0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/26/2012
There’s going to be a lot of boxing to watch at the Olympics. With 32 fighters in each of the 10 male weight brackets and 16 in the female divisions, there’ll be literally hundreds of fights. So unless you plan on neither sleeping nor bathing for the next two weeks, you’ll have to focus your […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/25/2012
See, Adrien Broner? Your fake marriage proposal would’ve been plenty attention-getting; you didn’t have to miss weight, too. For as much as Broner’s weigh-in shenanigans consumed the boxing world, the one thing about Broner’s fight from the past weekend that got exposure outside the boxing world was the video above. In this edition of Weekend […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/22/2012
We almost didn’t get Saturday night’s card on HBO because Adrien Broner unprofessionally failed to make weight and put his junior lightweight bout against Vicente Escobedo in jeopardy. Judging from the outcome, we might not have missed much. Certainly, Broner is a visibly sparkling talent whose performances are worth watching, and welterweight Keith Thurman showed […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/20/2012
The Scene: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan — February 11, 1990. Mike Tyson, the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, battles unheralded Ohio man James “Buster” Douglas in the seventh defence of his unified crown. An imperious force, Tyson had been expected to despatch Douglas with ease yet, as we join the HBO commentary team of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/18/2012
(Saul Alvarez, left, faces off against Josesito Lopez; photo credit: Carlos Baeza, Thompson Boxing Promotions) Sometimes it feels like Golden Boy and Top Rank are fighting each other more than they are putting on fights, the latter befitting of boxing’s two top promoters. Tuesday was the latest occasion that this destructive feud was on display, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/15/2012
“I’ve got more speed than Lightning McQueen,” said Anthony Mundine after his 7th round knockout victory over Bronco McKart in Las Vegas Saturday night on Wealth TV pay-per-view — probably the first, and most likely the last, reference ever made to Disney/Pixar’s “Cars” in a professional boxing ring. Sydney’s Mundine (44-4, 26KO) more or less […]
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Danny Garcia pulled the rug out from underneath Amir Khan Saturday on HBO, delivering a stunning upset via technical knockout against a far more acclaimed fighter as a 5-1 underdog or worse. Khan already had the rug pulled out from underneath him once, in his last fight, a loss against Lamont Peterson that made a […]
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David Haye found some of the old rocket fuel that originally propelled him into boxing stardom Saturday on Epix, downing Dereck Chisora in a grubby British grudge match that lived up to the sordid hype and ended in an explosive combination from Haye that reminded you why you cared in the first place. The last […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/13/2012
Sources within the camp of San Francisco junior welterweight contender Karim Mayfield (16-0-1, 10 KOs) informed TQBR Friday that the headlining bout for the Aug. 17 edition of ESPN2 Friday Night Fights will likely be Mayfield and Mauricio Herrera (18-2, 7 KOs) of Lake Elsinore, Calif. at a venue still to be determined in Mayfield’s […]
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Every few weeks in boxing, it feels like we’re saying about the weekend’s upcoming match-up, “Not bad, for a replacement fight.” Or maybe it just seems that way because it has only been a few weeks between one replacement fight for a hotly anticipated rematch of a 2011 Fight of the Year candidate and another. […]
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(David Haye, left; Dereck Chisora, right) Britain’s fight trade, concerned with the prospect of boxing fading from the national consciousness during a long and heady summer of sport, need not have succumbed to fret. Amid blanket coverage centred on home fortunes at Euro 2012, Wimbledon and the forthcoming London Olympics, the ugliest sister of them […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/11/2012
For a couple hours, it looked like maybe Golden Boy Promotions would beat Main Events to one of the big four networks after all, and the vehicle was to be the back of that freckled, red-headed Mexican kewpie doll Canelo Alvarez. ESPN’s Dan Rafael quoted unnamed sources saying Alvarez-Josesito Lopez was “likely” to be on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/10/2012
Somehow I overlooked that fine illustration of Floyd Mayweather being frightened by prison food several days back when it appeared in The Las Vegas Review Journal. Only when I was tweeted it by @LoNeRaNgEr100 did I notice it, so we made it the boxing tweet of the week over at our Facebook page. I have […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/9/2012
Q: What does Javier Fortuna have in common with Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer? A: Garbo and Shearer were nominated for best actress Academy Awards twice each because of their work in four separate movies in 1930, and Javier Fortuna now has a pair of Knockout of the Year candidates in 2012, meaning he’s competing […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/7/2012
Wladimir Klitschko continued his machinelike demolition of the heavyweight division, knocking out Tony Thompson in the 6th round in a rematch in Berne, Switzerland to maintain his stranglehold on the heavyweight championship. A crushing right hand from Klitschko in the 5th round dropped Thompson in a heap, but Thompson demonstrated heart and determination that far […]
