0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/6/2013
(Zou Shiming; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) What might have been the biggest viewing audience for a live boxing match in human history got itself a good show Saturday, then it watched a win for its national hero. From the standpoint of action in the ring, the most significant outcome on the Macau, China […]
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Jonathan Maicelo is a superstar in Peru. He’s a “Dancing With the Stars” veteran. He’s an underwear model. He has 10 knockouts on his resume. On April 5, Maicelo brought his perfect 16-0 record to the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, Calif., and, in front of an ESPN2 Friday Night Fights audience for his […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/3/2013
When HBO and Golden Boy Promotions went their separate ways earlier this month, to the tune of a thousand violins, it was noted by many that boxing now has two separate leagues. Golden Boy fighters will fight on Showtime, while boxers with the other big promoter, Top Rank, will fight on HBO. The Tim Starks […]
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The boxing bits tickling our pickles this month… Andrew Harrison I’m looking forward to seeing “Bulletproof” Kirk Goodings against TBA in Houghton-le-Spring on April 19. Goodings (junior welterweight) is always great value. I witnessed him get knocked out for nine seconds a couple years back against Lee Jennings, only to jump up Bruce Seldon-style at the last […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
It might be late – but that, my friends, is the greatest Easter cartoon known to man. Take a moment to savour it, along with the amazing weekend of boxing we just had. If you missed that amazing weekend, then my main men Tim Starks, Patrick Connor and Andrew Harrison have you covered. This weekend is […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/2/2013
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0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 3/31/2013
(Anthony Crolla, right, shares the spoils with Derry Mathews) On a promotion that had been marketed with the tagline “No Retreat, No Surrender” there were “No Winners” Saturday on Merseyside. Lightweights Anthony Crolla and Derry Mathews could not be separated after 12 tense rounds at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, while in the main event, light heavyweights […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
(Mike Alvarado punches Brandon Rios; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) LAS VEGAS — It is impossible to determine exactly how many years of their lives Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado have snatched from one another over the course of two fights, but just like the first time, it should be crystal clear that both […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 3/30/2013
(Jose Ramirez crumples Charlie Dubray; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) LAS VEGAS — In the opening bout of the afternoon, junior welterweight Manuel Lopez improved his record to 2-0 (2 KO) by scoring a technical knockout in two rounds over awkward Las Vegas native Jason Tresvan. Lopez had to find a bit of a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Oh that entertainingly manic Brandon Rios. He struggled to make weight a little the day before his junior welterweight rematch with Mike Alvarado on HBO Saturday, so he had to lose his underpants, but once he was clothed again he was carrying on like an insane person. Our bearded correspondent Patrick Connor is in Las […]
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As mentioned last night, Teddy Atlas gave the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board an enthusiastic (and most welcome — thanks, Teddy!) endorsement on ESPN's Friday Night Fights. Above is video of how it went. If you just discovered the Board last night, here's the website, and here are a few supplementary items that explain what it's […]
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The good old Scrambler ride. Circles within circles. Since boxing is now divided up between networks and promoters who aren't likely to collaborate in a long, long time, it's a more apt metaphor for boxing's fights in the works than the carousel or merry-go-round metaphor we usually use around these parts. In this edition of […]
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Brian Vera had his hands full with Donatas Bondorovas on ESPN's Friday Night Fights through seven rounds of a solid fight, but the referee made a highly debatable call to stop it at the end of that round. In the corner, asked if he could see through a cut over his left eye and over […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/29/2013
It might make you cut weight, but a tapeworm is not exactly a performance-enhancing drug, so we're already defying the headline. A tapeworm like the homely fellow to the left is what laid 17 eggs in the brain of one of this weekend's combatants, light heavyweight Isaac Chilemba, six years ago. "If they hatched, they […]
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(From left to right: Derry Mathews, promoter Eddie Hearn, Anthony Crolla) Anthony Crolla makes his first competitive start this weekend since the night he almost killed Heywood rival Kieran Farrell. In a suffocating December brawl, the 22-year-old Farrell developed an acute subdural haematoma that threatened his life. He survived but not without consequence. Farrell lost almost a […]
