0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/19/2013
(Lucas Matthysse drops Lamont Peterson; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — In the Godzilla movies, the great, giant lizard that demolishes all emerges from the sea. Saturday night on Showtime, boxing's scariest monster emerged onto the beaches of Atlantic City: Lucas Matthysse. The first victim of a frightening new era for anyone around […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/18/2013
(credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Keep coming back here for updates on the undercard for Showtime's main event of Lucas Matthysse-Lamont Peterson (junior welterweight). It's a DEEP card, in terms of number of fights, which I previewed here. Highlights — among the "names", anyway — include Anthony Peterson, Shawn Porter and Devon […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/17/2013
At Friday's weigh-in for Lamont Peterson-Lucas Matthysse Saturday on Showtime, BoxingScene's David Greisman and I did some interviews on the fight itself, the topics in the headline, some upcoming bouts, the latest figure for Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero pay-per-view sales and more. Read on for word from welterweight/Showtime commentator Paulie Malignaggi; upward-moving junior welterweight Amir Khan; […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
It's one of those kind of fights, is Lamont Peterson vs. Lucas Matthysse Saturday on Showtime: The more you dissect it, the more footage you watch, the harder it gets to figure out who will win. You might have started off one way and flipped back and forth repeatedly. In that sense, your fractured crystal […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/16/2013
(A cast of thousands, from left: Anthony Peterson; Devon Alexander; Lamont Peterson; Lee Purdy; Anthony Ogogo) If you're headed to Atlantic City this weekend for one of the year's best main events — the junior welterweight scrap between Lamont Peterson and Lucas Matthysse — or even if you're just trying to figure out how much […]
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0 comments by Jeff Pryor
NEW YORK CITY — Andy Lee stepped into the tiny ring crammed into the B.B. King Blues Club in Time Square — a fitting locale considering the setbacks he has had to face in and out of the ring recently. The Irishman was eager on Wednesday to pull the needle off the blues record that’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/15/2013
Lucas Matthysse, the hard punching Argentine, WBC interim junior welterweight titlist and number one Ring-ranked junior welterweight, will challenge the IBF strapholder Lamont Peterson this Saturday in Atlantic City. It’s a storied town, one that has seen some classic fights down the years. Yet it’s also synonymous with the darker side of the sweet science, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Dusty Harrison, left, and D.C. based rapper Wale, right; via) These are flush times for D.C. boxing. This Saturday, two of the top ticketsellers in the Beltway will appear on separate cards: junior welterweight contender Lamont Peterson fights in Atlantic City against Lucas Matthysse, while blue chip welterweight prospect Dusty Hernandez Harrison holds down the […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Get excited, there are some good fights this week. There is also a ridiculously cool Game of Thrones poster at the top of this post, designed by Saul Bass and available for $40. We’d really like to see someone do something similar for some vintage fight posters – how cool would that be? Anyway – from […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/14/2013
Since Patrick Connor already had you covered for Friday Night Fights and I already had you covered for ShoBox on an already-light week, there normally would be little need for any Weekend Afterthoughts. But a few contenders of note were in action, including a few who found themselves amid some drama, so here's a drizzling […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/12/2013
A boxer boxer. (h/t unofficial TQBR visual consultant Che) We'll have some Weekend Afterthoughts soon enough for the fights that went down this weekend, but there's still a lot left to talk about with the prior weekend — the pay-per-view buys for Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero, the appropriateness of Ruben Guerrero's trash talk as evaluated by […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/11/2013
Detroit, Michigan was represented solidly — if not slightly controversially — on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights from the Masonic Temple in The Motor City, as hometown welterweight Vernon Paris scored a unanimous decision win over Manuel Perez, and Cornelius Lock likewise left with a points win over Lonnie Smith. While initially Paris appeared to be […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Dierry Jean connects on Cleotis Pendarvis; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Nearly three years ago on a trip to Montreal for the light heavyweight clash between Jean Pascal and Chad Dawson, the one fighter on the undercard who made an impression on me was Dierry Jean. Watching him struggle with Cleotis Pendarvis on ShoBox Friday night […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 5/10/2013
(Paulie Malignaggi, left, jaws with his June 22 opponent, Adrien Broner) It’s strange for me to see Paulie Malignaggi these days, basking in the heat of the Indian summer his career is currently enjoying. After all, he was never meant to get this far. He was meant to fade into obscurity a long time ago, […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison
(Julio Ceja, left; Jamie McDonnell, right) Boxing world championships are open to interpretation these days (as in wide open). For some, the decision makers at the WBC, WBA and IBF remain the official ports of call on such matters. Longevity, rather than superior governance, appears to have afforded them prominence over newer bodies such as […]
