0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/4/2010
Here they are: The full, twice-revised TQBR Prediction Game rules. 1. How to know when/where to play. When I do a post labeled “Preview and Prediction,” which I usually do on Wednesday or Thursday for weekend fights but occasionally on Friday or Tuesday, the game is on. In the comments section is where you’ll do […]
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In case you missed it yesterday, junior welterweight contender Paulie Malignaggi stopped by our Open Thread to say “hi.” He did it even though he was tired and repeatedly said he was going to sleep, and he did it even though he didn’t quite understand what our site was. He did it merely because a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/2/2010
Welcome to March’s Open Thread. We got the music choice out of the way (I don’t care if you think I’m pretentious for liking Animal Collective; I like that freaking song) and now here’s some grist for freewheeling discussion. Looking back over the past weekend(ish), we had several young and immensely physically talented boxers — […]
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As plotlines for Fight of the Year-caliber bouts go, “I gotta get revenge on him for the fight we had as kids after he broke my eggs on the way back from the market” is an infrequent one. Featherweight Antonio Escalante’s motive was just that, and he and Miguel Roman put together a FOTY candidate […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/1/2010
Right when I think I’ve got my pound-for-pound criteria down pat, along comes a situation like Shane Mosley being out of action for a year — which normally would trigger his removal for inactivity — and I’m having trouble justifying removing him. This wasn’t like a situation with Winky Wright or Israel Vazquez where there’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/28/2010
We had an upset or two, a tremendous fight f’ed up by a goofy referee, a questionable scorecard from an old pariah and another fight ended by a strange series of events Saturday. The two major cards were an Integrated Sports pay-per-view and a Top Rank Fox Sports Net show. I didn’t think there should […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/26/2010
Some are lamenting not being able to get to see heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s fight against Eddie Chambers on television — it’s only being webcast via Klitschko.com — and unless brother Vitali can get U.S. TV money to fight Odlanier Solis, he may be searching for yet another opponent soon. I can’t lament it too […]
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I’m not going to get carried away, because Thursday’s edition of Fight Night Club wasn’t much important in the scheme of things. But for two out of the three fights, it exceeded my low expectations, both in the entertainment value of the bouts and the matchmaking. Junior welterweight Victor Ortiz got a big 10th round […]
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Until now, I had never put together a P4P list. It was much easier to criticize the lists that other writers put together than to actually do it myself. With boxing in a bit of a holding period, however, I challenged myself to finally buckle down and do it. Since the P4P list is the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/24/2010
…after not boring the hell out of us in each of their last fights, who would we make fun of? Those three form a kind of holy trinity (that’s clearly not a rabbi joke, Yuri) of boring boxing. At least, historically. But heavyweight Ruiz wasn’t boring in his most recent appearance, and he’s on a […]
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It’s another inch deep, mile wide kind of February week for boxing, as the ratings giant (I’m not kidding) Winter Olympics surge forward. Maybe HBO and Showtime did know what they were doing not to go head-to-head with the likes of “The Flying Tomato,” although I’d reason that the only overlap in audience for boxing […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/23/2010
The last thing I criticize in boxing are quick stoppages. They have to be really bad. I would rather see someone lose a fight prematurely at the hands of a ref with a quick trigger than take a prolonged, dangerous beating at the hands of a ref who is too brave for anyone’s good. With […]
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Rick Reeno’s done some interesting reporting over at BoxingScene (usual caveats about clicking on BoxingScene links apply) on the monetary difficulties posed by the $1.25 million guaranteed minimums Golden Boy has promised junior welterweight Amir Khan. His latest piece takes the angle that HBO is to blame for that ridiculously high figure for a boxer […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/21/2010
You know what I was watching tonight? The Winter Olympics. And let me tell you, speed skating DESTROYS boxing! I’m going to start a ice skating blog and kill TQBR. This’ll be my last post ever, and naturally it’s a wrap-up of all the so-so boxing cards from this weekend, other than the Friday Night […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/20/2010
Top prospect Shawn Porter had a rough go of it from Russell Jordan for a variety of reasons on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, but ultimately was the better junior middleweight, emerging with a unanimous decision that was closer to the two 97-92 scorecards than the 100-89 scorecard. Jordan on paper didn’t figure to be such […]
