0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/11/2011
Don’t follow boxing very often, but you want to know the gist of Saturday’s mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez III? Follow boxing all the time, and want one place that rounds up all the links about the welterweight showdown you could ever want? This Ultimate Guide to the Nov. 12 pay-per-view bout […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III Nov. 12 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: The big question about Pacquiao-Marquez III; what’s at stake; keys to the fight part I and II; the undercard; final preview and prediction. Next: the ultimate guide. Manny Pacquiao is an alien, an extraterrestrial being with […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/10/2011
So continues our marathon coverage of Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III Nov. 12 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: The big question about Pacquiao-Marquez III; what’s at stake; keys to the fight part I and II; the undercard. Next: a staff roundtable. Back in 2008 and early 2009, there were few fights that boxing fans […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III Nov. 12 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: The big question about Pacquiao-Marquez III; what’s at stake; keys to the fight part I and II. Next: final preview and prediction. It’s not a packed week this week, probably due to the presence of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/9/2011
So continues our marathon coverage of Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III Nov. 12 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: The big question about Pacquiao-Marquez III; what’s at stake; keys to the fight part I. Next: the undercard. Mind. Matter. How do Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez stack up in those categories? In the second […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III Nov. 12 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: The big question about Pacquiao-Marquez III; what’s at stake. Next: keys to the fight part II. Mind. Matter. How do Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez stack up in those categories? In the first of two […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/8/2011
James Kirkland was on the wrong end of the probable Upset of the Year in April. Saturday, he started off his junior middleweight slugfest with Alfredo Angulo a candidate for Round of the Year (above). The rest of the bout was worthy of an honorable mention for Fight of the Year. And the win over […]
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On Sunday, word spread across the Internet that legendary heavyweight Joe Frazier had died. As it turned out, he hadn’t. It was an echo of the moment in the “Thrilla in Manila” when Muhammad Ali said to Frazier, “They told me you was all washed up.” Answered Frazier: “They told you wrong, pretty boy.” Frazier […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III Nov. 12 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: The big question about Pacquiao-Marquez III. Next: keys to the fight*. Every time Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. fight someone besides the other, they’re still fighting. Maybe it’s explicit, with direct verbal swipes; maybe it’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/7/2011
So begins our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2011, Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III Nov. 12 on HBO pay-per-view. Now: The big question about Pacquiao-Marquez III. Next: Keys to the fight. Manny Pacquiao made Juan Manuel Marquez. Before those two fought for the first time in 2004, Marquez was […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/6/2011
The nation’s streets were clogged with smoke — neon fizzed and popped endlessly across the night sky — so Ricky Burns and Michael Katsidis, perhaps feeling a little left out of proceedings, set fire to a patch of canvas inside Wembley Arena, London. Katsidis, the gnarled and primitive Greek-Australian, spluttered and sparked like a Catherine […]
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(Photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) Lucian Bute beat Father Time, but Pier-Olivier Cote stole Bute’s thunder. Bute beat Glen Johnson in a pedestrian and one-sided super middleweight bout in Quebec whose most astonishing feature was Johnson not once touching the canvas. Bute probably needed to make that happen to really make a statement. Johnson not only […]
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(Photo: @makeawar) Boxing fans knew that something special would happen when James Kirkland met Alfredo Angulo in Cancun tonight on HBO. But before the junior middleweight war happened, it was difficult to imagine just how brutal it would be. The 1st round was an all time classic. Kirkland (30-1) swarmed out of the corner and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/5/2011
Radio host Rude Jude doesn’t score the cleanest, most effective blows in that widely examined and wildly amusing audio of him arguing with Floyd Mayweather, but he sure does win the rhetorical war. That means a lot, considering that Mr. Jude starts as a man who has the rhetorical handicap of deliberately calling himself “Rude […]
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Former Contender champ Sergio Mora stopped a shopworn Jose “Shibata” Flores Friday night in Indio, Calif. on Telefutura’s Solo Boxeo Tecate. The 30-year-old Mora won his first fight at middleweight since losing a February split decision to Brian Vera in typical fashion by sticking, moving and picking his spots. Mora appeared to take control in […]
