0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/24/2011
Remember when Devon Alexander was near the top of the world? You don’t have to think back too far. It wasn’t so long ago. Last year, there was a front-page New York Times story about him — unheard of for a boxer in this day and age — prior to his bout with Andriy Kotelnik. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/23/2011
The moribund heavyweight division could be reignited “with a master class in gentlemen jabbing,” argues Shaun Assael in a recent ESPN the Magazine article in which he takes the position that heavyweight champion brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko should forsake their previous vows to never fight and go all Civil War for heavyweight supremacy. The […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/22/2011
Is some Filipino restaurant capitalizing on the name of a certain Pinoy boxer? Hmmmmmmm. That never happens. (h/t friend of the site Jim, via) Before we jump into some of the fights in the works, the lack of a Weekend Afterthoughts column has left me without a venue for elaborating on the Saul Alvarez fight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/21/2011
I keep posting videos that you might already have seen on the usual logic that if you haven’t, you must. There are a number of great moments in the above video, but the best of them is when heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko stares menacingly at David Haye for an uncomfortably long time, and Haye then […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/19/2011
Junior middleweight Saul Alvarez and junior lightweight Adrien Broner each scored impressive knockouts Saturday on HBO, Broner doing it quickly in the 1st round and Alvarez taking nearly as long as he could to get the stoppage in the 12th round. At the same time, though, their opponents appeared a bit too cooperative, so they […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/17/2011
Something that freaks me out is when I’m standing next to a man at the urinal and he’s going hands-free. The guy next to me today who did it made it even freakier by standing there with his arms crossed. He looked very much like a genie. I’ve tried to do it before, but I […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/16/2011
June, 2011 is some kind of golden age for young Mexican brawlers about whom you can say the following three things: 1. They’re usually pretty fun to watch because they’re aggressively offensive-minded and sinfully hittable; 2. They’re wildly popular in some measure because of something they were born with; and 3. There’s hope for their […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/14/2011
Because the number has been so squishy — “at least” 1.3 million buys, according to Top Rank’s Bob Arum — the news might have been overlooked a touch that Manny Pacquiao just did the best pay-per-view business of his career last month against Shane Mosley. And that’s saying something. Pacquiao falls just short of Floyd […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/13/2011
With Mike Tyson headlining the 2011 Boxing Hall of Fame class that was inducted this past weekend, it sparked some fairly
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/10/2011
Late at night, Evil Tim he comes to me, he says, “Let me write about your pound-for-pound list.” So I let Evil Tim write a guest column. Every boxer in the world today is atrocious. These so-called top 20 “pound-for-pound” boxers are so bad that I would trade a pound of lint for every pound […]
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We’re doing these updates every two months, but there are no more fights on the agenda between now and the end of June that could affect pound-for-pound rankings, so might as well kill this noise right now. One person — Jean Pascal — is off the list, following his loss to Bernard Hopkins. Others got […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/9/2011
Fireworks boxing. 1934. This must be revived and perfected by 2034. (via, h/t) A variety of cards this weekend, although few that figure to produce fireworks, either literal or figurative. Lateef Kayode vs. Matt Godfrey, Friday, Showtime, Santa Ynez Calif. The raw, powerful cruiserweight prospect trained by Freddie Roach takes a big step up against […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/8/2011
(Carl Froch celebrates his victory Saturday night. Via Showtime) It’s Tuesday night, so naturally you’re wondering, “Geez, what did Tim think of all the stuff that happened almost four days ago?” Wonder no longer, friends. (Let me correct that. I’m not going to go into any details about how I most likely got robbed by […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/7/2011
(Floyd Mayweather, getting booed while attending Victor Ortiz-Andre Berto) Big news today. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. will be back Sept. 17, although it won’t be against Manny Pacquiao, which makes it inherently disappointing; it means the Super Bowl of boxing still isn’t happening. But the sport’s reigning pay-per-view king, unlikable though he is in comparison to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/6/2011
Boxing fans looking for a book to accompany them onto the beach this summer are in luck, with Ebury Publishing having released a pair of autobiographies ahead of the sunburn season, to help tide interested parties through the interminable tedium of the airport lounge. Boxing royalty forms the subject of the first of these in […]
