0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/30/2010
The conclusion to Andre Dirrell-Arthur Abraham this weekend has been picked apart like the Zapruder film here and elsewhere, but I think there’s yet more to say on the subject. I engaged in a little mental argument ad hominem in not engaging deeply before, since a lot of the chatter was coming from people who […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/29/2010
This was the weekend when picking upsets finally paid off in the TQBR Prediction Game. Three of the four weekend bouts ended with the betting underdog getting the win. We’re talking lots of available bonus points there. And we encountered some unique conditions that might lead to a scoring controversy. I do not relish the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/28/2010
This post is exactly what it sounds like. As videos become available, I’ll put up some more. As YouTube takes them down, I will be helpless.
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Three interesting fights Saturday night, all for different reasons. Andre Dirrell won by disqualification over Arthur Abraham in a fight he was controlling even though Abraham was gaining ground, a DQ that came because Dirrell slipped and Abraham blasted him into a terrible sleep while he was on the ground. Joan Guzman won a split […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/27/2010
What a terrible week it’s been for boxers doing the right thing. And too often, undeserving people have been victimized by it all. The one with the most immediate ramifications: Joan Guzman (right) again coming in overweight, this time for Saturday’s rematch with Ali Funeka (left), and not just a little — nine pounds above […]
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There have been a couple subjects that generated heated debate in this space in the last week, to the point that I believe they require a bit of relitigating. First up was the philosophy of boxing undercards. Now: analyzing the pay-per-view buys for Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey. Let me start by saying that in my original […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/26/2010
There have been a couple subjects that generated heated debate in this space in the last week, to the point that I believe they require a bit of relitigating. First up: The philosophy of boxing undercards. Next: Analyzing the pay-per-view buys for Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey. Some friends of the site in the comments section — […]
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It was around the end of 2008 when the amount of boxing on television took a dire turn for the worse. Wednesday Night Fights on ESPN2 had died off, and Telefutura’s Solo Boxeo would meet its maker, too. For a while there it looked like Versus might step up to the plate and take over […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/25/2010
Besides this and this and this, there’s yet more boxing this week in what amounts to as the craziest boxing weekend of the year so far. Just about the craziest weekend in recent memory, really. I will show you. But first, I will greedily complain that it could have been even MORE crazy, in a […]
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If you are familiar with the author Sam Sheridan, you know that he is always searching for what makes people capable of achieving great feats. Not only an accomplished writer from an Ivy League background, he is also an avid martial artist. Sheridan’s background means he can take on a more personalized perspective than other […]
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I don’t think Saturday’s HBO doubleheader is terrible by any stretch, but Showtime’s boxing event the same night is significantly more meaningful, so you should watch that one if you have to make a choice. (Since it’s on a free preview weekend for Showtime, you certainly will have that choice.) What’s more, Kevin Iole said […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/24/2010
When discussing the 700,000 pay-per-view buys netted by Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey March 13, many people — it seems to me — are emphasizing the positive (and there is some of that) rather than mentioning much about the negative (and there is some of that, too). By the standard of boxing pay-per-views, 700,000 — the figure […]
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I have an admitted blind spot when it comes to knowledge of Japanese (and to a lesser degree, Asian) fighters, what with them rarely-to-never fighting anywhere but Japan. But there’s a fight in Japan Saturday that’s very important and I’ve been brushing up enough in recent months that I think it deserves a full preview […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/23/2010
The Super Six tournament is back on Showtime Saturday, and right on time. Several second round postponements, a fighter withdrawing and some counterprogramming from industry giant HBO knocked some of the stuffing out of the concept for some. But if you ask me, nothing sells the idea of the tournament better than it doing what […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/22/2010
For many boxing fans and writers, BoxRec.com is an indispensible resource. For me, it doubles as a good way to kill about six hours online. In a new, potentially semi-regular feature (because I’m all about semi-regularity), I will dive into the depths of BoxRec to see if anything interesting emerges. From the weekend that just […]
