0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/9/2015
The talk of the boxing world, and the talk of boxing in the non-boxing world, is whether we might finally get Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao. The interest is understandable (if not comical, based on the various inaccurate reports about whether the fight is finalized). For a subset of boxing fans, the subject of Mayweather Pacquiao […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/7/2015
Sergio Mora evaded defeat narrowly on ESPN2 Friday at the hands of Abie Han in a close split decision that was something of a trap fight. Mora has expected to challenge Jermain Taylor for a middleweight strap on Friday Night Fights, and a combination of that let down and a tricky, aggressive opponent — along with […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/1/2015
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but there really isn’t much boxing on this week. In fact, there’s not a proper “big fight” until February 21. On Friday middleweight Sergio Mora is fighting someone who is not Jermain Taylor on ESPN2, which can only be counted as a small victory, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/30/2015
Main Events thought they had gotten Karl Dargan to the precipice of an HBO date. Friday night on ESPN2, Tony Luis killed that notion. Dargan, a lightweight with some serious speed, was coming off a sensational knockout as the last “project” of Main Events on NBC Sports. Luis was a potentially tough test and proved […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 1/29/2015
Boxing by its very nature is a troubled sport. When the exact goal of an endeavour is to entice two grown men into viciously attacking one another, it’s evident the entire affair and its surroundings will always be rife with unrest and agitation. Controversy and accusations of cheating are perhaps more prevalent in prizefighting than […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/27/2015
Look, you can probably tell by the title of this post that it’s not a huge week of boxing (no offence to lightweight prospect Karl Dargan). There are two televised shows left in the week (we were a bit late with the schedule due to public holiday drinking commitments in Australia and missed the Fox […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 1/26/2015
In boxing, even sure things aren’t sure things. The idea that Brandon Rios’ bludgeoning style would match well again with Alvarado’s boxer-puncher (with emphasis on the puncher) style for a third time was a certainty. And maybe it would have, if not for Alvarado’s tendency to err on the side of erring, but the Denver […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 1/25/2015
The first time Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado declared war on each other they embraced the messy tenets of inside battle and let the tea leaves dictate who won; it was Rios. The second time, Alvarado climbed the walls in Las Vegas, just barely escaping ruin to out-distance the gritty brawler. And this time, whatever series of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/24/2015
(Al Bello/Getty Images) Let’s just get it out of the way right off the bat: Whatever negotiations for Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao are happening — and, for once, it does seem like the negotiations have actually been happening, rather than both sides simply talking about each other — the proper posture to take about the fight […]
0 comments by Andy Ryan
There’s a difference between an underdog and a human sacrifice. Underdogs go up against the odds but with enough of a shot to get the bookies nervous and the fans talking of “what ifs?” It’s not the same as when a fighter who everyone knows is hopelessly mismatched takes a hammering. Ask Rod Salka. Too […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 1/23/2015
“I read that Martin Luther King said, ‘A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.’ I was like, dang. You know, I would die for boxing. I know that’s dumb. You’ll say, ‘You got your kids — your family.’ I know. But still, you died fighting. Jermain Taylor is a boxer.” […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/21/2015
There are plenty of fights where it makes sense to strip away their components, one by one, and then reconstitute them, like a chemistry student studying an upcoming (sweet) science project. Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado III, this Saturday on HBO, isn’t one of them. Everything has chemistry at its core, even a couple of bricks. But […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/20/2015
We’ve just come off an action packed week of boxing. Perhaps too action packed, judging by the photo of Deontay Wilder and Bermane Stiverne above (via
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 1/19/2015
It’s true that boxing has a funny way of bonding two men who steal life from one another inside of a square ring, but even so, sometimes a pair of fighters compliment one another so well when the action begins, that the rest doesn’t matter. You’d think two fiery characters like Brandon Rios and Mike […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
President Barack Obama today confirmed what many suspected: Deontay Wilder’s win over Bermane Stiverne for a meaningless heavyweight title on Saturday has ended the era of American decline. “I can finally look Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in the eye now that the best heavyweight in the world, excluding Wladimir Klitschko, Tyson Fury and Alexander Povetkin, […]
