0 comments by Alex McClintock on 3/6/2013
HBO’s new mini-documentary focusing on boxing’s out of the ring personalities, “Cornered,” debuted earlier in the week. The first instalment focused on Mr “let’s get ready to rumble” himself, ring announcer Michael Buffer. The Buff (as I will now call him) seems like an interesting guy. His chiselled jawline and John Boehneresque complexion certainly belie […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Looks like meat’s back on the menu boys! And by meat, I mean big time boxing. The main meal is the juicy HBO doubleheader headlined by a light heavyweight fight between Bernard Hopkins and Tavoris Cloud. There are other interesting titbits here and there that can serve as appetisers, and an excellent fight on HBO […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/4/2013
That’s me in the blue up there, pushing my punches and falling off to the side. Like a handful of current boxing writers, I’ve tried my hand at the busted beak business. I did OK, won four out of my five amateur bouts and managed to avoid getting badly hurt. Giving the sweet science a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/3/2013
Johannesburg has inspired all manner of nicknames but there was only one word for the welterweight rumpus it hosted Saturday night: ugly. In a hard-fought but bitty main-event, at the Sandton Convention Centre, local fighter Chris “The Heat” van Heerden weathered a badly gashed right eye to outscore Mancunian Matthew “Magic Man” Hatton over 12 […]
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(Richard Abril punches Sharif Bogere; photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Richard Abril may have won the unanimous decision Saturday on Showtime over Sharif Bogere, but he might never truly thrive in boxing, so cringe-worthy is his style. Bogere was a willing partner in the mauling and fouling, unfortunately, to collaborate for an ugly, ugly, ugly […]
0 comments by Joseph R. Holzer on 3/2/2013
(Evgeny Gradovich, left, Billy Dib, right; photo credit: Ed Diller, DiBella Entertainment) Evgeny Gradovich snatched the IBF featherweight belt from Billy Dib Friday in a fight dirtier than a 50 Cent verse. In its second consecutive week of title competition, ESPN Friday Night Fights aired a rough-and-tumble affair that resulted in a split decision in […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 3/1/2013
The boxing bits blowing our hair back this month… Alex McClintock For all my moaning about the lack of quality fights on the boxing schedule, there will actually be some good bouts in March (it had to happen eventually, if only by pure chance). If I can, I’ll be keen to see Transnational Boxing Rankings […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/27/2013
Boxing promoter 50 Cent is one of our own now, which means we have to talk about him more often. This failed smooch with Erin Andrews has gotten a lot of attention, but people haven't noticed quite as much the way he goes all creepshow following her around afterward. Female sideline promoters and guys who […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
The schedule is headlined by a boxing video for once. Don’t get excited. It’s not because it’s going to be a great week of boxing. There will most likely be a very cool ring walk, but that’s all I can guarantee you, folks. That might be a bit harsh. There’s a decent lightweight fight on […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 2/24/2013
Such has been the clamour to uncover a fresh and exciting heavyweight — one able to defibrillate a weight class in cardiac arrest — a large proportion of somnolent observers had flocked to put stock in a mark that had been untouched throughout his three years as a professional. Unfortunately for David Price, when the […]
0 comments by Joseph R. Holzer
(Malik Scott, left, Vyacheslav Glazkov, right; photo via Star Boxing) Nobody’s “O” actually, well, went. Boos reverberated within the Paramount Theater in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y., in response to a split decision draw between undefeated heavyweights Malik Scott and Vyacheslav Glazkov on NBC Sports Saturday. Low on knockout percentage and high on personality, Scott (35-0, […]
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(Ishe Smith, emotional after his win, stands next to promoter Floyd Mayweather; photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) If every dog has his day, Saturday night wasn’t it for Cornelius “K9” Bundrage. Bundrage lost his IBF junior middleweight title on Showtime to Ishe Smith in the former’s hometown of Detroit. It was a tentative and at […]
0 comments by Joseph R. Holzer on 2/23/2013
(Alejandro Perez lands a right againt Art Hovhannisyan; credit: Craig Bennett, Showtime) There wasn’t much relaxing at the Morongo Casino Resort and Spa on Friday. Showtime’s ShoBox series and Gary Shaw productions hosted an action-packed night of the sweet science from Cabazon, Calif. The main event was a closely contested outing between a pair of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lamont Peterson looked like he was asleep through three rounds of his comeback fight with Kendall Holt on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. But he woke up in the 4th round, and after a blistering attack, it was Holt who was left drowsy — referee Tony Weeks halted the bout in the 8th […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — I'm here at the Armory, where I usually come to watch the ladies roller derby each other, but now will be seeing men knock each other down. The undercard is not very much to speak of, but it started off well enough. We'll see if that holds. Come back for regular updates […]
