0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/9/2010
Marcos Maidana lost a title last weekend in Buenos Aires despite having his hand raised in victory, although it probably isn’t what you might think. Rather than being left with his shorts around his ankles as an alphabet hit squad made off with a trouser tightner in a Buick, this was a far more serious […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/8/2010
This Saturday, the featherweight who lives up to his nickname “The Cyclone” should have been facing much-feared Celestino Caballero, a bold, over-the-top move worthy of full-blown YURIORKIS GAMBOA! celebrations. Instead, Gamboa is taking his Cyclone self into what still stands as the hardest fight of his career against tough veteran contender Orlando Salido. If for […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/7/2010
(Big photo for big guys: Wladimir Klitschko, left, and Samuel Peter; credit Klitschko’s Facebook page) It’s been a minute since we last saw that look of primal terror on heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s face, the look where he seemed to be thinking “ohmigod ohmigod I got hit oh no what I am I gonna do […]
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Most of this year’s Fight of the Year candidates have been thus because somebody had to do it. It’s like, in a lineup of Frankenstein, Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera, somebody is the “most handsome,” by default. But now we have two weekends in a row of them. It’s not enough on my […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/5/2010
The headline is depressing in the front, but in the back it’s wild and free. This blog entry in toto is the emotional mullet of Round and Round columns, your spot for a weekly round-up of fights in the works because if you paid attention to this every day you’d go insane with all the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/4/2010
That’s Saul Alvarez’ girlfriend, TV reporter Marisol Gonzalez, maybe the new queen of boxing WAGs. I was all right with Alvarez before, but now I COMPLETELY HATE HIM. Quick Jabs, anyone? Quick Jabs For the first time in his life, Floyd Mayweather has apologized for something. That rant of his caught him some serious hell, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/3/2010
Because everything Floyd Mayweather says is designed to stir up some kind of faux controversy that gets him headlines and helps him make money playing the villain, it’s a worthwhile question whether writers should entirely ignore his antics. But, sometimes, he says something so horrible it requires repuditiation far and wide. In the above NSFW […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/2/2010
This is one of those pound-for-pound lists where who’s missing – and who replaced the people who used to be there – is actually more noteworthy than any substantial movement that anyone made for himself. So let’s start by talking about who isn’t on it since last time, and why. (Because it matters!) I previously […]
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(Naazim Richardson was the only thing stopping Antonio Margarito from fighting Shane Mosley with loaded gloves. Richardson was not in Miguel Cotto’s corner when Cotto fought Margarito in the fight prior. Cotto looked like this after facing Margarito.) To answer the headline, I could probably just say, “Antonio Margarito,” and about 90 percent of my […]
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In recent weeks, just as I was getting ready to update my pound-for-pound top 20, out of nowhere several friends virtually simultaneously remarked to me or in print that such lists of the best boxers in the world across all weight classes were worthless. It never occurred to me that anyone wouldn’t find them valuable. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/1/2010
Because a whole bottle of wine and two large glasses of whiskey do not make for ideal writing conditions unless you’re Jack Kerouac, I figured I’d rewatch the big fight from last weekend — Giovanni Segura-Ivan Calderon — with fresh, sober eyes, plus check out Marcos Maidana-DeMarcus Corley and more for some Weekend Afterthoughts. First, […]
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Try though I might to move on from the whole Antonio Margarito handwraps issue, there’s a poisonous element of the debate over whether he deserved a boxing license that is so pernicious I must expand on my previous answer to it. The element is this: Many backers of Margarito receiving a license are labeling anyone […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/31/2010
For all you ladies out there: You might think that boxing’s a good thing to take up for self-defense, but this hilarious 1991 book offers some alternatives. I hope everyone still has their old floppy disks. While you’re practicing how to assault someone with a Sony Walkman, you can also peruse the latest fights in […]
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After two weekends of action in the kickoff leg of TQBR Prediction Game 4.0, both weekends featuring upset victors, there are more have-nots than haves. Conditions would be ripe for a communist revolt, if any of this mattered. There are 16 members of the bourgeoisie who have any points whatsoever and thereby can say, per […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/29/2010
What was he thinking? Ivan Calderon, the master craftsman of the lower divisions, picked the wrong guy to trade punches with Saturday night, as he opted to go toe-to-toe with the master blaster of the lower divisions, Giovanni Segura, and came up on the bad end when Segura stopped him in eight rounds to claim […]
