0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/5/2011
(While I was en route back from Atlantic City, Andrew Harrison and Alex McClintock filed blog entries on the rest of Saturday’s actions. Before: Andrew. Now: Alex. –Ed./Tim) Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. emphatically tried to prove his doubters wrong last night, winning a majority decision over Sebastian Zbik at the Staples Center. Some of the […]
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(While I was en route back from Atlantic City, Andrew Harrison and Alex McClintock filed blog entries on the rest of Saturday’s actions. First up: Andrew. On deck: Alex. –Ed./Tim) Gavin Rees clinched a European lightweight title triumph in Cardiff on Saturday. However, a relatively routine outing against the rather one-paced Andy Murray turned on […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Even before beating Glen Johnson Saturday night to set up a Super Six tournament showdown with Andre Ward, Carl Froch had his eye on the gifted American, who was assisting with broadcast duties for Showtime. “I had one eye on Andre Ward. I saw him at ringside,” Froch said at the […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Before Saturday night, Carl Froch talked about wanting to be a boxer against Glen Johnson, but Johnson gave him no choice but to find his inner brawler. Matched against the ultra-tough Jamaican, Froch was forced to be ultra-tough himself. As a result, the fans got a dramatic, action-packed bout on Showtime, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/4/2011
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — We’ve settled in after dinner at the Boarwalk Hall ballroom, me and friends of the site like Andrew Fruman, Lee Payton and David P. Greisman. Great memories of this here spot; I saw Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez I in the ballroom. Anyway, I won’t be giving you updates on the tape-delayed Mikkel […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — If Andre Ward can’t be sold by his fighting style, or if he can’t win over more fans by altering it, there’s one thing about him that could sell like hotcakes: his personality. It’s not the cool, cynical, or even skeptical thing for a journalist to allow to happen, but after […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/3/2011
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The good thing about Friday’s weigh-in for Carl Froch vs. Glen Johnson Saturday night on Showtime is that it was open to the public. It was a fun scene to watch, and for the fans, it was a great chance to interact with the fighters. The bad thing about the weigh-in […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — If you’re Shane Mosley, the reputation hits just keep coming and coming. Are you Shane Mosley? Good, then you don’t have to worry about it as much. But while it’s only a mild surprise to learn that he tried to quit during his welterweight fight with Manny Pacquiao last month, given […]
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This Saturday comes the best potential fight in Showtime’s innovative Super Six tournament since the last best potential fight in the tourney, Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham in 2010 — only this time Froch’s partner in violence, Glen Johnson is even better at collaborating on action-packed bouts than Abraham, who didn’t carry his weight in […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/2/2011
John Murray’s displacement as the lightweight champion of Europe has afforded domestic peers Gavin Rees and Andy Murray the opportunity to duel over his discarded title belt at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on Saturday evening. Rees, a former alphabet world titlist at junior welterweight, is heavily favoured to swim into the void — a form guide […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/1/2011
Welcome to Open Thread, where the inmates run the asylum. As usual, I don’t want to confine the discussion to any one thing. But based on a discussion on Twitter a while back and on this Doug Fischer mailbag, I was awfully intrigued to get everyone’s take on a few potential or borderline Hall of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/31/2011
(I’ll be ringside Saturday, listening to Rachael Cordingley shriek. Which, somehow, this clip makes seem kind of adorable, believe it or not.) 2011 has been thought of as the “year of the upset” in boxing so far, and rightly so. But as a commenter on this site recently observed (and forgive me, thoughtful commenter, as […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/30/2011
Not that this happens much in boxing. We have some statisticians, sure, and they get made fun of as reductive. But we rarely have people coming up with new formulae. Maybe I’ll get on it. Ineptly. I suck at math. (via, h/t friend of the site JenFu) On this beautifully hot Memorial Day, let’s go […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/29/2011
Adorable boxing poster! I sure do want to see the fight between those Muppet Babies now. In all honesty: That’s cool. And I do want to see the fight. OK, so Oscar De La Hoya recently apologized to Bob Arum, and Arum accepted, so their respective companies, Golden Boy and Top Rank, are one step […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/28/2011
As a late replacement main event on Friday Night Fights — Steve Upsher Chambers-Josesito Lopez fell apart, lamentably — Chris Arreola-Kendrick Releford wasn’t much of a substitute for a more meaningful, potentially competitive fight. But at least we got to see a talented, exciting heavyweight show off what his new, slimmer physique could do for […]
