0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/13/2011
Each new year is a time of renewal, when the hedgehogs awaken from their hibernation to shamble out of their hedgehogholes, when the hyacinths bloom in Turkmenistan, and… maybe that’s the spring, actually, and maybe some hedgehogs don’t hibernate. But when the calendar turns from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1, I do get to thinking […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/12/2011
Screenwriter: “Hugh Jackman is a former boxer and robot boxing promoter, reluctantly convinced to train a championship contender.” Producer: “Why does he need to be a robot?” Screenwriter: “No, he promotes robot boxing.” Producer: “Oh, well that’s OK then.” That’s probably how the pitch for the upcoming Hugh Jackman film, Real Steel, went. Jackman (who, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/11/2011
As a star shortstop during elementary school in the Dominican Republic, Edwin Rodriguez was a scrappy contact hitter. Now, as a rising star in the world of boxing, “La Bomba” has the kind of power few in the super middleweight division can boast. “I came over here when I was 13 and everything changed,” Rodriguez […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/10/2011
I told you a couple weeks back that I’d spend some time figuring out how I want The Queensberry Rules to evolve. Little did I expect the change to be this dramatic. Welcome to the new TQBR. It doesn’t look unlike the one you saw two weeks ago, but it is, and how. Here’s what […]
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It’s the heavyweights what have the most complicated situation of late when it comes to fights in the works, so let’s start with those big boys. Round And Round It’s hard to know even where to start. So heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, we know, will face Derek Chisora next in April — that’s set. This […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/8/2011
The beautiful painting above is the work of friend of the site Amanda Kelley. There is but the briefest mentions in this edition of Quick Jabs of its subject, Manny Pacquiao, but I liked it so much that I wanted to show everyone as soon as possible. If you’re interested in interacting with the artist, […]
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Friday Night Fights returned for 2011 last night, featuring Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade (12-0, 8 KOs), who won by unanimous decision over Alberto Herrera and Ruslan Provodnikov, who was upset by the elder Herrera, Mauricio. Andrade, who wasn’t very impressive given the hype surrounding the junior middleweight prospect, won by 79-73 and 80-72 twice. Herrera […]
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Predicting the future has always been a tricky task. It follows, then, that any attempt to make a buck out of such a thing would be a fraught and dangerous pastime, especially when it comes to sports. For every Herb Lambeck and Lem Banker there’s a John Daly somewhere cursing the saints amid a pile […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/7/2011
This weekend, Friday night is when everything is poppin’. Ruslan Provodnikov vs. Mauricio Herrera, Friday, ESPN2, Las Vegas. As I made clear earlier this week, I am very fond of this fight, as it pits two promoters’ prospects against one another in what should be a fun, action fight. That doesn’t happen very often. Granted, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/6/2011
In 2010, we didn’t get many of the fights we were hoping for, and it took until the last quarter of the year for genuine Fight of the Year candidates to emerge. Hopefully in 2011, we won’t have to wait nearly as long. There are many fights that aren’t being discussed much that would make […]
0 comments by Noel Tanap on 1/5/2011
FX’s new boxing drama “Lights Out” is, to my recollection, the first of its kind: a non-reality based boxing series on TV. But if you’re a real-life boxing fan looking for “eat lightning and crap thunder” training scenes and epic slugfests, you might as well watch something else. Sure the sex and violence is there […]
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This time last year, junior middleweight prospect Demetrius Andrade was in a now more familiar spot, as a co-feature on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights, taking on journeyman Bernardo Guereca. Less than two minutes into the bout, Andrade sent Guereca staggering into the middle of the ring with a combination to the body, backed up and […]
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One is arguably the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world today. The other is “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” One is 32 years old. The other is 100 years old. One features flailing fists. The other features land-based missiles skimming across asphalt at 225 mph. On the surface, it appears that Manny Pacquiao and the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/4/2011
It may be minute in the grand scope of the sport, but televised boxing is taking a positive first step in 2011 on Friday. In recent years, ESPN has been handcuffed by a drastically slashed budget for its Friday Night Fights series, which has resulted in plenty of disastrous, one-sided bouts that have unfortunately been […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/3/2011
Happy New Year errbody. I hope you had a glorious moment as Dec. 31 became Jan. 1. Holiday weekend over, it’s time to get back to some boxing business at hand. Some of the changes I told you we might be making are in full bloom, some of the others are still flowering. I expect […]
