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0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/27/2014
Three mismatches on paper become one on Showtime Saturday night, as Lucas Matthysse had to overcome a pair of knockdowns to beat John Molina in a fight where both men were coated in about one inch of blood head to toe, while action figure Omar Figueroa had to settle for a split decision win against […]
Paulie Malignaggi; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/22/2014
Are there even enough words, enough “elephantiasis of the balls”-style puns? Or does one shake his head and offer none? If Paulie Malignaggi’s loss this past weekend leads to his retirement, as he has said he might, we can count on a lot fewer of these kind of stunts to brighten/sully/whatever the sport. It’s just […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/15/2014
Manny Pacquiao’s mom loves Jesus, but maybe she has a little bit of that Santeria in her. This is not a full-fledged Weekend Afterthoughts, really, because I’m in Indonesia for a spell (no pun intended) and some fights from the past weekend have been difficult for me to track down. So we’ll confine ourselves mainly […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/11/2014
(Manny Pacquiao poses with Bob Dylan,
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So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest bouts of 2014, Timothy Bradley vs. Manny Pacquiao II, on April 12 on HBO Pay-Per-View. Previously: a primer on the rematch; a Bradley-Pacquiao edition of TQBR Radio; keys to the fight; the undercard, previewed; a staff roundtable. Next: the Ultimate Guide. To the devoted boxing fan base, Timothy Bradley vs. Manny […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/9/2014
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest bouts of 2014, Timothy Bradley vs. Manny Pacquiao II, on April 12 on HBO Pay-Per-View. Previously: a primer on the rematch; a Bradley-Pacquiao edition of TQBR Radio. Next: the undercard, previewed. Mind. Matter. How do Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley stack up in those categories? […]
Timothy Bradley, standing at right, Manny Pacquiao, sitting
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/7/2014
So begins our marathon coverage of one of the biggest bouts of 2014, Timothy Bradley vs. Manny Pacquiao II, on April 12 on HBO Pay-Per-View. Next: Keys to the fight. How fitting it is that in this dreadful, murky year for boxing so far, in which the sport has sunken down into a depressing morass, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/6/2014
That’s the heavyweight fight people were gaga about this weekend: Steve Cunningham winning a tight battle against Amir Mansour on NBC Sports, one bloody, the other swollen, a power puncher vs. a boxer, both men on the canvas, a close decision win for Cunningham. It was more consistently good than the undercard bout, between middleweights […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/5/2014
You think you know all the kinds of boxing, and along comes the chicken variety. A Lousiana state senator, you see, is raising questions about a bill meant to increase restrictions on cockfighting, because he fears it could cut back on the “legitimate” sport of chicken boxing, which, yes, involves chickens with boxing gloves on […]
Sergey Kovalev; credit: Rich Graessle/Main Events
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/29/2014
We’ve gotten used to light heavyweight power puncher Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev krushing everyone in short order, so it was mildly disruptive of the pattern on HBO Saturday that unheralded Cedric Agnew took seven rounds to get krushed. Yet get krushed he did, posing only slightly more difficult target practice than usual. In the sense that […]
Thomas Dulorme holds off Karim Mayfield; credit: Rich Graessle/Main Events
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Judging from the 1st round, Thomas Dulorme was going to be too quick, too big and too powerful Saturday night on HBO against fellow junior welterweight Karim Mayfield. But the fight went through a few metamorphoses, ending up with Dulorme pulling out a unanimous decision win that was anything but resounding. Dulorme hurt Mayfield twice […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/28/2014
Which staged-seeming heavyweight video to start this dual “fights in the works”/”news roundup and analysis” post with? Throwing a shoe or overturning a table? We’ll go with Shannon Briggs throwing a shoe at the champion, Wladimir Klitschko, and then with Tyson Fury throwing a table in advance of his rematch with Dereck Chisora. QUICK JABS […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/26/2014
This will be a screed disguised as a fight preview. But then, the fight that is being “previewed” was itself a preview of a fight we actually cared about, and that will have to take on a new disguise now. Thus, the screed. There is no one — outside the usual friends and family — […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/25/2014
Short weekend, few afterthoughts to reflect upon: Tony Thompson vs. Odlanier Solis. Maybe I was being a Washington, D.C., homer, but I didn’t see much of a case for Solis winning this heavyweight clash, as one of the three judges did. I didn’t have Solis winning that many rounds overall, although I did not score […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/19/2014
(via) It's not crazy to think a boxing match could be fixed, that someone took a dive. It's just that sometimes, there's a viable explanation. Like, a boxer gets hit on the temple — a historical knockout button — by a heavyweight with not only a reputation for big knockout power, but evident knockout power […]
