0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/22/2010
Floyd Mayweather must be awfully tired from all of the standing he’s doing of late. First of all, he took a stance against performance enhancing drugs within the sport, one which, to all intents and purposes, cost him his mega-fight with Manny Pacquiao. Now, he’s leaping into action against the alphabet bandits by refusing to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/21/2010
After claiming the linear middleweight championship (despite being more of a blown up junior middleweight), Sergio Martinez has some options that he didn’t have a few years ago, when he was better known as “Who the Hell Is” Sergio Martinez? A rematch with Kelly Pavlik looms, thanks to a rematch clause in Pavlik’s contract. A […]
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(Mikkel Kessler, left; Carl Froch, right; mean-looking stone lion, center) With Saturday night’s entry in Showtime’s excellent Super Six tournament, which brings together the cream of the crop of the loaded super middleweight division, we are getting what might turn out to be the most action-packed bout of the event. Whereas the other bouts have […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/20/2010
There remains much to discuss about the past weekend, especially the waterfall of weird coming out of the Edwin Valero case. Valero theories. Now that the former lightweight is deceased, there are some bizarre claims being made by those close to him. I’m not saying I think the claims are true or false, only that […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/19/2010
Want to see a good fight in New Jersey? Just make your way down to Atlantic City anytime Kelly Pavlik or Sergio Martinez are in town. In 2007, Pavlik engaged in a Fight of the Year candidate with Jermain Taylor at Boardwalk Hall, the venerable AC fight establishment. Last December, Martinez engaged in the TQBR […]
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For those who haven’t heard the news yet, lightweight Edwin Valero — as pure a puncher as there is in boxing, someone who as recently as this year was discussed as a potential future opponent for the world’s best fighter, Manny Pacquiao — was arrested this weekend for murdering his wife, a crime police say […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/18/2010
It was a fitting race to the finish, but like his TQBR Prediction Game-winning savior Sergio Martinez on Saturday, Pretty Toney pulled it out late over rival JB to win all the marbles. Ladies and gentlemen, in honor of the TQBR Prediction Game 1.0 winner, I give you… It was either that, or photo-shopping James […]
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I couldn’t have been more worried for Sergio Martinez when the scorecards were about to be announced Saturday on HBO after a fight I had him clearly winning. Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik was the adopted hometown fighter in Atlantic City and the Argentian Martinez had been robbed of a victory once on U.S. soil against […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/17/2010
Kelly Pavlik played the starring role in the most thrilling fight I have ever attended in person, his 2007 middleweight championship fight against Jermain Taylor in which he rose from the canvas and scored a stunning knockout to claim the lineal title at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. (Not only was the fight poster cool […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/16/2010
So many babes, attempted and certified, this week in the boxing world. Which to start with? That was my dilemma. I went with Caroline Wozniacki, who will be supporting fellow Dane Mikkel Kessler ringside in his super middleweight fight on Showtime next weekend against Carl Froch, per a Sauerland Event news release. You don’t have […]
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From time to time BoxingScene’s David P. Greisman and myself gchat one another. Sometimes we talk about boxing, even. In something of an experiment, I bring you a gchat transcript from a few hours ago. After I finished my dinner, talk turned to some recent news in the pugilistic world. David: yo’sef. me: ah here’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/15/2010
I bet middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik totally wishes he had a Hot Tub Time Machine that could take him back to mid-2008, when he was near the top of the world and the future was so bright he had to wear shades and Michael Jackson was white but at least not dead. Pavlik’s own whitish […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/13/2010
Never before can I recall a weekend where two fighters — in this case, welterweight Andre Berto and featherweight Celestino Caballero — got such divergent reviews at the TQBR (which is like saying “ATM machine” or “START treaty” but I’m a huge believer in playing with indefinite articles). But we’ve already covered that in the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/12/2010
OK, so here’s the deal: TQBR Prediction Game 1.0 ends after two fights next weekend, the HBO double-header of Kelly Pavlik-Sergio Martinez and Lucian Bute-Edison Miranda. Only four people can win the whole shebang: JB, Pretty Toney, David Schraub and Hit Dog, with the latter two needing brilliant predictions and a collapse by the first […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/11/2010
On the HBO doubleheader Saturday, Andre Berto knocked out Carlos Quintana to announce himself as the man you have to talk about the welterweight division after Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley, but as good as the win was it left me with the impression he’ll always be the “after” with that crowd. Meanwhile, Celestino […]
