0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/16/2011
Jose Sulaiman might be renowned for taking people’s money, but while he pocketed more bogus sanctioning fees on Saturday, he also offered up a fantastic fight for free on WBCBoxing.tv. In the feature attraction from the Jose Cuervo Salon in Polanco, Mexico, Oscar Ibarra (25-4, 16 KO) had to go through hell from Junichiro Sugita […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/15/2011
That’s two fights in a row now where super middleweight prospect Edwin Rodriguez has looked like a marginal prospect at best, let alone one of the elite guys out there. In the Friday Night Fights supporting bout on ESPN2, Rodriguez got a wide unanimous decision win in a fight that was actually extremely close to […]
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Mainly, this is a column about fights in the works (Round and Round) rather than about various news tidbits and fleeting thoughts (Quick Jabs). Therefore, it is established that the Quick Jabs shall be dispensed with first, and with haste. Like so: The weekend schedule is a bit light. Corey’s done a great job of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/14/2011
Part II of our list brings us to some promising youngsters who, for one reason or the other, have some ding on ’em that those in Part I don’t. Maybe they haven’t proven themselves as much, or maybe they’ve shown themselves to be limited in some way. Maybe they’re rebounding from a loss, or maybe […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/13/2011
(Credit: Howard Schatz) Roughly three times every year, Peter Manfredo Jr. headlines an arena. The remainder of the time, his job is to clean them. After Manfredo headlines ESPN Friday Night Fights against Daniel Edouard this week, he will return to Local 271, for whom he helps maintain the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in his hometown […]
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The promoters must be running out of titles for fights. Last year, the Floyd Mayweather-“Sugar” Shane Mosley fight was dubbed “Who R U Picking.” That’s right. Golden Boy even went ahead and wrote out “are” and “you” as letters. Now comes “The Super Fight,” between Tim Bradley on Devon Alexander on January 29 (HBO, 10 […]
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Each new year is a time of renewal, when the hedgehogs awaken from their hibernation to shamble out of their hedgehogholes, when the hyacinths bloom in Turkmenistan, and… maybe that’s the spring, actually, and maybe some hedgehogs don’t hibernate. But when the calendar turns from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1, I do get to thinking […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/12/2011
Screenwriter: “Hugh Jackman is a former boxer and robot boxing promoter, reluctantly convinced to train a championship contender.” Producer: “Why does he need to be a robot?” Screenwriter: “No, he promotes robot boxing.” Producer: “Oh, well that’s OK then.” That’s probably how the pitch for the upcoming Hugh Jackman film, Real Steel, went. Jackman (who, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/11/2011
As a star shortstop during elementary school in the Dominican Republic, Edwin Rodriguez was a scrappy contact hitter. Now, as a rising star in the world of boxing, “La Bomba” has the kind of power few in the super middleweight division can boast. “I came over here when I was 13 and everything changed,” Rodriguez […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/10/2011
I told you a couple weeks back that I’d spend some time figuring out how I want The Queensberry Rules to evolve. Little did I expect the change to be this dramatic. Welcome to the new TQBR. It doesn’t look unlike the one you saw two weeks ago, but it is, and how. Here’s what […]
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It’s the heavyweights what have the most complicated situation of late when it comes to fights in the works, so let’s start with those big boys. Round And Round It’s hard to know even where to start. So heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, we know, will face Derek Chisora next in April — that’s set. This […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/8/2011
The beautiful painting above is the work of friend of the site Amanda Kelley. There is but the briefest mentions in this edition of Quick Jabs of its subject, Manny Pacquiao, but I liked it so much that I wanted to show everyone as soon as possible. If you’re interested in interacting with the artist, […]
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Friday Night Fights returned for 2011 last night, featuring Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (12-0, 8 KOs), who won by unanimous decision over Alberto Herrera and Ruslan Provodnikov, who was upset by the elder Herrera, Mauricio. Andrade, who wasn’t very impressive given the hype surrounding the junior middleweight prospect, won by 79-73 and 80-72 twice. Herrera […]
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Predicting the future has always been a tricky task. It follows, then, that any attempt to make a buck out of such a thing would be a fraught and dangerous pastime, especially when it comes to sports. For every Herb Lambeck and Lem Banker there’s a John Daly somewhere cursing the saints amid a pile […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/7/2011
This weekend, Friday night is when everything is poppin’. Ruslan Provodnikov vs. Mauricio Herrera, Friday, ESPN2, Las Vegas. As I made clear earlier this week, I am very fond of this fight, as it pits two promoters’ prospects against one another in what should be a fun, action fight. That doesn’t happen very often. Granted, […]
