0 comments by Mark Ortega on 9/4/2012
On Sept. 15, dueling cards between promotional giants Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions take place just a few miles away from each other in Las Vegas. Of the plethora of intriguing undercard bouts, perhaps the most interesting is one that isn’t even slated to make TV, a junior middleweight bout between unbeaten John Jackson […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/3/2012
Little Mario Rodriguez is having himself a very fine 2012. First he took out Gilberto Keb Baas, who recently had lost to Adrian Hernandez but still was a bigger name than anyone Rodriguez had faced. Then, this weekend, little Mario scored a super upset stoppage win over Nkosinathi Joyi, considered the best man at 105 […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/2/2012
Gennady Golovkin probably banished any remaining skeptics Saturday on HBO with a one-sided beating of a man who wasn’t so long ago viewed as one of the middleweight division’s future beasts, Grzegorz Proksa. Proksa fought about as well as he could’ve but couldn’t contend with Golovkin’s power, sturdiness and timing. Golovkin simply out-beasted him. The […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
From Turning Stone Resort & Casino in fair Verona, N.Y., junior middleweight Serhiy “The Razor” Dzinziruk and Jonathan “Mantequilla” Gonzalez trudged their way through 12 rounds to a split draw in a bout that saw neither fighter raise their stock much. It’s not clear what exactly fans expected from the bout, as neither man is […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/1/2012
Who cares if that picture is real? I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t contemplate the scenario. Someone had to go to the trouble of opening a Word file, typing the blurb, blowing up the font and finally sticking it with some tape to the window and taking a picture, rather […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
SAN DIEGO — 21-year old junior welterweight Jonathan Garcia of Watsonville, Calif. barely held onto his perfect record as he survived two knockdowns to stop tough Tijuana, Mexico native Pedro Arcos in a wild 1st round of their scheduled six-round bout Thursday night at the Four Points by Sheraton. The main event capped an exciting […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/31/2012
A Pole, a Kazakhstani, a Puerto Rican and a Ukranian walk into a casino in upstate New York, and… There’s no punchline to that, actually. And whatever the odd confluence of circumstances bringing the four men together at Verona’s Turning Stone Resort & Casino, there’s nothing funny about the main event on HBO Saturday when […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/30/2012
Brooklyn is the epicenter of skateboards, radical bicycle modification, off-beat motorcycle clubs, every cuisine on Earth and all variations thereof. It’s the locus for international dance and performance art, has six times as many yoga studios as Subway franchises, and more tattoo parlors than plumbers. And now it has big-time professional boxing. Can boxing make […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
It is the central paradox of the Klitschko brothers in the United States that so many fans declare so frequently their disdain for the style in which the brothers fight, yet every time a Klitschko appears on HBO of late he does respectable to excellent ratings. Or maybe it’s not a pardox at all. Maybe […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 8/29/2012
(Oscar Godoy, left, and San Francisco’s Richard Hargraves, right, weighed in Wednesday for their fight in San Diego on Thursday at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel; photo courtesy Mario Ortega Jr., 15rounds.com) San Francisco’s Hargraves Ready For Godoy in Stiff Four-Rounder in San Diego San Francisco welterweight Richard Hargraves (3-0-1, 2 KOs) steps up his […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
http://youtube.com/watch?v=G_s2YGJR57k?rel=0 Here at TQBR we don’t like to promote any violence of the non-sanctioned-outside-the-ring variety. But the above video is pretty funny. The hobo would have been a lot better off if he obeyed the old maxim “never bring a pair of crutches to a roadblock fight.” For the first time in what seems like […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/28/2012
One of the more common debates I have with fellow boxing fans and writers is how much boxing should be viewed on the continuum of sports, entertainment and business. My own view is that it’s not an either/or thing. Sports are entertainment, and entertainment is a business, and what entertains some people about a sport […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 8/26/2012
Photo courtesy of Erik Killin ringside FAIRFIELD, Calif. — A day after a club show took place down the road in Sacramento, Golden Boy Promotions in association with Don Chargin Promotions and Paco Presents returned to the Fairfield Sports Complex Saturday as homegrown Alan Sanchez looked to continue forward progress as he took on veteran […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 8/25/2012
(Photos courtesy of Erik Killin, ringside) SACRAMENTO — Friday night in Sacramento at the DoubleTree by Hilton, Sacramento favorite and former winner of the boxing reality show “The Next Great Champ” Otis Griffin (24-10-2, 10 KOs) found the win column again as he stopped the tough but inexperienced Adam Collins (11-8, 8 KOs) of Ironton, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Randy Caballero, Manuel Roman; photo credit: Omar Ornelas, The Desert Sun) Showtime’s prospect-oriented series ShoBox made a good faith attempt Friday to pair young men on the way up this weekend from Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino in Indio, Calif., a veritable hotbed of very solid fighters that seem to sprout up from nowhere in […]
