0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/14/2011
The California State Athletic Commission voted 5-1 Tuesday to change Bernard Hopkins’ October light heavyweight loss to Chad Dawson from a 2nd round TKO to a no contest. Which is fair enough since, you know, Chad didn’t actually knockout Bernard. He picked him up and dropped him on the canvas, causing B-Hop to injure his […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 12/13/2011
The schedule this week is pretty sparse, apart from the one bigsexyhugemouthwatering fight: Andre Ward vs. Carl Froch. Since it’s one of the very best fights that can be made right now and we have no idea who is going to win, we’ll just have to deal with an otherwise quiet week. There are a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Ouchie, Giovani Segura. The junior flyweight champ’s first real capable opponent at flyweight, Brian Viloria, did a number on that noggin of his Saturday, for sure. (Via) Viloria made him look like he was in danger of becoming The Leader, if he could’ve evened things out on the other side. Viloria, as the headline indicates, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/12/2011
PETERLEE, CO. DURHAM – On a perishingly cold Saturday night in the North East of England, flyweights Chris Edwards and Shinny Bayaar punched lumps out of one another through 12 hectic rounds on this Maloney Promotions card. Edwards, the brisket-tough veteran from Stoke, banked the first eight of those and stood firm when Bayaar, Oldham […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/11/2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This city clearly has craved some boxing, as the racous thousands showed Saturday night, and they got as tasty a serving of it as they could when hometown boy Lamont Peterson and Amir Khan went to war in a Fight of the Year candidate where Peterson upset the much more acclaimed talent. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/10/2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As fantastic as it is that more than 9,000 are expected tonight at the Washington Convention Center, and as refreshing as it is that the audience trickling in is mostly black (they’ve long been thought to be abandoning the sport), it’s more than a bit horrendous that almost half of those people […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/9/2011
(Lamont Peterson at the weigh-in. Credit: me) First things first: Amir Khan weighed 140, Lamont Peterson weighed 139 and both looked to be in fine shape at Friday’s weigh-in. That’s the boring part. The less-boring part comes from roaming around the Carnegie Library talking to the people at the weigh-in. Below, find some musings from […]
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Ultra-gifted Amir Khan will try Saturday on HBO against Lamont Peterson to put the finishing touches on a 2011 that could make him a Fighter of the Year finalist. Khan already has wins over Paul McCloskey and Zab Judah, good competition in the junior welterweight division to be sure, but that beating the trio of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/8/2011
Mexican junior bantamweight Tomas Rojas said Wednesday that he took a dive against Jorge Arce in 2007 in exchange for 100,000 pesos. The Ring’s number five junior bantam said that he was only offered the fight against Arce on the condition that he go down in the 6th, but that he never saw the money. […]
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(Amir Khan, left; Washington Monument, middle; Lamont Peterson, right) For the last couple years, there’s been a theory floating around that Washington, D.C. is ripe to be exploited as a “fight town,” that kind of U.S. city that embraces boxing and drives fans to the sweet science in droves. There were subtle pieces of evidence, […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 12/7/2011
(Dyah Davis poses with his father after his win over Marcus Johnson; credit Tom Casino, Showtime) The tail end of 2010 saw the end to a wrenching, multi-generational grudge match spanning decades. Having suffered a defeat at the hands of Aaron Pryor Jr., the future of super middleweight Dyah Davis — whose father had crossed […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 12/6/2011
The headlining video is probably a bit rude, but we politely suggest that you sit down and read the week’s boxing schedule. It doesn’t shine resplendent like last week’s, but it’s not too shabby. By my count, there are five Ring-rated contenders in action, four of them fighting between themselves. Big time boxing is heading […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/5/2011
There’s no real big eye-popping moment from this weekend to lead in with a highlight clip, so instead we start the latest recommendation from unofficial TQBR visual consultant Jim. (via) The trend of the weekend was instead toward “decisions made,” from the doctor’s decision to stop the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito rematch to the robbery mentioned […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/4/2011
(Brian Rose, left; Prince Arron, right) Brian Rose proved too organised for an off-key Prince Arron in Wigan Saturday night, claiming the British junior middleweight title in this, his first attempt. The Blackpool underdog showed a steely concentration throughout their encounter, timing the gangling Arron’s attacks to perfection all night. Whenever Arron tried to establish […]
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NEW YORK, NY–Junior middleweight beltholder Miguel Cotto seized an opportunity to re-write history Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, out-boxing and out-smarting Antonio Margarito on his way to a TKO victory in a rematch of their brutal 2008 bout that left Cotto with his first professional loss. The ringside doctor stopped the fight at the […]
