0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/10/2010
The rest of June and all of July (at least based on what’s scheduled as of this writing) offer very little in the way of ultra-top-notch boxing cards, with only two weekends currently slated for what I consider fights that are all that important slash competitive. This week is the beginning of that trend. Now […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/9/2010
Sorry I’d left and gone away for a couple days, friends. I’ve been traveling, and finishing up a freelance Ring magazine piece that was a spinoff from this blog entry a whiles back. But I left you in the capable hands of Scott and Carlos — check out both of their wonderfully written pieces. Although […]
0 comments by Carlos Acevedo on 6/8/2010
“All he wanted to do was fight, fight, fight.” Paul Gallico He tore out of the Great American Desert to make a mockery of the carefree Jazz Age, trailing behind him the dark shadow of the lawless frontier, snarling, heeling, butting, permanent stubble underpinning his perpetual scowl. From the High Plains he scratched his way […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/7/2010
Joe DiMaggio and Sugar Ray Robinson. Joe Louis and Babe Ruth. The Mick and The Greatest. Rocky and Yogi. Zale-Graziano I and the Pine Tar Incident. Boxing, baseball, and Yankee Stadium – together, they recall the formative years of American sport, the Golden Age of my generation’s grandfathers, as intrinsic to our history and culture […]
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Two contestants join the TQBR Prediction Game Hall of Champions this day: David Schraub and Migs88, who tied for first place after 13 rounds of tremendous battle that ended in a draw. They join previous champions Spidershark and Pretty Toney in the kind of immortality that being good at predicting fights on a blog can […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/6/2010
NEW YORK CITY — Freakish endings are the order of the day in boxing, at least over the past month in the junior middleweight division. First we he had the catapult fight with Kermit Cintron flying out of the ring against Paul Williams, and after Saturday, now we have the knee injury/rejected towel-throwing fight where […]
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NEW YORK CITY — Greetings from Yankee Stadium. The live blog starts when the HBO doubleheader kicks off, so come to this blog entry around then. I only ask two things: 1. I’ll post round-by-round, and will try to respond to comment in between. So if you’re expecting more than that, I can’t help you, […]
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NEW YORK CITY — Some logistical snafus have made it so I couldn’t watch every undercard bout in full, but I’ve got things sorted out and I’m ringside for the televised portion of the card. Until then, here are some observations on the undercard, plus a note on last night, in chronological order. The Boxing […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/4/2010
There’s not much Quick Jabbing material this week, other than: This interview with Virgil Hunter, the trainer of super middleweight Andre Ward (paired at right), who’s fast become one of my favorite interviews in the sport; A worthy Lou DiBella rant against the sanctioning organization that stripped his promotional charge, Sergio Martinez, of his middleweight […]
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Steve Cunningham-Troy Ross Saturday in Germany is the fight of cruiserweights who would be stars. “Would be” is the key phrase. Cunningham’s Fight of the Year-caliber duel with Tomasz Adamek at the end of 2008 should have launched the charismatic ex-Marine into at least minor stardom, but the networks never took to him and promoter […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/3/2010
I’d been waiting to see that. Now you can too, if you haven’t already. Quite the sizzling Round 3 between these two junior lightweights, Roman Martinez and Gonzalo Munguia. As always, the clip stays up as long as YouTube lets it stay…
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You have to hand it to Uncle Bob on this one: The wily old promoter has taken a moderately interesting fight between a light-punching junior middleweight and a potentially war-drained welterweight and turned it into an event, a regular media sensation, even. Arum’s boxing brand of identity politics has its critics — sometimes, I’m among […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/2/2010
Tonight, Showtime will air the next episode of Fight Camp 360, its documentary-style show about its super middleweight tournament. It might be hard to top last episode, but Allan Green has a big mouth and knows how to use it to hype his bout with Andre Ward this month — the man calls his right […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/1/2010
We begin the Open Thread earlier in the day this month, so as to allow maximum participation for our overseas friends and for those who otherwise tend not to see the Open Thread until it’s just about wound down. And the Open Thread comes even though y’all haven’t been too chatty the last week or […]
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Ring magazine’s “The State of the Game” review came out this month, and like this annual feature I do, it examines what’s what in all of boxing’s divisions. But they complement each other, these two columns. Ring is a bit more comprehensive, but it doesn’t rank every division in order of who’s best, like I […]
