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Olympic Boxing Guide And Schedule: The Quarterfinals Part One

With the Olympic men’s boxing quarterfinals upon us Sunday afternoon, a medal is just one step away. So, the podium does indeed await very, very soon, as our Patrick Connor wrote in a lovely piece earlier today. As such, we’ll look at each match-up rather than just hitting the highlights. First up are the bantamweights […]

Olympic Boxing Guide And Schedule: The Men’s Round Of 16 Part Three

Alex McClintock hands me the final leg of the Round of 16, Australian rule football style. Three weight classes wrap up this round, with two of them featuring gold medal-worthy match-ups. It’s like in the NBA, when one conference is so much better than the other that the (for example) Western Conference champion is strongly […]

Jesse Magdaleno Shows Off In Top Rank Showcase, Mercito Gesta Doesn’t Show Enough

Mercito Gesta has been fed easy fight after easy fight by promoter Top Rank, despite the lightweight prospect-shoud-be-a-contender-by-now having real skill and explosiveness and flying a flag — that of the Philippines — that is plenty marketable in boxing these days. But after his performance on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, maybe it ought to be […]

[UPDATE: REVERSAL!] Errol Spence Eliminated, Concluding Worst U.S. Olympic Boxing Showing Ever* (*But It Shouldn’t Have Been)

[UPDATE: Much of what I wrote below can now be ignored, because Errol Spence won his appeal. The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) has overturned the decision, which is the right call, saying that the referee should’ve issued warnings to Krishan Vikas that would have cost Vikas four points, which is a pretty strange basis […]

Olympic Boxing Guide And Schedule: The Men’s Round Of 16 Part Two

Controversy has engulfed the Olympic boxing once again, with a couple of terrible nights of scoring in London. Bad scoring and refereeing really suck, but we at TQBR are going to put on a brave face and continue to guide you through the competition. Friday we’ve got the men’s round of 16 in the flyweight […]

Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Tavoris Cloud, Marcos Maidana, Danny Garcia And Others

Rarely is the intersection of boxing and religion so unintentionally hilarious. (h/t TQBR unofficial visual consultant Che) Hey, howsabout 50 Cent’s TMT Promotions, huh? Starting with a stable of Yuriorkis Gamboa, Andre Dirrell, Andre Berto, Celestino Caballero, Zab Judah and Billy Dib — with the possibility of Floyd Mayweather, too — would give them a […]

The Three-Way Fight For Gold At Super Heavyweight

Super heavyweight (91kg+/200.6lb+),Olympic boxing’s glamour division, debuts at London 2012 Wednesday. Though the division was only split from heavyweight (91kg/200.6lb) in 1984, it would have been the home of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Teofilo Stevenson. In London it will be the division to watch, with a three way rivalry between three very […]

Olympic Boxing Guide and Schedule: The Draw And The Men’s Round Of 32

With the draw completed on Friday, the stage is set for Olympic boxing to begin in London. In our first preview and guide we’ll take a look at the first round of the men’s competition, beginning on Saturday afternoon, London time. It all starts out with a bantamweight match-up between Team USA’s Joseph Diaz, Jr. […]

Raymundo Beltran Upsets Hank Lundy In A Hank Lundy Fight

There is no such thing as a bad Hank Lundy fight, and Raymundo Beltran was the perfect dance partner, stylistically. But Beltran was a bit too good substantially, too, and the long-time Manny Pacquiao sparring partner upset Lundy on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights by majority decision. Lundy, a top 10 lightweight coming in, had a […]

Depth Charge: Robert Guerrero Vs. Selcuk Aydin Preview And Prediction

It’s hard to see any bad in Robert Guerrero moving up two divisions to welterweight to take on hard-punching Selcuk Aydin Saturday on Showtime — it’s a daring bit of matchmaking for Guerrero and his promoter, Golden Boy, to get him into the Floyd Mayweather sweepstakes, and stacks up as a pretty decent action fight […]

Quick Jabs: Olympics Edition

With the London Olympics opening ceremony kicking off Friday, Alex McClintock has written a couple advance items on the boxing picture already for TQBR, but we’re just getting started: We’ll have coverage of Olympic boxing all throughout the Games, from features on the ladies to some historical look backs and more and more and more, […]

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