0 comments by Mark Ortega on 1/9/2012
(Brandon Gonzales, right) Middleweight prospect Brandon Gonzales’ year is not going to begin the way he would have liked it to. Gonzales (15-0, 10 KOs), of Sacramento, Calif., was set to appear on Jan. 20th’s edition of ShoBox: The New Generation against fellow unbeaten Caleb Truax (18-0-1, 10 KOs) of Osseo, Minn. at the Palms […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/7/2012
These two and their promoters just drive me up the wall. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. won’t go to jail for smacking around his baby mama until June, in what is a miscarriage of the whole idea that celebrities don’t deserve special treatment that we’d been sold on by the judge. Gross. But even though Manny Pacquiao […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/6/2012
Who’s that mystery man? To me he looks like a slightly more bloated version of The Candyman. Could a slightly more bloated version of The Candyman have been trying to make it so Lamont Peterson beat Amir Khan? I guess it just depends on if Khan said the name “Candy-“… Ah, I almost said it […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 1/5/2012
(Continued from part I.) Joe Hanks, heavyweight, 28, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. [18-0, 12 KOs] Though not as well known as American heavyweights of the future Seth Mitchell and Deontay Wilder, Hanks has quietly put together a respectable career in four years as an American heavyweight hopeful. Hanks scored an improbable one-sided win over then-unbeaten […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 1/4/2012
(Dierry Jean) Don’t mistake this list as one to bank future successes of any of these fighters on, though I have faith that more than a handful of them will break through to the top level of the sport. No, what this list serves as is my 25 favorite prospects that I will be keeping […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/3/2012
We’re back to normal operations and action stations. This week’s boxing schedule isn’t crowded, but it’s not bad for the first week of the year. What could be a better way to welcome in the new year than watching people punch each other? I can’t think of anything, but that might have something to do […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/2/2012
We haven’t Open Threaded in a while, so let’s dip our toe in it. I want to start by saying, on this New Year’s Day, how grateful I am to all the readers, commenters, contributors and staffers who made TQBR what it was in 2011. This year we got declared “the best boxing blog” by […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/1/2012
If you ask the two top promoters in boxing how things are going in boxing, they’ll give you a shit-ton of shiny happy talk about how terrific the sport is these days, and how the future is so very bright. They are, though, “promoters.” The salesman accentuates the positive and eliminates the negative. “This car […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/31/2011
Pu Pu part two! Sillier than part one. Remember: Add “of the year” to everything. Best/Worst Excuse For Losing A Fight. There’s nothing more I like than a good excuse when a fighter comes up short. The more improbable, the better. I loved the excuse from Wilfredo Vazquez, Jr.’s camp that he was blinded by […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/30/2011
2011 has already been denounced in some quarters as an annus horribilis for British boxing. As viewpoints go, it’s a tad short-sighted and one probably informed by the nation’s dismal away record in alphabet world title fights and little more. Closer inspection reveals a bustling domestic scene packed with highly competitive and action-packed contests, many […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/29/2011
Your Pu Pu Platter of boxing awards has arrived. So sorry it’s late to your table. It’s still 2011, so it remains warm to the touch. Please savor its many flavors. In the first installment, that flavor is heavy and serious. In the second one, that flavor is light and fluffy. Just add “of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/25/2011
Much like the buzz that built about the fight as it circulated from boxing forum to boxing forum, from Twitter follower to Twitter follower, Akira Yaegashi-Pornsawan Porpramook was a slow burn at the beginning. I compared it originally to a motorcycle revving up — loud and dangerous, but the brakes were still applied. By the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/23/2011
What to do with Andre Ward? The super middleweight is as talented and skilled as they come, but even purists who love inside fighting sometimes can’t stand to watch those stretches of Ward fights where he mauls his man. Outside the ring, he carries himself like a mixture of Michael Jordan and Tim Tebow, the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final leg is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from Trainer of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/22/2011
Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final leg is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from Trainer of the […]
