0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/29/2011
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2011, Wladimir Klitschko-David Haye on July 2. Previously: the stakes of the bout. Next: the keys to the fight, part II. Mind. Matter. How do Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye stack up in those categories? In the first of two parts, we compare […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
So begins our marathon coverage of Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye, one of the biggest fights of 2011. Now: The stakes of Klitschko-Haye. Next: Keys to the fight. Saturday afternoon at 4:45 ET is the rather inglorious hour when HBO will air the most important, most anticipated heavyweight fight in nearly a decade: division champion […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/28/2011
It’s givin’-up time for James Kirkland, for me. It might be a bit premature, since he just reunited with old trainer Ann Wolfe. But in the above video he looks like the sloppy barroom brawler pal of the site Paul Kelly called him. I have no idea why he’s leaning over into Dennis Sharpe at […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/27/2011
Boxers love tattoos. But, as I highlighted in an earlier post, there’s a fine line between a tattoo that makes you look like a hard case and one that makes you look like a nutcase. Of course there are those that do both, like the Hugo Chavez on the late Edwin Valero’s chest. Of course, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/26/2011
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Devon Alexander entered the ring Saturday night wearing a white T-shirt that read “Redemption,” a clear nod to his January technical decision loss against Tim Bradley. Winning a controversial split decision over Lucas Matthysse may not have redeemed him in the eyes of the media but it went a long ways […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/24/2011
We gotta do this mostly lightning-round style, cuz my week plum got away from me. Felix Sturm vs. Matthew Macklin, Saturday, Epix/EpixHD.com, Cologne Germany. Ring’s #1-ranked middleweight, Sturm, will be facing his best opponent in about two years in Macklin, who’s desperately tried to fight a top 160-pounder only to see a number of fights […]
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Remember when Devon Alexander was near the top of the world? You don’t have to think back too far. It wasn’t so long ago. Last year, there was a front-page New York Times story about him — unheard of for a boxer in this day and age — prior to his bout with Andriy Kotelnik. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/23/2011
The moribund heavyweight division could be reignited “with a master class in gentlemen jabbing,” argues Shaun Assael in a recent ESPN the Magazine article in which he takes the position that heavyweight champion brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko should forsake their previous vows to never fight and go all Civil War for heavyweight supremacy. The […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/22/2011
Is some Filipino restaurant capitalizing on the name of a certain Pinoy boxer? Hmmmmmmm. That never happens. (h/t friend of the site Jim, via) Before we jump into some of the fights in the works, the lack of a Weekend Afterthoughts column has left me without a venue for elaborating on the Saul Alvarez fight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/21/2011
I keep posting videos that you might already have seen on the usual logic that if you haven’t, you must. There are a number of great moments in the above video, but the best of them is when heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko stares menacingly at David Haye for an uncomfortably long time, and Haye then […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/19/2011
Junior middleweight Saul Alvarez and junior lightweight Adrien Broner each scored impressive knockouts Saturday on HBO, Broner doing it quickly in the 1st round and Alvarez taking nearly as long as he could to get the stoppage in the 12th round. At the same time, though, their opponents appeared a bit too cooperative, so they […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/17/2011
Something that freaks me out is when I’m standing next to a man at the urinal and he’s going hands-free. The guy next to me today who did it made it even freakier by standing there with his arms crossed. He looked very much like a genie. I’ve tried to do it before, but I […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/16/2011
June, 2011 is some kind of golden age for young Mexican brawlers about whom you can say the following three things: 1. They’re usually pretty fun to watch because they’re aggressively offensive-minded and sinfully hittable; 2. They’re wildly popular in some measure because of something they were born with; and 3. There’s hope for their […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Everybody knows that having a tattoo makes you an average of 1.5x tougher than people without tattoos. Just look at all the tough famous people who have them, like The Rock, David Beckham and Angelina Jolie. Well, mainly just The Rock. So it should come as no surprise that professional boxers, who make their living […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/14/2011
Because the number has been so squishy — “at least” 1.3 million buys, according to Top Rank’s Bob Arum — the news might have been overlooked a touch that Manny Pacquiao just did the best pay-per-view business of his career last month against Shane Mosley. And that’s saying something. Pacquiao falls just short of Floyd […]
