0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/4/2012
In the Wild West that is the boxing community, and boxing alone, calling someone a “faggot” hardly inspires even the blink of an eye; in fact, some praise such behavior as the sport commendably persisting as a final bastion for politically incorrect high jinks. By contrast, when a baseball player writes, in eye black, the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/3/2012
Vic Darchinyan warned us he would win. He warned his opponent from last weekend, Orlando Del Valle, too. Lots of fighters dish that kind of smack before a fight. Only Darchinyan would trash tralk his own promoter, Gary Shaw, the one he shares with Del Valle. “Shaw should not have invested his money in Del […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 10/2/2012
What are you doing for the best part of the next two weeks? Probably not watching boxing, because there ain’t much on until the Friday after next. Instead, you could build a giant, three dimensional stack of dominoes. Or take some time to hang out with your family and loved ones. I dunno, whatever you’re […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/30/2012
Edwin Rodriguez, Vic Darchinyan and Antonin Decarie were the winners in tonight’s prospect-themed HBO Boxing After Dark triple-header from Connecticut. Though not typical HBO fare, the three fights proved interesting, if not evenly matched. (Vic Darchinyan, left, laying into Luis Del Valle; photo credit: Ed Mullholand, HBO) In the main event, Edwin Rodriguez (22-0) beat […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/28/2012
Here I was, all prepared to make fun of fussy U.K. heavyweight David Haye for saying he wouldn’t fight Vitali Klitschko in the Ukraine because he’d heard the country was racist. “But David,” I was going to say, “Men of all color can agree that Ukrainian women are pretty hot, right? Even the ones with […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Has it really been over a year since TQBR took a look at boxing’s worst tattoos? Yes, dear reader, it has. A year doesn’t seem like that long a time, but there are more terrible tattoos out there every day. In this modern age of “Lil Wayne” and “Music Television,” trying to find a boxer without […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/27/2012
The Scene: Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. — November 22, 1986. Brooklyn-born Mike Tyson, boxing’s newest sensation, entered an HBO-devised heavyweight unification tournament against Jamaican-born WBC titlist Trevor Berbick. Tyson was a prodigious force but untested; Berbick had been in with men like Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes and Pinklon Thomas. As we join the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao have put an end to their defamation case. No, they probably still won’t be fighting in the ring, despite recent public concessions from the Pacquiao side, but at least they’re no longer fighting in the courts. Progress is progress. The Mayweather camp statement, released late Tuesday, is a riot. […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 9/25/2012
A relatively quiet schedule this week, with a strange HBO show and not much else. The strangeness at HBO is a prospect-oriented tripleheader, reportedly the leftovers from an aborted attempt to establish a ShoBox competitor. Apart from that, things are thin, with only heavyweight Alexander Povetkin’s deplorable fight with the shell of Hasim Rahman really […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/23/2012
Ricky Burns is on a tear. The Scot is reeling off big win after big win, like the one he scored against lightweight Kevin Mitchell Saturday, and it doesn’t seem like it’s been only around two years since he upset Roman Martinez in a fight where he was thought of as little more than an […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
WOODLAND, Calif. — In a crossroads bout between two middleweights with common threads, Paul Mendez of Delano, Calif. was awarded a controversial 7th round TKO victory over DonYil Livingston after Mendez went well below the belt early in the round Saturday night at the Woodland Community & Senior Center in the eight-round main event of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/22/2012
Saturday night in Woodland, Calif., dual eight-round main events take place atop a card that will be televised by TeleFutura’s Solo Boxeo. In the main event, two fighters with blemishes on their records go against one another to try and re-establish themselves as prospects to watch with 2012 coming to an end. Paul Mendez (9-2-1, […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
This week’s ShoBox action from Chumash Casino wound up being about as thrilling as its brief footnote in our man Alex McClintock’s boxing schedule suggested — that is to say, not all that thrilling, as two unbeaten fighters staved off blemishes on their records by relatively wide scores, and without much competitive action. In the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/21/2012
I used to watch “Press Your Luck” when I was younger, but I only recently learned of the Michael Larson “scandal.” Fascinating stuff. It relates to boxing matches in the works because beep-boop-beep-bop-beep is how it goes until it stops, and hopefully you don’t get a Whammy. After an early 2012 filled with Whammys, there […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/20/2012
(Kevin Mitchell, left; Ricky Burns, right) Britain’s best match-up of the year takes place Saturday, as cockney wrong ‘un Kevin Mitchell invades Glasgow to face Scotland’s smiling assassin, Ricky Burns. The Dear Green Place isn’t an ideal pit-stop for a fighter with a propensity for swimming at the bottom of a bottle. Nevertheless, Mitchell, who pissed […]
