0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/14/2011
On Friday night, we got one sensational knockout and one stirring brawl. The knockout came on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights. In a junior welterweight crossroads bout, Kendall Holt revived his career with a 3rd round KO of Julio Diaz. He landed a couple big right hands in the 1st round, but Diaz, who’s been knocked […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/13/2011
The TQBR Hall of Excuses for Losses has had some hallowed entrants in recent years. We got “The cameraman knocked me out” (Travis Kauffman). There is “I had diarrhea” (Joshua Clottey, and, now, Ray Nahr). And then there’s the reigning best excuse, “My dad told me he loved me” (David Tua). Today, we have another […]
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After the lackluster Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley main event on Saturday (man, who ever thought “lackluster” would ever be an adjective preceding Manny Pacquiao’s name), boxing has faced its latest round of widespread criticism. Which is a shame, since April was such an incredibly exciting month for the sport. However, despite the fact that many of […]
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Two former tradesmen, one a plasterer from Chislehurst and the other a scaffolder from Droylsden, meet at a leisure centre in Gillingham on Friday evening to contest the British junior middleweight crown. In terms of glamour, it is as far removed from the Manny Pacquiao-induced ballyhoo that continues to seep through the sport’s news ticker […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/12/2011
Like some madcap boxing version of “The Cannonball Run,” Showtime’s Super Six began as a daring experiment featuring contestants with a wide variety of styles, and along the way there were a whole bunch of crazy schemes and roadblocks in a very long journey. Some of the original cast even got bumped off the road. […]
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From time to time BoxingScene’s David P. Greisman and myself gchat one another. Sometimes we talk about boxing, even. Sometimes, I publish what we say. This time, we mainly talked about the subjects in the headline. But we also talked about Shane Mosley’s girlfriend, Wayne Newton and more. David: Yo! me: Oh, there you are. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/11/2011
We’ve already had a spirited discussion about the likelihood of an ugly third Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez bout happening in the fall, but there’s an ugly element of it that we didn’t discuss because it’s really kind of a fruitless asterisk: that Golden Boy Promotions is trying to block the fight. This effort […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/10/2011
(Juan Manuel Marquez on the deck against Manny Pacquiao in Pacquiao-Marquez I) Remember when Floyd Mayweather, a smallish welterweight, faced lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez in 2009 at a catchweight of 144 pounds, and everyone mocked him for picking on a little guy? Rabid fans of Manny Pacquiao (and I count myself among them) led […]
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One of the weekend’s winners was Bella Gonzalez, Shane Mosley’s girlfriend, what with her trending on Twitter and getting a lot of “Mosley lost to Manny Pacquiao, but hey, look what he’s going home to!” remarks. And with that picture, you can very nearly see her insides. I automatically am not interested in the appearance […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/8/2011
(Shane Mosley tries to get away from Manny Pacquiao; photo courtesy Showtime) With so many eyes on boxing Saturday night — some of them maybe new ones, given how the biggest American network, CBS, lent a hand in the hype — Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley didn’t turn out how anybody could have wanted inside […]
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Manny Pacquiao dominated Shane Mosley in their welterweight championship fight Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, as was widely expected. That he did so in relatively unspectacular fashion for large stretches of the fight may be the bigger story. More than anything, the fight confirmed that Shane Mosley is officially finished as an […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/7/2011
Our Scott Kraus will be handling tonight’s coverage of the main event of the Showtime pay-per-view card headlined by the big fight between Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley, but I’ll be on top of the rest. We’ll start with the bouts that are allegedly airing on Top Rank Live Stream, but that site isn’t working […]
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Every single second of that clip right there is jam-packed with greatness, such that I’m sharing it days after most of you have probably seen it on the off chance that you haven’t. Don’t be intimidated by the 12 minute length. It’s not your ordinary interview session. Trust me. Now, for some serious business. I […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/6/2011
Don’t follow boxing very often, but you want to know the gist of Saturday’s mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley? Follow boxing all the time, and want one place that rounds up all the links about the welterweight showdown you could ever want? This Ultimate Guide to the May 7 pay-per-view bout is for […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2011, Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley on May 7. Previously: the stakes of the bout; a Pacquiao vs. Mosley-themed Open Thread; keys to the fight, part I and II; the final preview and prediction. Next: the ultimate guide. Good day, sirs and ladies, and welcome […]
