0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/17/2014
We’re back to using old timey images with the schedule. This one, via Flickr Commons and the Library of Congress, is of various British amateur boxers visiting New York in 1911. They don’t rock jumpsuits and moustaches like they used to. There’s a big old show this week and not much else, so we may […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 6/16/2014
After a fight weekend, there’s bound to be an outcry over the things fight fans have been subjected to. There were quite a few upset people after this last weekend; the calls of “Man, that’s messed up!” still ring clean in the June air. And then those upset people remembered that that’s just how Adrien […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Australian light heavyweight Blake Caparello is the latest brave Aussie to sign on to face a scary/endearing Eastern Bloc puncher. Following in the footsteps of Daniel Geale, who agreed to fight Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin last week, Caparello (19-0-1, 6 KO) has signed to face Russia’s Sergey Kovalev in Atlantic City on August 2 on HBO. […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 6/15/2014
Every once in a while, an idiotic idea takes hold of me and I decide that it is worth pursuing despite the sheer lunacy of what I am going to attempt. It happened again yesterday when I read Alex McClintock’s inspired drinking game designed around HBO’s coverage of Ruslan Provodnikov-Chris Algieri. Despite the mounting evidence […]
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0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/14/2014
Is there anything that goes better with two dudes punching each other in the head than an ice cold beer (or 20)? In that spirit, we’ve put together a drinking game for tonight’s fights to make sure that you stay refreshed and enjoy yourself to the fullest extent possible. Drink whenever anyone on the commentary […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/12/2014
In at least one way, Ruslan Provodnikov, fighting Saturday on HBO, can’t be beat: lovability. He eats raw moose lever, yells “MAMA!” after he wins then bleeds all over her when he sees her, promises to break people “morally,” gets emotional when he thinks of Siberia, recites poetry and watches “Cinderella Man” before every fight… […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
It’s often easy to peruse the ledger of great or even just well known fighters and highlight clear turning points in their careers. Quite commonly, the pivotal moments or occurrences are outside of the ring, or obvious. Mike Tyson’s prison stint altered his career in a huge way, Marco Antonio Barrera saw a stylistic shift […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/10/2014
http://youtu.be/PFwA4jaSNZM Everybody’s trolling these days. The only appropriate response is to put up a couple knockout videos from recent weekends before discussing it all, so as to give you happy thoughts before delving into the sad business stuff (if you can be happy about knockouts, anyway). The one above is from this past weekend, via […]
0 comments by JJ Jabbal
The World Cup is upon us and 32 nations are preparing to go toe-to-toe to become the undisputed pound-for-pound king of the football world. Yes, FIFA, the governing body, is corrupt; yes, Brazil, the host nation has swallowed most of the money and is ill-prepared; and yes, the world will forget all this to gorge […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
It’s been commented on before, but TBA is some kind of throwback fighter. Not only is he fighting on the undercard of an HBO fight on Saturday (Ruslan Provodnikov vs. Chris Algieri), but he’ll also be in the ring in Manchester… on the same night. It’s impressive stuff that puts the active schedules of fighters […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 6/9/2014
We like writing fighters off. It’s similar to how we, as a society, seem to crave building a character up only to tear them down again. But in boxing, resurrections seldom happen the way they do in works of fiction and the sick worlds of celebrity and fame. The cerebral damage is carried out, and […]
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Ruslan on how to win
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/8/2014
Boxing is, sometimes, tragedy and triumph all at once. I’m not talking about how unfortunate it is that someone has to lose, or how nice it is that someone gets to win. I’m talking about tragedy, in the dramatic sense of a great figure brought to ruin, and about the exultation that accompanies the kind […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison
NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND — The rain that lashed across Tyneside on Saturday proved a gloomy portend for the chances of local man Stuart Hall as Ellesmere Port’s Paul Butler confirmed a few suspicions previously held about him. In recording a majority decision victory over Darlington’s Hall, Butler exhibited the intractable speed and skill that have marked […]
