0 comments by Patrick Connor on 3/30/2013
(Jose Ramirez crumples Charlie Dubray; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) LAS VEGAS — In the opening bout of the afternoon, junior welterweight Manuel Lopez improved his record to 2-0 (2 KO) by scoring a technical knockout in two rounds over awkward Las Vegas native Jason Tresvan. Lopez had to find a bit of a […]
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Oh that entertainingly manic Brandon Rios. He struggled to make weight a little the day before his junior welterweight rematch with Mike Alvarado on HBO Saturday, so he had to lose his underpants, but once he was clothed again he was carrying on like an insane person. Our bearded correspondent Patrick Connor is in Las […]
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As mentioned last night, Teddy Atlas gave the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board an enthusiastic (and most welcome — thanks, Teddy!) endorsement on ESPN's Friday Night Fights. Above is video of how it went. If you just discovered the Board last night, here's the website, and here are a few supplementary items that explain what it's […]
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The good old Scrambler ride. Circles within circles. Since boxing is now divided up between networks and promoters who aren't likely to collaborate in a long, long time, it's a more apt metaphor for boxing's fights in the works than the carousel or merry-go-round metaphor we usually use around these parts. In this edition of […]
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Brian Vera had his hands full with Donatas Bondorovas on ESPN's Friday Night Fights through seven rounds of a solid fight, but the referee made a highly debatable call to stop it at the end of that round. In the corner, asked if he could see through a cut over his left eye and over […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/29/2013
It might make you cut weight, but a tapeworm is not exactly a performance-enhancing drug, so we're already defying the headline. A tapeworm like the homely fellow to the left is what laid 17 eggs in the brain of one of this weekend's combatants, light heavyweight Isaac Chilemba, six years ago. "If they hatched, they […]
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0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/28/2013
Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado are not like most humans. They’re not even like most boxers, a class of people who, to varying degrees, must suppress their self-preservation instinct. At the lowest end, the “hit and don’t get hit” subset of stylists still know what they’re in for when they enter the boxing ring, because […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 3/27/2013
“So this is what history looks like, a century of dominance reduced to a medal-less pile of rubble.”So Sports Illustrated boxing columnist Chris Mannix described the U.S. boxing team’s performance at the London Olympics. He wasn’t the only big sportswriter to say so. Except the “pile of rubble” wasn’t medal-less. There was a gold medal […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 3/26/2013
The scene: Las Vegas Hilton, Nevada, USA. June 6, 1988. Iran “The Blade” Barkley, 24-4 (15), a one-time hoodlum from the Bronx, had outswung the Liverpool-born Canadian Michael Olajide to earn a title crack at Hearns. Detroit’s celebrated “Hit Man,” 45-2 (38), had been busy busting heads and collecting title belts since his fall to […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 3/25/2013
If you’re a boxing fan then chances are you’re already excited just seeing those three names in the headline. If you’re not a serious fan, then hopefully I can explain to you why Rios, Alvarado and Golovkin are the power rangers of boxing — synonymous with blood, sweat and action. There are a few other intriguing […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/23/2013
Who knew Robert Stieglitz had this kind of animal in him? Saturday on Epix, the super middleweight got revenge on his hard-punching German countryman Arthur Abraham, reversing a competitive loss in their first meeting by storming out hard, hurting Abraham in the 2nd and closing his eye so badly that the referee and ring doctor […]
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Something blew inside Chicago’s UIC Pavilion during ESPN2 Friday Night Fights, and it wasn’t just the wind. Hometown fighter Donovan “Da Bomb” George was handed a dud of a decision against fellow middleweight David Lopez, a split decision draw in a fight he clearly should have won. The right hand of George landed hard and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/21/2013
(Dec 1, 2012; New York City; Austin Trout celebrates his unanimous decision win over Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports) Been nearly three months round these parts since we updated the pound-for-pound top 20 list of the best boxers in the world regardless of weight, which is informational about how […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 3/20/2013
Well that’s just cruel — kind of like coming off the Timothy Bradley/Ruslan Provodnikov high into a week without much on. Mind you, if old Ruslan taught us anything, it’s that we shouldn’t underestimate the potential of fights before they happen. That’s easier said than done and rather invalidates the whole point of the schedule, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/19/2013
(Timothy Bradley, left, shares a moment with Ruslan Provodnikov, right, after the fight; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) With all the business maneuvering in the boxing news the past couple days, and despite heaping helpings of social media love, Timothy Bradley-Ruslan Provodnikov still might not have gotten the attention it deserves. Fights rarely come […]
