0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/6/2012
Amateur boxing doesn’t get a whole lot of love from fans of the professional side of the sport. Words like “boring,” “mechanical” and “pitty-pat punching” tend to get thrown around a fair bit. Not that “Pitty-pat punching” is a word, in the strictest sense. Fans don’t like the headgear, they don’t like the scoring system […]
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These two fights on HBO Saturday night — Nonito Donaire-Jeffrey Mathebula, Kelly Pavlik-Will Rosinsky — weren’t on anyone’s wish list, but they do serve their purposes. Donaire, one of the best boxers in the world of any weight, and Pavlik, the fallen middleweight champion, get something out of this, and so do we, even if […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/5/2012
U.K. fight fans are presented with a glut of bouts (of differing appeal and quality) to sieve through this weekend. Sky Sports, who once monopolised boxing coverage on these shores, embark upon a period of reduced output whereas Mick Hennessy, shunned for years by the very same network, continues to flourish under the umbrella of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/2/2012
We’ve had a lot of false starts and potential left unfulfilled in the last couple years when it has come to live boxing reappearing on the big four networks. But a news release Monday now says it’s actually going to happen. And it’s a baby step, but it’s one giant baby step for boxingkind. On […]
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(Timothy Bradley, at left, after fighting Manny Paquiao, at right) What to do, what to do with the whole crazy Timothy Bradley-Manny Pacquiao decision, rankings-wise? That was the big dilemma for this update of the pound-for-pound rankings of the best boxers in the world, regardless of weight. I think it boils down to what kind […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/1/2012
(Cornelius Bundrage connects against Cory Spinks; photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) I’ve had enough “special” editions of ShoBox. They’re feeling a lot like a euphemism a grandma might utter: “My grandson is not all that smart, but bless his heart — he’s special to me,” whereas the usual ShoBox cards are actually good. Saturday’s tripleheader […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/29/2012
You want fights in the works? We got fights in the works. Quick Jabs, not so much. It was a light week for boxing news developments to comment upon in that regular column, so here’s a mini-Quick Jabs before we get to what you came for: Ratings, gate for Antonio Tarver-Lateef Kayode. This thing goes […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/26/2012
If boxing is, as HBO’s Larry Merchant has argued, “the theater of the unexpected,” then welterweight Victor Ortiz is a candidate for a Tony each and every night he climbs between the ropes. Will he show unbelievable determination, or quit when things get too tough? Will there be a knockout, or will he foul his […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/25/2012
Skeptical though I’ve always been of convicted drug peddler Victor Conte providing supplements to boxers, I’ve never dismissed the possibility that in his new role as an anti-performance enhancing drug evangelical, he had done a “Catch Me If You Can” style reversal — a brilliant cheat, now on the good guys’ team, catching cheats. On […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/23/2012
In a year where there are very, very few Fight of the Year candidates so far, fights that are even borderline candidates have a real chance of ending up as the default FOTY. There’s Kazuto Ioka-Akira Yaegashi (strawweight) from this week. Me, friend of the site Adam Abramowitz and some others were recently discussing the […]
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The thunder’s stay in South Florida extends through the weekend: That’s what hard-hitting heavyweight Tony Grano hopes when he faces veteran DaVarryl Williamson at the Seminole Hard Rock on Saturday, two days after the Miami Heat eliminated the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals. Grano (19-2-1, 15 KOs) achieved personal highs in the beginning […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/22/2012
This was to be the finest doubleheader of the year, Showtime’s Saturday card, but this being boxing in 2012, it fell apart the way things fall apart. Now, it’s one tightly wrapped tourniquet and one battle with Fight of the Year potential. The tourniquet: Victor Ortiz vs. Josesito Lopez at welterweight isn’t a fight that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/19/2012
We’ll talk more about that fight right there above in a moment (video, as usual, stays up as long as YouTube allows it), as well as other weekend results, like Tomasz Adamek-Eddie Chambers — and even some non-results, like what went down on the latest episode of HBO’s Fight Game. But we haven’t promoted our […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/18/2012
Every few years or more, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain introduces legislation that would create a federal boxing commission, usually freshly after some boxing controversy. Monday, McCain announced on the Senate floor the reintroduction of that legislation, which he is co-sponsoring with Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The controversy this time is, naturally, Manny Pacquiao’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/17/2012
Rendall Munroe picked up a puncture at the Manchester Velodrome on Saturday in pursuit of Scott Quigg’s junior featherweight Lonsdale belt. After a brace of nip-and-tuck rounds, an on-form Quigg launched a hard right in round 3 that Munroe blocked with his gloves, yet, as the Leicester veteran dipped down and to his right, he collided with […]
