0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/22/2012
NEW YORK CITY — Lou DiBella kicked butt in the launch of his ninth year of Broadway Boxing. Saturday night at The Roseland Ballroom in New York was one of the best nights of boxing I’ve seen in a long time. The Roseland is next door to the Broadway house where “Jersey Boys” is playing. […]
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David Price made light work of the heavy-set John McDermott on Saturday. In a bout which resembled the type of video nasty available on YouTube (local tough picks fight which trained fist-fighter) McDermott entered the Olympia in Liverpool with a roar and went out with a whimper, chastened by a series of right hands which […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/21/2012
(Photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) Early on in the Guillermo Rigondeaux-Rico Ramos non-fight on Showtime Saturday, the crowd got to booing. They clearly hadn’t done their homework if they expected big-time action. Or maybe they got their expectations up after an undercard that had plenty of the stuff. What they got instead was a main event […]
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LAS VEGAS — Keep coming back for updated undercard results, from ringside. In the opening bout of the evening, local Las Vegas kid Yosmani Abreu (2-2) won a unanimous decision over Los Angeles, Calif.’s Marcus Robinson (4-2) in a four-round welterweight bout. Robinson was on the retreat for most of the bout, following a surprisingly […]
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Derry Matthews wasn’t at the races at Liverpool’s Olympia on Friday. On his big night and in front of his home fans, Matthews was rendered a blood splattered mess after being dropped in round 5 and then stopped against the ropes in round 7. His assailant, Emiliano Marsili, was a far sturdier proposition than anyone […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/20/2012
A Disney PR outreach has made it so this blog (like others) is able to give away a free copy of the “Real Steel” Blu-ray/DVD combo pack — a film I reviewed mostly warmly here — to one of its readers. How can you snag your copy via TQBR? A poetry contest. Yes, a poetry […]
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Rico Ramos-Guillermo Rigondeaux Friday on Showtime potentially sizes up as an artful, technically adept posefest, punctuated by moments of sudden and extreme violence. It very well could be the “Drive” of boxing. Or maybe it will be one of those things — a posefest — or the other — violence in the extreme. But those […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/19/2012
(David Price, left; John McDermott, right) The Olympia in Liverpool has a busy schedule on its hands this weekend, playing host as it does to a succession of fight nights commencing Friday. Heavyweight colossus David Price and battle-torn lightweight “Dirty” Derry Matthews will be hoping to make it into the winner’s enclosure surrounded by friends, […]
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(Mustafa Ameen, at right, mystery manning) The more the so-called “mystery man” talks, the more confusing it gets, the question of “what it was he was doing at the Amir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson fight in December.” Ever since the day he popped up into boxing’s richly-populated scandalosphere — where scandals real and imagined flourish […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/18/2012
If there’s one advantage of living on the other side of the world, it’s that we have summer when you have winter. Here in Sydney Australia, not much happens in January. People escape town and the heat and go to the beach; there’s no traffic and no hassles. The boxing schedule has been reflecting that. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/16/2012
TrailerFor the first half of the first episode of “On Freddie Roach,” the new HBO series documenting the life of the famed trainer that debuts this Friday night, the tone is contemplative, almost meditative, even. As a boxing fan, I could watch trainers and fighters interacting all day. But maybe that’s not your scene. Stick […]
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This is the second and final part of a series that began (and is explained) here. These are some of the runner-ups, essentially. SECOND TIER Timothy Bradley, junior welterweight, 28 Upside: He’s got pound-for-pound top-10 level talent — he’s among the handful of elite American boxers — and off-the-charts grit. He’s got a great smile, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/14/2012
These guys over in Taiwan who do computer-animated takes on the news crack me up. I don’t agree with their take at all on this particular issue, but it would be better if real life was like this. Who wouldn’t want to see Manny Pacquiao punch Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in his freshly prison-raped ass? (h/t) […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/12/2012
(James Kirkland, with trainer Ann Wolfe) Every couple years, boxing types get worried about whether there are new young stars in the pipeline to take over once the current standard-bearers depart, particularly here in America. There always seem to be, somehow. Once annually, I try to guesstimate who those people will be. I did the […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/10/2012
It’s another quiet one on the old boxing front. Thank the boxing gods for ESPN2, because without that channel there’d be virtually nothing on. Well, not nothing. There’s a German show featuring Arthur Abraham’s return to middleweight. So pretty much nothing. To the fights! Teon Kennedy vs. Chris Martin, Friday, ESPN2, Las Vegas. Philadelphian junior […]
