0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/14/2015
On Tuesday came news that Main Events, the promoter of Sergey Kovalev, had withdrawn him from a purse bid for a fight with light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, thus, again, ensuring that one of the best couple match-ups in the sport is not going to happen anytime soon. The whole ordeal reverses who’s most to blame […]
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(Danny Garcia, left, Lamont Peterson trainer Barry Hunter, right; via PBC on Twitter) Hope you’re enjoying your week sandwiched between good boxing weekends. We’ll have more on this upcoming weekend as the week goes on, but maybe you didn’t like how this past weekend played out. You might have missed some things! We had a […]
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Former heavyweight champ Riddick Bowe has been getting all kinds of media attention Tuesday for his vow to tweet anything for $20 (although word on the
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/11/2015
Frank Galarza exploded for a knockout Friday on ShoBox, while two newish pro Ukrainian fighters had comparatively different wins on Showtime’s prospect-oriented program. Galarza (pictured above, via @shosports) has shown a knack for sudden knockouts on ShoBox, having pulled a similar trick to start 2014. The junior middleweight’s victim this time was Sheldon Moore, and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/10/2015
We probably won’t get an authentic borderline contender from the latest editions of the ESPN’s Boxcino tournament format like we did the previous two, but on Friday night we at least got something worth watching in all four bouts, or three, depending on how much you can tolerate grotesquely swollen ears that lead to a […]
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The sweetest thing we’ve gotten yet from Al Haymon’s aspired-for 2015 boxing takeover, or that we’re even scheduled to get, arrives Saturday night when Danny Garcia faces Lamont Peterson on NBC’s “Premier Boxing Champions.” Anyone embittered by the manner in which it has arrived is entitled. Yet a pugilistic confection it remains. We were forced to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/8/2015
We are sandwiched between weekends of two true divisional champions: light heavyweight king Adonis Stevenson last weekend, junior welterweight champ Danny Garcia next. It’s the kind of thing to make one take note of the caliber of the class of the current champion corps. There’s a lot of weakness there — guys not really defending their […]
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Floyd Mayweather today bought something expensive, tacky and obscene. The cost of the item exceeded the annual salary of at least an upper middle class household. Floyd Mayweather will only use the item once. Floyd Mayweather might as well have just thrown the amount of money he spent on the item up in the air […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/7/2015
The “Premier Boxing Champions” monster just keeps gobbling up territory. No longer content with moving from the new(ish) school of HBO and Showtime to the old(ish) school of network/free TV, it’s going even further back to an old(er) school (kinda?) in radio. Namely, satellite radio (which is newer school than regular radio). This week a deal […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/6/2015
So here it is. The “official commercial” (according to a news release) for Floyd Mayweather Vs Manny Pacquiao. Accept no substitutes. No “unofficial commercials” allowed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f1h0yFzigc&feature=youtu.be It’s not the kind of fight that needs much hyping, so it’s a fairly minimalist commercial. Plus, some rubes like me will just put it on their website for […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/4/2015
Did you buy any of that? Light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson easily handled an aging, clumsy (yet sturdy) super middleweight in Sakio Bika in CBS’ afternoon broadcast of “Premier Boxing Champions,” landing the same punch over and over again and showboating. Then, at the end, Brent Stover, during the post-fight interview, declared it an “epic […]
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A one-sided fight ended with a nasty exclamation point on “Premier Boxing Champions” Saturday afternoon, with Artur Beterbiev introducing the CBS wing of the series with a brutal knockout of Gabriel Campillo. This was not unexpected. Campillo was once a dangerous light heavyweight, but short of an upset win over prospect Thomas Williams, Jr., he hasn’t […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/3/2015
It was nothing pretty, but it got the job done for Petr Petrov: The long-sidelined Russian returned to Friday Night Fights, the forum for his rise, to defeat Gamaliel Diaz by a ragged unanimous decision on ESPN2. There was nothing unclear about the victory, no matter how much Diaz (above left) tried to muddy it […]
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Read this story about the last man to beat Floyd Mayweather (no, not Jose Luis Castillo — ZING) and weep. It’s a great, tragic tale about Serafim Todorov. Then, read up below for some thoughts on the latest Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao news, with some brief accompanying analytical thoughts. (Some of them, among other topics, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/28/2015
(Gary Russell, Jr.; credit: Esther Lin, Showtime) Twice in the past year, Gary Russell, Jr. has challenged elite competition after facing nothing like it for his whole career. The first result, against Vasyl Lomachenko, was a gritty showing against an Olympic great, but the loss was also a reckoning for a pro run that prepared […]
