0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/25/2011
Go ahead, boxing fan: Try to find a Saturday night HBO or Showtime main event since July outside of Andre Berto-Jan Zaveck that fully satisfied you. We already know you can’t find any main events on big-time pay-per-views that have done the trick. But keep digging. It gets worse. Very few of the best fighters […]
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Big ol’ knockouts are usually a good way to start these Weekend Afterthoughts, but this one is less fun for what a mismatch it was to put top cruiserweight Marco Huck in against someone like Rogelio Rossi. Maybe you can enjoy it now, knowing later that if Huck goes through with his plan to move […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/24/2011
(Floyd Mayweather re-enters the rankings on his “legal sucker punch.”) September and October had the potential to disturb these pound-for-pound rankings more than they did, but the onset of fall didn’t do as much rumbling as anticipated. It didn’t help that the Super Six finale got canceled and that there were some lackluster performances where […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/23/2011
There’s probably no better way to get over a wretched several months of big-time boxing (we’ll complain more later, but with one exception you have to go all the way back to July to find a main event on a major card that wasn’t unsatisfying) than to look ahead. It’s a mouthwash solution, though, that […]
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It was an evening in which a series of blue-corner unfortunates vied with each other to see who could finish on his feet. Yes, it was yet another night of one-sided fights Saturday, somewhat redeemed by two or so fairly exciting bouts that were midway down the card, but far better than what were supposed […]
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The sixth fight on the Donaire vs. Narvaez undercard pits Miguel Angel Garcia, with a perfect record (26 with 22 knockouts) versus Mexican Juan Carlos Martinez (17-12-1) in a ten-round NABF featherweight title bout. While Garcia may have the perfect record, Martinez is game and landing better in the 1st round. He’s reaching Garcia consistently […]
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The fifth fight brings Tommy “Razor” Rainone (southpaw from Long Island, 15-4 with four knockouts) to the ring to “Momma Says Knock You Out” in a welterweight fight versus Brad Jackson (from Denver, 13 wins, six losses, one draw, seven knockouts). Rainone is fighting a guy who seems ready made to be a stiff, keeping […]
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Fourth bout: Okay, I’m wrong, there’s also a Puerto Rican contingent in the crowd for Jonathan “La Bomba” Gonzalez of Puerto Rico (sporting a perfect five, all by knockout). The favorite because he’s in the blue… just kidding, red corner versus Jose Rivera of New York, via Mexico (3-3-2). Pauli Malignaggi just walked past me […]
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The Theatre at MSG is frigging packed with Pinoys, who are now gettin’ vocal whenever the pre-recorded lead-in talks up Donaire. I’m looking out at the audience and I’m seeing a lot of people who look my wife and inlaws, bro. (My wife is from Bocolod, in Negros Occidental, in the Visayas, the central region […]
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Second fight, a welterweight bout, had Memphis-based Keuntray Henson getting dropped by unbelievably fast body shots that absolutely nobody on press row saw, and if they write that they did, they’re lying. The shots were via Mikael Zewski, out of Quebec, who came into the ring with scintillating and still-spotless and sparkly shorts and a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/22/2011
The event started with a brutal four rounder that went two, with 146-pound Jose Segura Torres with two wins, two defeats, fighting a much younger-looking, much stronger-looking Cletis “The Hebrew Hammer” Seldin out of Long Island. Another Great Jewish Hope? Now that my boy Yuri Foreman is essentially in Yeshiva, we have someone with a much […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/21/2011
This edition of Quick Jabs is packed to the gills with shocking and bizarre boxing news tidbits and ephemeral thoughts that Kelly Rowland definitely couldn’t handle. How many love children does Manny Pacquiao have? Could Sven Ottke be better than Joe Frazier? Is Oscar De La Hoya going to come back to boxing for real […]
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(Or maybe this is the better metaphor?) It was sad for your favorite Queensberry Rules founder — and the site’s readers — to lose three staffers (Paul Kelly, Mike Coppinger and Corey Erdman) in 2011, shortly after revamping the site around this whole staff concept. But the founder is happy-faced today to announce that three […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/20/2011
Not all mismatches are judged equally, it seems. Here’s a blind taste test: Imagine one of the five best fighters in the world is as much as a 20/1 betting favorite in his televised bout on HBO. Are we talking about earlier this month back when middleweight champion Sergio Martinez took on longshot Darren Barker, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/19/2011
So, what WOULD you do if you had a time machine? Personally, I’ve always thought it would be easier to kill Hitler’s mother than Hitler. You know, before she gave birth to him and all. I guess I’m that guy. Moving on from historical homicide and the peerless Louis C.K., this week’s boxing schedule features […]
