari conspired to leave him moonwalking miserably back into the pack of lightweight contenders he had appeared to have stolen a march […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
It certainly started like a Fight of the Year candidate, this flyweight brawl Saturday between Hernan “Tyson” Marquez and Luis “El Nica” Concepcion, with traded knockdowns and startling shifts in momentum. But after the 4th round, Marquez took firm control and Concepcion’s belief in the superiority of his own power faded, rendering him more tactical […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
For a decade or so, Ivan Calderon has ruled the tiniest weight classes, the last several years by skating on the edge of disaster only to tap his reserves of exceptional skill to compensate for slowing speed and non-existent power. Last year, Giovani Segura knocked him out to end his junior flyweight reign. Saturday night, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/1/2011
Hey, you. It’s April Fool’s Day. It’s also the first uh da month, the traditional day of Open Thread. You got your peanut butter on my chocolate! No, you got YOUR chocolate on MY peanut butter! Let’s try and find some synergy betwixt these two things, just to start things off. What’s the most believable […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
The travails of Levenshulme lightweight John Murray and his seemingly never-ending quest to secure a major date against a world class opponent have been well documented. One would be hard pressed to find a press cutting of late which failed to expound upon his discontentment, frustration and lament at being left to rust away in […]
