0 comments by Patrick Connor on 6/21/2012
Often attached to great fights is some type of tie-in to a larger social occurrence, event or aspect thereof, and it tends augment the overall meaning of a bout past what it would normally mean within the masochistic realm of boxing. Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling II will forever be conjoined with the “U.S. vs. […]
0 comments by Scott Kraus
The United States Congress, which has in recent years has failed to invigorate a moribund economy, reverse a steadily declining educational system or even get a single conviction against former baseball player Roger Clemens on multiple charges despite two trials against him, has now turned its ineffectual attention to boxing. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 6/20/2012
At early morning American time, hardcore boxing fanatics set their alarms in anticipation of catching a stream of the rare minimumweight unification bout between Japanese compatriots Kazuto Ioka and Akira Yaegashi in Osaka, Japan on Wednesday evening. It would be 23-year old emerging phenom Kazuto Ioka (10-0, 6 KOs) who would unify the two alphabet […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Thank god for Mexicans and Americans of Mexican descent, who are largely carrying professional boxing in the U.S.A,, at least this weekend. They did it last weekend, too, with an impressive win by middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., over Andy Lee in El Paso. A look at the trailer for the documentary “China Heavyweight” by […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 6/19/2012
(Victor Ortiz, left; Josesito Lopez, right. Photo credit: Showtime) There aren’t many giving Riverside, Calif.’s Josesito Lopez much of a chance to overturn the already set table of his June 23 opponent Victor Ortiz at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in the Showtime Championship Boxing main event. Among those is Ortiz’s promoter Golden Boy […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
We’ll talk more about that fight right there above in a moment (video, as usual, stays up as long as YouTube allows it), as well as other weekend results, like Tomasz Adamek-Eddie Chambers — and even some non-results, like what went down on the latest episode of HBO’s Fight Game. But we haven’t promoted our […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/18/2012
Every few years or more, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain introduces legislation that would create a federal boxing commission, usually freshly after some boxing controversy. Monday, McCain announced on the Senate floor the reintroduction of that legislation, which he is co-sponsoring with Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The controversy this time is, naturally, Manny Pacquiao’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/17/2012
Rendall Munroe picked up a puncture at the Manchester Velodrome on Saturday in pursuit of Scott Quigg’s junior featherweight Lonsdale belt. After a brace of nip-and-tuck rounds, an on-form Quigg launched a hard right in round 3 that Munroe blocked with his gloves, yet, as the Leicester veteran dipped down and to his right, he collided with […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
Saturday night, an NBC Sports televised intriguing heavyweight crossroads bout between New Jersey based Pole Tomasz Adamek and Philadelphia’s Eddie Chambers went head-to-head against the big league broadcast by HBO, with Adamek getting the unanimous decision. Those that stuck with the network in their third hour saw a spirited scrap, as well as an interesting […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. isn’t just popular with Mexicans because Mexicans loved his dad — he fights in as macho a style as you can, and Mexicans love macho. All of that machismo was Hemingwaying up the joint Saturday night on HBO, when Chavez, in all his massive middleweight slendor, let Andy Lee’s usually powerful […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/16/2012
When I was a kid, the movie “Mandingo” scarred me. Today the flick is regarded as pure filth, in part because of scenes like the one above, where during a slave fight one slave kills the other by ripping his jugular out with his teeth. Recently, I stumbled upon a fact that I wasn’t aware […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., who fights on HBO Saturday against Andy Lee, is an oversized figure in boxing, and that’s not exclusively a pun about the giant middleweight’s battle with the scales. It’s about him being among the handful of the most popular boxers in North America; it’s about that big name, the one his […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/15/2012
British super-bantamweight gaffer Scott Quigg will be bidding to off the man looming one spot ahead of him in the domestic rankings this weekend — as perplexing as that must sound to the layman — Nottingham veteran Rendall Munroe. After relinquishing the European championship he guarded with distinction for the better part of two years […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
When boxing reality won’t do, fantasy has to: Manny Pacquiao’s action figure vs. Floyd Mayweather’s action figure, with Manny on a flaming motorcyle and Floyd as some kind of death monk. That video came out prior to some recent events. Which action figure do you think would win in his current state — Manny, perhaps […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 6/14/2012
How often do you get to stand with a sheaf of paper in your hand that you know will ignite a firestorm? Michael Buffer certainly must have had a moments pause when he was handed the judges scores and prepared to read them to the more than 14,000 unsuspecting fans crowded into the MGM Grand […]
