0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/12/2013
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez on Showtime pay-per-view on Sept. 14. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Alvarez; a special edition of TQBR Radio; the undercard and week's schedule, previewed; keys to the fight parts I and II; how good Mayweather-Alvarez could be. Next: […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/10/2013
British boxing’s keenest rivalry remains, for now, unrequited: Bury stylist Scott Quigg and Belfast’s Carl Frampton are yet to spin the penny on their potential junior featherweight jackpot. Rather than holding, though, hoping for the reels to get hot, the duo are bidding to acquire world title belts in order to maximise their winnings: converting […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez on Showtime pay-per-view on Sept. 14. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Alvarez; a special edition of TQBR Radio; the undercard and week's schedule, previewed; keys to the fight part I; how good Mayweather-Alvarez could be. Next: preview and […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez on Showtime pay-per-view on Sept. 14. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Alvarez; a special edition of TQBR Radio; the undercard and week's schedule, previewed. Next: how good Mayweather-Alvarez could be. Mind. Matter. How do Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/9/2013
So begins our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez on Showtime pay-per-view Sept. 14. Now: putting Mayweather-Alvarez in context. Next: a special TQBR Radio program preview. If you haven't heard before that boxing is dead or dying, it's probably because you haven't been paying attention for […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/8/2013
(Chris Arreola celebrates as Seth Mitchell is halted by the ref; photo credit: Esther Lin, Showtime) Once-vaunted heavyweight prospect Seth Mitchell didn't just fly into the danger zone Saturday on Showtime — he damn near was on a kamikaze mission, signing to fight Chris Arreola, a boxer whose strengths and weaknesses so completely negated Mitchell's […]
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0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/7/2013
It never fails to astound how often this happens in boxing: Everyone scoring the fight, from the broadcasters to people on Twitter, tips it to the visiting fighter from another region of the world; everyone fears that the judges will save the neighborhood kid by the scruff of his neck; that's what they do; and […]
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She's so cute in that video in her boxing robe, is Alexis Krauss, that I don't even mind that it's something of a subpar song by Sleigh Bell standards. This is the previously promised last bit of business before we fully turn our attention to flooding the site with coverage of Sept. 14's Floyd Mayweather-Canelo […]
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(Seth Mitchell, left, Chris Arreola, right; credit: Esther Lin, Showtime) For as much as has been made of heavyweight Chris Arreola not being such a giant fat ass for the last year plus, it's also not the case that he ever looks fully prepared. Maybe it won't matter against Seth Mitchell, who probably won't be […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/3/2013
We saw this coming: Ex-contender Luis Collazo heading up any televised card wasn't likely to produce a meaningful outcome, or a thrill a minute. And his win over Alan Sanchez Monday on Fox Sports went exactly as foretold. Despite what the fawning Fox Sports 1 commentary team of Paulie Malignaggi and Castle Chalice (the real […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/2/2013
Boxers are fairly unique among human beings in that they regularly and consciously place themselves in harm's way as part of their job description. The list of such instinct-defying professions is short: It includes other kinds of fighters, mixed martial artists, say, or Secret Service agents, who are trained to turn themselves into meat shields. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/30/2013
What if… there existed another universe where fighters were ranked pound-for-pound — i.e., who's best regardless of weight — based nothing at all on any actual evidence from what a fighter had actually accomplished? A dimension where some figure or the other just points at a fighter and says, "I think he looks like he's […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/29/2013
Australian junior middleweight prospect Craig Hill, Jr. couldn’t get past the veteran smarts of Rey Anton Olarte in Brisbane on Thursday night. Olarte (17-23-9, 4 KO), who took the fight on a week’s notice, managed to make things awkward and was in much better condition than his record might indicate. Hill (9-0-1, 8 KO) also […]
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(Juan Francisco Estrada) There's some tricky business to deal with in the latest update period, not that there is a whole lot of change afoot in this list of top 20 boxers on the planet, regardless of their weight. One issue was that two fighters in the top 10 are approaching one year of inactivity, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/27/2013
That's Canelo Alvarez getting his romance novel cover on, from a still from Saturday's episode of All Access. The episode gave people plenty of things to laugh about and talk about besides Canelo's topless bareback adventure, which marks an improvement from the Showtime series' handling of Floyd Mayweather's last fight. We had Mayweather vocally hoping […]
