0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/15/2013
Get excited, there are some good fights this week. There is also a ridiculously cool Game of Thrones poster at the top of this post, designed by Saul Bass and available for $40. We’d really like to see someone do something similar for some vintage fight posters – how cool would that be? Anyway – from […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/14/2013
Since Patrick Connor already had you covered for Friday Night Fights and I already had you covered for ShoBox on an already-light week, there normally would be little need for any Weekend Afterthoughts. But a few contenders of note were in action, including a few who found themselves amid some drama, so here's a drizzling […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/12/2013
A boxer boxer. (h/t unofficial TQBR visual consultant Che) We'll have some Weekend Afterthoughts soon enough for the fights that went down this weekend, but there's still a lot left to talk about with the prior weekend — the pay-per-view buys for Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero, the appropriateness of Ruben Guerrero's trash talk as evaluated by […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/11/2013
Detroit, Michigan was represented solidly — if not slightly controversially — on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights from the Masonic Temple in The Motor City, as hometown welterweight Vernon Paris scored a unanimous decision win over Manuel Perez, and Cornelius Lock likewise left with a points win over Lonnie Smith. While initially Paris appeared to be […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Dierry Jean connects on Cleotis Pendarvis; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Nearly three years ago on a trip to Montreal for the light heavyweight clash between Jean Pascal and Chad Dawson, the one fighter on the undercard who made an impression on me was Dierry Jean. Watching him struggle with Cleotis Pendarvis on ShoBox Friday night […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 5/10/2013
(Paulie Malignaggi, left, jaws with his June 22 opponent, Adrien Broner) It’s strange for me to see Paulie Malignaggi these days, basking in the heat of the Indian summer his career is currently enjoying. After all, he was never meant to get this far. He was meant to fade into obscurity a long time ago, […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison
(Julio Ceja, left; Jamie McDonnell, right) Boxing world championships are open to interpretation these days (as in wide open). For some, the decision makers at the WBC, WBA and IBF remain the official ports of call on such matters. Longevity, rather than superior governance, appears to have afforded them prominence over newer bodies such as […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/9/2013
“Boxing has a nostalgia problem. Any discussion about the fight game is really a discussion about the past and all arguments are really just variations on the barbershop scene in Coming to America.” With that big claim attached to a sexy Eddie Murphy reference, Jay Kaspian Kang has got me to thinking about something I’ve suspected […]
0 comments by Corey Quincy
(Juan Manuel Marquez [left] and Timothy Bradley [right]) The principles of life, often disregarded in the name of sport, have shaped what could be one of the top technical bouts of the year between Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez and Timothy “The Desert Storm” Bradley. The welterweight 12-rounder for Bradley’s WBO title is set for Sept. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/8/2013
(Apr 13, 2013; New York, NY, USA; Guillermo Rigondeaux celebrates his 12-round unanimous decision win over Nonito Donaire [not shown] at Radio City Music Hall. Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports) It's been an eventful 1.5 months for boxing's best. Some of the fighters are new to this list of the top in the world regardless […]
0 comments by Rebecca Wolfe
When I arrived at Cinemark 20 in Moosic, Pa., for May Day: Mayweather vs. Guerrero, I had no idea what to expect. Of course, I fully expected Floyd Mayweather to dominate his welterweight opponent, Robert Guerrero. And I was looking forward to watching a fight on something bigger than my 36” TV screen. I didn’t […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/7/2013
Did you know that if you put all the McBain clips from "The Simpsons" together back to back, it makes a mini movie? Isn’t that the coolest thing you’ve heard all week? The video above is just a trailer; you can see the whole shebang here. As for the boxing – it’s a bit of a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Welterweight superstar Manny Pacquiao is at an unsteady point in his boxing life, coming off the kind of knockout loss that ends careers and two consecutive losses overall. For his comeback fight, he's picked someone who might put his lights out or else make him look like Fred Astaire: The brutal, brawling Brandon Rios. The […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports) Robert Guerrero's odds of beating Floyd Mayweather this past weekend were always long, even after opening at quite a distance and closing the gap with bettors somewhat in the build-up to the fight. Those odds became flesh and blood in the ring Saturday, as Guerrero couldn't get near enough to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/5/2013
(May 4, 2013; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Floyd Mayweather [black gloves] and Robert Guerrero [red gloves] during their welterweight fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Mayweather won unanimously. Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports) Floyd Mayweather made his Showtime deal debut a successful one, taking a clear unanimous decision over Robert Guerrero, who got off […]
