Australian Boxing Might Explode Off The Planet — But It Shouldn’t

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/23/2014

(July 26; New York; Gennady Golovkin [white gloves] reacts after knocking out Daniel Geale [black gloves] during their middleweight bout at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) In the win-loss measurement of things, Australian boxing has had a terrible few weeks. First Daniel Geale got smashed quickly by Gennady Golovkin. Then Blake Caparello […]

Floyd Mayweather Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/22/2014

(The good old [less funny] days of 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vskxj22-1c#t=256 Y kant Floyd read? Or maybe he can and the above clip of him trying to read isn’t as damning as it sounds because he was on muscle relaxers or something. Either way, Floyd Mayweather’s old pal 50 Cent is brutalizing him over […]

Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Mayweather, Pacquiao Undercards, Gennady Golovkin, Others

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/19/2014

(Dec. 12, Seattle — Jay-Z speaks with an acquaintance before a press conference to introduce new Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano [not pictured] at Safeco Field. Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports) That’s not just a picture of Jay-Z for no reason(able doubt). The Jigga Man’s Roc Nation has rather quickly started making a splash […]

Porter Vs. Brook Results: Kell Brook Upsets Shawn Porter In America

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/16/2014

(Kell Brook celebrates the verdict; photo by Esther Lin, Showtime) It was anybody’s guess how the judges would score Kell Brook vs. Shawn Porter after 12 rounds, based on how wildly divergent fans and writers were calling it on social media. But most people had it for Brook in a rough-and-tumble, even unattractive fight, and […]

Dirrell Vs. Bika Results: Anthony Dirrell Wins Ugly Rematch

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The first fight was competitive, and not as messy; the second fight was downright ugly, but Anthony Dirrell turned a draw into a clear win Saturday night on Showtime against Sakio Bika. Referee Jack Reiss was arguably the main character in this super middleweight do-over, sometimes for good and sometimes for ill. Early on, he […]

Figueroa Vs. Estrada Results: Omar Figueroa Gets Gross Cut, Storms Out For KO Win

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Omar Figueroa had the kind of ghastly cut from a head butt where he could’ve begged out and let the bout go to the scorecards and win that way. His corner wanted that Saturday night on Showtime. Figueroa wanted the opposite. He stormed out of the corner and stopped Daniel Estrada in the very next […]

Showtime Extreme Results: Jorge Linares, Deontay Wilder Score Tune-Up Stoppages

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Jorge Linares and Deontay Wilder both dispatched their tune-up opponents Saturday on Sho Extreme, the former more impressively than the latter. Linares (above right), a super-talented lightweight still haunted by a trio of knockout losses, didn’t have to worry about his chin much against undersized journeyman Ira Terry (left), and only needed two dominant rounds […]

FNF Results: Shafikov Breaks Nugaev’s Face

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/15/2014

A violent war between two Russian hardasses ended with Denis Shafikov badly damaging Rustam Nugaev’s face en route to a stoppage victory on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights. The two lightweights went right at it as if they didn’t once live together at an earlier phase of their careers, with Nugaev slightly outworking Shafikov through the first […]

Metronomic, Syncopated: Porter Vs. Brook Preview And Prediction

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Hey, this is more like it this coming Saturday, Showtime. You don’t have to put on a tripleheader like last Saturday’s that produces, mainly, scorn. You can put on one that is evenly-matched, like what was happening last year more often than in 2014. The fight atop the card this Saturday is a nice meeting […]

Weekend Afterthoughts: Fight Of The Year Candidate(s); Defending Garcia-Salka; More

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/11/2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-vV0iqOtRk The above fight is one of two to get Fight of the Year buzz from this past weekend, buzz that was overshadowed by the absolute disgrace that was the Showtime tripleheader headlined by Danny Garcia vs. Rod Salka. For my money, the video of Francisco Rodriguez, Jr. vs. Katsunari Takayama doesn’t really start taking […]

50 Ways To Kill A Boxing Match

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/5/2014

To fans of other sports, it’s just so obvious: The Spurs face the Heat in the NBA Finals because of course they do; the Spurs won the Western Conference and the Heat won the Eastern Conference and the two winners decide the champion. In boxing, it is never so simple, and it is especially complicated […]

Quick Jabs: Hopkins Vs. Kovalev Ramifications, Arum’s Orgy, Conte’s Trustworthiness

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/4/2014

That Vice Sports interview between Carmelo Anthony and Daniel Jacobs doesn’t really get going until about five minutes in, but it’s good after that. We won’t take five minutes getting into a juicy Quick Jabs, which delves into the topics in the headline, the popularity (or lack thereof) of Gennady Golovkin, some wacky business involving […]

[UPDATED] Rios Vs. Chaves Results: Brandon Rios Wins By Controversial Disqualification

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/2/2014

(Diego Chaves, left, Brandon Rios, right; via @hboboxing) Referee Vic Drakulich got all up in the business of Brandon Rios and Diego Chaves Saturday night on HBO, deducting points from both men, then ultimately disqualifying Chaves in a bunk call. It was, to be fair, a fight with plenty of fouls. Chaves held a lot. […]

Kovalev Vs. Caparello Results: Kovalev With Early KO, Hopkins Next

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Sergey Kovalev suffered a fluke knockdown in the 1st round, which only seemed to make him angry, and stopped Blake Caparello in the very next round. Lesson for the night on HBO so far: Do not make Kovalev angry. Caparello scored a knockdown that was abetted by an apparent step on Kovalev’s foot in combination […]

Jessie Vargas Beats Anton Novikov Via Worst Trio Of Scorecards You Can Imagine

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We got a close, hard-fought bout Saturday on HBO between Anton Novikov and Jessie Vargas, one that most seemed to think Novikov won, but the judges, just plain hallucinating or something even worse, all saw Vargas winning by a very wide margin. Vargas, from Las Vegas, fighting in Las Vegas and promoted by Las Vegas-based […]

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