0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/2/2011
The Klitschko era of heavyweight boxing continued Saturday on HBO in much the same way it always has: with a thoroughly unexciting win. David Haye offered the best hope the division had of upheaval at best or a stirring battle at worst, but Haye spent more time complaining to the referee than he did throwing […]
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Cripes I want it to be 4:45 p.m. already, so we can finally know what happens when heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko fights David Haye. Since we’ve covered the heck out of it, there’s no point in going on and on about it this late in the game. We might as well take a look at […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/1/2011
Book it now: We have our 2011 Unintentionally Funny Moment in Boxing Award winner already with the above video. Nothing else could possibly compare. Not in the “universe” or “galaxy” could there be such a “star” candidate for the award as that clip. Surprisingly, the clip is loaded up with wild hyperbole, too. And bad […]
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So concludes our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2011, Wladimir Klitschko-David Haye on July 2. Previously: the stakes of the bout; the keys to the fight, part I and II; a preview and prediction. Welcome once again, tweakers and geeks, to the biggest (sorry folks, it’s long), baddest, fightingest edition yet […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2011, Wladimir Klitschko-David Haye on July 2. Previously: the stakes of the bout; the keys to the fight, part I and II. Next, and finally: a TQBR Roundtable. It is the singular thrill of heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s fight Saturday with David Haye […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/30/2011
With some of the most colorful characters outside of the mafia, street carnivals and sugary cereal cartoon mascots, it’s no shock that along with thrills in the ring, boxing also delivers a healthy dose of epic lines and memorable quotes, from the comedic to the darkly profound. Here’s a sampling of some of the gems […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/29/2011
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2011, Wladimir Klitschko-David Haye on July 2. Previously: the stakes of the bout; the keys to the fight, part I. Next: a preview and prediction. Mind. Matter. How do Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye stack up in those categories? In the second of […]
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So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2011, Wladimir Klitschko-David Haye on July 2. Previously: the stakes of the bout. Next: the keys to the fight, part II. Mind. Matter. How do Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye stack up in those categories? In the first of two parts, we compare […]
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So begins our marathon coverage of Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye, one of the biggest fights of 2011. Now: The stakes of Klitschko-Haye. Next: Keys to the fight. Saturday afternoon at 4:45 ET is the rather inglorious hour when HBO will air the most important, most anticipated heavyweight fight in nearly a decade: division champion […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/28/2011
It’s givin’-up time for James Kirkland, for me. It might be a bit premature, since he just reunited with old trainer Ann Wolfe. But in the above video he looks like the sloppy barroom brawler pal of the site Paul Kelly called him. I have no idea why he’s leaning over into Dennis Sharpe at […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/27/2011
Boxers love tattoos. But, as I highlighted in an earlier post, there’s a fine line between a tattoo that makes you look like a hard case and one that makes you look like a nutcase. Of course there are those that do both, like the Hugo Chavez on the late Edwin Valero’s chest. Of course, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/26/2011
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Devon Alexander entered the ring Saturday night wearing a white T-shirt that read “Redemption,” a clear nod to his January technical decision loss against Tim Bradley. Winning a controversial split decision over Lucas Matthysse may not have redeemed him in the eyes of the media but it went a long ways […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/24/2011
We gotta do this mostly lightning-round style, cuz my week plum got away from me. Felix Sturm vs. Matthew Macklin, Saturday, Epix/EpixHD.com, Cologne Germany. Ring’s #1-ranked middleweight, Sturm, will be facing his best opponent in about two years in Macklin, who’s desperately tried to fight a top 160-pounder only to see a number of fights […]
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Remember when Devon Alexander was near the top of the world? You don’t have to think back too far. It wasn’t so long ago. Last year, there was a front-page New York Times story about him — unheard of for a boxer in this day and age — prior to his bout with Andriy Kotelnik. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/23/2011
The moribund heavyweight division could be reignited “with a master class in gentlemen jabbing,” argues Shaun Assael in a recent ESPN the Magazine article in which he takes the position that heavyweight champion brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko should forsake their previous vows to never fight and go all Civil War for heavyweight supremacy. The […]
