0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/23/2014
(Zou Shiming; via @HBOBoxing on Twitter) Through a couple rounds, Zou Shiming was delivering his best performance Saturday night on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri. By the end of the fight, all of his old flaws had resurfaced. But he won almost every round, scored a number of knockdowns against Kwanpichit Onesongchaigym and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/22/2014
(Lomachenko connects on Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo; via @HBOBoxing on Twitter) Vasyl Lomachenko does astounding things in the ring. Saturday night he was on his way to a beautifully boxed win, perhaps even a knockout, that showed off his versatility and all-around excellence. Then he injured his left hand. He didn’t lose a round after that. Appearing on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Jessie Vargas finally won a clear decision instead of having to rely on Vegas judges to side with him, beating Antonio DeMarco over 12 bruising rounds Saturday night on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri. He isn’t great, or even particularly good, and probably never will be, even having switched to Roy Jones, […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 11/21/2014
There’s something about a boxing match being sold as an ethnic clash that has moved tickets since there were even tickets to move. Call it primal, or even tribal, get philosophical, but at the end of the day, it’s transforming a one-on-one argument into an “us vs. them” scenario, and it just feels inherently normal […]
0 comments by Matthew Paras
The last time junior welterweight Adrian Granados fought on television, the 25-year-old was involved in a firefight. Appearing in front of his hometown city of Chicago outdoors at U.S. Cellular Field, Granados overcame two knockdowns where he was badly hurt to stop Mark Salser in the 6th round. It was exactly the type of fight a […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 11/20/2014
If you had told me a year ago that I would be writing a preview for Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri, I’d have had one simple question: Who the fuck is Chris Algieri? In September 2013, Algieri won his 18th bout after his opponent Wilfredo Acuna (14-12, and winless in his previous five) retired on […]
0 comments by Steve Caimano
(Mayweather, left, Pacquiao, right; via) I’m a sucker. I’m a sucker because when I read this story from the Los Angeles Times this week asserting that “The Pacquiao-Mayweather buzz has been heating up since September” I forget all about when people were saying this the last time (August), and the time before that, and, well, all […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
Boxing’s heavyweight division is its own beast. These days, that beast is looking toothless and dreary, but in days past it was ferocious. There are no quick fixes, or simple answers as to how or why things change, we just know that the landscape of the heavyweight division now is mostly barren. American networks have […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 11/19/2014
(Promoter Bob Arum, Pacquiao, Zhou and Algieri arrive in Macau; photo via) “You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone… Alone in the most beautiful place in the world.”- Jean Rhys Despite his unabashed confidence, which can at times border on a smugly dismissive sense […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Photo via) Patrol the places where hardcore boxing fans live, and you’ll find a substantial strain of them whose commentary about this weekend’s HBO pay-per-view fight between Manny Pacquiao and Chris Algieri is significantly focused on hating Algieri. It’s not to hard to identify how this came to be, if you’ve studied Hardcorus Boxingfanius. And individual tastes on […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/18/2014
What’s worse than the tepid undercard to Manny Pacquiao vs. Chris Algieri? Top Rank Promotions’ attempt to get down with the youth with their trash talk gifs creator (example pictured above). Not only is it so very “How do you do, fellow kids,” it also stole the name of friend of the site David Greisman’s column, Fighting […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 11/17/2014
The enclosed picture is photographic proof of what happens to Chris Algieri’s face when he hasn’t done his daily avocado treatments, presumably (via). We’re just bloggers, here, so we can’t be sure, but if our avocadospectrometers are correct, Manny Pacquiao could be in a world of hurt this weekend. We head to Macau, once more, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/15/2014
Kubrat Pulev came to fight against the heavyweight champion Saturday, never backing down, roughing him up, suffering some heavy blows and coming right back to land some big shots of his own. It was exactly what we’ve been hoping someone might do to Wladimir Klitschko someday. Klitschko withstood it all, and responded to every second […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/13/2014
This is just about as good as it gets for the modern heavyweight division: The true champion is facing the most qualified opponent he hasn’t yet defeated. It’s a legitimate fight, Wladimir Klitschko vs. Kubrat Pulev. HBO is televising Saturday afternoon, as it should, no matter how tedious Klitschko fights are to many of us, because […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/12/2014
Anthony Mundine proved he has at least something left in the tank in Melbourne tonight, much to the disappointment of many boxing fans. The junior middleweight fringe contender managed to steal enough rounds in an entertaining, see-saw fight with Belarus’s Sergey Rabchenko to earn a split decision victory. Mundine was hurt at various stages throughout […]
