0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 1/19/2013
As guests go, Frankie Gavin proved to be the worst of them. At Walsall Town Hall Friday, against local favourite Jason Welborn, Gavin trod mud on the carpet, emptied the fridge and flipped his host’s other invitees the bird, and he did it in the most peremptory way imaginable. Welborn barely landed a punch through […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/18/2013
Enough foreplay. January's ESPN2 Friday Night Fights and Showtime ShoBox cards have been all well and good, but the first "down to business"-style boxing event of 2013 is upon us Saturday on HBO. As the main event was rescheduled from late 2012 after one of the combatants suffered a training injury, it christens the New […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/17/2013
Frankie Gavin looks to lay down a marker against Jason Welborn this Friday. Gavin, a riddle, defends his British welterweight title for the first time since acquiring it a couple months back from Bradford old hand Junior Witter. Tividale man Welborn, 11-1 (5), seems overmatched in this one (U.K. sports books have him posted as […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/16/2013
(Daniel Geale shadowboxing; photo credit: Laura McClintock) SYDNEY, Australia — If Anthony Mundine is counting on Daniel Geale taking him lightly in their middleweight rematch, he’s got another thing coming. Fifteen days out from their Jan. 20 fight, Geale looks to be in frightening form. TQBR went to scope a “light” workout at Geale’s Grange […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/15/2013
What a great time of year. The birds are singing in the trees. Things are getting back on track after holiday excesses. People are riding the subway without pants. Boxing is back on premium cable. It's back in a big way too, with a sexy triple-header on HBO. There's also various other happenings including hard […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Vanilla Ice. Iceman John Scully. Eating ice cream together. The universe almost exploded a couple days ago at this meeting of Ices, and you didn't even know. Mr. Scully is not coincidentally one of the topics of a hybrid Quick Jabs/Round And Round column. We'll discuss first some trash talk, some frivolous lawsuits and some […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/12/2013
(Tom Casino, Showtime) ShoBox made its 2013 debut Friday, and while the year's inaugural installment shared some common traits with last year — Al Haymon-advised fighters appeared in both bouts — it bucked others, in that it did live up to the mission of the Showtime program, which is to test young fighters to see […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
John Molina, Jr. rang in 2013 with a bang. Molina disposed of fellow lightweight Dannie Williams in the 4th round with a right hand upstairs that was set up behind his long jab in the main event of ESPN2 Friday Night Fights. Williams was so disoriented by the barrage that he came to his feet […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/9/2013
Like a bowl of ramen, the boxing schedule is slowly heating up. Soon you will need a chopstick fan to cool it down. Yes, your correspondent is still in Japan and is still stretching his metaphors. There are three televised cards on this week, with the highlight being ShoBox’s year-opener headlined by featherweights Ronny Rios […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 1/5/2013
(Carl Frampton, via) When I first began contributing to TQBR, one of my first submissions was a list of 25 prospects that I had my eye on. Throughout 2012, I tracked their progress, even turning in a mid-year report on how they had done up until that point. This piece marks a final report card […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
If the inaugural episode of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights is any indicator of things to come, boxing fans may be in for essentially the exact same things they’ve grown used to in the last however long. While the card itself was, overall, a satisfying one from an action standpoint, the decision rendered by the judges […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/4/2013
I'm sure you know the type, coming to the party to pluck the feathers off all the birds. We're in the after-party phase of 2012, and mostly this post is filled with party-worthy news below about fights in the works, or at least fights being discussed. Some of those fights even involve the fighters we just mentioned […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
2013 is upon us, but we still have one more thing to say about 2012, similar to this wrap-up from last year. In the meantime, let's gather up the confetti of boxing news that has greeted us in the New Year. First, we'll do a few Quick Jabs on broader news items, featuring doctors diagnosing boxers' ailments off […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Tomasz Adamek celebrates his win over a dejected Steve Cunningham) There was a moment toward the end of 2012, at the close of a boxing broadcast that aired on NBC — the first time that network had aired a live boxing event since 2005 — that almost perfectly encapsulated the year that the sport had. […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 1/3/2013
TQBR staffers pick out January’s best bits… TIM STARKS This is the month where we find out what kind of fighter Mikey Garcia (right) is, against the man ranked tops in the featherweight division by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, Orlando Salido (left). On that same HBO card junior lightweights Roman Martinez and Juan Carlos […]
