0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 11/12/2014
Everything has its limits. A car stops running, a cigarette burns down, a love affair only goes so long. How things run out of time is maybe more important than that they inevitably will. Watching Bernard Hopkins fight in Atlantic City this past Saturday night one was seeing the slow demise of a once and in many ways still […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/11/2014
Whoa, there’s lots of boxing on this week. It was a bit sad writing the schedule, though, because so few of the fights are likely to be competitive. At least the top dog of the heavyweight division (get it? Because the picture… it’s of dogs… never mind), Wladimir Klitschko will be on HBO again. Not […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 11/10/2014
The last time we saw an Alien crushed (or “krushed,” if you prefer) like Sergey Kovalev did to Bernard Hopkins, was that scene were Lieutenant Ellen Ripley drove her huge metal car over a Xenomorph to save all her space marine buddies. Yeah. We’re going James Cameron on this thing. This week on Queensberry Rules […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/9/2014
(Bernard Hopkins, black trunks, takes a punch from Sergey Kovalev; Ed Mulholland, USA TODAY Sports) ATLANTIC CITY – Sergey Kovalev couldn’t knock out Bernard Hopkins Saturday night on HBO. He was robbed of his trademark, the thing that has made him a sensation. But what he did might have been more impressive: He outboxed the ancient […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Sadam Ali warms up before facing Luis Carlos Abregu; via @hboboxing on Twitter) ATLANTIC CITY — Sadam Ali fucked up Luis Carlos Abregu Saturday night, stopping him in the 9th, a result foreseen by no one. The young, unproven ex-Olympian was making a huge step up by taking on the dangerous welterweight puncher, a step perhaps […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/8/2014
ATLANTIC CITY — It might be a dying town, but AC has some life this weekend, even with the always-frigid November ocean breeze freezing those roaming the Boardwalk. The main event of the HBO broadcast is, naturally, the big attraction right now. The truly compelling bout between light heavyweights Bernard Hopkins and Sergey Kovalev is still […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 11/7/2014
Big fights are a special time here at The Queensberry Rules. They are an occasion for our team (a group spanning 15 time zones, four countries, three continents, and one tenuously shared language) to gather and slam our heads together until something useful oozes out. With that noble purpose in mind, we offer you our […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
How’s this for an odd sport: The best thing to happen to boxing in a long time is a 49-year-old man taking on one of the sport’s premier power punchers in his prime. That’s what’s happening Saturday on HBO, when the crusty, mean-spirited old alley cat named Bernard Hopkins steps into the ring with the new blood […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 11/6/2014
Boxing overflows with victims. With no levee in place, fighters are martyred, managers are taken advantage of, men lose a competition, the winnings are plundered, and the cruel cycle spins forth unabated. A fighter can either develop a monetary exoskeleton, as Floyd Mayweather Jr. has done, or tell the system to climb right on, as […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/5/2014
Last week marked the 40th anniversary of the Rumble in the Jungle, which mean this week marks the 20th anniversary of George Foreman’s victory over Michael Moorer to regain a version of the heavyweight title at 45. It’s kind of fitting, then, that Bernard Hopkins, who’s even more ancient at 49, is fighting this week. […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 11/3/2014
If you really think about it, that movie poster above (via) could be the fight poster for every Bernard Hopkins fight, from here to eternity. You basically have every necessary element for a Hopkins fight in there, too: a colorful, if not annoying mask, an old corpse, and wrestling moves. This weekend on HBO, Bernard […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/2/2014
Here’s boxing in 2014, in a nutshell: Showtime, which had cast its lot with Golden Boy’s Richard Schaefer prior to the company’s split with him, has aired trash almost exclusively this year, yet is putting on a quality welterweight bout Dec. 13 between Devon Alexander and Amir Khan. The undercard bout between junior middleweights Demetrius […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/30/2014
The opaque marketing campaigns have come and gone, and “Mike Tyson Mysteries” has made its debut on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim — you can even watch the first episode here. What to make of it? (Spoilers ahead.) There is no way to make total sense of it. It’s eccentric in the way a lot of Adult […]
0 comments by Cathal McGuigan on 10/29/2014
After his Oct. 24 bout with Ruben Tamayo was called off, the latest setback to Orlando Cruz’s career must mean that thoughts of retirement are creeping into his mind. After 14 years as a pro featherweight he’s no closer to a world title. He failed to take the WBO belt from Orlando Salido last October […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 10/27/2014
Theattle hath a Mike Thython Thtatue? That’s crazy (and via our friends at r/boxing). Sadly, that’s about the craziest thing going on in boxing this week. Still, the previews for all of the week’s fights are below. Andrzej Fonfara Vs. Doudou Ngumbu, Saturday, Showtime, Chicago. Officially, this card is billed as The Homecoming, but is should probably […]
