0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/31/2014
It was, by the measure of the 80,000 fans in attendance, the biggest British fight ever. And it was Carl Froch, the man who currently rules the British scene, who established his conclusive supremacy on HBO over fellow British super middleweight George Groves with a fearsome knockout that was in no way as controversial as […]
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[UPDATE: HBO has aired the fight. Some commentary on that below.] This is a post about what happened in the Nonito Donaire vs. Simpiwe Vetyeka featherweight fight in Macau, China. Since the fight will air live on HBO this afternoon, anyone who doesn’t want a spoiler should stop reading now. OK:
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/30/2014
This is how chock full of boxing this weekend is: One of the best 10 or 15 fighters alive — from one of the most boxing-mad countries on the planet — is fighting Saturday on HBO against perhaps the #1 fighter in his division, and it’s been overshadowed by Carl Froch vs. George Groves II […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/27/2014
Awww, remember when these two were pals for about 30 seconds after they first fought? Super middleweights Carl Froch (left) and George Groves (right) have done nothing but squabble since then, from whether there would be a rematch to the financial terms to awkward in-person confrontations to arguing over which referee and judges would officiate. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/25/2014
Even though D.C.-area prospect Mike Reed will be fighting outside of his backyard for the first time in his pro career when he travels to Atlantic City June 14, in a way, it’s nothing new for him. “I mean, it’s cool,” Reed said in a weekend interview. But, “It’s really not a big deal. As […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/24/2014
(Adonis Stevenson, right, throws at Andrzej Fonfara; credit: Stephanie Trapp, Showtime) From the very start, the expected Adonis Stevenson rout was on: The first clean left he landed on Andrzej Fonfara dropped him. Even the first whole half of Stevenson’s Showtime debut Saturday still had the air of the lineal light heavyweight champion getting a […]
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For half a round, busted prospect Fernando Guerrero acted like he might give fellow busted prospect David Lemieux a challenge on Showtime Saturday night, jabbing and staying at distance. Then Lemieux did what Lemieux does, which is to hit people very, very, very hard, and Guerrero spent the next two and a half rounds on […]
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Showtime Extreme gave us a chance Saturday to get a look at two well-regarded young fighters, Eleider Alvarez and Julian Williams. Both won, but Alvarez didn’t live up to his hype the way Williams did to his. Granted, Alvarez faced the better competition of the two, befitting a fighter who is just now flirting with […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/23/2014
A delegate of Russia’s lupine assault on boxing of late did his part to maul the competition on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, as lightweight Petr Petrov snatched Fernando Carcamo between his teeth after a cautious 1st round and wouldn’t let go until the referee ripped him away. The moment when the referee rescued him, tardily, […]
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Willie Monroe, Jr. was a non-entity for the most part before entering ESPN2’s middleweight Boxcino tournament, and he surprised us all along his route to the finale. On Friday, he surprised again, thoroughly outboxing and at times outslugging Brandon Adams for the unanimous decision. You could give two to three rounds to Adams, tops, as […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/22/2014
This Saturday, light heavyweight champion of the world Adonis Stevenson makes his debut on Showtime, a downpayment that will begin to determine how much uncanny punching power it takes to erase fans’ animosity for spoiling perhaps the best fight in boxing. That fight, a drool-worthy match-up with Sergey Kovalev, is the subject of litigation after […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/21/2014
(Brian Kenny and Floyd Mayweather, after breaking bread) Welcome, Awful Announcing readers visiting The Queensberry Rules for the first time, and welcome, TQBR regulars. Somehow, we couldn’t fit everything we wanted in the 6,000 (!) word piece we teamed up on over there about the five-year anniversary of Brian Kenny’s sizzling interview with Floyd Mayweather […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/17/2014
Yes, yes, #cancelcolbert and everything, but it just makes sense: This is Round And Round, and it’s a short version of Round And Round, thus, Short Round from Indiana Jones. Besides the men in the headline in this regular column featuring fights in the works, we have rounded-up news on Gennady Golovkin, Deontay Wilder, Mauricio […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/16/2014
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That’s boxer-lawyer Lovemore Ndou. We have various boxing-related legal matters to discuss in this edition of Quick Jabs, so he’s a fitting avatar. For instance: Jonathan Koh just published in the Southern California Law Review this paper on the regulatory and legal issues surrounding performance enhancing drugs in boxing. It’s very smart, and I don’t […]
