0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/13/2015
Nicholas Walters and Felix Verdejo fought mystery opponents Saturday night on HBO, in that both were undefeated yet unproven. Both put up resistance, winning a round or two each, ultimately succumbing on the scorecards to more experienced and classier opposition. Verdejo was up first, and boy howdy did he get a dandy of a hummer […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/12/2015
Even with a stable the size of boxing manager Al Haymon’s, even if you assume the most generous posture toward the PBC series, the frequency of the cards means that there are going to be some dead spots on the schedule. Friday’s Spike show was the second consecutive PBC card that was very nearly not worth […]
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 6: Daniel Geale listens to the count from referee Harvey Dock after being knocked down by Miguel Cotto during their WBC middleweight world championship fight at the Barclays Center on June 6, 2015 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Ed Mulholland/Getty Images)
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/10/2015
I’ve seen hundreds of men (and more than a handful of women) get knocked out in the boxing ring. Mostly, these knockouts were very satisfying. It seems terrible to write that you enjoy seeing people suffer (minor) brain injuries, but it’s self-evidently part of boxing’s appeal — witness the continuing popularity of Mike Tyson YouTube clips […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/9/2015
We’re halfway through 2015, and it’s well on its way to being one of the biggest years for U.S. boxing viewership on the TV in some time. That’s due in no small part to the record-shattering pay-per-view buys for Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao and the return of boxing to network television via the PBC series, […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/8/2015
In my time doing this weekly schedule (more than two years), I can’t recall a stretch where high level boxing has been on TV as consistently as it has in the last month. I use the term “high level” fairly loosely — if you look at this week’s fights, there are a lot of big […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 6/6/2015
NEW YORK CITY — Lineal middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4) returned to the ring after a year of inactivity to defend his title for the first time in facing Daniel Geale (31-3) in Brooklyn Saturday night on HBO. Cotto (above left) made a statement by knocking Geale out with a brutal assault that ended it […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor
NEW YORK CITY — Keep checking back here for running undercard results from ringside for the Cotto vs Geale undercard, leading into Saturday’s HBO main event between Miguel and Daniel. Dustin Fleischer vs. Kareem Milner — Welterweight Entering the ring with the support of the local crowd, Dustin Fleischer (1-0) came out swinging against his […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Robert Guerrero won a controversial split decision Saturday on NBC, the kind that is damning because of whom he did it against. Aron Martinez was there to restore Guerrero to the win column, pure and simple, and instead it was a bruising fight — in its tone, and literally, on each man’s face — that Guerrero […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 6/2/2015
Robert Guerrero needs a win. Badly. He’s lost two of his last three, albeit against some pretty nasty welterweight competition named Keith Thurman, Yoshihiro Kamegai and Floyd Mayweather. He lost basically every second to Mayweather, but gutted out a win 13 months later against Kamegai, who is a badass. In his first fight for Al […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 6/1/2015
There was a fact forgotten underneath all the avocado and spandex jokes — Chris Algieri can actually fight. He reiterated that fact for us Friday night on Spike TV against Amir Khan. Algieri was last seen getting bounced around the ring and beaten up badly by Manny Pacquiao last November. The majority of fans and […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Miguel Cotto knows that when Miguel Cotto fights its a big deal for the boxing world (and Miguel Cotto). Fans of third-person sports interviews and 157 lb middleweights rejoice; Cotto is fighting Australia’s Daniel Geale this week. That’s almost it for the boxing schedule, really, though there are some club fights on Tuesday and a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/29/2015
Chris Algieri brought it Friday night on “Premier Boxing Champions” on Spike, giving Amir Khan more than anyone thought he might be able to give. It wasn’t enough for Algieri to win the decision. It might’ve been enough to cost Khan, who aspires to a Mayweather showdown, a lot of money. Algieri had no chance […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 5/28/2015
Martin Murray sat beside compatriot Darren Barker in the Sky Sports Studio as a smile grew across his face. A sturdy, thick-necked middleweight with a history of violent crime, he listened incredulously as Birmingham-born Matthew Macklin boasted proudly of his exploits, both domestically and abroad. Calling in from his gym on the south coast of […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 5/27/2015
Chris Algieri had a really, really bad night against Manny Pacquiao the last time he was in the ring. There’s no shame in that; Pacquiao has given plenty of great fighters plenty of bad nights. But Algieri has bounced back to a headlining spot on TV, and Friday night on Spike’s “Premier Boxing Champions” broadcast, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/26/2015
(50 Center lowered to the boxing ring while rapping; via) The schadenfreude is pretty heavy Tuesday after 50 Cent filed for bankruptcy for his boxing promotion company, SMS Promotions. This is just a note of caution about what it means, what it doesn’t mean and what it might not mean. It should surprise no one that […]
