0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/3/2013
(May 18, 2013; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Lucas Matthysse celebrates after his victory over Lamont Peterson [not pictured] in their welterweight bout at Boardwalk Hall. Matthysse won via 3rd round TKO. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) We've got two new top-20 pound-for-pounders, movement from people exiting and movement from at least one more noteworthy win […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/1/2013
It's easy to be overshadowed by Gennady Golovkin, unless you, too, are 160 pounds worth of walking drone strike. Don't overlook this fight between featherweights Daniel Diaz and Robert Marroquin, though, which aired on Solo Boxeo. It starts with Marroquin going down twice in the 1st round and messing up his knee, only for him […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/30/2013
(Mashantucket, CT, USA; Junior middleweights Gennady Golovkin [blue trunks] and Matthew Macklin [green trunks] box during their middleweight bout at Foxwoods Resort and Casino-MGM Grand Theatre. Golovkin won via third round knockout. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) Matthew Macklin deserved the win over Felix Sturm. Matthew Macklin might have beaten middleweight champion Sergio Martinez on […]
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0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/29/2013
No frills — just some fights in the works, one involving the man above, some others involving the guys in the headline and some others involving some other dudes too. Golden Boy Promotions has some ideas for Adrien Broner's next fight — Amir Khan, Devon Alexander, Victor Ortiz, Robert Guerrero. Those four welterweights are in […]
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Oh, how hard it can be to discern accurate info from the boxing media. You can get sucked into a quicksand quagmire, no smarter than before you read any given article based on incomplete information or agendas. Sometimes even when the boxing media is operating at its peak, the information is still hard to come […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/26/2013
There is little of Adrien Broner in Gennady Golovkin, and vice versa. Where Broner is loquatious, oversharing, crass and jewel-bedecked, Golovkin barely speaks English to avoid being mocked, doesn't trash-talk or fess up to anything he doesn't have to and has been dubbed in one headline "The Working Man's Champion." Perhaps they share fight-ending power, […]
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(Ken Buchanan, on his knees, as Roberto Duran walks away; via) The anniversary of one of the most controversial fights in the history of boxing falls this week. It was on June 26, 1972 that a young and hungry Panamanian by the name of Roberto Duran faced Scotland’s world lightweight champion Ken Buchanan at Madison […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/25/2013
That's your fight of the weekend above, if you were otherwise busy keeping track of who was banging whom and how seriously between Adrien Broner and Paulie Malignaggi. Krzysztof Wlodarczyk hasn't always done it with ease, and Rakhim Chakhkiev made his life very, very hard, but Wlodarczyk has amassed quite a cruiserweight record. And Chakhkiev […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/22/2013
When last we saw Rances Barthelemy on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights, he was keeping his perfect record via a judges' decision with which few agreed. This time out, he landed a nearly perfect shot with a right uppercut to the solar plexus of Fahsai Sakkreerin in the 2nd round; no judges necessary after that. Barthelemy […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/21/2013
A distasteful malevolence curled its tendrils around the promotion for this Saturday’s welterweight boxing match between Adrien Broner and Paulie Malignaggi from its onset, choking out much talk of the actual bout and choking out any appeal it might have had for people whose tolerance for boxing’s endless capacity for ugliness reached its limit. The […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/16/2013
(Mikey Garcia drops Juan Manuel Lopez; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) Any hopes that Juan Manuel Lopez would have half a chance Saturday night on HBO because Mikey Garcia struggled and failed to make the featherweight limit got cut down to zero after the very 1st round, the only competitive round of the fight. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/15/2013
Gregg Popovich, you fashionable rogue you. The San Antonio Spurs coach is a trendsetter in interview stylings, at least, if nothing else. Like the men said, junior middleweight Arturo Trujillo made short work of Anthony Watson in his pro debut this weekend, then made short work of his post-fight chat with NBC Sports broadcaster Chris […]
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(Sergey Kovalev downs Cornelius White; credit: Larry Levanti, Main Events) It was an early night, in every sense of the phrase, for the winners Friday on NBC Sports and ESPN2. The action had wrapped up before 11 p.m. ET, and the top match-ups on each card finished in knockouts or technical knockouts. In the NBC […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/14/2013
What remains of the Juan Manuel Lopez who stormed onto the HBO airwaves in 2008, inspiring broadcaster Max Kellerman to enthuse, "A star is born!"? The glimmers of greatness he showed then have steadily dimmed, certainly. He replaced excellence with pure excitement, though, and became a different kind of star. One thing held steady from […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/11/2013
(credit: Esther Lin, Showtime) Boxing makes fools of us, again and again. Like most everyone, I was convinced that Erislandy Lara-Alfredo Angulo would be a sad, one-sided beatdown by the crafty Lara of the paleolithic and shopworn Angulo. Like most everyone, I thought the sublimely talented Chad Dawson would have too much sublime talent for […]
