0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/28/2010
(Carl Froch hits Arthur Abraham right above his ill-conceived white see-through trunks/red underwear combination; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) What a wild night of fights. Carl Froch put on a master class in upsetting and outclassing Arthur Abraham. Juan Manuel Marquez put on a master class in stopping Michael Katsidis in a terrific brawl. Jason Litzau […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/27/2010
Click no further if you want to avoid finding out what happened in Finland today before it airs on Showtime tonight. “Exposed” is an overused word in boxing, but two fights in a row now, super middleweight Arthur Abraham has had vulnerabilities in his style, well, exposed. What’s surprising is who did it this time: […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/26/2010
Happy Thanksgiving, jive turkeys! Is the image at right racist? I honestly don’t know. Unless there’s a movement to boycott this blog, I probably won’t care. Mainly I wanted to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, but without appearing overly sentimental. Thus, possibly racist cartoon images of turkeys. You would think that it would be enough […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/25/2010
It used to be not many people loved lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez, even after his thrilling war with Manny Pacquiao in 2004. He wasn’t exciting enough for them, if you can imagine. Fans of beautiful boxing dug him, and there are still few combination punchers in the sport so fluid. But as he became […]
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(Arthur Abraham, left, and Carl Froch, right, stare at each other; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) This was the one you circled on your calendar when you got a glimpse of the Super Six tournament schedule: Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham. With the re-schedulings and relocations — it’s now in Helsinki on Saturday — maybe you […]
0 comments by Tom Chmielewski on 11/24/2010
To some, the saddest sight in boxing is a prizefighter after the cheers have stopped. Recognition eludes them. Physical ailments destroy their former godlike physiques. Some experience slurred speech, which could be a harbinger of further ramifications of brain damage down the road. And sadly, most end up broke with no skills, no friends, nobody […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
One point one five million is a really good number of pay-per-views to sell in boxing, and that’s what Manny Pacquiao did two weekends ago against Antonio Margarito, according to the news today. It’s a tribute to what kind of star Pacquiao has become that he is now the first non-heavyweight boxer to headline a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
FIVE POINT OH. Who would’ve thought we would have made it this far with the TQBR Prediction Game? R. Kelly’s still stuck at TP.3 Reloaded, and hasn’t released any new episodes of Trapped in a Closet in years. Yet in the span of 2010, TQBR Prediction Game will have gone from No Point Oh to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/23/2010
Why hasn’t HBO posted its video highlights of Sergio Martinez-Paul Williams II yet on YouTube? After all, it’s not like the thing hasn’t gotten incredible exposure already. It was on SportsCenter Saturday night. Today, it made #6 on SportsCenter’s list of top 10 plays of the weekend. They showed it on Around the Horn and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/21/2010
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — For someone who just got knocked out as frighteningly as one can get knocked out, Paul Williams didn’t sound like his spirit was broken. “We 1-1. Let’s do it again,” he said of his conqueror, middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, at the news conference after the fight Saturday. Meanwhile, Martinez’ team celebrated […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — One perfect left hand. It’s the kind you recognize when you see it, if you’ve seen anything like it before — the kind of punch from which the man on the other end of it won’t get up, not this time. It’s the kind that middleweight champion Sergio Martinez connected on […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Setup ain’t ideal for a live blog, so here’s your undercard report updating when time permits throughout the evening. And, after the main event, come on back for a report on that. In reverse chronological order: In a prospect-vs.-prospect showdown, welterweight Steve Upsher Chambers got an unpopular decision win over Bayan […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/20/2010
Via ESPN man Dan Rafael’s targeting a return to the ring in March. Remember, his illness was supposedly career-threatening, and just a couple weeks ago, he said on Fight Camp 360 that he couldn’t fight, at the earliest, until he’d been symptom-free for three months — and as of that episode, he had symptoms that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/19/2010
Besides the above video, I’ve compiled all sorts of links for you for one of the most anticipated fights of 2010, Saturday’s rematch between middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams: a weird training video for Williams; Ring Life, featuring both men; assorted feature articles of high quality; what other boxing blogs are sayin’; and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/18/2010
There is no more direct way to say it, and no need for flowery prose anyway: Fights like Saturday’s, a rematch between middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams on HBO, are why I am a boxing fan. Being a boxing fan is often a painful affliction, but not during electric moments like the one […]
