0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/6/2010
It’s the 6th of the month, a few days after the usual Open Thread launch, but so be it. To get things started — and I can’t emphasize enough that it’s only to get things started, because Open Thread is by the people, for the people, so you introduce topics — howsabout sharing a boxing […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/5/2010
Twice in the last two weeks, I haven’t managed to get a Weekend Afterthoughts column in place early in the week, so once again I’ll combine it with the usual weekend schedule rundown, but I’ll do better next week, promise. Unless I just scrap the whole dang format. I’m feeling a touch stale with some […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/4/2010
(Photo credit: Bob Barton, DKP) In Saturday night’s HBO doubleheader, Devon Alexander-Andriy Kotelnik is about a fighter — Alexander — while Tavoris Cloud-Glen Johnson is about a fight. Alexander is a can’t-miss talent with physical gifts and wonderful skills, while Cloud-Johnson is a can’t-miss battle between two educated volume punchers near the top of their […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/3/2010
Thirteen out of 35 people went three for four over the weekend with the big HBO/Golden Boy pay-per-view show, but it was the man who went four for four who vaulted to the #1 spot. Ultra-young Casey Kasem, eat your heart out, as BenOlson is the new leader of the pack. (Yes, I’m trying to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/2/2010
The moustache fest that was The Ten Buffest Dudes in Boxing didn’t do it for everyone. Some said it was homoerotic (which, to be fair, it was). Others were just upset that I left out Shannon Briggs and Juan Urango. So, to atone for my sins, here are the seven hottest women in boxing. Yeah, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/1/2010
This was a little like the Miguel Cotto-Yuri Foreman fight in June, where Cotto in his junior middleweight debut showed signs of being vital but against an opponent unlikely to prove otherwise. Like Cotto, lineal lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez looked excellent Saturday night in winning a unanimous decision rematch against a younger but more […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/31/2010
There’s not much to offer with a Quick Jabs column this week — most of the news was related to Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, and we covered that yesterday — so we’ll basically just do a Round And Round column this week. But there were a few other things, some of them related to […]
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The headline sums it up. But, to elaborate: Welterweight Delvin Rodriguez is becoming the unluckiest man in boxing. This time, though, he didn’t only lose a close decision — he lost a decision he should have won easily. Ashley Theophane did give Rodriguez a hard time; Rodriguez started sharp and lost some gas late. But […]
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If you are familiar with this sport “boxing” that we write about sometimes here you are most likely A. up to speed on the wrinkles of the never-ending downward spiral created in the wake the latest collapse of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao and B. sick of it. I want to give you the option right now […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/30/2010
Sakio Bika! So angular, so neglected. He’s only making $18,000 for the super middleweight title eliminator he’s in Saturday night, but at least he’ll get a touch of TV exposure to go along with it in the build-up to the big HBO/Golden Boy pay-per-view show. That’s something that’s up this weekend, plus some Friday Night […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/29/2010
One of the best things about boxing is that anyone can participate, no matter what shape or size their body. It’s almost difficult to believe that junior flyweight Ivan Calderon and heavyweight Cris Arreola could play the same sport. At the same time, boxing produces some of the world’s most stupidly buff athletes. Let’s follow […]
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(Most of the gang, from left to right: Jorge Linares, Robert Guerrero, Daniel Jacobs, Juan Manuel Marquez, Golden Boy’s Oscar De La Hoya, Juan Diaz, Dmitry Pirog, Joel Casamayor. Rocky Juarez probably didn’t show up until later.) For me, it’s not even a matter of debate: The Golden Boy Promotions/HBO pay-per-view card airing Saturday night […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/28/2010
Detective McNulty: If Snotboogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play? Witness: You got to, this is America, man. (Omar coming) The Wire, the late HBO series that can best, and most simply, be described as being about how a city (specifically, Baltimore) works, and more importantly, how what doesn’t work stays that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/24/2010
You remember those “grosser than gross” jokes from grade school, about chopped up babies and what not? I can’t say Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito — set for November, according to Kevin Iole — amounts to something as disgusting as one dead baby in three trash cans, but when combined with the fact that it’s the fight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/22/2010
What with the business going on I mentioned here and all the distraction of the latest Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao debacle, last weekend didn’t get the attention it deserved in this space. For instance: How good does bantamweight Fernando Montiel look in the clip above? Rafael Concepcion has lost a few fights, sure, but he gave […]
