0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/15/2010
(Jean Pascal, left; Chad Dawson, right) MONTREAL — If nothing else, last night’s light heavyweight fight between Chad Dawson and Jean Pascal offered a pretty rich tapestry for fingers to be pointed, for credit to be given and for perceptions to be altered. There were a lot of nuances, although there was also a considerable […]
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MONTREAL — It was heating up into a classic on HBO, one where Jean Pascal was leading but Chad Dawson had him hurt in the 11th. Then, an accidental head butt ended matters, forcing it to the scorecards, where Pascal rightly got the unanimous decision win over Dawson to become the lineal, true Ring magazine […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/13/2010
(From left: Nigel Collins, holding the Ring belt; Chad Dawson; Jean Pascal; promoter Gary Shaw) MONTREAL — Boxing weigh-ins are rarely a good place for news, unless somebody punches somebody else a night early. Rather, they’re a decent spot for getting info on the periphery. So, even though there was some amusing posturing at the […]
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MONTREAL — Canadia, you ARE beautiful. This town’s percentage of hot women is, approximately, 99 percent, and they all dress so well and look so cool. Its architecture is lovely, too. So far, besides reenacting Chad Dawson-Jean Pascal posters, Mr. David P. Greisman (above) and myself (below) have enjoyed Montreal’s Mexican food and Irish pubs, […]
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“This is a money opportunity sport.” — (Marvelous Marvin Hagler 1984) I was going to head up this post with a quote from a certain Walter Sobchak; however, after thinking it through, I’ll keep it on ice (it’ll come in handy at the tail end of things). The one I’ve ran with rather handily fell […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/12/2010
MONTREAL — One of the things that makes boxing so captivating is watching people do things I can’t do, probably never could do and probably never would want to do. Speed vs. speed match-ups cover the first two categories. Boxing is always about tiny adjustments, about minute amounts of space being the difference between consciousness […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/11/2010
From time to time BoxingScene’s David P. Greisman and myself gchat one another. Sometimes we talk about boxing, even. Sometimes, I publish what we say. Monday evening, between prepping for our trip to Montreal, we had some talking to do about the things in the headline, plus the likes of Kermit Cintron, Andre Ward and […]
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(Devon Alexander, under stress; via) Over the weekend, everyone completely lost their sh*t over what happened in the Devon Alexander-Andriy Kotelnik junior welterweight fight. It was rather unlike boxing fans. They’re well-known for refusing to see conspiracy theories without any hard evidence; for refusing to write off a talented young fighter who encounters difficulty for […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/10/2010
Like Tim, I wholeheartedly support the use of the Ring championship policy to determine who the true champions in boxing are. However, that doesn’t mean I universally agree with the Ring rankings, or the decisions of the Ring rankings panel. (Just because News of the World wasn’t quite the masterpiece that A Night at the […]
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With the final stage of round-robin matches upon us next month (assuming they find a home for Andre Ward-Andre Dirrell), Showtime has provided some helpful guides for its innovative and exciting super middleweight tournament — the best thing happening in boxing in a down year. First, there’s the summary video above. If you haven’t been […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/9/2010
In a couple days, I’ll be in Montreal, which is rough compensation for my city of Washington, D.C. stealing the Expos and turning them into the Nationals, since Montreal will care about me being there about as much as they cared about the Expos being there. I’m looking forward to it not only because I’ve […]
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The TQBR Prediction Game Hall of Champions has a new enshrinee today, alongside historical fantastical immortals of the past like Spidershark, Pretty Toney, mig(g)s88 and David Schraub: BenOlson, also known as Ben Olson, has emerged victorious in 3.0. For most of 3.0, the game was all bunched up, where only accuracy separated anyone at all. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/8/2010
Other fights in the works for Paul Williams, Amir Khan, Antonio DeMarco, etc., too: Round And Round Manny Pacquiao still wants to make a welterweight mega-fight with Floyd Mayweather in November, pinning his hopes on Mayweather’s flirtation with Don King, since Pacquaio promoter Bob Arum has indicated he’d be happier to work with King than […]
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For all six judges in Saturday night for HBO’s doubleheader, it was a 116-112 night. But for both fights, it was a 114-114 night for me. Light heavyweights Tavoris Cloud and Glen Johnson produced the slugfest we expected, or a reasonable facsimile of it, but Cloud came out on top in a bout I scored […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/6/2010
(A whole ‘nother kind of skeptic: David Hume) I’m all for being skeptical of boxers, promoters and networks. But there is a specific kind of selective skepticism that reeks of bias and cynicism that too often takes hold in large swaths of the boxing media and boxing fandom; it often looks to me like people […]
