0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/1/2012
Super heavyweight (91kg+/200.6lb+),Olympic boxing’s glamour division, debuts at London 2012 Wednesday. Though the division was only split from heavyweight (91kg/200.6lb) in 1984, it would have been the home of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Teofilo Stevenson. In London it will be the division to watch, with a three way rivalry between three very […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 7/31/2012
Just like Will Arnett, we’re busy (and manly) here at TQBR. The Olympic boxing has us furiously tapping at keyboards and burning the midnight oil. The same thing cannot be said of the pro schedule which is rather, um, sparse this week. There are three televised shows which, you might have been able to guess […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 7/30/2012
(Photo via Showtime) When boxing promotional juggernaut Golden Boy Promotions announced their most recent run of major fights, most experts thought if one of the house fighters was going to lose, Gilroy, Calif.’s Robert Guerrero felt the part. Instead, Golden Boy lost Victor Ortiz to a broken jaw—as well the projected Saul Alvarez pay-per-view showdown […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/29/2012
If I feared watching a ton of Olympic boxing as part of this Guardian deal could be a maddening chore because of the pitty-pat punching and scoring outrages — OK, I did — then day one of the London 2012 Games gave me courage. Day one on Saturday featured excellent action, very few questionable decisions […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
(Robert Guerrero, left, lands a punch on the inside; photo via: Showtime) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Though the Olympics officially kicked off in London Friday with the opening ceremony, Gilory, Calif.’s Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero earned gold for the United States Saturday on Showtime as he outpointed Turkey’s Selcuk Aydin by unanimous decision in their […]
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(Shawn Porter, left, connects on Alfonso Gomez; photo via Showtime) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Shawn Porter of Cleveland, Ohio had to work through some difficulties, including cuts near both eyes, in order to notch a unanimous decision Saturday on Showtime over former reality boxing star Alfonso Gomez of Guadalajara, Mexico in their 10 round welterweight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/28/2012
With the draw completed on Friday, the stage is set for Olympic boxing to begin in London. In our first preview and guide we’ll take a look at the first round of the men’s competition, beginning on Saturday afternoon, London time. It all starts out with a bantamweight match-up between Team USA’s Joseph Diaz, Jr. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
There is no such thing as a bad Hank Lundy fight, and Raymundo Beltran was the perfect dance partner, stylistically. But Beltran was a bit too good substantially, too, and the long-time Manny Pacquiao sparring partner upset Lundy on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights by majority decision. Lundy, a top 10 lightweight coming in, had a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/27/2012
It’s hard to see any bad in Robert Guerrero moving up two divisions to welterweight to take on hard-punching Selcuk Aydin Saturday on Showtime — it’s a daring bit of matchmaking for Guerrero and his promoter, Golden Boy, to get him into the Floyd Mayweather sweepstakes, and stacks up as a pretty decent action fight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
With the London Olympics opening ceremony kicking off Friday, Alex McClintock has written a couple advance items on the boxing picture already for TQBR, but we’re just getting started: We’ll have coverage of Olympic boxing all throughout the Games, from features on the ladies to some historical look backs and more and more and more, […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
(Robert Guerrero threw out the first pitch of an Oakland A’s game Sunday; photo credit: Stephanie Trapp, TrappFotos) It has been more than a year and a half since a major fight took place in northern California. The region is home to arguably three of the sport’s best fighters in the world, with Oakland’s Andre […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/26/2012
There’s going to be a lot of boxing to watch at the Olympics. With 32 fighters in each of the 10 male weight brackets and 16 in the female divisions, there’ll be literally hundreds of fights. So unless you plan on neither sleeping nor bathing for the next two weeks, you’ll have to focus your […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 7/25/2012
Look at these adorable little mofos fighting. If that had been on HBO on Saturday night instead of Adrien Broner and Keith Thurman I bet there’d be a lot less hullabaloo today. This week seems to have less potential for controversy, though there’s a prospective war and a possible upset in the two biggest shows. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
See, Adrien Broner? Your fake marriage proposal would’ve been plenty attention-getting; you didn’t have to miss weight, too. For as much as Broner’s weigh-in shenanigans consumed the boxing world, the one thing about Broner’s fight from the past weekend that got exposure outside the boxing world was the video above. In this edition of Weekend […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 7/23/2012
A snapshot into how social media has changed the fight game, and the ongoing saga of the big payday versus more likely longevity. What was previously disregarded as just another mismatch engineered by adviser Al Haymon atop an HBO televised doubleheader morphed into case studies of a number of contentious topics in the sport by […]
