0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/5/2010
With nothing doing over the weekend, I decided I would quit staring out over the barren international wasteland and instead turn my gaze inward and onto the British fight scene. With the domestic season winding down, it felt like a good time to cast an eye over my current top 20 British fighters to see […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/4/2010
‘MERICA! Happy birthday. You didn’t think I’d go out with the Canadian flag like that, did you? My present to you, dear ‘Merica, is to review a couple cards from the weekend. Friday Night Fights In the headlining fight on ESPN2, Demetrius Hopkins outboxed and outworked Michael Arnaoutis for a 10-round unanimous decision. The bout […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/3/2010
Fights in the works. Let’s do this. Round And Round Don’t get it twisted, I love ‘Merica as much as everyone else, especially with her birthday coming up. That Canadian flag is about what might happen with light heavyweight Chad Dawson next, after his fight with Jean Pascal in August. Dawson’s team wants a fight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/2/2010
Last year, I said the key to whether Golden Boy Promotions’ stacked undercard for the pay-per-view welterweight fight between Floyd Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez was the start of a trend is whether Golden Boy did it again. If they did, I reasoned, it was because it was worthwhile for them. So here Marquez is, […]
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The Internet has been great for niche pastimes. Such diverse habits as taking funny pictures of cats, pick up artistry, model train collecting and boxing fandom are serviced in ways unimaginable 20 years ago. The net allows hardcore enthusiasts who normally wouldn’t have the chance to communicate about their subject of interest to congregate in […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/30/2010
Yes, yes, we’re all sick of hearing about the negotiations for Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao, the biggest and most meaningful fight in decades that has been talked about and talked about and hasn’t happened. But when one side rather prominently declares the terms of the fight have been agreed to and all that awaits is for […]
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Here’s some more stuff to hate. Every week in this space, we round up the latest rumors about who wants to fight whom, and while there are plenty of boxers out there who routinely fight the best opposition, there are a good many who don’t. No one thinks every fight should have to be against […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/29/2010
There’s a kind of pessimistic feel around these parts lately, I concede. I’d been noticing some of the bad trends that Steve Kim writes about here, and pointing them out — none of the big fights we want, Top Rank’s increasing tendency not to deal with other promoters, etc. — although Kim does a pretty […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/26/2010
The technical difficulties I mentioned — I can’t post pictures right now. So please enjoy the above video of a 12-foot-across crab molting. That move would be pretty handy for breaking free of a clinch in boxing, right? I got nothing. Wait! I do have technical difficulties. And a list of boxers who have fights […]
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I have absolutely no good reason for linking to this comic other than that it’s funny and enthralling. It has nothing to do with boxing whatsoever, although a bit of “fishrage” might be helpful in the ring. I simply didn’t have a good way to start off this week’s column, short of complaining about some […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/24/2010
Be forewarned: There’s some technical stuff going on at Bloguin that I won’t bore you with, but things might be a little herky-jerky around here for a couple days. Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.-John Duddy, Saturday, Top Rank Pay-Per-View, Texas. A little more than a year ago, I would have bought this middleweight fight. Duddy was […]
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It’s thought by some that the fist bump originated with boxing, you know. A handshake isn’t much of an option when you have 10 ounces of leather on your paws, so boxers touch gloves at the beginning of fights in a display of sportsmanship. But there’s a school of thought that touching gloves in a fight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/22/2010
The downside of updating one’s pound-for-pound list of the best boxers in the world every month or two is that sometimes there’s very little movement, or even a prospect for movement. Seven different boxers in our pound-for-pound top 20 saw no action in the last two months and won’t for the next two months. Among those […]
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Upon rewatching Andre Ward-Allan Green from Saturday, I’m more convinced still than before about one point of debate: Ward wasn’t head butting Green, and he wasn’t holding him and hitting him. The super middleweight bout featured a lot of infighting, but in almost every occasion, Ward was punching Green with his free hand while Green […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/20/2010
(The fight in microcosm: Allan Green at left, Andre Ward at right. Credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Is there a more complete boxer right now than Andre Ward? In dominating another top-10 fighter in arguably the best division in boxing, super middleweight, Ward showed me with an intoxicating display of skills Saturday that he’s the young […]
