0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/24/2012
There exists a nether zone, a big one, at welterweight after anyone named Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, and anyone who isn't them. Kell Brook lives there in that secondary zone. Devon Alexander lives there. Those two might fight one another soon, so they're unlikely to ask for sugar from each other in this neighborhood. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/23/2012
From a pure boxing standpoint, the comeback of Ricky Hatton Saturday on Showtime after suffering a series of brutal knockouts is probably ill-advised. But anyone involved whose trick knee aches when it's about to precipitate money probably is happy Great Britain's most popular fighter of the past decade, the gregarious, blue collar everyman from Manchester, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/22/2012
Who hates the Transnational Boxing Ratings Board? Julio Ceja. Julio Ceja hates the Transnational Boxing Ratings Board, that’s who. For under its former guise and back when The Queensberry Rules’ annual guide to the hardest punchers in boxing relied solely upon the rankings of Ring Magazine in order to separate the sport’s swatters from its […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Boxing writer royalty Thomas Hauser has concluded his latest opus this week, and it's the usual maddening mix: teases of brilliance, a bunch of things you'd need a decoder ring to translate. The headline-grabbing stuff — look, up above, it grabbed this headline! — is the "rumor" that Floyd Mayweather failed a drug test three […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/20/2012
Red pandas are pretty cute. But they don’t handle fear very well, apparently. Kind of like the opposite of boxers. This week should give a few fighters a chance to show off their cojones – from Ricky Hatton trying his luck in a comeback to Roberto Guerrero continuing his campaign four divisions north of where […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Every weekend lately, it's Fight of the Year candidates and Round of the Year candidates and Knockout of the Year candidates. That particular KO of the Year candidate was a bit on the sickening side, because it was touch and go at the time whether Juan Garcia would get back up from that big blow […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/19/2012
Saturday night, on a small club show in Natomas, Calif., former WBA welterweight beltholder James Page returned to the ring for the first time in more than a decade at 41 years of age in the six-round main event at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel against journeyman Rahman Yusubov of Azerbaijan. In the first […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/18/2012
ATLANTIC CITY — Adrien Broner clearly is sitting pretty after a big win over Antonio DeMarco Saturday night. But this pretty? "If the press isn't ready, I will crown him the next Floyd Mayweather," DeMarco's promoter Gary Shaw said at the post-fight press conference. Later, Broner's promoter Oscar De La Hoya upped the ante. "He's […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
(Brian Viloria drops “Tyson” Marquez; via) It’s true. The Brian Viloria vs. Hernan Marquez card on WealthTV didn’t get the same type of pre-fight hype and attention as other cards that happened this weekend. And perhaps it made sense, as the other guys were heavier, have more popular names and sell more tickets. But some of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Adrien Broner dodges Antonio DeMarco; photo via HBO's Facebook page) ATLANTIC CITY — Adrien Broner has arrived. Saturday night, he finally took on top competition on HBO — in a new division, lightweight, no less — and he was as close to perfect as a boxer can get in taking apart the ridiculously tough Antonio […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Carl Froch, right; Yusaf Mack, left) Carl Froch gave Philadelphia’s Yusaf Mack a taste of the Lucian Bute treatment Saturday at the Capital FM Arena. “The Cobra” dropped Mack in the opening round, stunned him umpteen times throughout the course of the contest, and then crumpled him to the mat in round 3 with a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/17/2012
ATLANTIC CITY — Greetings from the Hurricane Sandy-ravaged Boardwalk, specifically Boardwalk Hall. We'll have one of the better main events of the year, the lightweight bout between Adrien Broner and Antonio DeMarco, in a separate post later. But keep coming back here for updates about the undercard, which is anchored by exciting American heavyweight Seth […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
There is an old boxing adage that a fighter’s power is usually the last thing to go. Before that, they lose their reflexes, stamina and often their punch resistance. Saturday night, on a club show in Natomas, Calif. at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, 41-year old former welterweight titleholder James Page of nearby Pittsburg […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
DARLINGTON, COUNTY DURHAM – Stuart Hall outworked Brampton’s Josh Wale over 12 rounds Friday, in a tough old slog of a bantamweight contest at the Dolphin Centre. Hall, 32, led from start to finish before an adoring home crowd, clinching the vacant Commonwealth title in the process and with it some traction, after having slipped […]
0 comments by Steve Zemach
(Photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Don King Promotions assembled only the second outdoor boxing ground at Hallandale Beach’s Gulf Stream Park for Friday’s edition of ShoBox “The New Generation.” And, in a symbol of the bad luck that befell the card, it rained on the gathered crowd. The original scheduled main […]
