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Weekend Results: Bernard Hopkins Beats Roy Jones, But His Promoter Wants Him To Retire; David Haye Wrecks John Ruiz; Fox Sports Net, ESPN2, Showtime, More

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It’s exactly what it sounds like. Bernard Hopkins got his revenge on Roy Jones Saturday in a rematch of their 1993 fight, but I haven’t seen anybody who thought the 45-year-old victor looked so hot. It was a clear and wide unanimous decision decision, but the consensus is that B-Hop struggled more than he should […]

Quick Jabs: Bernard Hopkins Vs. Roy Jones II Flounders; “Super Six” Alleged To Do Things It Isn’t, Never Was Meant To; In Scholarly Pursuit Of Kelly Pavlik; More

0 comments by on 4/3/2010

It’s not Gus Johnson calling a boxing match, but the above video (NSFW?) does ring familiar for those of us accustomed to listening to him on Showtime. In these Quick Jabs, we take the subjects in the headline and mix it up with some other tidbits and some fights in the works (Peterson brothers! Showtime […]

Book Review: Sweet Thunder

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Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson Wil Haygood 461 pp. Alfred A. Knopf, December 2009 The time is right for a new look at the life of Sugar Ray Robinson, the signature fighter of boxing’s golden era. Robinson, born Walker Smith, Jr. in Detroit in 1921, was by consensus the greatest […]

Open Thread, “Happy Birthday, Open Thread!” Edition

0 comments by on 4/1/2010

It’s right about the anniversary of the Open Thread, since we missed a month or two when Open Thread love dipped to nearly none. Lately, the love has been back. So: Happy birthday, Open Thread. We’ll do this year what we did in the first, because a lot has changed in the world since then. […]

Passive, Aggressive: David Haye Vs. John Ruiz Preview And Prediction

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(David Haye, via The Daily Mail) It’s hard to believe we’re coming into David Haye-John Ruiz Saturday and the ultra-aggressive Haye is the one who drew criticism after his last fight for being too ugly and passive, while the famously huggy Ruiz in his last fight bucked his reputation as a grind-it-out mauler. But both […]

Surveying The Landscape For Real Boxing Champions

0 comments by on 3/31/2010

Over the weekend, Pongsaklek Wonjongkam beat Koki Kameda to claim the lineal Ring magazine championship of the world. It put him in rare company. In boxing’s 17 divisions, there are currently but five lineal champs — that is, the man in each division who beat the man who beat the man all the way back […]

The Rest Of The Week’s Boxing Schedule: David Tua Vs. Friday The 13th; Friday Night Fights And ShoBox; The Roy Jones Vs. Bernard Hopkins II Undercard; More

0 comments by on 3/30/2010

We’ll be doing full previews of both Roy Jones-Bernard Hopkins II and David Haye-John Ruiz, but because the boxing schedule gets started early this week with a fight featuring David Tua (pictured above in a pimped-out mini; h/t to friend of the site PJ), we’ll hit everything but Jones-Hopkins II and Haye-Ruiz now. David Tua-Friday […]

TQBR Prediction Game Standings, Update #3

0 comments by on 3/29/2010

This was the weekend when picking upsets finally paid off in the TQBR Prediction Game. Three of the four weekend bouts ended with the betting underdog getting the win. We’re talking lots of available bonus points there. And we encountered some unique conditions that might lead to a scoring controversy. I do not relish the […]

Andre Dirrell Gets Pyrrhic Disqualification Victory Over Arthur Abraham; Joan Guzman Gets Tainted Close Win Over Ali Funeka; Marcos Maidana Gets Unconditional Knockout Win Over Victor Cayo

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Three interesting fights Saturday night, all for different reasons. Andre Dirrell won by disqualification over Arthur Abraham in a fight he was controlling even though Abraham was gaining ground, a DQ that came because Dirrell slipped and Abraham blasted him into a terrible sleep while he was on the ground. Joan Guzman won a split […]

[UPDATED] Quick Jabs: Joan Guzman Gets Fat And Unprofessional (Again); Beibut Shumenov Gets Hypocritical; Edwin Valero Gets Dastardly (Allegedly); Joshua Clottey Gets Goofier; More

0 comments by on 3/27/2010

What a terrible week it’s been for boxers doing the right thing. And too often, undeserving people have been victimized by it all. The one with the most immediate ramifications: Joan Guzman (right) again coming in overweight, this time for Saturday’s rematch with Ali Funeka (left), and not just a little — nine pounds above […]

Relitigating, Part 2: Manny Pacquiao Vs. Joshua Clottey Pay-Per-View Numbers

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There have been a couple subjects that generated heated debate in this space in the last week, to the point that I believe they require a bit of relitigating. First up was the philosophy of boxing undercards. Now: analyzing the pay-per-view buys for Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey. Let me start by saying that in my original […]

Relitigating, Part 1: Boxing Undercards

0 comments by on 3/26/2010

There have been a couple subjects that generated heated debate in this space in the last week, to the point that I believe they require a bit of relitigating. First up: The philosophy of boxing undercards. Next: Analyzing the pay-per-view buys for Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey. Some friends of the site in the comments section — […]

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