0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/19/2014
Very sorry. Look, having pictures in articles is a good thing from the standpoint of bloggery best practices. There isn’t a lot photographically to show you right now, so you get a graphic glance (or stare, given your inclinations) at naked 49-year-old Bernard Hopkins, from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue. This edition of Quick Jabs […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/18/2014
Filipino lightweight Mercito Gesta had little difficulty with Luis Arceo on Fox Sports 1 Friday, and not for lack of trying by Arceo. On the same card, Chinese giant Taishan Dong made a successful, if not lumbering, pro debut. Gesta has often had trouble letting his hands go, for all his evident talent. He’s like […]
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We got a no contest and a close decision on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, with Emmanuel Taylor taking away the unanimous win over Karim Mayfield in the main event. If you missed FNF this week, you didn’t miss much; it was fine on paper, it just didn’t materialize as “fine” in reality. The two junior […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/17/2014
Old timey people were very much into animals boxing. There’s some appeal there, to be sure. (via) We’re heading toward the summer doldrums, which means not a lot of fights are being signed. A decent number are being discussed, though, and that’s good enough for Round And Round. Among the men discussed in this edition […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 7/16/2014
Look at this prize goose. Am I talking about Marcos Maidana or Floyd Mayweather? You be the judge of that, but how good an insult is prize goose? In non-selfie related news, the boxing schedule isn’t all that exciting this week, but there’s some interest to be had here and there from a couple of […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 7/14/2014
Above, an artist depiction of Erislandy Lara’s performance against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, depending on who you ask (via). Okay, it wasn’t the blood-soaked war that nobody thought it was going to be, but Alvarez-Lara was one of those “necessary” fights, wasn’t it? Was it really the type of fight we want to see again right […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/13/2014
(Las Vegas; Erislandy Lara [red gloves] evades a blow by Canelo Alvarez [black gloves] during a junior middleweight fight at MGM Grand. Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports) We got an especially close fight Saturday on Showtime pay-per-view between Saul Alvarez and Erislandy Lara, and the tie went to the more popular fighter, young rising […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/12/2014
(Las Vegas; Abner Mares celebrates his victory over Jonathan Oquendo during a featherweight fight at MGM Grand. Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports) Abner Mares was recovering Saturday night from his first loss, a long layoff and adjusting to new trainer Virgil Hunter, and he got a clear decision win over Jonathan Oquendo in a […]
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JuanMa Lopez just can’t help himself — if there’s a brawl to be had, he’ll walk right into it. Francisco Vargas (above right,
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It was a very good fight with a genuinely close result, but the right man won: Mauricio Herrera topped Johan Perez by majority decision in a bout marked by numerous shifts in the dynamic. Fighting on the undercard of Canelo Alvarez-Erislandy Lara on Showtime pay-per-view, Herrera (above left) rebounded from a disputed loss to junior […]
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Tomoki Kameda had been struggling a little in his U.S. debut, then did in Pungluang Sor Singyu with a perfect left hook to the body that was preceded by an uppercut that set up the shot. Sor Singyu writhed in pain, as well he should have, and the fight was over just like that in […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/11/2014
Tureano Johnson withstood a hot start from Mike Gavronski to dish out a unanimous decision beating on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, in his first appearance since making an impression in a controversial loss to Curtis Stevens. It was a well-deserved and successful return to television sets. The middleweight protested the final round stoppage against Stevens […]
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It is hard to believe that in a year of boxing as sclerotic as 2014 that a fight like Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Erislandy Lara is happening Saturday. Simple, absolutely fundamental building blocks of a functioning sport like “the ability to make any kind of worthwhile match whatsoever” have been toppled in one thunderclap after […]
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It takes a rare kind of fight to make one pine for a boxer to be knocked out after the bell, but Rances Barthelemy-Argenis Mendez II Thursday on Fox Sports 1 stirred that odd sort of nostalgia. Barthelemy won clearly this time, and deserved to, but at least the first meeting had some fireworks and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/10/2014
(Awww, they’re going to be friends again. May 3, 2014; Las Vegas; Marcos Maidana [right] embraces Floyd Mayweather, Jr. following their fight at the MGM Grand. Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) The rumored became reality Thursday when pound-for-pound champ and pay-per-view king Floyd Mayweather announced he would rematch Marcos Maidana in September on Showtime […]
