0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/23/2011
Fourth bout: Okay, I’m wrong, there’s also a Puerto Rican contingent in the crowd for Jonathan “La Bomba” Gonzalez of Puerto Rico (sporting a perfect five, all by knockout). The favorite because he’s in the blue… just kidding, red corner versus Jose Rivera of New York, via Mexico (3-3-2). Pauli Malignaggi just walked past me […]
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The Theatre at MSG is frigging packed with Pinoys, who are now gettin’ vocal whenever the pre-recorded lead-in talks up Donaire. I’m looking out at the audience and I’m seeing a lot of people who look my wife and inlaws, bro. (My wife is from Bocolod, in Negros Occidental, in the Visayas, the central region […]
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Second fight, a welterweight bout, had Memphis-based Keuntray Henson getting dropped by unbelievably fast body shots that absolutely nobody on press row saw, and if they write that they did, they’re lying. The shots were via Mikael Zewski, out of Quebec, who came into the ring with scintillating and still-spotless and sparkly shorts and a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/22/2011
The event started with a brutal four rounder that went two, with 146-pound Jose Segura Torres with two wins, two defeats, fighting a much younger-looking, much stronger-looking Cletis “The Hebrew Hammer” Seldin out of Long Island. Another Great Jewish Hope? Now that my boy Yuri Foreman is essentially in Yeshiva, we have someone with a much […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/21/2011
This edition of Quick Jabs is packed to the gills with shocking and bizarre boxing news tidbits and ephemeral thoughts that Kelly Rowland definitely couldn’t handle. How many love children does Manny Pacquiao have? Could Sven Ottke be better than Joe Frazier? Is Oscar De La Hoya going to come back to boxing for real […]
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(Or maybe this is the better metaphor?) It was sad for your favorite Queensberry Rules founder — and the site’s readers — to lose three staffers (Paul Kelly, Mike Coppinger and Corey Erdman) in 2011, shortly after revamping the site around this whole staff concept. But the founder is happy-faced today to announce that three […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/20/2011
Not all mismatches are judged equally, it seems. Here’s a blind taste test: Imagine one of the five best fighters in the world is as much as a 20/1 betting favorite in his televised bout on HBO. Are we talking about earlier this month back when middleweight champion Sergio Martinez took on longshot Darren Barker, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/19/2011
So, what WOULD you do if you had a time machine? Personally, I’ve always thought it would be easier to kill Hitler’s mother than Hitler. You know, before she gave birth to him and all. I guess I’m that guy. Moving on from historical homicide and the peerless Louis C.K., this week’s boxing schedule features […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/18/2011
I was there in Dallas for the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito ophthalmology clinic. If it weren’t for the astonishing undercard, epitomized by the Mike Jones-Jesus Soto Karass fight, where Karass came back to nearly win after having been pummeled against the ropes to within an inch of his life by something like 600 punches by Jones […]
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(Underdog, playing the role of undercard, saves the main event, played here by Sweet Polly Purebred. [Try not to think too much about the full ramifications of this visual metaphor.]) For a long time, the conventional wisdom among boxing promoters was that fans only paid for the main events of pay-per-view cards, and that spending […]
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(Via Dan Rafael, on Twitter) There’s a lot of things that can be said about last Saturday night’s light heavyweight championship fight between Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson, and most of them have been said already. This blog referred to the fight as a “travesty.” On Twitter, I called it (among other things) a pay-per-PU, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/17/2011
Debacles like the one Saturday night between light heavyweight champ Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson aren’t a good look for boxing, but hardly anything gets people to arguing and buzzing like ’em. After Zaprudering the hell out of the ending, poring over the rules and taking into account a variety of opinions opposite mine, I’m […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/16/2011
(Tony Bellew catches Nathan Cleverly with a punch, if not on the scorecards) Welshman, Nathan Cleverly, underwent the toughest fight of his life in overcoming Liverpudlian Tony Bellew on Saturday. The points margins of 117-112 and 116-113 on two of the three judges’ scorecards seemed particularly harsh on Bellew, a revelation here, with adjudicator Terry […]
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After the endings to the last two HBO pay-per-views, anyone could be forgiven for hating boxing. First was the “legal sucker punch” last month by which Floyd Mayweather, Jr. defeated Victor Ortiz. Saturday night, Bernard Hopkins suffered a technical knockout loss against Chad Dawson after Dawson lifted him up and threw him down on the […]
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It’s a pretty nice televised undercard, is the one on Saturday’s Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson pay-per-view, with Jorge Linares vs. Antonio DeMarco, Danny Garcia vs. Kendall Holt and Paulie Malignaggi vs. Orlando Lora. We’ll update in this space after each fight. On the untelevised undercard, a couple fights of interest: Dewey Bozella, the 52-year-old […]
