0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/20/2012
We’ll be talking about this knockout around the end of the year when reviewing 2012 finalists, I expect — light heavyweight Allan Green going to sleep Saturday off Mikkel Kessler’s crunching left hook. Back in 2005, Green was the man delivering the Knockout of the Year, against Jaidon Codrington. It’s a brutal fact of this […]
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Heavyweight David Price laid waste to another member of the fair-to-middling domestic guard at home in the Aintree Equestrian Centre on Saturday, flattening an overawed Sam Sexton umpteen times before finishing him with a splat in round 4. Merseyside’s first ever British heavyweight boss, Price marked himself out as a prospective world class player. In […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/19/2012
Like we sometimes offer around here, that’s the squirt of frosting down your throat before you take your medications: a funny video of a boxing trainer relentlessly ragging on his students. What’s with boxing trainers looking down on their subjects so hard? Mine did, too. (I did about four months worth of training this year […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/17/2012
This whole Manny Pacquiao/gay marriage thing should’ve been a tiny blip in the boxing discussion, but it wasn’t. So what can we learn from it? The Examiner’s fleet of search engine-optimizing writers don’t always write in the most clear fashion. No surprise there. Nobody who was a party to the offending interview in question thinks […]
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There was nothing easy about this update of our pound-for-pound list, p4p lists being a concept aimed at determining the world’s best fighters regardless of weight class — and a harmless exercise that isn’t responsible, no matter what HBO’s Jim Lampley said in the debut episode of “The Fight Game,” for making boxers avoid the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/13/2012
This is the best. Our own Andrew Harrison got a new bundle of joy this past week, and there he is, already checking out his dad’s work. “TQBR’s youngest fan,” Andrew said in the e-mail to me. This is the first time a member of the TQBR family has expanded his family that I know […]
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Sheffield’s Kid Galahad dealt artfully with Barnsley’s Josh Wale on Saturday, peppering him silly for nine rounds until the Brampton man was pulled out in his corner due to worsening facial damage. Wale, a window cleaner by trade, was out of his depth here. After a torrid opening round, during which realisation dawned that brute […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/11/2012
Kid Galahad returns to the ring on Saturday to have himself a skeet shoot at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre in Sheffield. Barnsley rival Josh “The Outlaw” Wale plays the role of clay pigeon. Channel Five continue their most welcome foray into the sport, confident no doubt that Galahad’s back story, a sort of Luke Skywalker […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/9/2012
That is some weird entourage Floyd Mayweather had over the weekend: a pop star beloved by tweens (Lil Wa… oops, I mean Justin Bieber), a pair of rappers (Lil Wayne, 50 Cent) and a refugee who couldn’t pursue a professional boxing career in Cuba turned promotional refugee who cannot pursue a professional boxing career in […]
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Living homeless in the Washington, D.C. streets as a child, with just his little brother as family, stealing food to eat… then rising to contender status as a junior welterweight boxer who fights on Showtime and HBO only to find he can’t win “the big one” — maybe that breeds the kind of desperation that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/7/2012
What if I told you I had Miguel Cotto beating Floyd Mayweather 117-111 (nine-three in rounds)? Well, you can relax, I didn’t. Don’t puke all over your Pernell Whitaker t-shirt and rush to defecate on my Twitter just yet. I scored the fight 116-112 Mayweather, giving Cotto rounds 2, 5, 6 and 8. But if […]
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At their respective peaks, the appeal that Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. shared wasn’t merely that they were the best in the world. It was that they were so brilliant at what they did, they went beyond “doing something as well as a human being can do it” to “almost superhuman.” When Pacquiao treated […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/6/2012
The knock on Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s career is that he is rarely enjoyable to watch, in the sense that every showing is an exhibition of boxing excellence, a kind of conveyer belt display of efficiency. Miguel Cotto dragged him out of that factory-like comfort zone Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view, but it didn’t keep Mayweather […]
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Keep coming back here for running updates on the pay-per-view undercard for Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto. It’s a mostly crappy affair, but I somewhat like the Deandre Latimore-Carlos Quintana junior middleweight scrap, and some have high hopes for another junior middleweight bout between Saul Alvarez and Shane Mosley. In a nice opening bout, Carlos […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/5/2012
After the Ring announced changes to their championship policy, the response from the boxing community was swift and unilateral – people hated it. Tim detailed his contentions with the new policy here and announced that TQBR will no longer recognize the Ring championship and ratings anymore. Dan Rafael also announced that he would be abandoning […]
