Quick Jabs: Chad Dawson’s Misadventure In Electronics Purchasing; Your Regular Floyd Mayweather – Manny Pacquiao Updates; Ancient Trash-Talkers Sit In Rocking Chairs, Contemplate Fighting; More

0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/18/2009

Let’s say you want to buy $16,000 worth of equipment at Best Buy. You decided to put $8,000 on a credit card, and pay for the remaining $8,000 in cash. Would you expect the clerks at Best Buy to have a problem with this? Maybe they might wonder if there was something criminal afoot, like […]

2009 Boxing Fighter Of The Year: Manny Pacquiao

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As impressive as Manny Pacquiao’s 2008 Fighter of the Year campaign was, his 2009 campaign exceeded it. Numerically. Historically. Competitively. Intangibly. In 2008, he edged the best opponent of his career, Juan Manuel Marquez, at junior lightweight; moved up to lightweight and beat a top-10 man in the division, David Diaz; then jetted up two […]

2009 Boxing Fight Of The Year: Paul Williams – Sergio Martinez

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(Paul Williams, left; Sergio Martinez, right. Which was kind of the story of the fight, wasn’t it? Photo credit: Naoki Fukuda) This was a deep class of Fight of the Year nominees we had in 2009, which is both good and bad. Parity usually means lots of excitement all over the place. But it also […]

2009 Boxing Fighter Of The Year Nominees

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Welcome to your Queensberry Rules annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Round of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final day is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from Trainer of the […]

The Week’s Boxing Schedule: Kelly Pavlik, Humberto Soto, Hozumi Hasegawa, Jean-Marc Mormeck, Others

0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/17/2009

Let’s take a brief break from the 2009 awards to break down the last week of even semi-significant fights for the rest of the year. So, let’s call it this week’s boxing schedule, plus beyond. Kelly Pavlik-Miguel Espino, Saturday, Top Rank pay-per-view, Ohio. The middleweight champion of the world has plainly wasted a year and […]

2009 Boxing Fight Of The Year Nominees

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2009 Boxing Knockout Of The Year: Manny Pacquiao – Ricky Hatton

0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/16/2009

Boxing fans are quick with the hyperbole. It’s understandable. It’s a dynamic sport. Sometimes when we watch someone gets knocked out dramatically, violently, it’s so profound an experience you’d swear it’s the best KO you’ve ever seen. But moments later we come to our senses, or if we don’t, a veteran boxing writer puts things […]

Boxing 2009 Round Of The Year: Marcos Maidana – Victor Ortiz, Round 1

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Watch it and you can see: In the opening stanza of their junior welterweight brawl, there’s the moment where Victor Ortiz decided that his plan to skilfully box Marcos Maidana isn’t going to cut it. The youngster felt the pressure and power of his more experienced opponent, and he said to himself, “OK, this guy […]

2009 Boxing Knockout Of The Year Nominees

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2009 Boxing Round Of The Year Nominees

0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/15/2009

Welcome to your Queensberry Rules annual year-end awards, starting today and continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Round of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final day is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from […]

The Arrival Of Timothy Bradley

0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/14/2009

There will come a day in the not-too-distant future when the pundits, in the aftermath of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao (if it happens, as looks likely), will say something like: “Congratulations, boxing, on seizing the limelight, if only for a moment. But where do you go from here? Pacquiao is soon to retire, and Mayweather’s day […]

Timothy Bradley Is Sensational, Paulie Malignaggi Is Redeemed, Vic Darchinyan Is Explosive And Victor Ortiz Is Back On Track

0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/13/2009

HBO and Showtime dueled it out with separate cards totaling five fights, and Showtime won the night for one reason: The thing I want to talk about most is junior welterweight Timothy Bradley, who headlined the Showtime card. Against a formidable and determined foe, Bradley delivered a sensational performance to defeat Lamont Peterson by decision. […]

Vitali Klitschko – Kevin Johnson Results

0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/12/2009

Upon clicking on “read more.” Kevin Johnson became a footnote in the career of heavyweight Vitali Klitschko by being just the second man in Klitschko’s 39 wins to survive to the final bell. That was probably the most interesting part of the fight. Or maybe it was the chippiness Klitschko and Johnson demonstrated upon the […]

Videos Of Isaac Hlatshwayo, Oleg Maskaev Getting Knocked Out Friday

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Two videos of upset wins from yesterday for you, after the jump: one of heavyweight Nagy Aguilera knocking out Oleg Maskaev, one with highlights of welterweight Dejan Zavec knocking out Isaac Hlatshwayo. The Maskaev loss is a tiny bit more shocking, not because Maskaev was very good or nothin’. This was supposed to be a […]

Lou DiBella, Boxing’s Man Of Integrity

0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/11/2009

It’s so rare for a boxing promoter to turn down free money because of moral compunctions that when it happens, it simply must be trumpeted loudly and from as high a perch as can be found. Today, Lou DiBella sent out a news release announcing that he was severing his relationship with super middleweight Jermain […]