0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/15/2010
Michael Katsidis showed why he’s the #1 ranked man at lightweight with a frenzied 3rd round assault that stopped top-10 opponent Kevin Mitchell, the betting favorite who appeared to be outboxing Katsidis… but maybe it was the always-fun Katsidis who was using his head. (We’ll hit other weekend results here, too, aside from the HBO […]
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The Amir Khan-Paulie Malignaggi junior welterweight fight started early Friday. It was supposed to be today, but as this video (h/t friend of the site Mady) shows, they got to swangin’ at the weigh-in. The promoter for Malignaggi, Lou DiBella, is upset and will be seeking fines and suspensions and such; fines are more likely […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/13/2010
TQBR Prediction Game 2.0 is in effect for Michael Katsidis-Kevin Mitchell! Repeat! It’s in effect! Don’t forget the rules. We’ll hit a short Katsidis-Mitchell preview first then cover the rest of the packed weekend schedule besides the HBO doubleheader, for which the game is not in effect. Katsidis-Mitchell, Saturday, United Kingdom. It’s upsetting this fight […]
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I came of age during the notorious (pun intended) East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry in the early/mid-1990s. It was a time when most of the males (and many of the females) in my predominantly white, suburban high school would rattle the trunks of their hand-me-down cars with booming bass, flash gang hand signals in the […]
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The four boxers in HBO’s doubleheader on Saturday have… reputations. Some of it’s fair, some less so. In the opener, there are the two “quitters,” Nate Campbell and Victor Ortiz. Ortiz out-and-out quit against Marcos Maidana last year and hasn’t lived it down. Campbell claimed to be seeing spots from a head butt he suffered […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/12/2010
It’s no 4 million, the ludicrous number Golden Boy Promotions boss Richard Schaefer predicted, but the 1.4 million pay-per-view buys for Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley that HBO announced today is a rousing success. It ties Oscar De La Hoya-Felix Trinidad for second in all-time buys for a non-heavyweight fight. It puts Mayweather back in the lead […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/11/2010
We now live in a world where the best boxer in the world is also a congressman. Although it’s not 100 percent official, pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao has claimed to win a seat in the Philippines by a “landslide,” a remarkable feat for a remarkable man who’s lived a remarkable life. Mind-blowing. It’s not that service […]
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It’s only a boxing blog, but The Queensberry Rules offers much to navigate. From time to time, we get questions about how to do this or that. Here are the answers. (This post will be updated periodically.) Main page. The heart of TQBR — abbreviated thusly because of its Twitter handle — is the middle […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/10/2010
Check out Kerm above, then meet me after the jump. Kermit Cintron’s explanation. There have indeed been a variety of explanations from the Cintron camp about what, exactly, was the matter when he fell out of the ring in his fight against Paul Williams. He hit his head and neck, said promoter Lou DiBella. Cintron […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/9/2010
Paul Williams got a split decision win Saturday over Kermit Cintron that was wholly unsatisfying, as Cintron went flying out of the ring in the 4th round and doctors wouldn’t let him continue. It’s weird for Williams to be involved in something unsatisfying, but weirdness begets weirdness; you don’t often see someone fall out of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/7/2010
Not everyone is moved by the same things, but one would think that one of the qualities nearly all boxing fans and writers would want out of a pugilist is this: “Willing to fight anyone, any time.” If everyone does want that, they sure have a funny way of showing it lately. It’s still not […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/6/2010
Promoters are to boxing as weight loss and popup ads are to the internet. Everybody hates them, but unfortunately they play a big role in keeping the whole thing working. Like internet ads, some promoters are worse than others and in this post I’m going to try and grade them based on their recent performance. […]
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Welcome to the semi-regular column with a not-yet-permanent name where we take a look at happenings in the world of the two biggest stars in boxing by a hefty margin, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. As an intern in a Washington news bureau, I once wrote pieces for a publication called the Arkadelphia Daily Siftings-Herald. […]
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It’s Paul Williams weekend as far as I’m concerned, but there’s a man fighting Saturday who connects Williams (left, photo credit Jan Sanders/Goossen-Tutor) and his opponent, Kermit Cintron. Williams beat him; Cintron lost to him twice. He’s fighting south of the border since he’s not licensed to fight in the United States, as that right […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/5/2010
These two men fighting each other Saturday on HBO, Paul Williams and Kermit Cintron, have a persecution complex and a hankering to get into the Floyd Mayweather sweepstakes. Whether they realistically should have such complexes or hankerings is another question. Williams — my favorite boxer — is an HBO darling, making tons of money from […]
