0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/5/2012
(Photo via) Scott Quigg found himself resting on his face in the 4th round of his British junior featherweight title defence against Cwmbran challenger Jamie Arthur, yet the Bury starlet managed to react like the fighter of real quality he shows continuing signs of becoming in clambering up to stop his assailant in round 8. […]
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Nonito Donaire (28-1, 18 KOs) and Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KOs) both won one-sided fights in San Antonio Saturday night on HBO. The undercard really ought to have been the main event, though, given Nonito Donaire’s pound-for-pound status, and his incredible record over the past ten years. And he kept the record clean […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/4/2012
Boxing lost one of its greats this week, as everyone knows by now. Angelo Dundee, who died at age 90, was one of the best few trainers ever to grace the game, and he did it all on as big a stage as you can manage, namely training Muhammad Ali. Others have already written or […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
Team Eloy Perez Moves Camp To SoCal In Prep For Adrien Broner With just three weeks to go before they make their arrival on the big stage, Team Eloy Perez has relocated their training camp to Oxnard from Oakland, Calif., according to assistant trainer Sam Garcia. The move is in preparation for his HBO debut […]
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Garston’s Tony Dodson was unable to deal with the naked aggression and sheer brute strength of Ovill McKenzie at Bowlers Exhibition Centre in Manchester Friday night. Like the bare-handed bull tamers of Tamil Nadu, he could only collar the Commonwealth champion for a few fleeting moments before being tossed to the canvas and then trampled […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/3/2012
Middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.’s career arc resembles that of a kiddie pop star exiting his teenage years: Once ridiculed by boxing’s grown-ups for his avid following’s disproportionate ratio to his actual talent, Chavez is now growing up and flirting with respectability. It took more than one album for Justin Timberlake to come around to […]
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As Belfast’s Carl Frampton shimmers in the aftermath of another well executed hatchet job this past weekend, his domestic rival and newly appointed British king at junior featherweight, Scott Quigg, looks to tilt the spotlight back his way on Saturday against recently retired Welshman, Jamie Arthur. Quigg punched laser beams through Jason Booth in October […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/1/2012
(image via) There have been times when Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto would have set my heart ablaze. May 5, 2012 is not one of those times; Cotto is now past his prime, and Cotto isn’t Manny Pacquiao, THE opponent that Mayweather he should have been fighting for the past two-plus years but hasn’t. […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
The early aughts saw champions-in-the-making Victor Ortiz, Steven Luevano, and Brandon Rios all begin their ascent up the pro ranks, yet it was fellow southern Californian Jose Miguel Aguiniga who many experts predicted would first reach the peak. In boxing, a fighter is not always the sum of his physical parts. Such was the case […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Veteran horse trainer Peter Casey is pretty pumped after winning his first grade one race. You should be too! Not because you won a grade one race, but because this week is the start of an eight week stretch of great fights. Friend of the site David Greisman catalogued what’s going on much more eloquently […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/30/2012
Some folk are kinda excited about the early 2012 boxing schedule, but it’s not doing much for me yet. I’m down with Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto doing a welterweight rematch [UPDATE: Berto was reportedly badly injured in camp and the fight is now likely off, so that sucks], and James Kirkland vs. Carlos Molina […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/29/2012
Floyd Mayweather, Jr., tech company investor. He’s perfectly suited for the role. We already know how he likes to overhype how much money he’s worth. (via, h/t Bloguin’s Ben Koo) In this edition of Quick Jabs, besides that and the stuff in the headline, we examine whether Victor Ortiz is banging Vanessa Bryant; the Nonito […]
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Trainer Hunter Begins Building Stable In The Bay Northern California Trainer of the Year Virgil Hunter had a banner year in 2011, leading Oakland, Calif.-based super middleweight champion Andre Ward to victory in the inaugural Super Six World Boxing Classic. Ward compiled wins against Arthur Abraham in the semifinals and followed it up with a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/26/2012
(Photo via) As an evangelical boxing writer and fan, I’m often looking for gateway points wherein people might perk up their interest in their sport, and there’s at least a chance — based on the mainstream news coverage it’s been getting — that the boxing card being put on by Snooki (of “Jersey Shore” fame) […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/25/2012
Like poor old Jilted John, boxing fans don’t have much to do this week. Come to think of it, being a committed follower of the sweet science is a bit like having a girlfriend. Both tend to take up your Friday and Saturday nights. When they’re there, you think about how much free time you’d […]
