0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/4/2010
In the wake of Floyd Mayweather’s career-best win over Shane Mosley, the eyes of the boxing world are once again fixed on the possibility of Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao settling the question of who is the best fighter of this generation in the ring. We’ve been down this road before and I don’t care to […]
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We’re one third of the way through 2.0, and everything is still very bunched up. There’s a six-way tie for first place; three other people have gone three for four; and 15 people have called two of the four fights accurately, enough to keep them in very close range. Even the people who are one […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/3/2010
We’ve tried to hit every angle on Floyd Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley here, but there’s one I left out, which we can use to kick start this here Open Thread: Where does Floyd Mayweather rank in boxing history? Here’s my partial perspective: Mayweather thinks he’s #1 forever and ever, which is wildly wrong, but of […]
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Back from Vegas, where for one round of Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley — the 2nd — the MGM was ready to explode. Had Mosley finished off Mayweather after having him hurt in that round, half or more of the crowd would have screamed in exultant joy, and the other half would be shouting in amazement that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/2/2010
It was an exceptionally busy two months for some of the pound-for-pound best boxers in the world. Eight of the people on this list were in action since the last update, and four people who used to be on it aren’t anymore. I’ve issued a rare course correction from the last update, convinced by some […]
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That window Shane Mosley trainer Nazim Richardson mentioned for his boxer to beat Floyd Mayweather? It opened in the 2nd round, when Mosley rocked Mayweather with a right hook and had him badly hurt. And it was closed the very next round, when Mayweather came out aggressive and something seemed wrong with Mosley. Maybe he […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/1/2010
Too often, the American media sucks. In general, it’s ineffectual and increasingly unconcerned with trivial things like “truth” and “facts.” Do you have a thoughtful, carefully considered, educated opinion on a matter of importance to many people that you would like to share with a news organization? Too fuckin’ bad, pencil neck! This angry, screaming […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/30/2010
Don’t follow boxing very often, but you want to know the gist of Saturday’s mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley? Follow boxing all the time, and want one place that rounds up all the links about the welterweight showdown you could ever want? This Ultimate Guide to the May 1 pay-per-view bout is for […]
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While you were sleeping, bantamweight Fernando Montiel upset Hozumi Hasegawa with a 4th round knockout in a fight Hasegawa was winning before Montiel put together a menacing flurry that forced referee Laurence Cole to step in and end matters right at the bell. Montiel caught Hasegawa with a left that staggered him, as you can […]
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I’m going to preface my eventual point with some reality: I haven’t bet on a fight in a long time and I’m far from a gambling expert. In fact, I stopped gambling on sports because I find that, for me (and I speak only for myself), gambling sucks all the fun out of sports, especially […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/29/2010
So continues our marathon coverage of Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley on May 1, one of the biggest fights of 2010. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Mosley; Mosley’s pivotal weapon; keys to the fight, part I and II; final preview and prediction. Next: the ultimate guide. For a fight so big, where no exaggeration is required, it is strange […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley on May 1, one of the biggest fights of 2010. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Mosley; Mosley’s pivotal weapon; keys to the fight, part I. Next: final preview and prediction. Mind. Matter. How do Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley stack up in those categories? In the second of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/28/2010
So continues our marathon coverage of Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley on May 1, one of the biggest fights of 2010. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Mosley; Mosley’s pivotal weapon. Next: keys to the fight, part II. Mind. Matter. How do Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley stack up in those categories? In the first of two parts, we compare […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley on May 1, one of the biggest fights of 2010. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Mosley. Next: keys to the fight. Ice-T, riffing off a Rakim sample, once called his mind a “lethal weapon/an assassinator, if the people ain’t steppin’” For all of the things Shane Mosley […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/27/2010
In a matter of days, two high-class boxers with loads of talent who have spent the better part of the past decade at the top of their games will stand nose-to-nose. One is a warrior whose uneven performances have alternated with glimmers of brilliance. Another is a boxer who’s rarely chosen tests equal to his […]
