0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/3/2011
This Saturday comes the best potential fight in Showtime’s innovative Super Six tournament since the last best potential fight in the tourney, Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham in 2010 — only this time Froch’s partner in violence, Glen Johnson is even better at collaborating on action-packed bouts than Abraham, who didn’t carry his weight in […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/2/2011
John Murray’s displacement as the lightweight champion of Europe has afforded domestic peers Gavin Rees and Andy Murray the opportunity to duel over his discarded title belt at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on Saturday evening. Rees, a former alphabet world titlist at junior welterweight, is heavily favoured to swim into the void — a form guide […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/1/2011
Welcome to Open Thread, where the inmates run the asylum. As usual, I don’t want to confine the discussion to any one thing. But based on a discussion on Twitter a while back and on this Doug Fischer mailbag, I was awfully intrigued to get everyone’s take on a few potential or borderline Hall of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/31/2011
(I’ll be ringside Saturday, listening to Rachael Cordingley shriek. Which, somehow, this clip makes seem kind of adorable, believe it or not.) 2011 has been thought of as the “year of the upset” in boxing so far, and rightly so. But as a commenter on this site recently observed (and forgive me, thoughtful commenter, as […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/30/2011
Not that this happens much in boxing. We have some statisticians, sure, and they get made fun of as reductive. But we rarely have people coming up with new formulae. Maybe I’ll get on it. Ineptly. I suck at math. (via, h/t friend of the site JenFu) On this beautifully hot Memorial Day, let’s go […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/29/2011
Adorable boxing poster! I sure do want to see the fight between those Muppet Babies now. In all honesty: That’s cool. And I do want to see the fight. OK, so Oscar De La Hoya recently apologized to Bob Arum, and Arum accepted, so their respective companies, Golden Boy and Top Rank, are one step […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/28/2011
As a late replacement main event on Friday Night Fights — Steve Upsher Chambers-Josesito Lopez fell apart, lamentably — Chris Arreola-Kendrick Releford wasn’t much of a substitute for a more meaningful, potentially competitive fight. But at least we got to see a talented, exciting heavyweight show off what his new, slimmer physique could do for […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/27/2011
It’s a short weekend of boxing for a long weekend of Memorializing. The above is not an “Oscar De La Hoya’s in rehab” joke, by the way. I’m not above making cruel jokes, mind you. But I saw the video over the past weekend and didn’t get a chance to link to it; it’s totally […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/26/2011
(In the final pose, left to right: Chris Arreola; Tony Thompson; Maurice Harris; Kendrick Releford) Tony Thompson has payback on the brain. “Hell yeah,” the 39-year-old heavyweight said in a phone interview. “Anytime someone beats me, I want to get payback.” On ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights this week in Reno, he’ll get a chance to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/25/2011
As someone who has had the privilege to sit ringside for a number of fights (largely thanks to TQBR), I can attest that the experience is exhilarating. You feel the impact of every punch, see every writhing facial contortion, hear the thud of leather hitting flesh and flesh hitting canvas. You also hear the roars […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/22/2011
The second act of the ongoing melodrama involving Londoners George Groves and James DeGale mirrored the first on Saturday evening, with Groves pipping his arch-rival to a decision by the slenderest of margins, after an evenly contested bout which could so easily have been declared a tie. It’s a verdict the beaten braggart from Harlesden […]
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This man is extraordinary, this Bernard Hopkins. At age 46, he went to Montreal on Saturday night, once more to face a young, hungry, passionate light heavyweight champion named Jean Pascal on his home turf. Like the first time, Pascal gave him about as tough a fight as Hopkins had endured in his long career. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/21/2011
There almost comes a time with Roy Jones, Jr. where it doesn’t make any sense to hope anymore that he’ll eventually stop. It doesn’t matter how badly he’s put to sleep — as he is in the video above, yet again — he’s going to keep fighting, and keep fighting, and keep fighting, until the […]
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NEWARK – The actual “Friday Night Fights” bouts televised on ESPN2 didn’t provide anything of note from the Amerihealth Pavilion at the Prudential Center in Newark, save for a 20 minute stoppage due to the lights going out. But a welterweight swing bout concluding the abysmal telecast was a highly entertaining scrap, one in which […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/20/2011
Several years back, when I first started blogging, I got a nice note from an artist named Jace McTier. He showed me his boxing-related paintings, and while I liked them, I told him I was too “art-dumb” to say whether that meant anything. Clearly his work is actually good to more than just me, as […]
