0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/27/2010
So begins our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2010, Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley. Now: the meaning of Mayweather-Mosley. Next: Mosley’s pivotal weapon. Floyd Mayweather has never fought anyone as good as Shane Mosley in his whole life. Shane Mosley has never fought anyone as good as Floyd Mayweather in his whole life. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/26/2010
(Carl Froch, left; Mikkel Kessler, right. Credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Glancing around at what everyone’s written about last weekend’s fights, there are a couple trends. Some people, such as Cliff Rold of BoxingScene, have pointed out that the Super Six tournament finally delivered a great fight. True, and certainly welcome. Others, such as ESPN’s Dan […]
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Welcome, all 47 of you, to TQBR Prediction Game 2.0. The numbers have swollen tremendously, so welcome back to all the previous players and welcome as well to the new ones. You probably couldn’t have picked a harder week to start — two close fights on paper to call, two fights that ended up close […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/25/2010
Apologies for the lateness of this post. I’ve been busy with family stuff — I’m an uncle twice over as of this weekend! — and I still don’t have time to give a full take on last night’s excellent action. Here’s the short version: Congratulations to Mikkel Kessler for getting some points on the board […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/24/2010
If you don’t want to know anything about what happened in the Carl Froch vs. Mikkel Kessler fight before it airs on Showtime, read no further. But if you can’t wait until then to comment, this is the place to do it. So, word is it was a Fight of the Year candidate, as I […]
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Moreso than in a long time, the news of this week was heavily focused on the fights of the weekend. I haven’t measured it statistically, but I do think the HBO card got more attention than the Showtime card. I don’t get it. Carl Froch-Mikkel Kessler is a more significant fight in a better division […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/23/2010
The Showtime and HBO main events Saturday are where it’s at this week for your boxing kicks. But there are a couple other modestly noteworthy bouts, too. I shall note them modestly, because that’s what they’re worth. Alfredo Angulo-Joel Julio, HBO, Saturday, California. I briefly considered making this one eligible for the prediction game, but […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/22/2010
(Chris Arreola, left; Tomasz Adamek, right; flames and stuff, all around them. Photo: Jan Sanders) One potential Fight of the Year candidate this weekend isn’t enough. I’ll take two, please. Showtime is airing the first and, I think, more compelling of the prospective FOY candidates Saturday. HBO is airing the other, a heavyweight brawl between […]
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Floyd Mayweather must be awfully tired from all of the standing he’s doing of late. First of all, he took a stance against performance enhancing drugs within the sport, one which, to all intents and purposes, cost him his mega-fight with Manny Pacquiao. Now, he’s leaping into action against the alphabet bandits by refusing to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/21/2010
After claiming the linear middleweight championship (despite being more of a blown up junior middleweight), Sergio Martinez has some options that he didn’t have a few years ago, when he was better known as “Who the Hell Is” Sergio Martinez? A rematch with Kelly Pavlik looms, thanks to a rematch clause in Pavlik’s contract. A […]
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(Mikkel Kessler, left; Carl Froch, right; mean-looking stone lion, center) With Saturday night’s entry in Showtime’s excellent Super Six tournament, which brings together the cream of the crop of the loaded super middleweight division, we are getting what might turn out to be the most action-packed bout of the event. Whereas the other bouts have […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/20/2010
There remains much to discuss about the past weekend, especially the waterfall of weird coming out of the Edwin Valero case. Valero theories. Now that the former lightweight is deceased, there are some bizarre claims being made by those close to him. I’m not saying I think the claims are true or false, only that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/19/2010
Want to see a good fight in New Jersey? Just make your way down to Atlantic City anytime Kelly Pavlik or Sergio Martinez are in town. In 2007, Pavlik engaged in a Fight of the Year candidate with Jermain Taylor at Boardwalk Hall, the venerable AC fight establishment. Last December, Martinez engaged in the TQBR […]
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For those who haven’t heard the news yet, lightweight Edwin Valero — as pure a puncher as there is in boxing, someone who as recently as this year was discussed as a potential future opponent for the world’s best fighter, Manny Pacquiao — was arrested this weekend for murdering his wife, a crime police say […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/18/2010
It was a fitting race to the finish, but like his TQBR Prediction Game-winning savior Sergio Martinez on Saturday, Pretty Toney pulled it out late over rival JB to win all the marbles. Ladies and gentlemen, in honor of the TQBR Prediction Game 1.0 winner, I give you… It was either that, or photo-shopping James […]
