0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/8/2013
Was it an eternity ago that boxing was stacking up one hit weekend after another, or does it only seem that way? Pretty sure it's been a literal eternity. LITERAL. It's slow going at the beginning of 2013 compared to the end of 2012, and more so than with the usual early-year doldrums. Outside of one top notch HBO show and one better […]
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(Carl Frampton, left, stares down Kiko Martinez) Twenty eight years ago this month, Irish folk hero Barry McGuigan, a boxer who, once beneath the ring lights, could unite a city at war with itself, punched out his world title credentials against Puerto Rican-born Brooklynite Juan Laporte. “The Clones Cyclone”, 24-1 heading in (the controversial loss […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 2/7/2013
(Tent owner Jimmy Sharman, Jr. with his boxers) “It was the easiest thing in the world for an Aborigine to get into a boxing troupe. They would grab them before they’d grab a white bloke. They were a drawcard. You know, you see Aboriginals on the Board and then a lot of people would […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 2/6/2013
I don't know what it means to sob mathematically, but I'm sobbing pugilistically this week. There's virtually nothing on unless you're a fan of boxers who are well past their best, such as lightweight turned welterweight Nate Campbell. I know I'm not. There's an Australian rugby player freak show on Friday night and some rumblings […]
0 comments by Joseph R. Holzer on 2/5/2013
(Mar 17, 2012; New York, NY, USA; Donovan George before his fight against Edwin Rodriguez at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports) Donovan George turned off the lights this weekend. His victim wasn’t the record-setting audience of Sunday’s Super Bowl, though. George decimated James Cook in 1:15 of the opening […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Mike Lee was in a Super Bowl commercial this weekend, and Muhammad Ali became the latest boxing personality not to die. At least this time the rumor of impending death was coming from someone who might've maybe known — Ali's brother — but it does get kind of old, reading about people allegedly being on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/2/2013
That was unsatisfactory, but we knew it would be. On Friday Night Fights, Carlos Molina beat up an aging Cory Spinks for a decision victory, while Antwone Smith woofed at an ancient Jose Luis Castillo and also hit him sometimes for a decision victory. The bouts didn't totally lack in significance, but in some of […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 2/1/2013
The stuff floating our boats this month… Patrick Connor The last month has left a little bit to be desired for a few reasons, unsurprisingly, so I might take the road less travelled by and say that I’m actually interested in seeing how heavyweight match ups like Vyacheslav Glazkov vs. Malik Scott, Johnathon Banks vs. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Assassin's Creed video game + Apollo Creed from Rocky = Apollo's Creed. (h/t Ramon Aranda) Are you ready for some rematches? Good, because you're going to get a lot of them, although not all of them. One of them you might get is, no lie, Mercito Gesta-Miguel Vazquez II. Gesta, you see, is in a […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
“You know, in life you get knocked down from time to time. Sometimes you don’t know its coming.” Hillary Clinton, March 2008, Youngstown Ohio Boxers are defined by their geography. The late Joe Frazier wasn’t just a Philadelphia fighter, he was Philadelphia in a fighter. Juan Manuel Marquez is Mexico City’s Aztec pride and its […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/30/2013
(Yuriorkis Gamboa takes one on the chin) It wasn't so long ago, in the scheme of things, that Yuriorkis Gamboa's fan club among the hardcore boxing public was practically too full to accept new members. In 2010, the Cuban sliced through Rogers Mtagwa like he was a living vorpal sword one fight after Mtagwa had […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Daniel Geale dominated Anthony Mundine over 12 rounds at the Sydney Entertainment Centre Wednesday, winning a wide unanimous decision in their middleweight rematch. With his victory, by scores of 116-112 and 117-111 twice, Geale (29-1, 15 KO) erases the only loss on his ledger and proves himself the #1 contender to Sergio […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/28/2013
Well, there goes my childhood. On the upside, middleweight Daniel Geale may finally shut Anthony Mundine up on Wednesday night, bringing to a close what has been a long, recurring nightmare for many Australians. In other news, junior middleweight spoiler Carlos Molina is fighting Cory Spinks on Friday Night Fights. There are a few other […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/27/2013
(Demetrius Andrade throws an uppercut at Freddy Hernandez; photo via Showtime) No major major fights this weekend, but some interesting results. Let's get to 'em. Lucas Matthysse vs. Mike Dallas, Jr. It might not be the most innovative nickname, yet there's probably no more fitting monicker in boxing than Lucas "The Machine" Matthysse. That whiplash […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/26/2013
We'll have thoughts tomorrow on tonight's action and last night's, but fights in the works are like plaque that build up and build up if you don't address them. We're nearing gum disease level, so let's do some brushing. Besides the men in the headline, we've also got some Floyd Mayweather (don't we always?) and […]
