0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/22/2010
Sorry for the delay in tallying up the standings in TQBR Prediction Game 3.0. I had some girl drama to attend to, a busy stretch at the day job and frankly it was a pain in the ass mathematically that I put off because I knew it would be a pain in the ass mathematically. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/21/2010
Australian boxing fans were tonight witness to Danny Green’s second bizarre 1st round knockout in as many fights. Paul Briggs somehow managed to survive for even less time than Roy Jones Jr., hitting the deck with two minutes and 31 seconds left in the first round. Either Briggs took a dive that the entire Italian […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/20/2010
The camp of Floyd Mayweather — including Mayweather himself — has now weighed in on their view on what happened with the potential Manny Pacquiao welterweight megafight, and it’s not very illuminating. Incriminating, more than anything. But we still don’t have the whole story. As I said over the weekend, though, missing the whole story […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/18/2010
Sometimes I wonder if anyone in the world ever actually knows what they are doing, or if everyone is just skating along on instinct, bullshit, and blind luck. I know that I’m doing that quite often, and I still find myself amazed that others are even more clueless than I. For example, I showed up […]
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This was far from the finest performance of Timothy Bradley’s career, this Saturday night unanimous decision over Luis Carlos Abregu, but it did the trick of “introducing” him to the HBO audience and showing he could viably fight at welterweight if he wanted to do so. The top junior welterweight in the world was sloppy […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/17/2010
Here we are again. Despite what Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said this morning about Floyd Mayweather not agreeing to a fight in November, the second time Pacquiao and Mayweather couldn’t agree to a welterweight megafight in 2010, it is too soon to start pointing fingers at either camp. We have one side of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/16/2010
Might as well clear the deck in advance of the big phony countdown for Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao tonight plus all the fights on Showtime and ESPN2 and whatnot by looking at all the other fights in the works (we already did the Quick Jabs, so that’s out of the way too). P.S. Would you rather […]
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To the right, observe the blurry cover of the September issue of Ring magazine, where I have my first full-length feature after penning a couple smaller items. (It’s blurry because I hyper-inflated a super-small image from the table of contents.) My understanding is that the issue has already hit some mailboxes, so I feel obligated […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/15/2010
[UPDATE: I’m bumping this post up in case people didn’t see that it was Prediction Game-applicable. First deadline begins at noon Friday! But don’t overlook Alex McClintock’s post, either.] This week’s schedule includes an HBO doubleheader that may not be too competitive and a ShoBox tripleheader that’s as competitive on paper as any I can […]
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Golden Boy Promotions is in a little bit of trouble in New York. Depending on who you ask, Oscar and Co. are either guilty of deliberately breaking the law or just forgetting some paperwork. I don’t aim to get to the bottom of the matter, but I’m going to put on my fawn cardigan again […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/14/2010
To look at Pacland over the weekend, you’d think apocalypse had been visited upon the Philippines. A series of boxing matches that very weekend prompted the dour mood. Featherweight Bernabe Concepcion and junior featherweight Eden Sonsona lost by knockout. Flyweight Brian Viloria won, but in a closer-than-expected decision over a journeyman. Only junior bantamweight Nonito […]
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Here’s your first leaderboard for TQBR Prediction Game 3.0. But before we get into the standings, I have a question for the playas: What fights should we do next for the game? Take a look at the schedule — several “bigger” fights aren’t expected to be too competitive until about August 7, and several smaller […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/13/2010
Warning: This is not a happy column. This is an angry rant. If you are offended by liberal use of profanity and seething, unrepressed rage, I suggest you stop reading now and check out one of the hundreds of intelligently considered, profanity-free posts that make up the vast majority of TQBR. I also suggest you […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/11/2010
(Tim isn’t the only one who can exploit patriotic imagery. ‘MERICA!) Ahh. This is why I spend my hard-earned (don’t laugh) money, trek through hateful traffic, suffer endless intermissions and dreadful undercard fights – because when a boxing card is as good as Friday night’s doubleheader at the Ballroom at Boardwalk Hall was, there is […]
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(Juan Manuel Lopez finishes Bernabe Concepcion. Photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) This was Juanma at his best and Juanma at his worst. On Showtime Saturday, featherweight Juan Manuel Lopez was on course for a destructive early knockout of Bernabe Concepcion in the 1st round after scoring an official knockdown and getting another that didn’t count, […]
