0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/23/2010
One of the refrains of those who back Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito is, paraphrased, that you moral types who don’t like Margarito because of the loaded-gloves incident can ban the fight if you want, but it’s still going to sell because people love the controversy. On a similar note, Yahoo’s Kevin Iole recently penned a piece […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/22/2010
Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez II: That’s more like it. Way, way, way more like it. It’s no secret that boxing is having a pretty terrible year, but Williams-Martinez II represents a meaningful thaw in the permafrost that is the tundra of 2010. Even when 2010 has had its good moments, something’s turned around and screwed it […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/21/2010
One common rejoinder from some fans and writers alike to the Shane Mosley-Sergio Mora draw on Saturday is that it was a fair result because neither man “deserved” to win. I beg to differ, on two levels. The man who “deserves” to win a decision is the man who wins the most rounds. That’s the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/20/2010
David O. Russell does good work (I just quoted I Heart Huckabees in this space recently, in fact) and this trailer for “The Fighter,” about Micky Ward, starts slowly and builds good momentum. Some of the remarks I’ve seen about it say it looks pretty standard for a boxing story, but if you know Ward’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/19/2010
Sergio Mora might be the only fighter I want banned more than Antonio Margarito. For all but a few rounds, he hardly did anything Saturday night; you might say he wasn’t a participant in his boxing match with Shane Mosley at all. Yet somehow he managed a draw in his junior middleweight bout with the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/18/2010
Think hard about how many boxers in 2010 have taken a legitimate chance in a highly risky fight. There’s the Super Six tournament, Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley, Sergio Martinez-Kelly Pavlik, and some a tier or two below that like Chad Dawson-Jean Pascal or Pongsaklek Wonjongkam-Koki Kameda. So, while I welcome Showtime’s bantamweight tournament (one participant, Abner […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/17/2010
Unlike other combat sports, and simulated combat, the art of the ring entrance is often lost in boxing. Frequently, television networks won’t show entrances at all, opting to talk over graphics or highlight packages instead. When networks do decide to air fighters’ ring walks, we’re often met with a steady flow of cliché music choices, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/16/2010
Friend of the site (and quality boxing writer in his own right) Hamilton Nolan recently proposed a fun idea to me, based on our mutual slavish fanboyishness for YURIORKIS GAMBOA! Gamboa, you see, never cracks my pound-for-pound top-20 list, and Mr. Nolan thinks he should, based primarily on his stratospheric talent, whereas I tend to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/15/2010
It’s busy out there in the boxing world this week, starting tonight, even if there’s nothing that bowls one over. Nathan Cleverly-Karo Murat, Saturday, Birmingham England. This card has a ton of England’s biggest stars on them, so if you’re in the U.S. and you’re interested in checking out some of the talent over there, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
What’s disappointing about Saturday night’s pay-per-view Golden Boy/HBO card led off by Shane Mosley-Sergio Mora is less its content — although there is some valid reason to be disappointed by that, if only a little — than the broken vows it represents. The reason is because nobody’s under any obligation to spend $50 on it […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/14/2010
(No, the purpose of my trip to the U.K. was not to watch heavyweight Tyson Fury decision Rich Power. Haven’t even caught up to that one on my DVR. Photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) In the headline, it’s the royal “we” that went away. While I was in London, there was some fantastic work on this […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
So I’m back from London as of late Sunday, and back from seeing Broken Social Scene as of late Monday, and that means it’s time for some piss-poor addition and desperate metaphorical pictures related to predictin’ stuff. The good news is that there’s interesting business to report in this update of TQBR Prediction Game 4.0. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/13/2010
The tough in the title is Orlando Salido, Yuriorkis Gamboa’s featherweight opponent on Saturday night’s Boxing After Dark. The tougher is Brandon Rios, whose pit-bull tenacity essentially made Anthony Peterson quit in their lightweight bout. It was a great night of fights on HBO, who have found themselves a new star in Rios. The supporting […]
0 comments by Carlos Acevedo on 9/12/2010
Rarely is Ross Greenburg credited with making sensible decisions, but banishing Wladimir Klitschko from HBO may very well be one of them. In an eyesore of a bout, Klitschko stopped weary Sam Peter in the 10th round of a scheduled 12 at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany. The official time of the TKO was 1:22. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/10/2010
The USA has been the home of professional boxing for almost as long as it’s existed (forget that marquess chap for whom this website is named). Things are changing though. Like some kind of bizarro manifest destiny, the heart of boxing now seems to be moving inexorably eastwards. In May, TQBR ran a piece called […]
