0 comments by Patrick Connor on 2/24/2012
The gritty mythology of boxing is the type of stuff that makes the modern “badasses” of sports look like wimpy dullards. Flipping off fans? 19th century answer: alpha heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, who apparently never could hold his liquor, drunkenly stumbling to the ring to have a title defense against Charlie Mitchell in 1884 […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 2/23/2012
Though they both share Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions as their promoter, junior lightweights Adrien Broner and Eloy Perez have taken considerably different routes to Saturday night’s destination: a 12-round HBO-televised co-feature slot from St. Louis, Mo. underneath the welterweight clash between Devon Alexander and Marcos Maidana. Broner, 22, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 2/22/2012
Don’t ever say that TQBR is not interested in the future of sport. Last week’s schedule brought you the innovation that is Taser Ball, this week it’s blindfolded boxing. Sure, they thought of it in 1949, but it probably just needed better PR. Hell, it looks like Paul Williams learnt some of his technique by […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Manny Pacquiao, in November of 2010, got more of a fight than many anticipated from Antonio Margarito. The next November, he got his hardest fight in nearly four years, from Juan Manuel Marquez — a rematch many predicted would be a total mismatch because Pacquiao had grown so much physically and technically, whereas Marquez had […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/21/2012
This is your early Knockout of the Year in 2012 via super middleweight Adonis Stevenson, one punctuated by a somewhat sickening reaction from Ernesto Gonzales, what with his arms stiff above his head and twitching. This was what Gonzales got for using the pre-fight hype to highlight Stevenson’s criminal past from 1998, which features its […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/19/2012
ROTHERAM, ENGLAND – There were more moves on show in South Yorkshire on Saturday than at a 1970’s roller disco. Sheffield rookie Kid Galahad, in at the deep end for the first time against Nottingham warhorse Jason Booth, survived a flash 1st round knockdown — the first points he’d dropped as a professional — before […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Photo: Esther Lin, Showtime) Gabriel Campillo vs. Tavoris Cloud Saturday on Showtime offered the latest, exasperating installment in that phenomenon that is almost unique to boxing: something amazing happens, and then right afterward something so repugnant happens that it washes all the amazing away. Campillo has a history himself of being involved in these kind […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/18/2012
Before Vitali Klitschko fought Dereck Chisora Saturday, Chisora gave Vitali’s brother Wladimir a face full of water, which he spat out onto the heavyweight champ in a typically classless move. During the fight, Chisora gave Vitali a handful — a harder fight than either brother has endured in many, many years, maybe going back to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/17/2012
Boxers like to get into scuffles at weigh-ins for a whole host of reasons, so I had to sit down for a second and think about why this one from Friday has been getting so much more attention. I think I’ve figured it out. A. It’s a high-quality smack. It really connects very nicely. Oscar […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
It wasn’t so long ago, in the span of human history, that Paul Williams was the optimal opponent from a competitive standpoint for Floyd Mayweather, Jr. or Manny Pacquiao, if the two wouldn’t fight each other. But it seems like much, much longer ago. Some things stay the same: Mayweather and Pacquiao still haven’t fought […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
This week’s action comes not from New York City but from Rotheram. The Magna Science and Adventure Centre, a converted steelworks in the South Yorkshire ‘burbs, presents a crossroads fight in its truest sense. Blue-chip junior featherweight rookie Kid Galahad, 10-0 (4), attempts to break cover in a nationally televised showcase against recently deposed British […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 2/16/2012
I’m almost as excited by the future of sport (see the above video) as I am about the boxing that’s on this week. Luckily, if there’s one sport that will be spared in the Taser introduction revolution, it’s boxing. Boxing is already super exciting and features lots of people suddenly falling over. But imagine the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/14/2012
OMFG it’s a three-for-one column! The day job and other preoccupations have kept your founder from staying on top of the news of late, but fortunately the rest of the staff gang has been giving us bloggy goodness damn near every day. In this everything-roundup, we’ll hit the high spots. And the low spots. Obviously, […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 2/12/2012
Boxing careers die. As Steve Jobs, the late Apple inventor who could appreciate the seduction of a hot new product that usurps the technology of present day, once said of death… “No one wants to die… No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 2/11/2012
“Why have they gone/Fell by leather/So alone, all bound together.” – from the Sun Kil Moon track “Salvador Sanchez” It’s not often that boxing appears a central theme in music, but recording artist Mark Kozelek has given the combat sport a starring role in his work since disbanding alternative rock band, Red House Painters, on […]
