0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/10/2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As fantastic as it is that more than 9,000 are expected tonight at the Washington Convention Center, and as refreshing as it is that the audience trickling in is mostly black (they’ve long been thought to be abandoning the sport), it’s more than a bit horrendous that almost half of those people […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/9/2011
(Lamont Peterson at the weigh-in. Credit: me) First things first: Amir Khan weighed 140, Lamont Peterson weighed 139 and both looked to be in fine shape at Friday’s weigh-in. That’s the boring part. The less-boring part comes from roaming around the Carnegie Library talking to the people at the weigh-in. Below, find some musings from […]
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Ultra-gifted Amir Khan will try Saturday on HBO against Lamont Peterson to put the finishing touches on a 2011 that could make him a Fighter of the Year finalist. Khan already has wins over Paul McCloskey and Zab Judah, good competition in the junior welterweight division to be sure, but that beating the trio of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/8/2011
Mexican junior bantamweight Tomas Rojas said Wednesday that he took a dive against Jorge Arce in 2007 in exchange for 100,000 pesos. The Ring’s number five junior bantam said that he was only offered the fight against Arce on the condition that he go down in the 6th, but that he never saw the money. […]
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(Amir Khan, left; Washington Monument, middle; Lamont Peterson, right) For the last couple years, there’s been a theory floating around that Washington, D.C. is ripe to be exploited as a “fight town,” that kind of U.S. city that embraces boxing and drives fans to the sweet science in droves. There were subtle pieces of evidence, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/5/2011
There’s no real big eye-popping moment from this weekend to lead in with a highlight clip, so instead we start the latest recommendation from unofficial TQBR visual consultant Jim. (via) The trend of the weekend was instead toward “decisions made,” from the doctor’s decision to stop the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito rematch to the robbery mentioned […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/4/2011
(Brian Rose, left; Prince Arron, right) Brian Rose proved too organised for an off-key Prince Arron in Wigan Saturday night, claiming the British junior middleweight title in this, his first attempt. The Blackpool underdog showed a steely concentration throughout their encounter, timing the gangling Arron’s attacks to perfection all night. Whenever Arron tried to establish […]
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NEW YORK, NY–Junior middleweight beltholder Miguel Cotto seized an opportunity to re-write history Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, out-boxing and out-smarting Antonio Margarito on his way to a TKO victory in a rematch of their brutal 2008 bout that left Cotto with his first professional loss. The ringside doctor stopped the fight at the […]
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(Joseph Agbeko, left; Abner Mares, right. Credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Two performances on Showtime Saturday in the bantamweight division reminded us of the oft-ignored second part of Egan’s nickname for boxing: It’s “the sweet science,” certainly, but more accurately, it’s “the sweet science of bruising.” On the undercard, Anselmo Moreno made a splendid debut on […]
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NEW YORK, NY–We’re live at the Mecca of Boxing, Madison Square Garden for the rematch between Antonio Margarito vs. Miguel Cotto. Tonight’s card in the main arena and at least two-thirds of the sell-out crowd of 21,000 were seated for the start of the HBO Pay Per View card. Full undercard results after the jump, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/3/2011
While their more high profile compatriots create headlines overseas as part of an action-packed boxing programme this weekend, Lancastrian junior middleweights Prince Arron and Brian “The Lion” Rose meet Saturday to contest the former’s Lonsdale belt at the Robin Park Centre, Wigan. Arron, 21-3-1 (4), an improving Goliath from Droylsden, comes out punching as a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/2/2011
NEW YORK, NY—New York’s Puerto Rican community was out en masse to support their man Miguel Cotto during Friday afternoon’s weigh-in held in the Theater at Madison Square Garden, but the biggest news came from the undercard when lightweight Brandon Rios failed to make weight for his title defense against former British and European titlist […]
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There’s been something of an evolution of the Antonio Margarito tale: What once was grotesque to many of us (and for some of it, it still is) has now become a dramatic storyline in advance of his rematch with Miguel Cotto Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view. If it was my call, Margarito wouldn’t have a […]
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Saturday is just jam-packed with rematches of serious, serious action fights, a couple of them still fogging up your television screen with controversy from the first time around. Over on HBO pay-per-view, in one of the controversial ones, we get a do-over of Antonio Margarito-Miguel Cotto, a bout tainted and/or enhanced by the suspicion that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/29/2011
That’s your knockout of the weekend, even if it’s ill-gotten gains, to have Gary Russell, Jr. doing it against someone as undurable as Heriberto Ruiz. Objectionable competition is objectionable competition. Big knockouts, though, are also good knockouts. The first diminishes the second, even if its essential big knockoutness remains. I’m back after a week’s vacation, […]
