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Paul Kelly Wins TQBR Prediction Game 4.0

The TQBR Prediction Game Hall of Champions rivals, as an organization, the Baseball Hall of Fame or, at least, the Pinball Hall of Fame. And on this day, another great champion is enshrined in its pillared, jewel-encrusted halls: Paul Kelly. His bust will sit beneath a spotlight side-by-side with those of Spidershark, Pretty Toney, miggs88, […]

Jimmy Lange Gives The Crowd What They Paid For

FAIRFAX, VA — Fans once again crowded the Patriot Center on Saturday night to see local junior middleweight Jimmy Lange put on a show and the Contender alum didn’t disappoint, knocking Joe Wyatt out with just 30 seconds left in the final round to eke out the victory. Lange’s tenth-round flourish was the coda on […]

The Good And Bad Of Thomas Hauser’s Latest Series On HBO

Once a year, acclaimed journalist Thomas Hauser writes a mammoth examination of HBO, and the stories always make a splash. Often, the pieces are damning, but have significant shortcomings. This year it’s no different. Let me clarify. It’s different this time in some ways, just not in that fundamental dynamic. My initial reaction upon reading […]

Quick Jabs: Laurence Cole Gets A Big Assignment; James Kirkland Loves Parole Violations; Jose Sulaiman Quits, Reconsiders, Makes Guinness Book Of World Records; More

It’s quirky fame week at TQBR. First up was the cameo on Showtime’s Fight Camp 360 Saturday. Then, earlier this week, friend-of-the-site the legend dropped a new album with his band, Escape The Fate, which is a wildly popular rock outfit — and thanked this site in their liner notes. If one million of the […]

Previews And Predictions For Juan Manuel Lopez Vs. Rafael Marquez, Allan Green Vs. Glen Johnson And More

After months of nothingness, quality boxing returns this weekend, and it returns in style. The Showtime doubleheader Saturday features one can’t-miss bout and one that figures as a potentially nice scrap, kicking off a high-quality two-month stretch. If things break right, the card could be a healthy down payment on the reparations owed boxing fans […]

Reputations On The Line: Manny Pacquiao, David Haye And Wladimir Klitschko Come Under Fire For Their Choice Of Opponents, But Which One Of Them Does Defeat Hurt Most?

Despite the surfeit of pleasing fixtures on boxing’s immediate horizon, there are a trio of match-ups in the pipeline which have provoked outrage, nay horror among boxing fans. Featuring bright lights of the sport pitted against rivals deemed unfit for purpose, inflammation has been acute. “Undeserving of the call” say some, “a disgrace befouling the […]

Interview With Gary Andrew Poole, Author Of “Pacman”

Following up on the review last week, it seemed like a good idea to interview Gary Andrew Poole about his new biography of Manny Pacquiao. So we chatted for about a half hour tonight, talking about how he came to do the book, Manny’s distractions in the camp for his upcoming bout with Antonio Margarito […]

Open Thread, Blank Stare Edition

No starter material from me today — this is on you guys. Someone bring up some stuff for us to talk about. I don’t care what. Don’t be shy, I know you can do it. Just say something that’s on your mind. I’ll join in, and so will other people. Then other people should bring […]

Danny Geale And Lenny Zappavigna Have Big Nights, Show They’re The Real Deals

Aussie contenders Danny Geale and Lenny Zappavigna both made huge statements of the knockout variety in Sydney last night. The large crowd at the Sydney Sports Centre wasn’t put off by the mid-afternoon timetable (for international broadcast reasons) and was full of Australian boxing royalty. Geale won almost every round of his middleweight bout with […]

Quick Jabs: David Haye Hides In Three Dimensions; Sergio Martinez, Paul Williams And Glen Johnson Fight With The Scale; More

(Photo: Chris Farina, Top Rank, via) It’s very Manny Pacquiao-ish around here these days, and it probably won’t change for a couple weeks given his upcoming fight, but that picture of Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach mocking Antonio Margarito’s handwrap controversy was too funny not to run. Nothing else to add. On the picture, anyway. In […]

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