0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/20/2011
(James DeGale, left; George Groves, right) A mere stones throw from where it all started, the simmering feud between James DeGale and George Groves comes to the boil this weekend in a confrontation so venomous, quill-sharpening activity has been detected within the anti-boxing lobby. Questions raised over the morality of the sport are often rebuffed […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/19/2011
Bernard Hopkins is waging a historic campaign Saturday on HBO to become the oldest boxing champion ever, as he tries once more to beat light heavyweight king Jean Pascal, something Hopkins says he believes will move him from living legend to the kind of pugilist people talk about for 100 years. And it would be […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/18/2011
I’ve not been shy about my feelings regarding Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez III, but something good might have come of that contract that was signed by Marquez Tuesday and that Pacquiao will sign soon — along the way, yesterday, promoter Bob Arum said this to The Los Angeles Times’ Lance Pugmire: Arum said he met […]
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For those of you who don’t listen to “Ring Theory,” I can more heartily recommend it today than I did yesterday because I’ve appeared on it as of tonight. Me being in things makes things better — even if it involves Bill Dettloff and Eric Raskin making fun of me in ways that would break […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/16/2011
(Our Alex McClintock is going to be away from the blog for a little bit — don’t worry, he’ll be back! — but he wrote a few things before departing. Here’s one of ’em, about Showtime’s top boxing play-by-play man, who recently was the subject of reports about his continued work at the network, where […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/15/2011
The British junior middleweight championship fight between Sam Webb of Chislehurst and Prince Arron of Droylsden on Friday restated the duplicitous nature of the boxer. While these men claim logical ambitions about remaining unbeaten, of making their fortunes and then retiring in good health, there is an irrational streak inherent in all of them — […]
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(Photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) It going to take a monster to beat Andre Ward, the most complete boxer in the game right now. A better version of Arthur Abraham than we’ve seen in recent fights showed up Saturday night on Showtime and gave it a shot, but it wasn’t even close by fight’s end — […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/14/2011
On Friday night, we got one sensational knockout and one stirring brawl. The knockout came on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights. In a junior welterweight crossroads bout, Kendall Holt revived his career with a 3rd round KO of Julio Diaz. He landed a couple big right hands in the 1st round, but Diaz, who’s been knocked […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/13/2011
The TQBR Hall of Excuses for Losses has had some hallowed entrants in recent years. We got “The cameraman knocked me out” (Travis Kauffman). There is “I had diarrhea” (Joshua Clottey, and, now, Ray Nahr). And then there’s the reigning best excuse, “My dad told me he loved me” (David Tua). Today, we have another […]
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After the lackluster Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley main event on Saturday (man, who ever thought “lackluster” would ever be an adjective preceding Manny Pacquiao’s name), boxing has faced its latest round of widespread criticism. Which is a shame, since April was such an incredibly exciting month for the sport. However, despite the fact that many of […]
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Two former tradesmen, one a plasterer from Chislehurst and the other a scaffolder from Droylsden, meet at a leisure centre in Gillingham on Friday evening to contest the British junior middleweight crown. In terms of glamour, it is as far removed from the Manny Pacquiao-induced ballyhoo that continues to seep through the sport’s news ticker […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/12/2011
Like some madcap boxing version of “The Cannonball Run,” Showtime’s Super Six began as a daring experiment featuring contestants with a wide variety of styles, and along the way there were a whole bunch of crazy schemes and roadblocks in a very long journey. Some of the original cast even got bumped off the road. […]
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From time to time BoxingScene’s David P. Greisman and myself gchat one another. Sometimes we talk about boxing, even. Sometimes, I publish what we say. This time, we mainly talked about the subjects in the headline. But we also talked about Shane Mosley’s girlfriend, Wayne Newton and more. David: Yo! me: Oh, there you are. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/11/2011
We’ve already had a spirited discussion about the likelihood of an ugly third Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez bout happening in the fall, but there’s an ugly element of it that we didn’t discuss because it’s really kind of a fruitless asterisk: that Golden Boy Promotions is trying to block the fight. This effort […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/10/2011
(Juan Manuel Marquez on the deck against Manny Pacquiao in Pacquiao-Marquez I) Remember when Floyd Mayweather, a smallish welterweight, faced lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez in 2009 at a catchweight of 144 pounds, and everyone mocked him for picking on a little guy? Rabid fans of Manny Pacquiao (and I count myself among them) led […]
