0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/8/2010
Hey boxing, let’s see some upsets, huh? Four fights into the Prediction Game at TQBR and we haven’t seen an underdog prevail yet. Keeping with that theme of winners winning, Spidershark continued his run of impressive prescience, holding onto the top spot in the rankings for the second update in a row. (The Mayans may […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/7/2010
Prudential Center, Newark, NJ, February 6, 2010 Welcome to the latest edition of the Jersey Fight Journal, where a snowstorm prevented me from attending the scintillating Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez fight in December yet a feared blizzard miraculously dissipated tonight, giving me the great fortune to watch Peter Quillin and Fernando Zuniga clinch until things got […]
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It was a fallacy to think lightweight sensation Edwin Valero was a one-dimensional puncher, which isn’t the same as saying he’s a master craftsman in the ring. But he showed off every skill he has Saturday on Showtime in beating up young Antonio DeMarco and forcing his corner to call a halt to it at […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/6/2010
The old man just keeps plugging along. 41-year-old Glen Johnson will get another shot at a light heavyweight title belt after a 6th round knockout win over 30-year-old Yusaf Mack on ESPN2. As much as I love the amiable, classy Jamaican, and as happy as I am for him in notching this win, I thought […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/5/2010
You don’t usually expect it to work out for a fighter who protests a bunk decision with one of the alphabet sanctioning organizations, because usually that only happens if there’s some technicality. But the WBA is reviewing the bunk decision last weekend that gave Beibut Shumenov (at right in the picture) the light heavyweight title […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/4/2010
While giving a rundown of the biggest happenings in the sport to one of my roommates the other night (believe it or not, he had not heard a thing about the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather negotiations; sometimes it’s not such a small world), he made a comment that boxers’ names seem to be less interesting than […]
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We’ve already previewed and predicted the two biggest fights of the weekend but there’s a lot happening this week besides. Let me be your Sacajawea. (Also, have I mentioned you need to get your predictions in for the prediction game ASAP? I have, I know it, but I just want to remind you again for […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/3/2010
It’s a duel a decade in the making, and it’s here: Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Shane Mosley have both signed to fight one another May 1, giving 2010 the best and most important boxing match on its calendar so far. The welterweight showdown won’t heal all the wounds left by the abandonment of Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao, […]
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Comes now the major U.S. television debut of Edwin Valero, the electric lightweight who’s the biggest puncher in the sport today but has gobs of flaws and a messy life outside the ring. Even though it’s his opponent Saturday, Antonio DeMarco, that Showtime has nurtured, make no mistake that Valero is the focal point of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/2/2010
Dear Friends of Open Thread, Like Jorge Arce’s career from fight to fight, the Open Thread is always just barely clinging to some semblance of life. We count on your contributions to keep Open Thread going. Won’t you make a donation to Open Thread by coming up with some provocative topics to discuss? I don’t […]
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If ESPN2 airs a better main event this year than the one it has coming up this weekend on paper on Friday Night Fights, I’ll be mighty surprised. Glen Johnson (#3) and Yusaf Mack (#7) are two of the top Ring magazine-ranked light heavyweights in the world, and the winner will get a shot at […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/31/2010
In a Boxing Monthly preview piece from 1999, Steve Farhood carried out an analysis of boxing “superfights” over a 20-year period. In order to determine just how many of the sport’s biggest nights were what they had been purported to be, the writer used a three-point criteria, which was as follows: Are both fighters in […]
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Jorge Arce hasn’t looked so hot the last year or so, but he mysteriously got another title shot and won it, beating Angky Angkota in a 7th round technical decision Saturday on Fox Sports Net to take the WBO junior bantamweight trinket. In the 1st round, Angkota was exploiting Arce’s weakness for people who don’t […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/30/2010
I guess this is just going to happen once a month or so in boxing now. We get a great fight and then we get a nauseating result. On Fox Sports Net Friday, Gabriel Campillo-Beibut Shumenov II had the makings of an excellent light heavyweight bout, and it delivered. But Campillo pretty clearly won the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/29/2010
From time to time, it occurs to me that I never have any action shots on the blog. It’s always stuff like Hieronymous Bosch paintings or people dressed up as gorillas or the occasional boxer standing or sitting around. So in honor of that, I’ve chosen an action-oriented graphic that relates to one of the […]
