0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/29/2010
What was he thinking? Ivan Calderon, the master craftsman of the lower divisions, picked the wrong guy to trade punches with Saturday night, as he opted to go toe-to-toe with the master blaster of the lower divisions, Giovanni Segura, and came up on the bad end when Segura stopped him in eight rounds to claim […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/27/2010
I’d gathered from many boxing fans that they were all quite sick of talking about Antonio Margarito and his loaded hand wraps, a multi-year saga that’s been debated endlessly over that period. So when Texas granted him a boxing license Thursday to clear the path for a November fight with Manny Pacquiao — which was […]
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This year, we’ve seen a fight end because junior middleweight Kermit Cintron catapulted out of the ring; we saw a fight end two different times after referee Arthur Mercante, Jr. forced junior middleweight Yuri Foreman to fight on with a torn meniscus in his knee; and we saw a fight end where cruiserweight Paul Briggs […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/26/2010
(Above are a couple panels from my brother’s web comic running now at kylestarks.com. It depicts a big ol’ punch, which is the thinnest reed I need to use it as an excuse to promote my little bro, who’s suddenly getting well-deserved widespread attention on sites like io9 and ComicsAlliance for his work.) When it […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/25/2010
Junior middleweight Antonio Margarito finds out as soon as this week whether he’ll get his boxing license in Texas, but there have been two other seedy-seeming incidents overshadowed by that scandal. Although, as you’ll soon see, both are a bit related to Margarito. In one case, the media has stayed on top of it: the […]
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Forget the whole “unification” aspect of Ivan Calderon-Giovanni Segura this weekend, even if there hasn’t been a junior flyweight alphabet belt unification bout since 2003. It’s for Calderon’s Ring magazine lineal championship, which is all the belt anyone needs, but it’s more than that. In a 2010 where you can only point to a couple […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/23/2010
When I was in high school, I’d long been a fan of what was then called “alternative rock.” I’d liked it because I was an outsider, alienated from the popular kids, and much of that music was made by outsiders who were odd in some way. I hated, in turn, all the things that the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/22/2010
(The crowd at Tomasz Adamek’s fight is almost as interesting as the fights themselves.) The streets of Newark were a sea of red as I approached the Prudential Center for the heavyweight bout between Tomasz Adamek and Michael Grant. Adamek’s legions of supporters are nothing like the Hollywood-esque fans that stroll in only for main […]
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Heavyweight Tomasz Adamek was supposed to get an elementary introduction to gigantic, 6’7″-style boxers — that is, the Klitschko brothers — with 38-year-old, once-promising Michael Grant. For all but about 10 seconds of the first six rounds, he was handling it with ease, with Grant looking like such a big stiff it was hard to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/21/2010
LeGarrette Blount should just give up and become a boxer already. I gather from HBO’s “Hard Knocks” that punching teammates in practice is, at times, situationally, encouraged, and that the Tennessee Titans coach had no problem with this particular punching above. But there are at least three punching incidents involving Blount that we’re aware of, […]
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“Prehistoric terror bird jabbed like boxer,” reads the headline describing the newly-discovered killing methods of the creature above. Circle, stick and move has worked for that long, at least: 60 million years. Some pro boxer, some day, must take the nickname “Prehistoric Terror Bird.” If I could, I would, and I’d combine it with a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/20/2010
Even with the way my boxing news feed fills up with stories about James Toney vs. Randy Couture, each day that goes by without me mentioning it feels like a personal triumph. Many of the headlines are along the lines of “Mixed Martial Arts and Boxing Face Off with Couture vs. Toney” or something, and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/19/2010
The California State Athletic Commission on Wednesday made the right decision by ruling, 5-1, against restoring the boxing license of junior middleweight Antonio Margarito. In explaining their vote, members of the commission argued that Margarito hadn’t shown enough contrition for or taken adequate steps to correct what happened the night in 2008 when illegal wraps […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/18/2010
Maxboxing’s Steve Kim has an interesting interview with Kathy Duva, the woman running the show at Main Events, in advance of this weekend’s Tomasz Adamek fight. I entirely agree with her approach of keeping fighters busy, with or without HBO money, and was quite surprised to see her say that Adamek’s stay-busy bout with old […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/16/2010
MONTREAL — Round and Round. What comes around goes around in the “fights in the works” universe. I’ll tell you why: Round And Round There’s a whole big “thing” at 154 pounds or thereabouts. Lots of fights are in the works or not around there, but at minimum lots of people are calling out so […]
