Floyd Mayweather Vs. Marcos Maidana Undercard, Previewed (And The Rest Of The Week’s Boxing Schedule)

0 comments by Alex McClintock on 9/8/2014

Wow, is it a pay-per-view week again? Time flies when you’re paying huge amounts to view sporting events of dubious quality. Not that there’s anything wrong with the main event rematch between Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana on Saturday, it’s just that the undercard is a load of bollocks. Though there are big names, they’re in fights […]

Broner Decisions Taylor With Fun Rally In Night Of Flawed Fights On Showtime

0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/7/2014

(Adrien Broner celebrates his knockdown of Emmanuel Taylor; Stephanie Trapp, Showtime) A showcase tripleheader on Showtime delivered a fun main event, yet one that also demonstrated the limitations of its star, while the undercard had its share of flaws, too. A hungry Emanuel Taylor leaped from ESPN2 to a Showtime main event and gave Adrien […]

Juan Francisco Estrada Devastates Giovani Segura, Roman Gonzalez Rematch Please

0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/6/2014

The flyweight division’s stellar run of late has been marked by its parity, but after this weekend there are now two clear top 112 pounders: Newly-crowned king Roman Gonzalez, who on Friday stopped Akira Yaegashi, and Juan Francisco Estrada, who on Saturday halted Giovani Segura. Estrada-Segura started sloppily enough, which you might have thought could […]

Port Authority: Magnificent Carl Frampton Underlines Superiority Over Kiko Martínez

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(Carl Frampton, left, Kiko Martinez, right; via) BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND – Belfast’s Carl “The Jackal” Frampton scored the biggest win of his career last night, besting former foe Kiko Martínez over 12 terse rounds. Frampton, a wildly popular figure in these parts, battered Martínez mercilessly to claim a unanimous decision via scores of 119-108 (twice) […]

Roman Gonzalez Takes Flyweight Championship From Akira Yaegashi In Tough, High-Class Bout

0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/5/2014

Akira Yaegashi showed the spirit of a champion to even get in the ring with Roman Gonzalez. And he fought with championship mettle Friday before his home crowd in Japan. But Gonzalez is the true, lineal flyweight champion now, the king of the best division in boxing, and we should be talking about him as […]

Quick Jabs: Floyd Mayweather And Yoga; Manny Pacquiao And Taxes; Funky Showtime Ratings; More

0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/4/2014

As funnier wags have said about this photo of Peter Dinklage and Gennady Golovkin, “GGG would have decimated the Mountain.” Golovkin certainly would have confirmed the kill. In this mammoth-sized edition of Quick Jabs, we will have more substantial matters to discuss about GGG. We will also have the subject in the headlines, and more […]

Big Fights, Little Men: Previews And Predictions For Yaegashi Vs. Gonzalez, Estrada Vs. Segura

0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/3/2014

By every measurement save one, this should be among the most highly anticipated boxing weekends of 2014. No, not because of Showtime’s showcase tripleheader, obviously. The real high-level action is taking place far up the television dial in the United States, or else nowhere to be found at all. That’s because the men who are providing […]

Alternate Universe List Of The Pound-For-Pound Best Boxers, 2014 Edition

0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/2/2014

What if… there existed another universe where fighters were ranked pound-for-pound — i.e., who’s best regardless of weight — based nothing at all on any actual evidence from what a fighter had actually accomplished? A dimension where some figure or the other just points at a fighter and says, “I think he looks like he’s […]

TQBR Radio 9/2: Adrien Broner Vs. Emmanuel Taylor Preview

0 comments by Patrick Connor on 9/1/2014

Never mind the title. That’s just for attention. This coming weekend is all about the flyweights. The man pictured above, Sid Smith (via), is perhaps the granddaddy of the division, which is the lightest of what are generally considered the original eight weight classes. (Also, most boxing fans have the same unimpressed look on their […]

The Week’s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Roman Gonzalez, Adrien Broner And Giovani Segura

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Hope you’ve enjoyed the last couple of more or less boxing-less weeks, because the sport is back with a vengeance this weekend. Indeed, it might be the single best weekend of the year so far, and it’s all down to the little guys, with a pair of flyweight bouts set to shake up that division […]

A Puncher’s Chance: Five Boxing Knockouts That Turned Around A Sure Defeat

0 comments by Cathal McGuigan on 8/28/2014

The puncher’s chance is a beautiful thing. A boxer can be barely standing, fighting more by muscle memory than will, and yet there is always a chance that a single perfect punch can turn a hopeless fight — and sometimes even a drooping career — around in a split second. This wild card factor is […]

Nonito Donaire To Fight Nicholas Walters In Weird, Good Fight

0 comments by Alex McClintock on 8/27/2014

Featherweights Nonito Donaire and Nicholas Walters will clash on the undercard of HBO’s Oct. 18 show headlined by Gennady Golovkin (against Marco Antonio Rubio), according to Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions. It’s a great fight between to of the top featherweights in the world (Donaire is the #2 contender and Walters the #5, according to the Transnational […]

The Week’s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Marco Huck And J’Leon Love

0 comments by Alex McClintock on 8/26/2014

The Queensberry Rules will always have a soft spot for boxing kangaroos — not only are they an emblem of my country, they’re undeniably cool. In this case Fred Morley (the one without the tail) looks like he’s about to get his tail-less arse kicked. Anyway, inter-species fights of questionable ethical status are not really […]

Hit By His Own Hype Train: Where Next For Adrien Broner?

0 comments by Andy Ryan on 8/25/2014

(May 3; Las Vegas; Adrien Broner [right] against Carlos Molina during their fight at MGM Grand. Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) A young boxer without hype is just one of countless hopefuls. Add hype and suddenly you’ve got a “hot prospect,” “a contender,” maybe even “the next big thing.” Hype attracts fans, sells tickets, […]

Australian Boxing Might Explode Off The Planet — But It Shouldn’t

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/23/2014

(July 26; New York; Gennady Golovkin [white gloves] reacts after knocking out Daniel Geale [black gloves] during their middleweight bout at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) In the win-loss measurement of things, Australian boxing has had a terrible few weeks. First Daniel Geale got smashed quickly by Gennady Golovkin. Then Blake Caparello […]