0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/29/2012
“In two rounds other than the deciding one the crowd was lifted to its feet by knockdowns. In the sixteenth Ketchel landed a right and left swing to the body and the jaw that stretched Thomas flat on his back, near the center of the ring and it looked as though everything was over. But […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/28/2012
The Scene: Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. — September 16, 1981. Detroit’s unbeaten welterweight star Thomas Hearns and Maryland golden boy Sugar Ray Leonard had met head on to determine an undisputed world champion. After a tentative opening, Hearns had overcome the first crises of his career and pulled away into a lead on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/27/2012
Lucian Bute had a bit of an Ivan Drago quality to him heading into his fight this past weekend with Carl Froch in Nottingham, making Froch’s choice to use “No Easy Way Out” from the all-time classic film Rocky IV as his walkout music an absolute brilliant choice. Bute, fighting for the first time on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/26/2012
In a battle between two of the top super middleweights in the world, Carl Froch thrilled his raucous hometown fans with a dominant fifth-round TKO victory over previously undefeated Lucian Bute in an exhilirating, career-best performance. The bout, broadcast live in the U.S. on Epix and streamed live on EpixHD.com from an energized Capital FM […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
When pickings are slim on the U.S. fight scene due to cancellations, dramas and whatever other nonsense, fight fans need something a bit more rock solid to cling to when on the brink of starvation. It’s nice having a program to depend on, and Friday Night Fights came through with a little bit of Ji-Hoon […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
It took nearly three years to complete it, but the groundbreaking boxing endeavor that was the Super Six World Boxing Classic was good business for premium U.S. television network Showtime—until they decided to cash in their chips at the conclusion. What Showtime did, which is invest conceivably millions of dollars as well as a high […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/24/2012
Saturday, Lucian Bute meets Carl Froch in an important super middleweight clash that hopes to clear room for more important fights down the line. The Queensberry Rules staff takes a look at the fight and makes their set of predictions. At 32 years old, Lucian Bute is hoping to enter the likely home stretch of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Carl Froch and Lucian Bute reside near opposite ends of a spectrum, where at one end is mythical, untapped and untested unobtainium and the other end is sheer stone, hardened by years of harsh nature and underestimated by those searching for rare diamonds. These two super middleweights, set to meet Saturday on Epix, possess the […]
0 comments by Scott Kraus on 5/23/2012
In a scathing diatribe posted in response to an article on The Queensberry Rules (TQBR) boxing blog, a commenter by the name of nuaronagg3 posted a lengthy rant accusing the blog of bigotry, lambasting the boxing media as a whole, belittling acclaimed fighters throughout history, decrying the “godlessness” of American culture, and effusively praising Manny […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 5/22/2012
Goossen-Tutor matchmaker Tom Brown confirmed to TQBR Tuesday that junior welterweight contender Mike Dallas Jr. (18-2-1, 7 KOs) will fight Javier Castro (27-4, 22 KOs) of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuaha, Mexico in the 12-round main event of the June 22 ESPN2 Friday Night Fights, which will take place at the Soboba Casino in San Manuel, Calif. […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Scott Schiedly makes portraits of infamous characters from history looking “fabulous.” It’s a comment on masculinity and power etc., but it got me thinking about what villainous boxers would look like in similar get-ups. Carl Froch, for example, with a fetching dangly earring. Or Bernard Hopkins as little pink riding hood. On to the schedule. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/20/2012
We’ll be talking about this knockout around the end of the year when reviewing 2012 finalists, I expect — light heavyweight Allan Green going to sleep Saturday off Mikkel Kessler’s crunching left hook. Back in 2005, Green was the man delivering the Knockout of the Year, against Jaidon Codrington. It’s a brutal fact of this […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Heavyweight David Price laid waste to another member of the fair-to-middling domestic guard at home in the Aintree Equestrian Centre on Saturday, flattening an overawed Sam Sexton umpteen times before finishing him with a splat in round 4. Merseyside’s first ever British heavyweight boss, Price marked himself out as a prospective world class player. In […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/19/2012
Like we sometimes offer around here, that’s the squirt of frosting down your throat before you take your medications: a funny video of a boxing trainer relentlessly ragging on his students. What’s with boxing trainers looking down on their subjects so hard? Mine did, too. (I did about four months worth of training this year […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
(Raymond Serrano, left; Karim Mayfield, right) Friday Night Fights continued its much appreciated upswing this week, and bouts once again lived up to expectations for the most part. Having hit a nice little stride with a few weeks in a row of solid bang ups, fight makers at ESPN seem to have either gotten in […]
