0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/25/2010
If you are familiar with the author Sam Sheridan, you know that he is always searching for what makes people capable of achieving great feats. Not only an accomplished writer from an Ivy League background, he is also an avid martial artist. Sheridan’s background means he can take on a more personalized perspective than other […]
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I don’t think Saturday’s HBO doubleheader is terrible by any stretch, but Showtime’s boxing event the same night is significantly more meaningful, so you should watch that one if you have to make a choice. (Since it’s on a free preview weekend for Showtime, you certainly will have that choice.) What’s more, Kevin Iole said […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/24/2010
When discussing the 700,000 pay-per-view buys netted by Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey March 13, many people — it seems to me — are emphasizing the positive (and there is some of that) rather than mentioning much about the negative (and there is some of that, too). By the standard of boxing pay-per-views, 700,000 — the figure […]
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I have an admitted blind spot when it comes to knowledge of Japanese (and to a lesser degree, Asian) fighters, what with them rarely-to-never fighting anywhere but Japan. But there’s a fight in Japan Saturday that’s very important and I’ve been brushing up enough in recent months that I think it deserves a full preview […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/23/2010
The Super Six tournament is back on Showtime Saturday, and right on time. Several second round postponements, a fighter withdrawing and some counterprogramming from industry giant HBO knocked some of the stuffing out of the concept for some. But if you ask me, nothing sells the idea of the tournament better than it doing what […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/22/2010
For many boxing fans and writers, BoxRec.com is an indispensible resource. For me, it doubles as a good way to kill about six hours online. In a new, potentially semi-regular feature (because I’m all about semi-regularity), I will dive into the depths of BoxRec to see if anything interesting emerges. From the weekend that just […]
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Last week’s leaders in the TQBR Prediction Game — Alexmac and Kid Gruesome, aka Scott Kraus — took a gamble on Eddie Chambers. The bet did not pay off. We now have a four-way tie for first place, with Chris, cNceddie, Not Sure (aka Jay Ari Yin) and JB taking over. The only other person […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/21/2010
Results from the Fox Sports Net and wbcboxing.tv shows: At wbcboxing.tv, Jhonny Gonzalez got himself into the featherweight title picture with a destructive 2nd round knockout of Antonio Davis. Neither man had done anything to deserve to be in this WBC title eliminator — Davis lost his last fight a year ago by knockout to […]
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The carousel of fights going round and round is moderately skeletal, but there are some noteworthy developments. Among them are the items in the headline and what’s on deck for Librado Andrade, Tony Thompson, Sakio Bika and the possibility of the worst fight that mankind could possibly accomplish. Finally, at long last, Nonito Donaire-Vic Darchinyan […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/20/2010
You see what Wladimir Klitschko is capable of with the kind of knockout he delivered to Eddie Chambers’ brain in the final five seconds of the 12th round Saturday and it only makes him all the more frustrating. His monotonous, safety-first style is a product of necessity, to mask the weakness of poor punch resistance, […]
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There’s Randall Bailey getting his “How is it fair for any one man to have such power?” on Friday. The victim, in 90 seconds of the 1st round, was Jackson Bonsu, in a welterweight title eliminator. After Bailey went the distance with Germaine Sanders in his move up from junior welterweight, it wasn’t clear he’d […]
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I don’t intend to detract from Scott’s marvelous entry just below this one, so make sure you read what he wrote before clicking through here, wherein the topics in the headline are discussed, as well as the rest of the weekend boxing schedule; some thoughts on journalistic standards; the return of Mike Tyson and Solo […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/19/2010
February 23, 2008, Madison Square Garden, New York But for now, [Eddie] Chambers is a young American athlete challenging for what once was the prestigious prize in all of sports, and even in his hometown you need a high-speed internet connection to watch it. How did we get to this point? And how do we […]
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(You can’t really read the “Mayweather-Mosley bracket” when it’s full-sized, either. Hey, I had to relate this to March Madness somehow, and Golden Boy sent out a news release with this.) I could practically write something every day reflecting on the latest news about Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, as these two welterweights — the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/17/2010
Let’s skip over any long discussion about why you can’t see the heavyweight champion of the world, the Ukraine’s Wladimir Klitschko, on U.S. television Saturday. We already covered it here. Ring’s Eric Raskin covered it some more here, with a side of how Klitschko’s American opponent, Eddie Chambers, contributed to that situation. The Sweet Science […]
