0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/21/2013
A distasteful malevolence curled its tendrils around the promotion for this Saturday’s welterweight boxing match between Adrien Broner and Paulie Malignaggi from its onset, choking out much talk of the actual bout and choking out any appeal it might have had for people whose tolerance for boxing’s endless capacity for ugliness reached its limit. The […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/19/2013
Is that video more entertaining than a Yuriorkis Gamboa fight? Ooooh – is that a bit harsh? The video is pretty entertaining and bashing Gamboa is pretty hot right now. Let’s just all settle down and concentrate on the fights at hand this week. There’s one big card on Showtime headlined by Adrien Broner and […]
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0 comments by Patrick Connor on 6/18/2013
(Mikey Garcia, left, lays waste to JuanMa Lopez; Photo credit: Getty Images) Boxing fans are back into the swing of being hit with big fights left and right. True, boxing has no “season,” per se, but recent years have seen summer and autumn pump out some of the biggest events. Many of us had hoped […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison
Habitually mined as broadcasting gold, vulgarity is a modern commodity. Well-placed in order to capitalise, boxing promotion has foregone decency for the sake of a fast buck. Nielsen ratings have taken priority over ticket sales for the sport’s top earners – however they might be achieved. As a result, successful prizefighting is no longer about […]
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0 comments by Sam Sheppard
(Gennady Golovkin, left, Matthew Macklin, right; photo credit: GeoIMAGEZ) When Max Kellerman stated during Saturday night’s HBO broadcast of Mikey Garcia vs. Juan Manuel Lopez that his top-ranked lightweight fighter in the world was none other than Terence Crawford, it set more than a few eyebrows into vertical motion. The man he was praising, after […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/16/2013
(Mikey Garcia drops Juan Manuel Lopez; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) Any hopes that Juan Manuel Lopez would have half a chance Saturday night on HBO because Mikey Garcia struggled and failed to make the featherweight limit got cut down to zero after the very 1st round, the only competitive round of the fight. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/15/2013
Gregg Popovich, you fashionable rogue you. The San Antonio Spurs coach is a trendsetter in interview stylings, at least, if nothing else. Like the men said, junior middleweight Arturo Trujillo made short work of Anthony Watson in his pro debut this weekend, then made short work of his post-fight chat with NBC Sports broadcaster Chris […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Sergey Kovalev downs Cornelius White; credit: Larry Levanti, Main Events) It was an early night, in every sense of the phrase, for the winners Friday on NBC Sports and ESPN2. The action had wrapped up before 11 p.m. ET, and the top match-ups on each card finished in knockouts or technical knockouts. In the NBC […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/14/2013
What remains of the Juan Manuel Lopez who stormed onto the HBO airwaves in 2008, inspiring broadcaster Max Kellerman to enthuse, "A star is born!"? The glimmers of greatness he showed then have steadily dimmed, certainly. He replaced excellence with pure excitement, though, and became a different kind of star. One thing held steady from […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/12/2013
Oh Brian Williams, you badass with a hot daughter. You’ve got nothing to do with the boxing schedule, but that’s the tradition round these parts. The schedule is looking decent this week, depending on your tastes, with top American heavyweight Bryant Jennings doing his thing on NBC Sports and a couple of featherweight bangers, Mikey […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 6/11/2013
(Marcos Maidana, left, digs a hook downstairs on Josesito Lopez; photo credit: Joe Miranda, FightNews) We braved the long, arduous, treacherous week where we essentially had no boxing on, and now find that we’ve arrived at that point in the summer where there’s leather zipping all over the place, chins swiveled here and there. But […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(credit: Esther Lin, Showtime) Boxing makes fools of us, again and again. Like most everyone, I was convinced that Erislandy Lara-Alfredo Angulo would be a sad, one-sided beatdown by the crafty Lara of the paleolithic and shopworn Angulo. Like most everyone, I thought the sublimely talented Chad Dawson would have too much sublime talent for […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 6/9/2013
(Marcos Maidana, left, Josesito Lopez, right; credit: Esther Lin, Showtime) CARSON, Calif. — Onlookers seeking to study the art of warfare with a keen eye should have paid close attention to what Marcos Maidana and Josesito Lopez pulled off at the Home Depot Center. Apparently there’s just something about the venue — newly christened the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Jun 8, 2013; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Adonis Stevenson [gold/yellow] celebrates after knocking out Chad Dawson [not pictured] during the first round of their light heavyweight championship bout at the Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports) Whoa. That happened. Adonis Stevenson scored a massive upset on HBO Saturday night, and did it in a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/8/2013
For a while, it looked like top cruiserweight Marco Huck was finally going to win an easy one Saturday against his two-time rival Ola Afolabi. This being a Huck-Afolabi fight, though, it was fated to end up close, so it did. But there is no drama after their rubber match, nobody wondering whether Huck got […]
