0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/15/2010
It’s busy out there in the boxing world this week, starting tonight, even if there’s nothing that bowls one over. Nathan Cleverly-Karo Murat, Saturday, Birmingham England. This card has a ton of England’s biggest stars on them, so if you’re in the U.S. and you’re interested in checking out some of the talent over there, […]
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What’s disappointing about Saturday night’s pay-per-view Golden Boy/HBO card led off by Shane Mosley-Sergio Mora is less its content — although there is some valid reason to be disappointed by that, if only a little — than the broken vows it represents. The reason is because nobody’s under any obligation to spend $50 on it […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/14/2010
(No, the purpose of my trip to the U.K. was not to watch heavyweight Tyson Fury decision Rich Power. Haven’t even caught up to that one on my DVR. Photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) In the headline, it’s the royal “we” that went away. While I was in London, there was some fantastic work on this […]
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So I’m back from London as of late Sunday, and back from seeing Broken Social Scene as of late Monday, and that means it’s time for some piss-poor addition and desperate metaphorical pictures related to predictin’ stuff. The good news is that there’s interesting business to report in this update of TQBR Prediction Game 4.0. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/13/2010
The tough in the title is Orlando Salido, Yuriorkis Gamboa’s featherweight opponent on Saturday night’s Boxing After Dark. The tougher is Brandon Rios, whose pit-bull tenacity essentially made Anthony Peterson quit in their lightweight bout. It was a great night of fights on HBO, who have found themselves a new star in Rios. The supporting […]
0 comments by Carlos Acevedo on 9/12/2010
Rarely is Ross Greenburg credited with making sensible decisions, but banishing Wladimir Klitschko from HBO may very well be one of them. In an eyesore of a bout, Klitschko stopped weary Sam Peter in the 10th round of a scheduled 12 at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany. The official time of the TKO was 1:22. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/10/2010
The USA has been the home of professional boxing for almost as long as it’s existed (forget that marquess chap for whom this website is named). Things are changing though. Like some kind of bizarro manifest destiny, the heart of boxing now seems to be moving inexorably eastwards. In May, TQBR ran a piece called […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/9/2010
Marcos Maidana lost a title last weekend in Buenos Aires despite having his hand raised in victory, although it probably isn’t what you might think. Rather than being left with his shorts around his ankles as an alphabet hit squad made off with a trouser tightner in a Buick, this was a far more serious […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/8/2010
This Saturday, the featherweight who lives up to his nickname “The Cyclone” should have been facing much-feared Celestino Caballero, a bold, over-the-top move worthy of full-blown YURIORKIS GAMBOA! celebrations. Instead, Gamboa is taking his Cyclone self into what still stands as the hardest fight of his career against tough veteran contender Orlando Salido. If for […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/7/2010
(Big photo for big guys: Wladimir Klitschko, left, and Samuel Peter; credit Klitschko’s Facebook page) It’s been a minute since we last saw that look of primal terror on heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s face, the look where he seemed to be thinking “ohmigod ohmigod I got hit oh no what I am I gonna do […]
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Most of this year’s Fight of the Year candidates have been thus because somebody had to do it. It’s like, in a lineup of Frankenstein, Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera, somebody is the “most handsome,” by default. But now we have two weekends in a row of them. It’s not enough on my […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/5/2010
The headline is depressing in the front, but in the back it’s wild and free. This blog entry in toto is the emotional mullet of Round and Round columns, your spot for a weekly round-up of fights in the works because if you paid attention to this every day you’d go insane with all the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/4/2010
That’s Saul Alvarez’ girlfriend, TV reporter Marisol Gonzalez, maybe the new queen of boxing WAGs. I was all right with Alvarez before, but now I COMPLETELY HATE HIM. Quick Jabs, anyone? Quick Jabs For the first time in his life, Floyd Mayweather has apologized for something. That rant of his caught him some serious hell, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/3/2010
Because everything Floyd Mayweather says is designed to stir up some kind of faux controversy that gets him headlines and helps him make money playing the villain, it’s a worthwhile question whether writers should entirely ignore his antics. But, sometimes, he says something so horrible it requires repuditiation far and wide. In the above NSFW […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/2/2010
This is one of those pound-for-pound lists where who’s missing – and who replaced the people who used to be there – is actually more noteworthy than any substantial movement that anyone made for himself. So let’s start by talking about who isn’t on it since last time, and why. (Because it matters!) I previously […]
