0 comments by Alex McClintock on 9/19/2012
It’s the third week we’ve run with some kind of Gangnam Style-related clip to start the schedule. This week the excitement isn’t quite as appropriate, with a British show the only top shelf offering. Perhaps a slightly more self-conscious vid is just the ticket, then. Apart from the aforementioned Ricky Burns vs. Kevin Mitchell lightweight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/18/2012
It’s a simple formula. Two fighters face off over a table. They sit backwards on aluminum chairs and perform a strange good cop/bad cop parody routine. Both try to be the bad cop. It’s HBO’s Max Kellerman, also astraddle his seat, who’s the good cop. Or at least the goofy cop. When the recipe works, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/17/2012
Boxing did not, after all, eat itself this past weekend. Thrilling fights and thrilling moments came like slot machine pings one after the other Saturday, sounding in places both expected and unexpected, keeping boxing fans feeling like they were living in a near-constant state of jackpot. Two shows on two rival channels by two rival […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/16/2012
(Photo credit: Chris Farina,Top Rank) LAS VEGAS — For 30 minutes, it looked like a fight that needed no return bout. Three minutes later, the word most thrown around in the post-fight press conference was “rematch.” That was the kind of predictable then surprising fight that Sergio Martinez’s victory over Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. turned […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
(Photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) LAS VEGAS — Despite the ribbing and teasing about the veracity of an announced sell out , most seats were occupied and spectators witnessed a nice night of fights courtesy of Showtime and Golden Boy Promotions at the MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight. But the man who drove the attendance up […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/15/2012
Note: More comprehensive bout descriptions will come later on as there were some technical difficulties. The focus with the live results was to get them up as soon as the fights were over. LAS VEGAS– In an exciting and back and forth classic between Mexico’s Miguel Beltran, Jr. (27-2, 17 KOs) and Puerto Rico’s Rocky Martinez (26-1-1, […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
LAS VEGAS — The flow of the crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena is more a drip than a trickle at this point, with the majority of the arena about as empty as your average Las Vegas beer bottle. In the very first bout of the evening, junior middleweight Eddie Gomez moved to 10-0 […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
No sooner had Ricky Hatton officially announced the worst kept secret in British boxing on Friday (he’s baaaaaacckkk), punters (who had obviously left cookies in the Manchester MEN Arena ticketing system) began receiving e-mails inviting them to be there for the reboot on Nov. 24 (never mind the fact that Hatton hasn’t as yet sourced an […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Being tricky there in the headline. “Wha wha wha wha?” you might be asking yourself, “Did I miss the big fights, thinking they were on Saturday when really they were on Friday?” You did not. It’s just that there’s already talk about what might happen next for some of this evening’s contestants. In this relatively […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
(Saul Alvarez, left, at his weigh-in with Josesito Lopez, right; photo credit Tom Casino, Showtime) Saturday night in Las Vegas, on the weekend of Mexican Independence Day, two major fight cards take place 16 miles apart as Top Rank and Golden Boy go head-to-head on HBO pay-per-view and Showtime respectively. Top Rank has claimed that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/14/2012
Floyd Mayweather might be Manny Pacquiao’s rival for the honor of best boxer in the world and biggest boxing superstar in the world, but there’s no question who his biggest rival is in the ring: Juan Manuel Marquez, who has given him 36 rounds of hell dating back to 2004. And now they’ll meet for […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
It’s the politically silly season, so it’s truly, honestly possible to find a real-life painting like this one, with President Obama, Tupac Shakur and Muhammad Ali riding horses together in some imaginary landscape of the soul. As usual, political imagery and links do no imply endorsement. But when friend of the site Mike C. snapped […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
LAS VEGAS—Though he owns a contested decision over Josesito Lopez, Jessie Vargas was the one fighting on a smaller ESPN2 show Thursday night at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino while Lopez gets ready to fight box-office star Saul Alvarez at the MGM Grand in a major card on Showtime this coming Saturday. Though his […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Measured against the HBO pay-per-view main event the same night, the Showtime main event pitting Saul Canelo Alvarez against Josesito Lopez comes up short. Measured even against one of its undercard fights, Jhonny Gonzalez-Daniel Ponce De Leon, it is also stubbier. And measured as a replacement fight for the various would-be Canelo opponents, it is […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/13/2012
Seems like it has been ages, but it’s big fight time once again. Like we do for all the biggest bouts, the TQBR staff writers sat down to nut out our thoughts on the weekend’s boxing and pugilistic politics. The roundtable is virtual, since we’re in different corners of the globe, but the talk is […]
