0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/10/2011
A boxing movie, specifically a boxing movie featuring boxing robots, is improbably the #1 movie in America. It’s improbable because most reaction I’d seen to the announcement of “Real Steel,” and to the early trailers, was along the lines of, “That movie looks doofus-y.” And Hugh Jackman hasn’t been hitting it out of the park […]
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We’re definitely going to Round And Round it up in this piece, but my travels this week have made it difficult for me to blog generally and so there have been a few post-Quick Jabs developments in requirement of expansion. Most of them involve recent fights. We know now from a couple places (including, according […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/9/2011
Well, well, well. The Ingle family, Sheffield prospectors since the 1960’s, appear to have unearthed another golden nugget in the shape of world welterweight contender Kell Brook. In front of a sell out home audience on Saturday evening, Brook toyed with the world-rated and experienced Pole, Rafal Jackiewicz, shutting him out completely up to the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/7/2011
The big fight in Britain this weekend involves welterweights Kell Brook and Rafal Jackiewicz, a contest which can be viewed not only as a quarrel between contenders for world honours but also as a marrying of such contrasting individuals. Theirs would be a buddy movie beyond even the most contrived of parodies. Brook, fighting at […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/6/2011
(Hillary Rodham Clinton and Amir Khan) Long-theorized, unproven for lack of (nearly) decades of evidence, Washington, D.C. will get a chance to prove itself as a hungry, untapped boxing market when a significant fight between British super-talent Amir Khan and local product/junior welterweight contender Lamont Peterson comes to the nation’s capital on Dec. 10. It […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/5/2011
As you might have guessed by the title and the video, this weekend is gonna be a sloooow one. Like, really slow. There are only two televised cards airing in the U.S. It’s that bad. At least we’ve got nearly two months of uninterrupted quality after that. So let’s get to it, with a slightly […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/4/2011
Roman Gonzalez, ladies and gentleman. The junior flyweight relies an awful lot on his natural power, but fortunately for him he’s got a lot of it, so until he runs into someone else who has more, that could work out for him all right. And hey, he can put his punches together too, obviously. Right […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/2/2011
Toshiaki Nishioka edged Rafael Marquez by unanimous decision in Las Vegas tonight, in a junior featherweight bout that began tepidly but finished boiling hot. TQBR had the hard to score fight a draw, but there were a whole lot of close rounds in there. The fight began with a lengthy feeling out process, with both […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.–They say the mark of a true champion is being able to win even when you don’t have your best stuff. If that’s true then middleweight champion Sergio Martinez passed his test with flying colors by rallying from a lackluster start to score an 11th-round knockout of Darren Barker at Boardwalk Hall Saturday […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/1/2011
“The year was 2081 and everybody was finally equal.” So begins “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut’s short story about a future where anyone who has a natural gift — too attractive, too fast, too strong, too tall, too talented, too smart — any kind of natural advantage is encumbered by a physical handicap that basically erases […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/30/2011
More so on Twitter than amongst boxing writers writing actual stories this week about Sergio Martinez vs. Darren Barker, there’s a big obsession with the lack of ticket sales for that show and how it’s been promoted. I care about the business side of boxing, too, just like I care about the actual fights and […]
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Well, who would have thought we’d have a post-fight that is more entertaining (and likely to be a lot lengthier) than the actual fight itself? Victor Ortiz and Oscar De La Hoya are demanding a rematch, while Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is rolling out the infamous fishnet stocking shots. I give Mayweather the points lead on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/29/2011
There is a certain space in boxing, inhabited only by the most transcendent talents, where the interest of fans dims in any match-up that these pugilists can feasibly make in their own division because the fights are seen as total wipe outs. That is the lonely, tormented zone in which middleweight champion Sergio Martinez resides […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
There’s Philadelphia, the historic “City of Brotherly Love,” and then there’s boxing’s Philadelphia — the city with an unquestionable penchant for producing the type of fighters that laugh off blood and smirk at guts. The industrial apathy of early 20th century Pennsylvania gifted the boxing world with one of the original “Philly fighters,” Tommy Loughran. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/28/2011
Like a surfboard with five dogs on it, this weekend’s boxing schedule is packed! Yeah, that’s a stretch – but you’ve gotta find something to head these schedules with. Anyway, to the fights, which are rather good. Sergio Martinez is taking on Darren Barker on HBO in a mismatch than nobody really cares about because […]
