0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/26/2012
If boxing is, as HBO’s Larry Merchant has argued, “the theater of the unexpected,” then welterweight Victor Ortiz is a candidate for a Tony each and every night he climbs between the ropes. Will he show unbelievable determination, or quit when things get too tough? Will there be a knockout, or will he foul his […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/25/2012
Skeptical though I’ve always been of convicted drug peddler Victor Conte providing supplements to boxers, I’ve never dismissed the possibility that in his new role as an anti-performance enhancing drug evangelical, he had done a “Catch Me If You Can” style reversal — a brilliant cheat, now on the good guys’ team, catching cheats. On […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 6/24/2012
(Photo courtesy of Jan Sanders / Goossen-Tutor) Just a few miles down the way from a big time boxing show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, former junior featherweight beltholder Rico Ramos of Pico Rivera, Calif. got back into the win column with a hard-fought eight-round majority decision win over previously unbeaten Gardena, Calif. […]
0 comments by Steve Zemach
(Omar Henry at Friday’s weigh-in; photo via Don King Productions) HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Don King returned to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida for the second edition of “Viva Don King.” The main event featured Connecticut’s hard punching Tony Grano against veteran DeVarryl Williamson. The main event began with two lackluster rounds. There […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
(Josesito Lopez celebrates; credit, Tom Casino, Showtime) LOS ANGELES — Before a hot-and-cold Los Angeles crowd at the Staples Center, fighters in Showtime’s main event tonight brought their own heating element in the form of nasty leather and solid action, steaming up spectators who came inside the air-conditioned arena to beat the 80-degree heat. In […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 6/23/2012
LOS ANGELES — The first few bouts here at the Staples Center happened in front of a fairly sparse crowd that trickled in slowly, though not without the odd cheering section. In the opening bout of the card, Randy Caballero stayed unbeaten at 15-0 (8 KO) with a 5th round technical knockout of Jamal Parram, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
In a year where there are very, very few Fight of the Year candidates so far, fights that are even borderline candidates have a real chance of ending up as the default FOTY. There’s Kazuto Ioka-Akira Yaegashi (strawweight) from this week. Me, friend of the site Adam Abramowitz and some others were recently discussing the […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
At Friday’s weigh-in for the Victor Ortiz-Josesito Lopez card taking place at Staples Center later Saturday, TQBR had a chance to catch up with Ortiz trainer Danny Garcia afterwards. In an article posted at TQBR on June 19, Josesito Lopez and his trainer Henry Ramirez were quoted as saying that Garcia’s father Eduardo had giving […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
SAN JACINTO, Calif. — Friday night at the Soboba Casino, junior welterweight contender Mike Dallas, Jr. of Bakersfield, Calif. took another step up the rankings as he vanquished Javier Castro of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico in the 6th round in perhaps his most impressive performance to date. Dallas (19-2-1, 8 KOs) edged the opening round […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
The thunder’s stay in South Florida extends through the weekend: That’s what hard-hitting heavyweight Tony Grano hopes when he faces veteran DaVarryl Williamson at the Seminole Hard Rock on Saturday, two days after the Miami Heat eliminated the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals. Grano (19-2-1, 15 KOs) achieved personal highs in the beginning […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 6/22/2012
It has been nearly 15 years since a live boxing card took place at the Reseda Country Club in the San Fernando Valley. At its peak during the late 80s to early 90s, Dan Goossen’s promotional company used the country club as the proving grounds to a number of future world champions, namely Michael Nunn […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
This was to be the finest doubleheader of the year, Showtime’s Saturday card, but this being boxing in 2012, it fell apart the way things fall apart. Now, it’s one tightly wrapped tourniquet and one battle with Fight of the Year potential. The tourniquet: Victor Ortiz vs. Josesito Lopez at welterweight isn’t a fight that […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 6/21/2012
Often attached to great fights is some type of tie-in to a larger social occurrence, event or aspect thereof, and it tends augment the overall meaning of a bout past what it would normally mean within the masochistic realm of boxing. Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling II will forever be conjoined with the “U.S. vs. […]
0 comments by Scott Kraus
The United States Congress, which has in recent years has failed to invigorate a moribund economy, reverse a steadily declining educational system or even get a single conviction against former baseball player Roger Clemens on multiple charges despite two trials against him, has now turned its ineffectual attention to boxing. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 6/20/2012
At early morning American time, hardcore boxing fanatics set their alarms in anticipation of catching a stream of the rare minimumweight unification bout between Japanese compatriots Kazuto Ioka and Akira Yaegashi in Osaka, Japan on Wednesday evening. It would be 23-year old emerging phenom Kazuto Ioka (10-0, 6 KOs) who would unify the two alphabet […]
