0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/23/2014
Willie Monroe, Jr. was a non-entity for the most part before entering ESPN2’s middleweight Boxcino tournament, and he surprised us all along his route to the finale. On Friday, he surprised again, thoroughly outboxing and at times outslugging Brandon Adams for the unanimous decision. You could give two to three rounds to Adams, tops, as […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/22/2014
This Saturday, light heavyweight champion of the world Adonis Stevenson makes his debut on Showtime, a downpayment that will begin to determine how much uncanny punching power it takes to erase fans’ animosity for spoiling perhaps the best fight in boxing. That fight, a drool-worthy match-up with Sergey Kovalev, is the subject of litigation after […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison
When Gary Sykes heads to the ring to contest the championship belt he once held, the one he promised his young daughter, Layla, that he would recover, he will do so unaccompanied by a national audience in this, the biggest fight of his life. Good looking, genial, accomplished, Sykes, a high-octane junior lightweight, has been […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
A not-so-subtle Day of Thor theme in our throwback Thursday pieces, if you’ve been paying attention, has been rivalries that have rested just outside the normal plane of consciousness of boxing fans. Past a handful of big name fighters with known, established counterparts, others are often perceived as lacking nemeses or defining bouts, and sometimes that’s not true. Sometimes the important fights on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/21/2014
(Brian Kenny and Floyd Mayweather, after breaking bread) Welcome, Awful Announcing readers visiting The Queensberry Rules for the first time, and welcome, TQBR regulars. Somehow, we couldn’t fit everything we wanted in the 6,000 (!) word piece we teamed up on over there about the five-year anniversary of Brian Kenny’s sizzling interview with Floyd Mayweather […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/19/2014
Another week, another schedule, another picture of animals fighting. But don’t worry, it’s not just animals, there are humans fighting this week too. There are the “Boxcino” tournament finals on ESPN and light heavyweight champ Adonis Stevenson (booo!) is fighting on HBO. There’s also the premier of an HBO “2 Days” documentary about “The Siberian […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard
“The sweet science is joined onto the past like a man’s arm to his shoulder.” – A.J. Liebling Since I began to write boxing with a degree of seriousness last year, I’ve had a notice set on my browser which dings ostentatiously every time a new piece by Springs Toledo is published on The Sweet […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 5/18/2014
It is becoming something of an undesirable British tradition of late for an officiating howler to encroach upon headlines that ought to have been the sole preserve of the boxers over whom they stood watch. At Leeds Town Hall on Saturday, Doncaster’s Michael Alexander became the latest native referee to bungle a crucial call when […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/17/2014
Boxing’s return to fabled Los Angeles venue the Inglewood Forum proved a massive success on Saturday night, with Juan Manuel Marquez turning in a completely typical performance in an action-packed decision win over Mike Alvarado on HBO. When I say “completely typical,” that’s no rub on Marquez. This welterweight fight had everything that makes Marquez […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Yes, yes, #cancelcolbert and everything, but it just makes sense: This is Round And Round, and it’s a short version of Round And Round, thus, Short Round from Indiana Jones. Besides the men in the headline in this regular column featuring fights in the works, we have rounded-up news on Gennady Golovkin, Deontay Wilder, Mauricio […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/16/2014
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0 comments by Alex McClintock
Delvin Rodriguez looked like a dog’s breakfast on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights, but he did deserve to beat Joachim Alcine. Instead, he got one of those special Montreal-flavoured draws. It wasn’t a particularly high level junior middleweight fight and it wasn’t all that enjoyable, but that doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t have been fair scoring. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
That’s boxer-lawyer Lovemore Ndou. We have various boxing-related legal matters to discuss in this edition of Quick Jabs, so he’s a fitting avatar. For instance: Jonathan Koh just published in the Southern California Law Review this paper on the regulatory and legal issues surrounding performance enhancing drugs in boxing. It’s very smart, and I don’t […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/15/2014
Hyped prospect Antonio Orozco weathered a couple rounds of tough veteran Martin Honorio giving him guff Thursday night on Fox Sports 1, then turned it on and beat up the older, naturally smaller man. It was another small step forward for an offensive-minded boxer who’s probably ready to graduate to contender after getting a scare […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
It is popularly thought, and rightly, for that matter, that Juan Manuel Marquez’s counterpunching style is the antidote for Manny Pacquiao’s ultra-aggressive, livewire-as-bullwhip style; four meetings have borne that out. But, then, the antidote for a lot of things is a counterpunching style, and maybe no more so than for a natural counterpuncher like Marquez, […]
