0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/20/2012
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — As he approached the dais at Thursday afternoon's press conference, it was apparent that French Cameroonian middleweight beltholder Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam was a bit starstruck. N'Jikam opened up by saying his English was not very good, but conducted himself rather eloquently, not needing his French translator for the duration of his statements. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/19/2012
Showtime will once more test its "more is better" theory on the airwaves Saturday, and this time the four-fight slate is a modest upgrade in quality over the last high-quantity Showtime card from this past summer. The main event is not a dreadful-on-paper cruiserweight bout between Antonio Tarver and Lateef Kayode, but rather a rematch […]
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Time to go all "admin" for a second, just like a penguin butler: To the left, you'll now notice the list of Transnational Boxing Rankings Board champions. But more importantly for this site, over on the right you'll now see Joseph R. Holzer has joined the staff. He's been doing good stuff for us and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/18/2012
It’s been one week since the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board sprung to life, and it’s been an eventful debut for that new enterprise I helped co-found to clarify boxing’s championship picture. We got a mention on the Wall Street Journal’s website; I did an interview here with The Classical, a terrific sports blog; East Side […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/17/2012
David Lemieux is long removed from his golden prospect status, but there's still a warehouse full of TNT in him, and if he can just get his act together, he can be a contender to watch. For now, his most recent Knockout of the Year candidate is docked a few points for quality of competition, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/14/2012
CARSON, Calif.– Nonito Donaire did it again. He notched a victory over yet another notable name as he starched Tokyo's Toshiaki Nishioka in nine rounds in front of a capacity crowd at the Home Depot Center in the main event of HBO World Championship Boxing […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/12/2012
One would have to try awfully hard to outdo some of the hyperbole already out there about the HBO-televised bout Saturday between Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado — “all-time classic,” reads one headline, and “fight of the century,” offers one commenter at this site — but you’d also have to try pretty hard to deny […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/11/2012
(News Release) The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board An Opening Bell for Reform The purchase of THE RING by Golden Boy Promotions in 2007 provoked immediate questions about its independence. The dismissal of Nigel Collins and several editorial staff in 2011 and a series of questionable ratings decisions by the new editors were followed by an […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/10/2012
For the better part of this year, Don “Da Bomb” George has been waiting for “Superman.” George (23-2-1, 20 KOs) is scheduled to face Adonis “Superman” Stevenson in a super middleweight bout on Friday. The winner receives a shot at IBF titlist Carl Froch, according to the sanctioning body. “This fight is overdue,” George told […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/9/2012
It’s a good weekend for boxing when the big question is, “Which of two excellent bouts was better?” My vote is forthcoming, but video at the end of the post will allow you to make up your own mind. Adrian Hernandez-Kompayak Porpramook II. The picture was a giveaway. I vote for the one with “porp.” […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/7/2012
(Andre Ward pops Chad Dawson) It’s been three months since we updated the pound-for-pound list of the best fighters in the world, but one of those months, July, featured literally nothing happening for anyone who could be considered one of the 20 best, so we waited for a more reasonable two-month interval to pass. Those […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/5/2012
Those are the appendages of Michael Constantino, who’s making his pro boxing debut Oct. 27 in New York on a Sadam Ali card you can watch via pay-per-view, per a news release. How will a boxer with one fist box? I honestly don’t know — none of the stories I can find explain if he […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/4/2012
In the Wild West that is the boxing community, and boxing alone, calling someone a “faggot” hardly inspires even the blink of an eye; in fact, some praise such behavior as the sport commendably persisting as a final bastion for politically incorrect high jinks. By contrast, when a baseball player writes, in eye black, the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/3/2012
Vic Darchinyan warned us he would win. He warned his opponent from last weekend, Orlando Del Valle, too. Lots of fighters dish that kind of smack before a fight. Only Darchinyan would trash tralk his own promoter, Gary Shaw, the one he shares with Del Valle. “Shaw should not have invested his money in Del […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/30/2012
Edwin Rodriguez, Vic Darchinyan and Antonin Decarie were the winners in tonight’s prospect-themed HBO Boxing After Dark triple-header from Connecticut. Though not typical HBO fare, the three fights proved interesting, if not evenly matched. (Vic Darchinyan, left, laying into Luis Del Valle; photo credit: Ed Mullholand, HBO) In the main event, Edwin Rodriguez (22-0) beat […]
