0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/18/2011
(Tom Casino, Showtime) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It was, by turns, boring, exciting, sublime and ugly. Fitting finish for Showtime’s Super Six tournament, yeah? After a two-year grind than ended in a 12-round one, Andre Ward outclassed Carl Froch Saturday to win a unanimous decision and become the lineal super middleweight champion of the world. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/17/2011
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It doesn’t make any sense to pretend that this undercard is worth much, but talented welterweight Kell Brook is on it, and Edison Miranda and Yordanis Despaigne are on it in tune-ups for a potential rematch of last year’s excellent light heavyweight bout, so it’s worth a tiny something. Keep coming […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
As the vice president of the Carson Jones fan club, I’m duty-bound to show you this video of the exciting junior middleweight taking out Ricardo Williams. ESPN2, are you watching? Get this man on your program! There ain’t a whole lot to Quick Jab, but promises were made. Besides the items in the headline, we […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 12/16/2011
(From the weigh-in Friday: Carl Froch 167.5; Andre Ward 168) Tomorrow night, the historic, groundbreaking Super Six World Boxing Classic wraps up after beginning more than two years ago when Andre Ward and Carl Froch meet in Atlantic City for the Super Six cup, vacant Ring Magazine 168-pound title, as well as their respective alphabet […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
It has taken two years to get to Saturday night, when we find out on Showtime who is the best super middleweight in the world. It’s been a convoluted journey, to say the least, but with a day to go waiting for Andre Ward and Carl Froch to bring the Super Six tournament to a […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor
As the waning moments of 2011 slip away, the new year beckons forth a fresh horizon of matchmaking to tantalize and tease the boxing enthusiasts’ fanciful minds. Looking forward to the staredowns and faceoffs that may grace the sport in the coming year, there is only one surefire hookup signed at this moment, the welterweight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/15/2011
Showtime’s innovative super middleweight tournament concludes Saturday after a two-year journey, and it ends with a fight that is virtually unimpeachable: Andre Ward, Carl Froch, two of the original Super Six, arguably two of the 10 best boxers in the world, fighting for the vacant lineal championship of the 168-pound division in a match-up that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/14/2011
It’s been forever and a day since we’ve gone all Quick Jabs or Round And Round, a product of me slowly waking up from my hibernation of a few weeks back. That, and not having all that much compelling material. But the incoming mail tray is stacking up, so we need to get back to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
The California State Athletic Commission voted 5-1 Tuesday to change Bernard Hopkins’ October light heavyweight loss to Chad Dawson from a 2nd round TKO to a no contest. Which is fair enough since, you know, Chad didn’t actually knockout Bernard. He picked him up and dropped him on the canvas, causing B-Hop to injure his […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 12/13/2011
The schedule this week is pretty sparse, apart from the one bigsexyhugemouthwatering fight: Andre Ward vs. Carl Froch. Since it’s one of the very best fights that can be made right now and we have no idea who is going to win, we’ll just have to deal with an otherwise quiet week. There are a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Ouchie, Giovani Segura. The junior flyweight champ’s first real capable opponent at flyweight, Brian Viloria, did a number on that noggin of his Saturday, for sure. (Via) Viloria made him look like he was in danger of becoming The Leader, if he could’ve evened things out on the other side. Viloria, as the headline indicates, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/12/2011
PETERLEE, CO. DURHAM – On a perishingly cold Saturday night in the North East of England, flyweights Chris Edwards and Shinny Bayaar punched lumps out of one another through 12 hectic rounds on this Maloney Promotions card. Edwards, the brisket-tough veteran from Stoke, banked the first eight of those and stood firm when Bayaar, Oldham […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/11/2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This city clearly has craved some boxing, as the racous thousands showed Saturday night, and they got as tasty a serving of it as they could when hometown boy Lamont Peterson and Amir Khan went to war in a Fight of the Year candidate where Peterson upset the much more acclaimed talent. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/10/2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As fantastic as it is that more than 9,000 are expected tonight at the Washington Convention Center, and as refreshing as it is that the audience trickling in is mostly black (they’ve long been thought to be abandoning the sport), it’s more than a bit horrendous that almost half of those people […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/9/2011
(Lamont Peterson at the weigh-in. Credit: me) First things first: Amir Khan weighed 140, Lamont Peterson weighed 139 and both looked to be in fine shape at Friday’s weigh-in. That’s the boring part. The less-boring part comes from roaming around the Carnegie Library talking to the people at the weigh-in. Below, find some musings from […]
