0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/8/2011
James Kirkland was on the wrong end of the probable Upset of the Year in April. Saturday, he started off his junior middleweight slugfest with Alfredo Angulo a candidate for Round of the Year (above). The rest of the bout was worthy of an honorable mention for Fight of the Year. And the win over […]
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On Sunday, word spread across the Internet that legendary heavyweight Joe Frazier had died. As it turned out, he hadn’t. It was an echo of the moment in the “Thrilla in Manila” when Muhammad Ali said to Frazier, “They told me you was all washed up.” Answered Frazier: “They told you wrong, pretty boy.” Frazier […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III Nov. 12 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: The big question about Pacquiao-Marquez III. Next: keys to the fight*. Every time Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. fight someone besides the other, they’re still fighting. Maybe it’s explicit, with direct verbal swipes; maybe it’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/7/2011
So begins our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2011, Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III Nov. 12 on HBO pay-per-view. Now: The big question about Pacquiao-Marquez III. Next: Keys to the fight. Manny Pacquiao made Juan Manuel Marquez. Before those two fought for the first time in 2004, Marquez was […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/6/2011
The nation’s streets were clogged with smoke — neon fizzed and popped endlessly across the night sky — so Ricky Burns and Michael Katsidis, perhaps feeling a little left out of proceedings, set fire to a patch of canvas inside Wembley Arena, London. Katsidis, the gnarled and primitive Greek-Australian, spluttered and sparked like a Catherine […]
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(Photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) Lucian Bute beat Father Time, but Pier-Olivier Cote stole Bute’s thunder. Bute beat Glen Johnson in a pedestrian and one-sided super middleweight bout in Quebec whose most astonishing feature was Johnson not once touching the canvas. Bute probably needed to make that happen to really make a statement. Johnson not only […]
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(Photo: @makeawar) Boxing fans knew that something special would happen when James Kirkland met Alfredo Angulo in Cancun tonight on HBO. But before the junior middleweight war happened, it was difficult to imagine just how brutal it would be. The 1st round was an all time classic. Kirkland (30-1) swarmed out of the corner and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/5/2011
Radio host Rude Jude doesn’t score the cleanest, most effective blows in that widely examined and wildly amusing audio of him arguing with Floyd Mayweather, but he sure does win the rhetorical war. That means a lot, considering that Mr. Jude starts as a man who has the rhetorical handicap of deliberately calling himself “Rude […]
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Former Contender champ Sergio Mora stopped a shopworn Jose “Shibata” Flores Friday night in Indio, Calif. on Telefutura’s Solo Boxeo Tecate. The 30-year-old Mora won his first fight at middleweight since losing a February split decision to Brian Vera in typical fashion by sticking, moving and picking his spots. Mora appeared to take control in […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/4/2011
(Paul Smith, left; George Groves, right) Since its inception in 1984, Britons have found the super middleweight division to be a bountiful and treasure-laden hunting ground. Alphabet title plunderers at 168 lbs. have included Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Robin Reid, Joe Calzaghe and most recently of all, Carl Froch. And the success of this bunch, […]
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Everywhere I turned today, on Around The Horn and SportsCenter and Twitter and boxing websites, all the talk was of Floyd Mayweather’s adviser Leonard Ellerbe saying that Jr. would return May 5 at the MGM Grand and that “We’re looking to make the biggest fight possible and everyone knows what that fight is, the little […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/3/2011
Lucian Bute has long been one of boxing’s most luminescent talents. The question is one of perspective: Does he shine so brightly because he’s truly that sparkling, or is the brightness magnified by how dim his company is? Saturday night on Showtime, for the first time in five fights, the popular Canadian super middleweight is […]
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Alfredo Angulo has a super-dope castle. Its fortified walls have thus far proven virtually impenetrable. James Kirkland has a really big cannon. Nearly everything that has encountered its fire has been pulverized. It’ll be a primitive good time Saturday night on HBO, finding out which junior middleweight will be better at getting medieval on the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/2/2011
This week is a good week to a be a fan of people punching each other in the face. There’s more boxing on TV than any weekend in recent memory, and it’s not going to stop. There’s a good fight (or good fights) every weekend from now until the end of the year. This golden […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/1/2011
Happy Halloween, everyone. They can make a “sexy ____ costume” out of everything. There’s your sexy boxer costume. But did you know you could be a sexy watermelon? If not, you do now. (h/t girlfriend of the site Jenna) In this spoooooooky edition of Round and Round, besides what’s in the headlines, we also explore […]
