0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/25/2013
(Mikey Garcia) Read part I here. As before, we'll examine each fighter's upside and downside, albeit in shorter form than with the first installment. SECOND TIER Robert Guerrero, welterweight, 29 His rapid rise in weight from feather to welter has earned him some pound-for-pound plaudits, and while he can be a bit of a mauler, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/24/2013
(Saul Alvarez) Last year around this time, in the similarly titled 2012 list, I floated a slightly scary thought: The lifespan of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao as the era's superstars might be coming to an end. And this year, the signs are stronger than ever. Mayweather, in his last fight against Miguel Cotto, was […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/23/2013
There's a hell of a lot going on in that music video, just like there's a hell of a lot going on in this week's boxing sched… OK, I give up on grasping at ways to make the video at the top of the schedule somehow related to the schedule. It's just some cool stop […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/22/2013
Felix Verdejo got himself a little HBO shine Saturday thanks to that knockout, via a highlight clip that's rare for such an inexperienced fighter. Also probably because he does have the makings of a future action star, down the line. Also probably because HBO and Top Rank are buddies right now. Top Rank found an […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/20/2013
(Mikey Garcia connects on Orlando Salido; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) The cause for doubt — minor though it was — about featherweight Miguel Angel Garcia coming into his HBO main event turn Saturday night was that for all his visible talent, he had not yet been tested. He still hasn't, but this time […]
0 comments by Steve Zemach
NEW YORK CITY — Steve Zemach is ringside in Madison Square Garden, covering the off-TV undercard for Saturday’s HBO show headlined by Orlando Salido vs. Miguel Angel Garcia. Results for that fight plus Gennady Golovkin vs. Gabriel Rosado and Roman Martinez vs. Juan Carlos Burgos will come in a subsequent post. Read here for what […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 1/19/2013
As guests go, Frankie Gavin proved to be the worst of them. At Walsall Town Hall Friday, against local favourite Jason Welborn, Gavin trod mud on the carpet, emptied the fridge and flipped his host’s other invitees the bird, and he did it in the most peremptory way imaginable. Welborn barely landed a punch through […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/18/2013
Enough foreplay. January's ESPN2 Friday Night Fights and Showtime ShoBox cards have been all well and good, but the first "down to business"-style boxing event of 2013 is upon us Saturday on HBO. As the main event was rescheduled from late 2012 after one of the combatants suffered a training injury, it christens the New […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/17/2013
Frankie Gavin looks to lay down a marker against Jason Welborn this Friday. Gavin, a riddle, defends his British welterweight title for the first time since acquiring it a couple months back from Bradford old hand Junior Witter. Tividale man Welborn, 11-1 (5), seems overmatched in this one (U.K. sports books have him posted as […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/16/2013
(Daniel Geale shadowboxing; photo credit: Laura McClintock) SYDNEY, Australia — If Anthony Mundine is counting on Daniel Geale taking him lightly in their middleweight rematch, he’s got another thing coming. Fifteen days out from their Jan. 20 fight, Geale looks to be in frightening form. TQBR went to scope a “light” workout at Geale’s Grange […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/15/2013
What a great time of year. The birds are singing in the trees. Things are getting back on track after holiday excesses. People are riding the subway without pants. Boxing is back on premium cable. It's back in a big way too, with a sexy triple-header on HBO. There's also various other happenings including hard […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Vanilla Ice. Iceman John Scully. Eating ice cream together. The universe almost exploded a couple days ago at this meeting of Ices, and you didn't even know. Mr. Scully is not coincidentally one of the topics of a hybrid Quick Jabs/Round And Round column. We'll discuss first some trash talk, some frivolous lawsuits and some […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/9/2013
Like a bowl of ramen, the boxing schedule is slowly heating up. Soon you will need a chopstick fan to cool it down. Yes, your correspondent is still in Japan and is still stretching his metaphors. There are three televised cards on this week, with the highlight being ShoBox’s year-opener headlined by featherweights Ronny Rios […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 1/5/2013
(Carl Frampton, via) When I first began contributing to TQBR, one of my first submissions was a list of 25 prospects that I had my eye on. Throughout 2012, I tracked their progress, even turning in a mid-year report on how they had done up until that point. This piece marks a final report card […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
If the inaugural episode of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights is any indicator of things to come, boxing fans may be in for essentially the exact same things they’ve grown used to in the last however long. While the card itself was, overall, a satisfying one from an action standpoint, the decision rendered by the judges […]
