0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/19/2010
Because I haven’t had too many ganders at Manny Pacquiao’s hoops game, I was pleased to watch this video — even though that Elie Seckbach guy and his film “crew” (in this video and others) spend a bit too much time for my tastes asking people what they think of Elie Seckbach. Pacquiao’s got a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/18/2010
What’s the best heavyweight fight you’ve seen lately? Chris Arreola-Brian Minto, maybe, in December? Martin Rogan-Matt Skelton, perhaps, back in March? Fun fights, both. But of negligible consequence. Consequence in the heavyweight division — we’ve had a little of that, too. Wladimir Klitschko-Ruslan Chagaev last summer for the Ring magazine lineal championship had meaning. Klitschko-Sultan […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/16/2010
It’s been a slow start to 2010 as far as meaningful fights go, but it’s hot on the knockout front. For your viewing pleasure, I provide you the following: Kevin Mitchell-Ignacio Mendoza (lightweight) — Observe how Mitchell over the weekend lifted Mendoza off the ground with that right hand/left hand combo. Nonito Donaire-Manuel Vargas (junior […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/15/2010
There we have it. Our prediction game’s trial run has ended just as it began: with Team Spidershark doing a little of what Paul Williams trainer George Peterson would (creepily) call the “spank butt business.” I promised the winner of the trial run a (very) small prize. Besides the big name in the headline, I’ve […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/14/2010
It was a tale of two nights in the four fights on the split Pinoy Power/Latin Fury pay-per-view Saturday. In the main events, featuring the two top fighters of the evening, junior bantamweight Nonito Donaire and bantamweight Fernando Montiel, said featured fighters slaughtered the two opponents who didn’t belong in the ring with them. In […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/12/2010
Mr. Tyrone Harris (left) is back on the teevee tonight, coming off his upset knockout win over lightweight prospect Marvin Quintero (right) in 2009. His team says Harris finally found his focus, so let’s see if it carries over on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights this evening when he takes on another 23-year-old, power punching Ji […]
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We spend a lot of time in this space commenting on how HBO is using or should be using its considerable power in boxing. I think we can safely tuck its serial counterprogramming of Showtime’s innovative Super Six tournament under “shouldn’t be using its power that way.” I get it; HBO and Showtime are in […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/10/2010
(Boxing is afraid of an event where people alternate between skiing and shooting rifles.) There ain’t jack happening in boxing because HBO is scared of the Winter Olympics. However, there are a ton of plans being made for the days when pugilism no longer cowers in fear at the thought of competing against curling, luge […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/9/2010
This weekend’s Pinoy Power card features in its main event one of the two finest Filipino boxers in the world, junior bantamweight Nonito Donaire (second only to Manny Pacquiao), but alas, he’s in something of a mismatch on paper. Gerson Guerrero is a heavy hitter, but he doesn’t have a single win of note and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/8/2010
Hey boxing, let’s see some upsets, huh? Four fights into the Prediction Game at TQBR and we haven’t seen an underdog prevail yet. Keeping with that theme of winners winning, Spidershark continued his run of impressive prescience, holding onto the top spot in the rankings for the second update in a row. (The Mayans may […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/7/2010
Prudential Center, Newark, NJ, February 6, 2010 Welcome to the latest edition of the Jersey Fight Journal, where a snowstorm prevented me from attending the scintillating Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez fight in December yet a feared blizzard miraculously dissipated tonight, giving me the great fortune to watch Peter Quillin and Fernando Zuniga clinch until things got […]
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It was a fallacy to think lightweight sensation Edwin Valero was a one-dimensional puncher, which isn’t the same as saying he’s a master craftsman in the ring. But he showed off every skill he has Saturday on Showtime in beating up young Antonio DeMarco and forcing his corner to call a halt to it at […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/6/2010
The old man just keeps plugging along. 41-year-old Glen Johnson will get another shot at a light heavyweight title belt after a 6th round knockout win over 30-year-old Yusaf Mack on ESPN2. As much as I love the amiable, classy Jamaican, and as happy as I am for him in notching this win, I thought […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/5/2010
You don’t usually expect it to work out for a fighter who protests a bunk decision with one of the alphabet sanctioning organizations, because usually that only happens if there’s some technicality. But the WBA is reviewing the bunk decision last weekend that gave Beibut Shumenov (at right in the picture) the light heavyweight title […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/4/2010
While giving a rundown of the biggest happenings in the sport to one of my roommates the other night (believe it or not, he had not heard a thing about the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather negotiations; sometimes it’s not such a small world), he made a comment that boxers’ names seem to be less interesting than […]
