0 comments by Patrick Connor on 4/8/2015
If airing promos where Danny Garcia looks into the camera and declares himself a ladies’ man several times an hour was Premier Boxing Champions’ push to have people dislike him even more than they already do, it was an award-winning triumph. Lamont Peterson likely gained a supporter or two as a result of Garcia’s appeal […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Floyd Mayweather today bought something expensive, tacky and obscene. The cost of the item exceeded the annual salary of at least an upper middle class household. Floyd Mayweather will only use the item once. Floyd Mayweather might as well have just thrown the amount of money he spent on the item up in the air […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/7/2015
The “Premier Boxing Champions” monster just keeps gobbling up territory. No longer content with moving from the new(ish) school of HBO and Showtime to the old(ish) school of network/free TV, it’s going even further back to an old(er) school (kinda?) in radio. Namely, satellite radio (which is newer school than regular radio). This week a deal […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
The spring (or autumn if you’re in my part of the world) boxing schedule is always busy, and this week is no exception, with really solid fights on a variety of networks. So sit down, grab a peanut butter cup (via Rafe Bartholomew) and plan your viewing. Boxcino tournament semifinals, Friday, ESPN2, Bethlehem Pa. Friday Night […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/6/2015
So here it is. The “official commercial” (according to a news release) for Floyd Mayweather Vs Manny Pacquiao. Accept no substitutes. No “unofficial commercials” allowed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f1h0yFzigc&feature=youtu.be It’s not the kind of fight that needs much hyping, so it’s a fairly minimalist commercial. Plus, some rubes like me will just put it on their website for […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/4/2015
Did you buy any of that? Light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson easily handled an aging, clumsy (yet sturdy) super middleweight in Sakio Bika in CBS’ afternoon broadcast of “Premier Boxing Champions,” landing the same punch over and over again and showboating. Then, at the end, Brent Stover, during the post-fight interview, declared it an “epic […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
A one-sided fight ended with a nasty exclamation point on “Premier Boxing Champions” Saturday afternoon, with Artur Beterbiev introducing the CBS wing of the series with a brutal knockout of Gabriel Campillo. This was not unexpected. Campillo was once a dangerous light heavyweight, but short of an upset win over prospect Thomas Williams, Jr., he hasn’t […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/3/2015
It was nothing pretty, but it got the job done for Petr Petrov: The long-sidelined Russian returned to Friday Night Fights, the forum for his rise, to defeat Gamaliel Diaz by a ragged unanimous decision on ESPN2. There was nothing unclear about the victory, no matter how much Diaz (above left) tried to muddy it […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Read this story about the last man to beat Floyd Mayweather (no, not Jose Luis Castillo — ZING) and weep. It’s a great, tragic tale about Serafim Todorov. Then, read up below for some thoughts on the latest Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao news, with some brief accompanying analytical thoughts. (Some of them, among other topics, […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/2/2015
The fifth episode of Manny and Floyd, the podcast all about Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather, is out now. Download it, get it on iTunes or your podcasting app, or just listen to it right here: I can’t even lie; I’m so excited by the fact that HBO and Showtime are making their own, separate hype documentaries […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 3/31/2015
There’s tough and there’s Ann Wolfe tough, as the video above demonstrates. You know what’s better than having a medicine ball chucked at your head by the baddest bitch on the planet? This week’s boxing schedule — check it out. Adonis Stevenson Vs. Sakio Bika, Saturday, CBS, Quebec City. Al Haymon continues his steady March to world […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 3/30/2015
Adonis Stevenson wanted to fly, so a small boxing podcast has chosen to give him wings. We didn’t know that he’d jump the shark and fight Sakio Bika, though. No matter your view of rankings organizations, lineal title adherence or the fairness of boxing’s every day structure, the idea that champions should fight the best […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/28/2015
(Gary Russell, Jr.; credit: Esther Lin, Showtime) Twice in the past year, Gary Russell, Jr. has challenged elite competition after facing nothing like it for his whole career. The first result, against Vasyl Lomachenko, was a gritty showing against an Olympic great, but the loss was also a reckoning for a pro run that prepared […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
One man in Saturday’s junior middleweight warm-up for the Showtime main event, Jermell Charlo, had never faced anyone as good as his opponent, and didn’t exactly rise to the occasion. The other man, Vanes Martirosyan, has always been inconsistent and was again. They pecked at one another for 10 inconclusive rounds, with the judges siding […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Stab Kell Brook in his arm, machete his leg to the point where he says “I could see death,” it doesn’t matter. Nothing is stopping “Special K” these days at welterweight, and Saturday on Showtime, he easily handled a veteran journeyman/fringe contender who had never before been easily handled. In his first fight back since both […]
