0 comments by Nick Wong on 5/15/2014
I’m not here to write about the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana welterweight fight that aired on pay-per-view May 3 and re-aired on Showtime last weekend. Browse any major boxing website or social media threads and you’ll read plenty of opinions on how it went. If it helps, I had the fight 8-4 for Mayweather with plenty […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/13/2014
This past weekend, two authentic heavyweight contenders (Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola) squared off on ESPN — a rare occurrence for the worldwide leader, which usually confines boxing to its sister network ESPN2. Yet the fight, a good one, was overshadowed by a farce in the same division, featuring Deontay Wilder — who is in […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Yes, it’s feared Argentine badass Lucas Matthysse playing the ukulele (via friend of the site
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 5/10/2014
The old adage is “as go the heavyweights, so goes boxing.” Well, if more heavyweight fights were as entertaining as Bermane Stiverne’s 6th round stoppage of Chris Arreola on ESPN, boxing might be more popular. Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KO) was way behind on my card at the time of the stoppage. He was being outworked […]
0 comments by DJ Summers on 5/9/2014
After Grudge Match’s genre baiting, we might need a year off to take boxing films seriously again. Hopefully after 2014’s boxer-free film slate we’ll get back to the grit, poverty, powerlessness, and pathos the screen fighter suffers on our account. The ubiquity of the boxer in film doesn’t always make for the freshest films. New […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 5/8/2014
Sheffield junior featherweight Kid Galahad, 16-0, 8 KOs, will attempt to sew another badge on his rucksack this weekend when he vies for Commonwealth honours against imported Aussie wildcard Fred “The General” Mundraby, 15-1-1, 7 KOs. Having already secured British and European awards in successive fights (he has since discarded the Lonsdale belt), the tricksy […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
Most boxing fans should be familiar with the term “crossroads fight.” For those who aren’t familiar, a crossroads fight is defined as one where the career trajectory of both men seem to be divergent. Bouts where youngsters face veterans often fit the description. In those match-ups, it sometimes happens that the guy supposedly fated to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/7/2014
Got my copy of Springs Toledo’s “Gods of War” off Amazon; still got a ways to go but it’s more than paying off in phrases like “[Ray] Leonard was confident enough to ask permission from an aging Ray Robinson to borrow ‘Sugar,’ but he couldn’t have anticipated how many lumps he’d get from [Roberto] Duran…” […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/6/2014
(May 3, 2014; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Marcos Maidana punches against Floyd Mayweather Jr. during their fight at MGM Grand. Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) We came so very close to history Saturday night. Had Marcos Maidana defeated Floyd Mayweather on Showtime Pay-Per-View, it would have been the biggest upset in boxing at the […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
There’s not much boxing on this week, so it’s possible that you’ll be reduced to watching praying mantises fight. That’s okay, though, they do look pretty cool with their dukes up. There are really only two fights of significance this week, with junior flyweight #2 contender Kazuto Ioka moving up to flyweight to face Amnat […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/5/2014
“Okay. Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne and Floyd Mayweather walk into a dressing room doing a three-way hug…” Though that might seem like that’s the set up to one of the most mind- and/or gender-bending joke in the universe, it actually happened the other night. Let the reality of that sink in for a moment. Past […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/4/2014
(Floyd Mayweather, left, Marcos Maidana, right; via @shosports) The longer it went on, the more the expected became the reality between Floyd Mayweather and underdog Marcos Maidana on Showtime Pay-Per-View Saturday night. That’s because the first six rounds of Mayweather-Maidana required a drastic suspension of disbelief: Maidana was winning rounds, and, often beating up Mayweather, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/3/2014
Amir Khan came out sizzling against Luis Collazo, and had glorious moments throughout over the 12 rounds of his decision victory on the undercard of the Showtime Pay-Per-View main event of Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana. It was the best he had looked in a while. Yet somehow, his victory continued to demonstrate his weaknesses. Khan dominated […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(via @shosports) How in the world did a judge see Adrien Broner winning all 10 rounds vs. Carlos Molina Saturday night on the Showtime Pay-Per-View undercard of Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana? Broner clearly deserved the win, by seven rounds to three or eight to two, but 10 rounds? And there’s the rub. Broner, moving down to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
In a match-up of two fringe 168-pound contenders, J’Leon Love and Marco Antonio Periban didn’t distinguish themselves but managed to turn a tepid start into a trip down the rapids in the middle before Love pulled away for the unanimous decision victory. It was the opening bout of the Showtime Pay-Per-view card Saturday night headlined […]
