0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/18/2010
I couldn’t have been more worried for Sergio Martinez when the scorecards were about to be announced Saturday on HBO after a fight I had him clearly winning. Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik was the adopted hometown fighter in Atlantic City and the Argentian Martinez had been robbed of a victory once on U.S. soil against […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/17/2010
Kelly Pavlik played the starring role in the most thrilling fight I have ever attended in person, his 2007 middleweight championship fight against Jermain Taylor in which he rose from the canvas and scored a stunning knockout to claim the lineal title at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. (Not only was the fight poster cool […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/16/2010
So many babes, attempted and certified, this week in the boxing world. Which to start with? That was my dilemma. I went with Caroline Wozniacki, who will be supporting fellow Dane Mikkel Kessler ringside in his super middleweight fight on Showtime next weekend against Carl Froch, per a Sauerland Event news release. You don’t have […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
From time to time BoxingScene’s David P. Greisman and myself gchat one another. Sometimes we talk about boxing, even. In something of an experiment, I bring you a gchat transcript from a few hours ago. After I finished my dinner, talk turned to some recent news in the pugilistic world. David: yo’sef. me: ah here’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/15/2010
I bet middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik totally wishes he had a Hot Tub Time Machine that could take him back to mid-2008, when he was near the top of the world and the future was so bright he had to wear shades and Michael Jackson was white but at least not dead. Pavlik’s own whitish […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/13/2010
Never before can I recall a weekend where two fighters — in this case, welterweight Andre Berto and featherweight Celestino Caballero — got such divergent reviews at the TQBR (which is like saying “ATM machine” or “START treaty” but I’m a huge believer in playing with indefinite articles). But we’ve already covered that in the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/12/2010
OK, so here’s the deal: TQBR Prediction Game 1.0 ends after two fights next weekend, the HBO double-header of Kelly Pavlik-Sergio Martinez and Lucian Bute-Edison Miranda. Only four people can win the whole shebang: JB, Pretty Toney, David Schraub and Hit Dog, with the latter two needing brilliant predictions and a collapse by the first […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/11/2010
On the HBO doubleheader Saturday, Andre Berto knocked out Carlos Quintana to announce himself as the man you have to talk about the welterweight division after Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley, but as good as the win was it left me with the impression he’ll always be the “after” with that crowd. Meanwhile, Celestino […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/10/2010
(Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales, circa 2002) (Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales, circa 2010) The news conference punch, the bad blood spilled in the ring, the Mexico City/Tijuana rivalry… it’s all gone. Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales say they’re pals now (per BoxingScene, usual warnings apply about clicking on links). I know […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/8/2010
In January, Andre Berto was supposed to fight Shane Mosley in a huge welterweight bout. In July, Celestino Caballero might fight Yuriorkis Gamboa in what would be a huge featherweight bout. As the A-sides in an HBO doubleheader Saturday, Berto and Caballero are facing opponents that aren’t on that level, but then, they aren’t exactly […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/7/2010
As if the varying and sometimes flagrantly false excuses for what happened the night welterweight Antonio Margarito got caught with loaded gloves in January of 2009 weren’t silly enough, now comes this: What R. Kelly’s defense team might have dubbed the “Palmolive Hard On Grease, Soft On Hands” defense. Tell us about it, Margarito attorney […]
0 comments by Carlos Acevedo on 4/6/2010
To begin with, he does not resemble a prizefighter. There is the receding hairline, unusual for such a young man, but you can almost imagine a puckish little cowlick plastered on his forehead whenever he is away from the gym. Then there is a hint of mischief in his look; his pursed lips almost seem […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Manchester is bulging with testosterone. It’s a huge sporting day in the North West as the region plays host to both a world heavyweight title tussle and a potential English Premier League decider within a few hours of each other. Sharing top billing in the national dailies, the events intertwine themselves as firstly Haye parades […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/5/2010
As we round into the stretch run of the first iteration of the TQBR Prediction Game, the difference between winning and losing could come down to one wrong call, or one slightly more accurate call. There is a slight dilemma for said stretch run, however. There are two fights this weekend that are game-worthy: The […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Fans of Friday Night Fights are accustomed to Teddy Atlas providing his honest opinion of the fights on the card, pulling no punches when he considers a fighter in against a mismatched opponent. Atlas is a pillar of integrity for his blunt honesty but he leans a little too tough sometimes, as I feel he […]
