0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/30/2012
It’s darn near time to clear our plates and gear up for the blitzkrieg of coverage that accompanies big fights, what with Floyd Mayweather, Jr./Miguel Cotto right around the corner. When it comes to other boxing stuff than Mayweather/Cotto, it’s mostly speak now or hold your peace until after ’round here. Check out the above […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor
(Chad Dawson, left; Bernard Hopkins, right) Every weekend throngs of fortune seekers flock to Atlantic City, wondering if lady luck will be their companion. She’s seductive. She’s alluring. If you can corral her for even a fleeting moment, you will have won. The buzz might stay with you for days. Gambling, carousing… it’s a city […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/29/2012
Something happened to Bernard Hopkins Saturday on HBO that hasn’t happened in nearly 20 years: He lost a fight, and it wasn’t all that debatable. Hopkins could debate the majority decision, sure, and apparently left the ring in a huff telling the HBO team that he deserved the victory. One judge, Luis Rivera, had some […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The buzz circling around the Boardwalk before heavyweight bomber Seth Mitchell (24-0-1) stepped in to face Chazz Witherspon (30-2) was that it might be a quick fight. Powerful and American, Mitchell came into the bout as a hot prospect in the division, with night-ending power in his fists. True to form […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The undercard before the HBO-televised doubleheader. The opening bout of the night saw undefeated (22-0) Canadian junior middleweight Phil Lo Greco overcome a knockdown in round 1 and defeat unheralded Hector Orozco (5-10) out of Minneapolis. A competitive fight, Orozco landed flush shots though out, but fell behind in punch output […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 4/28/2012
Five fighters walked onto this week’s Friday Night Fights broadcast undefeated — a lineup more like the ideal ShoBox card than any of the cards we’ve gotten from ESPN2 of late. Actually, it seemed more like an ideal ShoBox card than we’ve gotten from a ShoBox program itself so far this season. Even better, it […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
We got a little apocalyptic about the state of ShoBox last weekend, but this weekend’s outing was a return to form — just about everything you could want from Showtime’s program for putting prospects into the toughest fights of their careers. Thomas Oosthuizen, Luis Del Valle and Jose Pedraza all had to work hard to […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 4/27/2012
“John L. Sullivan, the Boston pugilist, had a benefit at Harry Hill’s Theater yesterday afternoon, the feature of which was an offer of $50 for any man to box with him four rounds according to the rules of the Marquis of Queensbury, which are rounds of three minutes each, with one minute between each round. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/26/2012
Something strange happened on the way to this weekend’s HBO rematch between light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson, a battle of undeniable substance but wholly refutable style: People began to care. The first bout, which ended in a 2nd round no contest, lived down to every expectation of what a dismal failure it […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Lately some quality boxing writers — Michael Woods, Bart Barry, Joseph Santoliquito — have examined seriously in various ways the question of how Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is perceived, and whether he deserves a bad image, partly because Floyd has been complaining lately about how he doesn’t. These are my two cents: Yes he does, basically. […]
0 comments by Scott Kraus on 4/25/2012
MEXICO CITY – In a move that surprised nobody in the boxing community, the World Boxing Council stripped their light heavyweight titlist, Tyrus “The Truth” Truffant, of his belt on Monday evening. The WBC also announced shortly thereafter that interim 175 pound titleholder Julio Cesar Ramos will face Julio Cesar Ramon in Mexico City to […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/24/2012
Line ’em up, knock ’em down. They had the right idea back in the day. The big fight this week features Bernard Hopkins, who’s about as old as the footage in that GIF, re-doing his abortive and “controversial” bout with Chad Dawson. Fox Deportes has the best potential action fights of the week with a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
That’s Bob Arum next to Oscar De La Hoya. Here’s a fun game: See if you can count how many fights discussed below won’t happen because these two can’t get along. At the end, stab yourself in the stomach with a gardening trowel that exact number of times. If you live, you are cured of […]
0 comments by Steve Zemach on 4/23/2012
“Where I come from, you can’t be laying on the floor saying you still want to fight.” Those are the words of John Scully, Chad Dawson’s trainer. Scully, for the second straight fight, will be training Dawson as he sets his sights on capturing the legitimate light heavyweight title this weekend on HBO. Bernard Hopkins […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
Referring to Cuba’s boxing history as “rich” would be a weak cliché that doesn’t quite do the concept justice. Cuba’s boxing history is wealthy. Even in outlawing professional boxing in 1961, men like Teofilo Stevenson and Felix Savon became absolute legends without ever stepping foot in a ring for money. And thanks to Stevenson and […]
