0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/17/2015
Is Gennady Golovkin an android? A golem? Whatever he is, he seems almost perfectly designed to destroy flesh and bone, which is what he did Saturday on HBO Pay-Per-View against David Lemieux. To say that Lemieux never had a chance, despite his own vaunted middleweight punching power, might ignore the most important point, which is […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Roman Gonzalez stopped Brian Viloria on a night where Viloria was fighting as well as he possibly could, which is to say that we were talking about a pretty dangerous Viloria Saturday on HBO Pay-Per-View. Viloria even hurt Gonzalez in the same round Viloria hurt him with a body punch, freezing him for about a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Tureano Johnson beat on Eamonn O’Kane so much Saturday night he set a middleweight record for beating on someone according to CompuBox, scoring a unanimous decision and landing 405 shots. Johnson connected on a whopping 58 percent of his power punches, and yet O’Kane made it to the final bell despite taking two knockdowns in […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain
Pay-per-view undercards rarely get much attention, especially given the gruel that boxing’s power brokers have ladled forth over the past few years, but, Saturday night from Madison Square Garden, one of the sport’s most unique talents takes the stage in the chief supporting bout: Nicaragua’s Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (left) meets Brian Viloria (right) for Gonzalez’s flyweight […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/14/2015
It was a squeaker, one way or the other, Wednesday’s main event on ESPN — but the “house” fighter hardly ever loses that kind, and that’s just what happened when the one-dimensional yet tough Aaron Martinez decisioned a fast-fading Devon Alexander. It was an ugly welterweight match-up; Alexander held relentlessly, underdog Martinez smashed his noggin into […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Our first edition of Gennady Golovkin quotes on Tumblr-style motivational backgrounds was so popular that we decided to do it again. This time we’ve used quotes from his HBO Face Off segment with David Lemieux ahead of their fight on Saturday. All the #inspo you need.
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 10/13/2015
It’s an absolute monster of a week in the boxing schedule. Not only is Kazakh menace Gennady Golovkin headlining his first pay-per-view, there are four (4!) “Premier Boxing Champions” cards on four different networks (seriously, that’s nuts) and much more besides. Gennady Golovkin vs David Lemieux, Saturday, HBO PPV, New York. Everyone’s favourite adorable/terrifying Kazakh middleweight, […]
0 comments by Springs Toledo on 10/12/2015
(press release/essay) Sunday, October 11 marked the third anniversary of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Traditionally speaking, it’s the leather anniversary. We’d prefer to ignore the modern gift idea devised by librarians at the Chicago Public Library, namely glass. We neither live in such a house nor have such a jaw. The leather anniversary. That’s […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano
This should be the norm, shouldn’t it? Murderous-punching middleweights Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux will square off at Madison Square Garden Saturday night on HBO Pay-Per-View. Hopefully it’s the start of a round-robin style middleweight tournament that includes Canelo Alvarez and Miguel Cotto, who will fight each other about a month from now. I use […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 10/7/2015
(Photo: Tom Hogan, Golden Boy) Lucas Matthysse lost to Viktor Postol in a junior welterweight fight Saturday night on HBO. After being dropped with a hard counter right hand in the 10th round, the normally menacing Matthysse got to his knees, rubbed his head with his gloves, and remained there until referee Jack Reiss counted […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 10/6/2015
That’s Gennady Golovkin above, in a goddamn Apple Watch commercial. I mean, sure, it doesn’t mention him by name, but that’s still huge. His management team have done a crazy job of building him from a virtually unknown import from a non-traditional boxing demographic into a plausible pay-per-view star. But his fight with David Lemieux […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/4/2015
If this return performance from Adrien Broner was meant to re-establish that a “focused” Broner could live up to the potential of younger Broner as future pound-for-pound superstar, it didn’t quite get to that. What Saturday night’s win on Showtime might have gotten to is that Broner can be better than he has been — […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/3/2015
Viktor Postol figured as a really difficult test for Lucas Matthysse, and Saturday night on HBO he went one better: He scored a massive knockout in the 10th round in one of those “arrival” performances that announced Postol is now the man to beat at junior welterweight. It was a frustrating kind of performance though […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
It’s not that you couldn’t score Jose Pedraza vs. Edner Cherry Saturday night on Showtime for Pedraza; you could. It was a close fight. Two judges saw Pedraza winning nine rounds. Nine. Nine? Yeah, somehow, nine. There were many close rounds, certainly, as the fight shifted to and fro with each man being the aggressor. […]
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Adrien Broner piggybackers Jamel Herring and Robert Easter warmed up the crowd with easy wins on Showtime Extreme Saturday, taking out no-hoper opponents, although at least Herring’s had a record of being in there with big names. Herring won every round against Yakubu Amidu, controlling him with speed and movement and firing pretty much at […]
