0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/20/2009
The middleweight champion did what he was supposed to, and his challenger did far more than was expected of him in a surprisingly fantastic fight. Results for that and the rest of the Top Rank pay-per-view below. This was supposed to be a mismatch, and, ultimately, it was; Kelly Pavlik was under pressure from the […]
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This wrap-up will wrap up our 2009 boxing awards. It includes real categories like the Upset of the Year and random stuff like the Best Evidence Karma Exists Award. You might say it’s a regular pu pu platter of awards. I’ll sprinkle in photos and videos for seasoning. Do me a favor: Tell me where […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/18/2009
Let’s say you want to buy $16,000 worth of equipment at Best Buy. You decided to put $8,000 on a credit card, and pay for the remaining $8,000 in cash. Would you expect the clerks at Best Buy to have a problem with this? Maybe they might wonder if there was something criminal afoot, like […]
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As impressive as Manny Pacquiao’s 2008 Fighter of the Year campaign was, his 2009 campaign exceeded it. Numerically. Historically. Competitively. Intangibly. In 2008, he edged the best opponent of his career, Juan Manuel Marquez, at junior lightweight; moved up to lightweight and beat a top-10 man in the division, David Diaz; then jetted up two […]
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(Paul Williams, left; Sergio Martinez, right. Which was kind of the story of the fight, wasn’t it? Photo credit: Naoki Fukuda) This was a deep class of Fight of the Year nominees we had in 2009, which is both good and bad. Parity usually means lots of excitement all over the place. But it also […]
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Welcome to your Queensberry Rules annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Round of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final day is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from Trainer of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/17/2009
Let’s take a brief break from the 2009 awards to break down the last week of even semi-significant fights for the rest of the year. So, let’s call it this week’s boxing schedule, plus beyond. Kelly Pavlik-Miguel Espino, Saturday, Top Rank pay-per-view, Ohio. The middleweight champion of the world has plainly wasted a year and […]
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Welcome to your Queensberry Rules annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Round of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final day is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from Trainer of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/16/2009
Boxing fans are quick with the hyperbole. It’s understandable. It’s a dynamic sport. Sometimes when we watch someone gets knocked out dramatically, violently, it’s so profound an experience you’d swear it’s the best KO you’ve ever seen. But moments later we come to our senses, or if we don’t, a veteran boxing writer puts things […]
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Watch it and you can see: In the opening stanza of their junior welterweight brawl, there’s the moment where Victor Ortiz decided that his plan to skilfully box Marcos Maidana isn’t going to cut it. The youngster felt the pressure and power of his more experienced opponent, and he said to himself, “OK, this guy […]
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Welcome to your Queensberry Rules annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Round of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final day is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from Trainer of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/15/2009
Welcome to your Queensberry Rules annual year-end awards, starting today and continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Round of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final day is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/14/2009
There will come a day in the not-too-distant future when the pundits, in the aftermath of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao (if it happens, as looks likely), will say something like: “Congratulations, boxing, on seizing the limelight, if only for a moment. But where do you go from here? Pacquiao is soon to retire, and Mayweather’s day […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/13/2009
HBO and Showtime dueled it out with separate cards totaling five fights, and Showtime won the night for one reason: The thing I want to talk about most is junior welterweight Timothy Bradley, who headlined the Showtime card. Against a formidable and determined foe, Bradley delivered a sensational performance to defeat Lamont Peterson by decision. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/12/2009
Upon clicking on “read more.” Kevin Johnson became a footnote in the career of heavyweight Vitali Klitschko by being just the second man in Klitschko’s 39 wins to survive to the final bell. That was probably the most interesting part of the fight. Or maybe it was the chippiness Klitschko and Johnson demonstrated upon the […]
