0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/25/2011
Couple things: 1. I’ve been quiet this week because I apparently broke a bone in my wrist. (No, I didn’t punch anyone. I just fell off a bicycle. When I got up, a fellow approached me and advised me, “Hey, man, you gotta stay up on that bike.” Just a terrific bit of wisdom to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/23/2011
Has it really been almost a year since TQBR combined the fight scribe’s laziest tool with some statistical analysis in order to celebrate boxing’s deadliest knockout artists? And that isn’t a reference to Odlanier Solis or Gary Shaw, people. Oh no. The tool in question is another of those dreaded top 10 listings. Unlike the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/22/2011
Mexico is boxing’s promised land. The streets are empty whenever Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Saul Alvarez are fighting. Thousands of moustachioed men flood the streets to celebrate their victories. Little Mexican niños are given boxing gloves for their third birthday and are expected to not take them off until they turn pro at age […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/20/2011
Happy season finale, Friday Night Fights. Things ended characteristically on ESPN2 in some ways, not others. Characteristically: Hank Lundy and David Diaz slugged it right the hell out in a lightweight battle with tons of grit. Lundy looked early like he was thoroughly outclassing Diaz, but we’ve been here before. Lundy has tremendous speed and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/19/2011
That’s a rather tasteless sketch courtesy the new show “Affion Crocket In the Flow,” owing to the whole Freddie-Roach-beats-Parkinson’s-with-steroids gag. And it would’ve been a touch uncool anyway what with the sketch reinforcing the baseless accusations by the Floyd Mayweather camp of Manny Pacquiao using steroids. However, it’s not as galling as the Antonio Margarito-Brandon […]
0 comments by Evan Holober
Thursday marked the beginning of a new era in mixed martial arts. Zuffa, LLC (The UFC’s parent company) and FOX Sports Media Group inked a multimedia-rights deal to air material on three of the network giant’s channels. The agreement includes: Four live events in a primetime/late-night slot on FOX starting November 12; weigh-in specials and […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 8/18/2011
Keeping with the recent run of photos of lovely women in boxing gear, there’s silent film star Clara Bow. Trust me, for that era, that picture’s nearly as scandalous as the one in the blog entry below this one. I mean, just LOOK at all that ankle! (via, h/t Jim) Demetrius Andrade-Grady Brewer/Hank Lundy-David Diaz, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/16/2011
Pandering is bad for the soul. But don’t count the attractive woman to your right as pandering. Hear me out! Since the last Round And Round column, light heavyweight Edison Miranda issued a trash-talking news release demanding a rematch with Yordanis Despaigne. One of the insults was giving him a “best actress” Oscar for pretending […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
If you enjoy watching men being punched in the nards a la the television program “Ow, My Balls,” that’s the video for you. Yes yes, it was another of those kinds of weekends in boxing — the kind where good things happened, but controversy ruled. Every year, I’ve noticed, the sport seems to go through […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/14/2011
Teon Kennedy (17-1-1) failed to impress in Atlantic City tonight, turning in a pedestrian effort in losing to Alejandro Lopez (22-2) by unanimous decision in their junior featherweight bout. Kennedy, who finished the fight with his right eye closed and badly cut, had no answers for Lopez’ hard, straight punches and could not cut the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Joseph Agbeko reacts to a low blow; photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) In the championship fight of the Showtime Bantamweight Tournament at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, a close, action-packed, and interesting fight between Abner Mares and Joseph Agbeko was overshadowed by a terrible performance from referee Russell Mora, who failed to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/13/2011
Kermit Cintron has had some kind of psychedelic career, so when a fight against Antwone Smith that most scored as a close contest turned out to be a wide decision victory according to two of three judges, it barely was a blip of weirdness. There was something so routine about the weirdness of Cintron’s win […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/12/2011
Wonder how toe thumbs affect one’s boxing abilities. (via) Quick Jabs. You know the drill. We got the stuff in the headline, some boxers moving around from promoter to promoter, scandals from two summers ago getting revived and yet more. Quick Jabs It’s very cool for boxing and all that CNN (per a news release) […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/11/2011
For pound-for-pound list compilation, there are two competing standards at infinite war with one another, a bloody conflict that is more important than World War I and World War II combined: 1. an assessment of each boxer’s achievements in the ring; and 2. the “eyeball test.” I’m in the first camp. It often puts me […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 8/10/2011
Besides the bantamweight tournament finale freshly previewed below, there are indeed a couple other worthy bouts happening this week, one of them worthy enough for our Alex McClintock to go cover it live and in person. This is how it do: Kermit Cintron vs. Antwone Smith, Friday, ESPN2 et al, St. Charles Mo. Someday, somebody […]
