0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/26/2011
(In the final pose, left to right: Chris Arreola; Tony Thompson; Maurice Harris; Kendrick Releford) Tony Thompson has payback on the brain. “Hell yeah,” the 39-year-old heavyweight said in a phone interview. “Anytime someone beats me, I want to get payback.” On ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights this week in Reno, he’ll get a chance to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/25/2011
As someone who has had the privilege to sit ringside for a number of fights (largely thanks to TQBR), I can attest that the experience is exhilarating. You feel the impact of every punch, see every writhing facial contortion, hear the thud of leather hitting flesh and flesh hitting canvas. You also hear the roars […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/22/2011
The second act of the ongoing melodrama involving Londoners George Groves and James DeGale mirrored the first on Saturday evening, with Groves pipping his arch-rival to a decision by the slenderest of margins, after an evenly contested bout which could so easily have been declared a tie. It’s a verdict the beaten braggart from Harlesden […]
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This man is extraordinary, this Bernard Hopkins. At age 46, he went to Montreal on Saturday night, once more to face a young, hungry, passionate light heavyweight champion named Jean Pascal on his home turf. Like the first time, Pascal gave him about as tough a fight as Hopkins had endured in his long career. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/21/2011
There almost comes a time with Roy Jones, Jr. where it doesn’t make any sense to hope anymore that he’ll eventually stop. It doesn’t matter how badly he’s put to sleep — as he is in the video above, yet again — he’s going to keep fighting, and keep fighting, and keep fighting, until the […]
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NEWARK – The actual “Friday Night Fights” bouts televised on ESPN2 didn’t provide anything of note from the Amerihealth Pavilion at the Prudential Center in Newark, save for a 20 minute stoppage due to the lights going out. But a welterweight swing bout concluding the abysmal telecast was a highly entertaining scrap, one in which […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/20/2011
Several years back, when I first started blogging, I got a nice note from an artist named Jace McTier. He showed me his boxing-related paintings, and while I liked them, I told him I was too “art-dumb” to say whether that meant anything. Clearly his work is actually good to more than just me, as […]
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(James DeGale, left; George Groves, right) A mere stones throw from where it all started, the simmering feud between James DeGale and George Groves comes to the boil this weekend in a confrontation so venomous, quill-sharpening activity has been detected within the anti-boxing lobby. Questions raised over the morality of the sport are often rebuffed […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/19/2011
Bernard Hopkins is waging a historic campaign Saturday on HBO to become the oldest boxing champion ever, as he tries once more to beat light heavyweight king Jean Pascal, something Hopkins says he believes will move him from living legend to the kind of pugilist people talk about for 100 years. And it would be […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/18/2011
I’ve not been shy about my feelings regarding Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez III, but something good might have come of that contract that was signed by Marquez Tuesday and that Pacquiao will sign soon — along the way, yesterday, promoter Bob Arum said this to The Los Angeles Times’ Lance Pugmire: Arum said he met […]
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For those of you who don’t listen to “Ring Theory,” I can more heartily recommend it today than I did yesterday because I’ve appeared on it as of tonight. Me being in things makes things better — even if it involves Bill Dettloff and Eric Raskin making fun of me in ways that would break […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/16/2011
(Our Alex McClintock is going to be away from the blog for a little bit — don’t worry, he’ll be back! — but he wrote a few things before departing. Here’s one of ’em, about Showtime’s top boxing play-by-play man, who recently was the subject of reports about his continued work at the network, where […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/15/2011
The British junior middleweight championship fight between Sam Webb of Chislehurst and Prince Arron of Droylsden on Friday restated the duplicitous nature of the boxer. While these men claim logical ambitions about remaining unbeaten, of making their fortunes and then retiring in good health, there is an irrational streak inherent in all of them — […]
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(Photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) It going to take a monster to beat Andre Ward, the most complete boxer in the game right now. A better version of Arthur Abraham than we’ve seen in recent fights showed up Saturday night on Showtime and gave it a shot, but it wasn’t even close by fight’s end — […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/14/2011
On Friday night, we got one sensational knockout and one stirring brawl. The knockout came on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights. In a junior welterweight crossroads bout, Kendall Holt revived his career with a 3rd round KO of Julio Diaz. He landed a couple big right hands in the 1st round, but Diaz, who’s been knocked […]
