0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/10/2010
With the final stage of round-robin matches upon us next month (assuming they find a home for Andre Ward-Andre Dirrell), Showtime has provided some helpful guides for its innovative and exciting super middleweight tournament — the best thing happening in boxing in a down year. First, there’s the summary video above. If you haven’t been […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/9/2010
In a couple days, I’ll be in Montreal, which is rough compensation for my city of Washington, D.C. stealing the Expos and turning them into the Nationals, since Montreal will care about me being there about as much as they cared about the Expos being there. I’m looking forward to it not only because I’ve […]
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The TQBR Prediction Game Hall of Champions has a new enshrinee today, alongside historical fantastical immortals of the past like Spidershark, Pretty Toney, mig(g)s88 and David Schraub: BenOlson, also known as Ben Olson, has emerged victorious in 3.0. For most of 3.0, the game was all bunched up, where only accuracy separated anyone at all. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/8/2010
Other fights in the works for Paul Williams, Amir Khan, Antonio DeMarco, etc., too: Round And Round Manny Pacquiao still wants to make a welterweight mega-fight with Floyd Mayweather in November, pinning his hopes on Mayweather’s flirtation with Don King, since Pacquaio promoter Bob Arum has indicated he’d be happier to work with King than […]
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For all six judges in Saturday night for HBO’s doubleheader, it was a 116-112 night. But for both fights, it was a 114-114 night for me. Light heavyweights Tavoris Cloud and Glen Johnson produced the slugfest we expected, or a reasonable facsimile of it, but Cloud came out on top in a bout I scored […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/6/2010
(A whole ‘nother kind of skeptic: David Hume) I’m all for being skeptical of boxers, promoters and networks. But there is a specific kind of selective skepticism that reeks of bias and cynicism that too often takes hold in large swaths of the boxing media and boxing fandom; it often looks to me like people […]
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It’s the 6th of the month, a few days after the usual Open Thread launch, but so be it. To get things started — and I can’t emphasize enough that it’s only to get things started, because Open Thread is by the people, for the people, so you introduce topics — howsabout sharing a boxing […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/5/2010
Twice in the last two weeks, I haven’t managed to get a Weekend Afterthoughts column in place early in the week, so once again I’ll combine it with the usual weekend schedule rundown, but I’ll do better next week, promise. Unless I just scrap the whole dang format. I’m feeling a touch stale with some […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/4/2010
(Photo credit: Bob Barton, DKP) In Saturday night’s HBO doubleheader, Devon Alexander-Andriy Kotelnik is about a fighter — Alexander — while Tavoris Cloud-Glen Johnson is about a fight. Alexander is a can’t-miss talent with physical gifts and wonderful skills, while Cloud-Johnson is a can’t-miss battle between two educated volume punchers near the top of their […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/3/2010
Thirteen out of 35 people went three for four over the weekend with the big HBO/Golden Boy pay-per-view show, but it was the man who went four for four who vaulted to the #1 spot. Ultra-young Casey Kasem, eat your heart out, as BenOlson is the new leader of the pack. (Yes, I’m trying to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/2/2010
The moustache fest that was The Ten Buffest Dudes in Boxing didn’t do it for everyone. Some said it was homoerotic (which, to be fair, it was). Others were just upset that I left out Shannon Briggs and Juan Urango. So, to atone for my sins, here are the seven hottest women in boxing. Yeah, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/1/2010
This was a little like the Miguel Cotto-Yuri Foreman fight in June, where Cotto in his junior middleweight debut showed signs of being vital but against an opponent unlikely to prove otherwise. Like Cotto, lineal lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez looked excellent Saturday night in winning a unanimous decision rematch against a younger but more […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/31/2010
There’s not much to offer with a Quick Jabs column this week — most of the news was related to Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, and we covered that yesterday — so we’ll basically just do a Round And Round column this week. But there were a few other things, some of them related to […]
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The headline sums it up. But, to elaborate: Welterweight Delvin Rodriguez is becoming the unluckiest man in boxing. This time, though, he didn’t only lose a close decision — he lost a decision he should have won easily. Ashley Theophane did give Rodriguez a hard time; Rodriguez started sharp and lost some gas late. But […]
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If you are familiar with this sport “boxing” that we write about sometimes here you are most likely A. up to speed on the wrinkles of the never-ending downward spiral created in the wake the latest collapse of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao and B. sick of it. I want to give you the option right now […]
