0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 5/23/2013
(credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) So it looks like we have a new superstar — a new Manny Pacquiao, if you choose to believe the CEO of the company that promotes him. Lucas Matthysse, the taciturn, mysterious Argentinian who for so long lurked on the fringes of the fans’ consciousness at 140, popping up here and there […]
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0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/22/2013
“COME ON ye moving picture guys, And listen to my tale; Ye hurlers of the custard pies Who gather in the kale. Another moving stare we hear, Must in the picture horn– And his name is Georges Carpentier Greatest fighter ever born.” – Francois Descamps, Omaha World Herald, 1920 ******* “Sam Langford, himself one of […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Boxers whose names are more suitable for gunfighters and horse thieves Sonny Bill Williams, Dusty Hernandez Harrison, Carson Jones, Hank Lundy, Frankie Gavin Names suitable for British Prime Ministers Nigel Benn, Clarence Tillman, David Hamilton, Paul Butler Names suitable for philosophers and public intellectuals Schiller Hyppolite, Cornelius White, Phillip Schuster Names in which gender identification […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/21/2013
Queensberry Rules Radio returns once again today at 4:30 ET, and this week TQBR’s own Patrick Connor and BadLeftHook.com‘s James Foley recap Lucas Matthysse’s destruction of Lamont Peterson, Devon Alexander’s win over Lee Purdy, the Guillermo Jones vs. Denis Lebedev bout, and much more. Joining them this week is David Greisman, writer for BoxingScene.com […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Gotta love Giovani Segura – not only is he an action hero, but he’s pushing the already stretched frontiers of sponsorship in boxing by emblazoning the name of a registration services company on his Julio Cesar Chavez style headband. Who knows what this week will bring in terms of advertising, but it’ll have some good […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
In the world of great reaction shots to someone getting knocked out as everyone else around them goes nuts, Marco Antonio Barrera witnessing Manny Pacquiao get KO'd > Danny Garcia witnessing Lamont Peterson get KO'd by Lucas Matthysse Saturday. Matthysse, who might face Garcia next for junior welterweight supremacy, said he thought Garcia looked worried. […]
0 comments by Kelsey McCarson on 5/20/2013
When I called strength and conditioning coordinator Angel “Memo” Hernandez (aka Angel Heredia) a couple weeks ago, I wondered what kind of person I’d be talking to. Was he the guy former BALCO associate Victor Conte (a former PED peddler himself) constantly bashes on Twitter for being a crook? Or was he, as he claims, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/19/2013
(Lucas Matthysse drops Lamont Peterson; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — In the Godzilla movies, the great, giant lizard that demolishes all emerges from the sea. Saturday night on Showtime, boxing's scariest monster emerged onto the beaches of Atlantic City: Lucas Matthysse. The first victim of a frightening new era for anyone around […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/18/2013
(credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Keep coming back here for updates on the undercard for Showtime's main event of Lucas Matthysse-Lamont Peterson (junior welterweight). It's a DEEP card, in terms of number of fights, which I previewed here. Highlights — among the "names", anyway — include Anthony Peterson, Shawn Porter and Devon […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/17/2013
At Friday's weigh-in for Lamont Peterson-Lucas Matthysse Saturday on Showtime, BoxingScene's David Greisman and I did some interviews on the fight itself, the topics in the headline, some upcoming bouts, the latest figure for Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero pay-per-view sales and more. Read on for word from welterweight/Showtime commentator Paulie Malignaggi; upward-moving junior welterweight Amir Khan; […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
It's one of those kind of fights, is Lamont Peterson vs. Lucas Matthysse Saturday on Showtime: The more you dissect it, the more footage you watch, the harder it gets to figure out who will win. You might have started off one way and flipped back and forth repeatedly. In that sense, your fractured crystal […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/16/2013
(A cast of thousands, from left: Anthony Peterson; Devon Alexander; Lamont Peterson; Lee Purdy; Anthony Ogogo) If you're headed to Atlantic City this weekend for one of the year's best main events — the junior welterweight scrap between Lamont Peterson and Lucas Matthysse — or even if you're just trying to figure out how much […]
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0 comments by Jeff Pryor
NEW YORK CITY — Andy Lee stepped into the tiny ring crammed into the B.B. King Blues Club in Time Square — a fitting locale considering the setbacks he has had to face in and out of the ring recently. The Irishman was eager on Wednesday to pull the needle off the blues record that’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/15/2013
Lucas Matthysse, the hard punching Argentine, WBC interim junior welterweight titlist and number one Ring-ranked junior welterweight, will challenge the IBF strapholder Lamont Peterson this Saturday in Atlantic City. It’s a storied town, one that has seen some classic fights down the years. Yet it’s also synonymous with the darker side of the sweet science, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Dusty Harrison, left, and D.C. based rapper Wale, right; via) These are flush times for D.C. boxing. This Saturday, two of the top ticketsellers in the Beltway will appear on separate cards: junior welterweight contender Lamont Peterson fights in Atlantic City against Lucas Matthysse, while blue chip welterweight prospect Dusty Hernandez Harrison holds down the […]
