0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/8/2010
There are a couple different ways this blog might look at "The Fighter," the movie version of the story of real-life boxer Micky Ward: from the perspective of a movie fan, or as a boxing writer. Let's try both. From the vantage point of a movie fan, it's an excellent film, as good as a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/7/2010
DC has reprinted the 1978 comic book “Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali,” a tale that is exactly what it sounds like, and if it’s not kooky-sounding enough already, the battle takes place in outer space as special guest referee Athena handles zebra duties and Jimmy Carter, Sonny Bono, Kurt Vonnegut and Andy Warhol sit ringside. It’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/6/2010
Two people this weekend got a nice 600/550/600 combo in the TQBR Prediction Game, and you guessed it: Those two people are now our leaders for 5.0. NattyChamps aka DukeShadeBlue has a 50-point edge over Apemantus for first place. There were 19 people overall who got all three picks right, but a couple of them […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/5/2010
This is the Humberto Soto we all used to know and love. The lightweight has increasingly set aside boxing for brawling, but Urbana Antillon gave him little choice Saturday, crowding him and forcing him to trade. The end result was a seesaw battle that produced a close win for Soto and yet another Fight of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/3/2010
Timothy Bradley-Devon Alexander is headed to the Pontiac Silverdome, and get this: The owners of the Silverdome may have paid a site fee that exceeded the price they paid for the Silverdome itself. Dan Rafael reported that the fee is more than $500,000 for the junior middleweight fight, while the Silverdome was recently sold for […]
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It’s the last Open Thread of 2010, so I’m ’round to thinking about how to make the site better for all you fine people in 2011. Whaddya got? Should we keep TQBR Prediction Game going into 6.0 and beyond? Is there too much of something and not enough of another thing? Have you any innovative […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/2/2010
NEW YORK– Dominican junior lightweight Javier Fortuna announced his arrival to New York in style on Wednesday night in front of a packed house at B.B. Kings Blues Club, flooring unbeaten prospect Victor Valenzuela just over a minute into the 1st round. The light-punching Valenzuela started out boxing but then unwisely threw caution to the […]
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(This is what the banner of this card has come to.) Saturday night was to pit Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. and Saul Alvarez against one another in a contest to decide which young, debatably talented, widely loved Mexican junior middleweight would prove more popular when their matches went head-to-head. Then Chavez got sick, or had […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/1/2010
Welcome to Tuesday, the day that we sometimes review things that happened in boxing about three days ago. The above fight happened four days ago, and it features Hozumi Hasegawa making a successful debut at featherweight against Juan Carlos Burgos. I’m still working through the bout but it’s high-level stuff from both men. Burgos dwarfs […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/30/2010
The first 10 months of 2010 in boxing resembled a bad Fourth of July fireworks show: a few “oohs” and “aahs,” but you probably could have been just as impressed with a Roman candle and sparkler spinner show in your backyard after stopping at one of the ubiquitous fireworks shops along Interstate 95 on the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/29/2010
Two weeks’ worth of fights in the works await below! Round And Round There’s some potential funny business afoot with the headliner of this weekend’s Top Rank pay-per-view. First, Alfonso Gomez pulled out of his middleweight bout with Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., citing an injury. In came Pawel Wolak, who might be a better opponent […]
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The holiday this weekend and the chaos of Atlantic City last weekend has us behind on some of the latest news tidbits and fights in the works, but we’ll get caught up, just you watch. It starts with the above video, a dynamite knockout from last weekend that was overshadowed, naturally, by Sergio Martinez’ knockout […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/28/2010
In a weekend with two very difficult winners to predict, three amigos — TJChim, Apemantus and Bundy Bears AKA ALEXMAC — got all of them right. And because of this, one of those three, Bundy Bears, is now in the lead for TQBR Prediction Game 5.0. Andre Ward-Sakio Bika was the gimme, with only one […]
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(Carl Froch hits Arthur Abraham right above his ill-conceived white see-through trunks/red underwear combination; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) What a wild night of fights. Carl Froch put on a master class in upsetting and outclassing Arthur Abraham. Juan Manuel Marquez put on a master class in stopping Michael Katsidis in a terrific brawl. Jason Litzau […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/27/2010
Click no further if you want to avoid finding out what happened in Finland today before it airs on Showtime tonight. “Exposed” is an overused word in boxing, but two fights in a row now, super middleweight Arthur Abraham has had vulnerabilities in his style, well, exposed. What’s surprising is who did it this time: […]
