0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/15/2011
You can totally see her watching Guillermo Jones try the heavyweight division on for size on Nov. 5, can’t you? Wealth TV is going to host the Jones fight that night, so if you are one of the rich people who enjoy shows like “Wealth on the Water — Taking you on multi-million dollar mega […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/14/2011
(Tony Bellew, left; Nathan Cleverly, right) Punk has a lot to answer for. Back when provocateurs John Lydon and Malcolm McClaren began stoking a generation with the notion that attitude and image could land you on stage despite the absence of any real talent, they’d never have dreamt we’d have ended up here. Rotten and […]
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Year after year in the remarkably long autumn of Bernard Hopkins’ career, one opponent and then another with the physical upper hand has faced off with the now 46-year-old living legend and slumped off either totally defeated or having been given the toughest night of his professional life. Jean Pascal, in a win and a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/13/2011
HBO simply couldn’t do better in filling the top spot in its sports department than Ken Hershman, the man who did the counterpart job for rival Showtime and did it in a way that often put HBO to shame. So that’s who it picked, per a story that HBO made official with a news release […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/12/2011
Absolutely Amazing Capoeira Kick Knockout – Watch MoreFunny Videos Maybe one of boxing’s problems is the sketchy nature of the schedule. There are often long dry patches but when it rains, it pours. This analogy is especially fitting for this TQBR correspondent, trapped at home due to a hurricane warning at the start of a […]
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(Is Richard Schaefer’s welterweight tourney the real deal, or smoke and mirrors?) When Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer bandied about the notion of a welterweight tournament for HBO or Showtime, the reaction was mostly cynical apathy. Welterweight tournament? What’s the friggin point? Only one damn welterweight tournament anyone gives a rat’s arse about: it’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/10/2011
A boxing movie, specifically a boxing movie featuring boxing robots, is improbably the #1 movie in America. It’s improbable because most reaction I’d seen to the announcement of “Real Steel,” and to the early trailers, was along the lines of, “That movie looks doofus-y.” And Hugh Jackman hasn’t been hitting it out of the park […]
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We’re definitely going to Round And Round it up in this piece, but my travels this week have made it difficult for me to blog generally and so there have been a few post-Quick Jabs developments in requirement of expansion. Most of them involve recent fights. We know now from a couple places (including, according […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/9/2011
Well, well, well. The Ingle family, Sheffield prospectors since the 1960’s, appear to have unearthed another golden nugget in the shape of world welterweight contender Kell Brook. In front of a sell out home audience on Saturday evening, Brook toyed with the world-rated and experienced Pole, Rafal Jackiewicz, shutting him out completely up to the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/7/2011
The big fight in Britain this weekend involves welterweights Kell Brook and Rafal Jackiewicz, a contest which can be viewed not only as a quarrel between contenders for world honours but also as a marrying of such contrasting individuals. Theirs would be a buddy movie beyond even the most contrived of parodies. Brook, fighting at […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/6/2011
(Hillary Rodham Clinton and Amir Khan) Long-theorized, unproven for lack of (nearly) decades of evidence, Washington, D.C. will get a chance to prove itself as a hungry, untapped boxing market when a significant fight between British super-talent Amir Khan and local product/junior welterweight contender Lamont Peterson comes to the nation’s capital on Dec. 10. It […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/5/2011
As you might have guessed by the title and the video, this weekend is gonna be a sloooow one. Like, really slow. There are only two televised cards airing in the U.S. It’s that bad. At least we’ve got nearly two months of uninterrupted quality after that. So let’s get to it, with a slightly […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/4/2011
Roman Gonzalez, ladies and gentleman. The junior flyweight relies an awful lot on his natural power, but fortunately for him he’s got a lot of it, so until he runs into someone else who has more, that could work out for him all right. And hey, he can put his punches together too, obviously. Right […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/2/2011
Toshiaki Nishioka edged Rafael Marquez by unanimous decision in Las Vegas tonight, in a junior featherweight bout that began tepidly but finished boiling hot. TQBR had the hard to score fight a draw, but there were a whole lot of close rounds in there. The fight began with a lengthy feeling out process, with both […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.–They say the mark of a true champion is being able to win even when you don’t have your best stuff. If that’s true then middleweight champion Sergio Martinez passed his test with flying colors by rallying from a lackluster start to score an 11th-round knockout of Darren Barker at Boardwalk Hall Saturday […]
