0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/30/2010
Sakio Bika! So angular, so neglected. He’s only making $18,000 for the super middleweight title eliminator he’s in Saturday night, but at least he’ll get a touch of TV exposure to go along with it in the build-up to the big HBO/Golden Boy pay-per-view show. That’s something that’s up this weekend, plus some Friday Night […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/29/2010
One of the best things about boxing is that anyone can participate, no matter what shape or size their body. It’s almost difficult to believe that junior flyweight Ivan Calderon and heavyweight Cris Arreola could play the same sport. At the same time, boxing produces some of the world’s most stupidly buff athletes. Let’s follow […]
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(Most of the gang, from left to right: Jorge Linares, Robert Guerrero, Daniel Jacobs, Juan Manuel Marquez, Golden Boy’s Oscar De La Hoya, Juan Diaz, Dmitry Pirog, Joel Casamayor. Rocky Juarez probably didn’t show up until later.) For me, it’s not even a matter of debate: The Golden Boy Promotions/HBO pay-per-view card airing Saturday night […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/28/2010
Detective McNulty: If Snotboogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play? Witness: You got to, this is America, man. (Omar coming) The Wire, the late HBO series that can best, and most simply, be described as being about how a city (specifically, Baltimore) works, and more importantly, how what doesn’t work stays that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/24/2010
You remember those “grosser than gross” jokes from grade school, about chopped up babies and what not? I can’t say Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito — set for November, according to Kevin Iole — amounts to something as disgusting as one dead baby in three trash cans, but when combined with the fact that it’s the fight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/22/2010
What with the business going on I mentioned here and all the distraction of the latest Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao debacle, last weekend didn’t get the attention it deserved in this space. For instance: How good does bantamweight Fernando Montiel look in the clip above? Rafael Concepcion has lost a few fights, sure, but he gave […]
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(via CoachJohnWooden.com) Aside from the endless debates, speculations, accusations, hand-wringing, hair-pulling, and general mental instability surrounding the proposed Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather fight, another less heated, less debilitating, and ultimately more rectifiable debate has surrounded the two preeminent practitioners of the sweet science – who is the best fighter in the world, pound for pound? Mayweather […]
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Sorry for the delay in tallying up the standings in TQBR Prediction Game 3.0. I had some girl drama to attend to, a busy stretch at the day job and frankly it was a pain in the ass mathematically that I put off because I knew it would be a pain in the ass mathematically. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/21/2010
Australian boxing fans were tonight witness to Danny Green’s second bizarre 1st round knockout in as many fights. Paul Briggs somehow managed to survive for even less time than Roy Jones Jr., hitting the deck with two minutes and 31 seconds left in the first round. Either Briggs took a dive that the entire Italian […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/20/2010
The camp of Floyd Mayweather — including Mayweather himself — has now weighed in on their view on what happened with the potential Manny Pacquiao welterweight megafight, and it’s not very illuminating. Incriminating, more than anything. But we still don’t have the whole story. As I said over the weekend, though, missing the whole story […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/18/2010
Sometimes I wonder if anyone in the world ever actually knows what they are doing, or if everyone is just skating along on instinct, bullshit, and blind luck. I know that I’m doing that quite often, and I still find myself amazed that others are even more clueless than I. For example, I showed up […]
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This was far from the finest performance of Timothy Bradley’s career, this Saturday night unanimous decision over Luis Carlos Abregu, but it did the trick of “introducing” him to the HBO audience and showing he could viably fight at welterweight if he wanted to do so. The top junior welterweight in the world was sloppy […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/17/2010
Here we are again. Despite what Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said this morning about Floyd Mayweather not agreeing to a fight in November, the second time Pacquiao and Mayweather couldn’t agree to a welterweight megafight in 2010, it is too soon to start pointing fingers at either camp. We have one side of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/16/2010
Might as well clear the deck in advance of the big phony countdown for Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao tonight plus all the fights on Showtime and ESPN2 and whatnot by looking at all the other fights in the works (we already did the Quick Jabs, so that’s out of the way too). P.S. Would you rather […]
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To the right, observe the blurry cover of the September issue of Ring magazine, where I have my first full-length feature after penning a couple smaller items. (It’s blurry because I hyper-inflated a super-small image from the table of contents.) My understanding is that the issue has already hit some mailboxes, so I feel obligated […]
