0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/7/2012
At their respective peaks, the appeal that Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. shared wasn’t merely that they were the best in the world. It was that they were so brilliant at what they did, they went beyond “doing something as well as a human being can do it” to “almost superhuman.” When Pacquiao treated […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/6/2012
The knock on Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s career is that he is rarely enjoyable to watch, in the sense that every showing is an exhibition of boxing excellence, a kind of conveyer belt display of efficiency. Miguel Cotto dragged him out of that factory-like comfort zone Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view, but it didn’t keep Mayweather […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Keep coming back here for running updates on the pay-per-view undercard for Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto. It’s a mostly crappy affair, but I somewhat like the Deandre Latimore-Carlos Quintana junior middleweight scrap, and some have high hopes for another junior middleweight bout between Saul Alvarez and Shane Mosley. In a nice opening bout, Carlos […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/5/2012
After the Ring announced changes to their championship policy, the response from the boxing community was swift and unilateral – people hated it. Tim detailed his contentions with the new policy here and announced that TQBR will no longer recognize the Ring championship and ratings anymore. Dan Rafael also announced that he would be abandoning […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/4/2012
Having true champions in boxing has never been the cure for what ails the sport; there are so many tumors on pro boxing, no one cure can solve everything. But every couple weeks, I have a conversation that goes like this: Me: “Yeah, I write about boxing.” Them: “Oh. I don’t follow that sport.” Me: […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
This weekend, as with two or three weekends of the calendar year, boxing will be king. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is back in the ring, on the cover of ESPN the Magazine, and in against a fighter familiar with the big stage in Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto, who will be defending his alphabet title at junior […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Don’t follow boxing very often, but you want to know the gist of Saturday’s mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto? Follow boxing all the time, and want one place that rounds up all the links about the junior middleweight showdown you could ever want? This Ultimate Guide to the May 5 pay-per-view bout is […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/3/2012
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto; the undercard, previewed; keys to the fight, parts I and II; a Rabbit Punch column; the final preview and prediction. Next: the ulitmate guide. There […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto; the undercard, previewed; keys to the fight, parts I and II; a Rabbit Punch column. Next: a staff roundtable. There are worthwhile reasons to watch […]
0 comments by Scott Kraus
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto; the undercard, previewed; keys to the fight, part I and II. Next: a final preview and prediction. LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Although Floyd Mayweather, Jr. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/2/2012
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto; the undercard, previewed; keys to the fight, part I. Next: the Rabbit Punch column takes on Mayweather. Mind. Matter. How do Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(We break from our regularly scheduled coverage of Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto due to Mayweather saying some “animated… wild, over the top, bad language, wild” things.) The good news is, Floyd Mayweather’s villainous “Money May” persona is back. That’s also the bad news. Mayweather has been boring during his time of playing nice leading […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/1/2012
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto; the undercard, previewed. Next: keys to the fight, part II. Mind. Matter. How do Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Miguel Cotto stack up in those categories? […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto. Next: keys to the fight. I’m glad Floyd is wearing that helmet, because I’m about to criticise his undercard. It’s the week of a big […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
So begins our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Now: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto. Next: The undercard, previewed. Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto prowls, like the green-screened lions of its omnipresent commercials, somewhere in the nether zone between respectable […]
