0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/20/2012
Heavyweight David Price laid waste to another member of the fair-to-middling domestic guard at home in the Aintree Equestrian Centre on Saturday, flattening an overawed Sam Sexton umpteen times before finishing him with a splat in round 4. Merseyside’s first ever British heavyweight boss, Price marked himself out as a prospective world class player. In […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/19/2012
Like we sometimes offer around here, that’s the squirt of frosting down your throat before you take your medications: a funny video of a boxing trainer relentlessly ragging on his students. What’s with boxing trainers looking down on their subjects so hard? Mine did, too. (I did about four months worth of training this year […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
(Raymond Serrano, left; Karim Mayfield, right) Friday Night Fights continued its much appreciated upswing this week, and bouts once again lived up to expectations for the most part. Having hit a nice little stride with a few weeks in a row of solid bang ups, fight makers at ESPN seem to have either gotten in […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/18/2012
There existed a time, not so long ago, when amateur boxing amounted to much more than an unsatisfying hors d’oeuvre to the main course of the professional ranks. It’s not that amateur pugilism cannot be entertaining and fun to watch, but the current system almost seems to actually discourage action fights with quick stoppages and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/17/2012
This whole Manny Pacquiao/gay marriage thing should’ve been a tiny blip in the boxing discussion, but it wasn’t. So what can we learn from it? The Examiner’s fleet of search engine-optimizing writers don’t always write in the most clear fashion. No surprise there. Nobody who was a party to the offending interview in question thinks […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
There was nothing easy about this update of our pound-for-pound list, p4p lists being a concept aimed at determining the world’s best fighters regardless of weight class — and a harmless exercise that isn’t responsible, no matter what HBO’s Jim Lampley said in the debut episode of “The Fight Game,” for making boxers avoid the […]
0 comments by Scott Kraus on 5/16/2012
In the latest policy change at the “Bible of Boxing” to send shockwaves through the boxing community, Ring Magazine announced today on its website that every headline on the site going forward will feature the names of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, regardless of the actual content of the story. According to the once-venerable […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/15/2012
Sticking with the theme from last week’s schedule, here’s a two minute video of movie characters saying “son of a bitch.” As usual, the heading video has nothing to do with the schedule, despite my occasional attempt to make a tenuous connection. Like this: It’s almost, but not quite, the kind of week that will […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/13/2012
This is the best. Our own Andrew Harrison got a new bundle of joy this past week, and there he is, already checking out his dad’s work. “TQBR’s youngest fan,” Andrew said in the e-mail to me. This is the first time a member of the TQBR family has expanded his family that I know […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Sheffield’s Kid Galahad dealt artfully with Barnsley’s Josh Wale on Saturday, peppering him silly for nine rounds until the Brampton man was pulled out in his corner due to worsening facial damage. Wale, a window cleaner by trade, was out of his depth here. After a torrid opening round, during which realisation dawned that brute […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/12/2012
As critical as fans have absolutely had a right to be about 2012’s ShoBox failure-a-thon, credit must be given for two very good action cards in a row. A few weeks ago, Thomas Oosthuizen and Luis Del Valle came out on top over Marcus Johnson and Christopher Martin respectively, and entertained thoroughly in the process. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/11/2012
Kid Galahad returns to the ring on Saturday to have himself a skeet shoot at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre in Sheffield. Barnsley rival Josh “The Outlaw” Wale plays the role of clay pigeon. Channel Five continue their most welcome foray into the sport, confident no doubt that Galahad’s back story, a sort of Luke Skywalker […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/10/2012
“There was no occasion for surprise in the announcement from the police department that a prize fight had been fought just outside the city limits a few nights ago. The scarcity of events of this character is the only feature that should excite wonder. When the reforming busy-bodies killed legitimate boxing in this city several […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Wow, there’s not much going on this Doce de Mayo weekend. Maybe that’s because Doce de Mayo isn’t actually a Mexican holiday, it just means 12th of May in Spanish. What has this got to do with the video above? Or the boxing schedule for that matter? Very little, though that violent video is rather […]
0 comments by Scott Kraus
OKAY, Okla. – Heavyweight Billy Roy Keith, 37, scored a brutal knockout of his wife, Dolores, 25, mere seconds into their brawl Saturday night. Dolores (2-9, 2 KO), a junior middleweight, was intense from the onset, aggressively pushing Billy Roy backward with a flurry of wild, inaccurate blows. Billy Roy (54-37-4, 41 KO), a veteran […]
