0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 3/1/2013
The boxing bits blowing our hair back this month… Alex McClintock For all my moaning about the lack of quality fights on the boxing schedule, there will actually be some good bouts in March (it had to happen eventually, if only by pure chance). If I can, I’ll be keen to see Transnational Boxing Rankings […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/27/2013
Boxing promoter 50 Cent is one of our own now, which means we have to talk about him more often. This failed smooch with Erin Andrews has gotten a lot of attention, but people haven't noticed quite as much the way he goes all creepshow following her around afterward. Female sideline promoters and guys who […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
The schedule is headlined by a boxing video for once. Don’t get excited. It’s not because it’s going to be a great week of boxing. There will most likely be a very cool ring walk, but that’s all I can guarantee you, folks. That might be a bit harsh. There’s a decent lightweight fight on […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 2/24/2013
Such has been the clamour to uncover a fresh and exciting heavyweight — one able to defibrillate a weight class in cardiac arrest — a large proportion of somnolent observers had flocked to put stock in a mark that had been untouched throughout his three years as a professional. Unfortunately for David Price, when the […]
0 comments by Joseph R. Holzer
(Malik Scott, left, Vyacheslav Glazkov, right; photo via Star Boxing) Nobody’s “O” actually, well, went. Boos reverberated within the Paramount Theater in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y., in response to a split decision draw between undefeated heavyweights Malik Scott and Vyacheslav Glazkov on NBC Sports Saturday. Low on knockout percentage and high on personality, Scott (35-0, […]
0 comments by Joseph R. Holzer
(Ishe Smith, emotional after his win, stands next to promoter Floyd Mayweather; photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) If every dog has his day, Saturday night wasn’t it for Cornelius “K9” Bundrage. Bundrage lost his IBF junior middleweight title on Showtime to Ishe Smith in the former’s hometown of Detroit. It was a tentative and at […]
0 comments by Joseph R. Holzer on 2/23/2013
(Alejandro Perez lands a right againt Art Hovhannisyan; credit: Craig Bennett, Showtime) There wasn’t much relaxing at the Morongo Casino Resort and Spa on Friday. Showtime’s ShoBox series and Gary Shaw productions hosted an action-packed night of the sweet science from Cabazon, Calif. The main event was a closely contested outing between a pair of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lamont Peterson looked like he was asleep through three rounds of his comeback fight with Kendall Holt on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. But he woke up in the 4th round, and after a blistering attack, it was Holt who was left drowsy — referee Tony Weeks halted the bout in the 8th […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
WASHINGTON, D.C. — I'm here at the Armory, where I usually come to watch the ladies roller derby each other, but now will be seeing men knock each other down. The undercard is not very much to speak of, but it started off well enough. We'll see if that holds. Come back for regular updates […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/22/2013
Friday Night Fights on ESPN2 makes a much-needed shift this weekend in its matchmaking from "unwatchable dreck" to "as good as the program gets" with a bout headlined by Lamont Peterson vs. Kendall Holt, two junior welterweights with top-10 talent, both trying to reestablish themselves after long layoffs. No one's saying you ought to ignore […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/21/2013
Matchmaking is more art than science, as we saw this weekend when Tony Thompson (D.C. BOXING WHAT UP!!!!) stunned heavyweight super-prospect David Price. I bet cowboy here thought he could take a deer. He clearly could not. Or maybe there's something to be said for going in overconfident. Cowboy probably thought, "No deer could whoop […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison
(David Price, left; Tony Thompson, right) Briton David Price returns to redesign the heavyweight skyline this weekend in a 10-round non-title bout against Washington D.C.’s condemned chimney stack Tony Thompson in Liverpool. The TNT-fisted Price has cantered through his first 15 starts as a professional; if his whiskers have felt a retaliatory punch in the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Following a drug test last year that found synthetic testosterone in his system, junior welterweight Lamont Peterson couldn't fight in Nevada until a public hearing on his license. Yet, this Friday, Peterson is boxing in his native District of Columbia sans such a hearing. It's the kind of thing that gets people to wondering: Why? […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/20/2013
(From left to right: Lamont Peterson; trainer Barry Hunter; ring announcer Henry Jones; Kendall Holt) WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a circular schizophrenia inherent in the build-up to Friday Night Fights' Lamont Peterson-Kendall Holt bout. The card is dubbed "Redemption," but Peterson and his crew don't ever feel they did anything wrong to make it […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
I’m getting old and grumpy. I don’t understand this “Harlem Shuffle” or “Harlem Shake” or whatever the kids are doing these days. I do understand Azealia Banks, though. She’s almost enough to cheer me up. I warned you last week that you might have to put up with my carping about the lack of good […]
