0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/22/2012
Boxing writer royalty Thomas Hauser has concluded his latest opus this week, and it's the usual maddening mix: teases of brilliance, a bunch of things you'd need a decoder ring to translate. The headline-grabbing stuff — look, up above, it grabbed this headline! — is the "rumor" that Floyd Mayweather failed a drug test three […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/20/2012
Red pandas are pretty cute. But they don’t handle fear very well, apparently. Kind of like the opposite of boxers. This week should give a few fighters a chance to show off their cojones – from Ricky Hatton trying his luck in a comeback to Roberto Guerrero continuing his campaign four divisions north of where […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Every weekend lately, it's Fight of the Year candidates and Round of the Year candidates and Knockout of the Year candidates. That particular KO of the Year candidate was a bit on the sickening side, because it was touch and go at the time whether Juan Garcia would get back up from that big blow […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/19/2012
Saturday night, on a small club show in Natomas, Calif., former WBA welterweight beltholder James Page returned to the ring for the first time in more than a decade at 41 years of age in the six-round main event at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel against journeyman Rahman Yusubov of Azerbaijan. In the first […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/18/2012
ATLANTIC CITY — Adrien Broner clearly is sitting pretty after a big win over Antonio DeMarco Saturday night. But this pretty? "If the press isn't ready, I will crown him the next Floyd Mayweather," DeMarco's promoter Gary Shaw said at the post-fight press conference. Later, Broner's promoter Oscar De La Hoya upped the ante. "He's […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
(Brian Viloria drops “Tyson” Marquez; via) It’s true. The Brian Viloria vs. Hernan Marquez card on WealthTV didn’t get the same type of pre-fight hype and attention as other cards that happened this weekend. And perhaps it made sense, as the other guys were heavier, have more popular names and sell more tickets. But some of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Adrien Broner dodges Antonio DeMarco; photo via HBO's Facebook page) ATLANTIC CITY — Adrien Broner has arrived. Saturday night, he finally took on top competition on HBO — in a new division, lightweight, no less — and he was as close to perfect as a boxer can get in taking apart the ridiculously tough Antonio […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Carl Froch, right; Yusaf Mack, left) Carl Froch gave Philadelphia’s Yusaf Mack a taste of the Lucian Bute treatment Saturday at the Capital FM Arena. “The Cobra” dropped Mack in the opening round, stunned him umpteen times throughout the course of the contest, and then crumpled him to the mat in round 3 with a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/17/2012
ATLANTIC CITY — Greetings from the Hurricane Sandy-ravaged Boardwalk, specifically Boardwalk Hall. We'll have one of the better main events of the year, the lightweight bout between Adrien Broner and Antonio DeMarco, in a separate post later. But keep coming back here for updates about the undercard, which is anchored by exciting American heavyweight Seth […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
There is an old boxing adage that a fighter’s power is usually the last thing to go. Before that, they lose their reflexes, stamina and often their punch resistance. Saturday night, on a club show in Natomas, Calif. at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, 41-year old former welterweight titleholder James Page of nearby Pittsburg […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
DARLINGTON, COUNTY DURHAM – Stuart Hall outworked Brampton’s Josh Wale over 12 rounds Friday, in a tough old slog of a bantamweight contest at the Dolphin Centre. Hall, 32, led from start to finish before an adoring home crowd, clinching the vacant Commonwealth title in the process and with it some traction, after having slipped […]
0 comments by Steve Zemach
(Photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Don King Promotions assembled only the second outdoor boxing ground at Hallandale Beach’s Gulf Stream Park for Friday’s edition of ShoBox “The New Generation.” And, in a symbol of the bad luck that befell the card, it rained on the gathered crowd. The original scheduled main […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 11/16/2012
Exactly how greatness is quantified in boxing today is at times difficult to define. Absent a system where the best are forced to fight the best, and often, we often find ourselves gawking at athleticism in place of actual boxing skills, and mistaking strategic matchmaking for more significant accomplishments. On paper, lists of quintuple and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Now you do. (h/t friend of the site Kevin) Here are some other things you'll know about at the end of this edition of Round And Round: the comings and goings of not only the people in the headline, but also Devon Alexander, Juan Manuel Lopez, Mikkel Kessler and a bunch of other boxers whose […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
One day, maybe, Gary Russell, Jr. will stop talking about facing top featherweights like Daniel Ponce De Leon, Yuriorkis Gamboa and Chris John, and actually fight them. Until then, we have to live with teases like the latest sensational Russell knockout of a lesser opponent, like that one from the past weekend. As we head […]
