0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/12/2009
Two videos of upset wins from yesterday for you, after the jump: one of heavyweight Nagy Aguilera knocking out Oleg Maskaev, one with highlights of welterweight Dejan Zavec knocking out Isaac Hlatshwayo. The Maskaev loss is a tiny bit more shocking, not because Maskaev was very good or nothin’. This was supposed to be a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/11/2009
It’s so rare for a boxing promoter to turn down free money because of moral compunctions that when it happens, it simply must be trumpeted loudly and from as high a perch as can be found. Today, Lou DiBella sent out a news release announcing that he was severing his relationship with super middleweight Jermain […]
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All shall be revealed. Quick Jabs Here’s your complimentary “rest of the schedule” rundown, besides the last two blog entries where we ran down six different fights, as if those weren’t enough. Today, we got welterweight alphabet titlist Isaac Hlatshwayo defends his belt against someone named Dejan Zaveck. That should clear up who the real […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/9/2009
With six major televised fights ahead this weekend, we’ll split them in two for a shortened version of the usual preview and prediction column. Today: The Saturday Showtime card and the Friday ESPN360.com card [UPDATE: It won’t air on ESPN360.com after all]. Yesterday: The Saturday HBO card [Post-script on that entry: It’s been updated with […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/8/2009
With six major televised fights ahead this weekend, we’ll split them in two for a shortened version of the usual preview and prediction column. Today: The Saturday HBO card. Tomorrow: The Saturday Showtime card and the Friday ESPN360.com card. [UPDATE: Please, since the Vitali Klitschko-Kevin Johnson fight airs on tape delay on HBO in the […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s good to be back home. After a crazy week away — 13 fights, three cities, 20 blog entries, one promoter insulting me, several lost items, six Internet friends met in person and countless dollars spent Saturday night on drinks and… let’s just call them “entertainers” — there’s nothing like your own […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/6/2009
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Middleweight Paul Williams came out ahead of Sergio Martinez in a ridiculously entertaining war Saturday night that was marked by two 1st round knockdowns, wild swings in momentum and one horrible scorecard. Martinez proved he’d be as tough an opponent as most thought he would despite being a 4-1 underdog, and […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — We’re moments away from starting our live blog for the main event and main undercard. The event is in a room that looks almost exactly like a high school gymnasium. Jim Lampley and the rest of the HBO crew are near me, and in recording a segment, Harold Lederman shouted so […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — We’re live ringside for the HBO double-header between middleweights Paul Williams and Sergio Martinez and heavyweights Chris Arreola and Brian Minto. Two rules: 1. I’ll be giving posting the results of each round, and my score, upon each round’s completion. Until then, I’ll be observing the fight, so if that doesn’t […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/5/2009
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Saturday night might have been the defining fight Paul Williams needed, had he gotten middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik in the ring as originally schedule and beaten him. The replacement opponent, Sergio Martinez, won’t give that to him, but he very well might tell us one very important thing about Williams. As […]
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(Credit for blurry photos to come shortly: Tim Starks) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Oh Chris. Why do you do this? Two days ago, Arreola told me he weighed 257 pounds. Today he weighs 263, higher than he ever has prior to stepping into the ring. Let’s set aside one theory for how that happened — […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/4/2009
You want to question whether somebody’s on performance-enhancing drugs? Evidently, plenty of people in boxing do, based on numerous unfounded allegations against the best boxer in the sport. But how’s this for eyebrow-raising material: Super middleweight Andre Ward and heavyweight Eddie Chambers are both clients of Victor Conte, the BALCO founder who claims he’s gone […]
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It would be hard, as a journalist, not to focus on the salacious “Oh get this, a Jew is fighting a Muslim” angle of Saturday’s boxing match between junior welterweights Amir Khan and Dmitriy Salita, but so far from what I’ve seen everyone has been on their behavior, for the most part. Part of it […]
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It must be “Bad Decision Week” in boxing. (Suggested rejoinder for the cynical commenter: “When ISN’T it ‘Bad Decision Week’ in boxing?”) Two judges awarded a decision to Tim Coleman over Mike Arnaoutis in a junior welterweight fight I scored 116-112 for Arnaoutis on Versus Thursday night, less than a week over one of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/3/2009
Today and tomorrow, I’ll have previews of the two biggest fights of the weekend: Amir Khan-Dmitriy Salita (junior welterweight) and Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez (middleweight), both Saturday. I’ve also already previewed the Williams-Martinez undercard. But there’s a boxing card tonight and a few other tidbits worth mentioning, so mention them I shall. Versus card, New York […]
