0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/31/2014
[UPDATE: HBO has aired the fight. Some commentary on that below.] This is a post about what happened in the Nonito Donaire vs. Simpiwe Vetyeka featherweight fight in Macau, China. Since the fight will air live on HBO this afternoon, anyone who doesn’t want a spoiler should stop reading now. OK:
0 comments by David Scott on 5/30/2014
Would that I could equal the star power of actress Emily Blunt cheering on “Hammersmith boy” George Groves, but as a Nottingham native I am a huge supporter of Carl Froch in this weekend’s rematch between the pair. Indeed, it is the way he reflects the salt of the earth character of Nottingham that has […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
This is how chock full of boxing this weekend is: One of the best 10 or 15 fighters alive — from one of the most boxing-mad countries on the planet — is fighting Saturday on HBO against perhaps the #1 fighter in his division, and it’s been overshadowed by Carl Froch vs. George Groves II […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 5/29/2014
(photo of Carl Froch-George Groves I via Matchroom/HBO) Boxing exerts such a mental toll on its participants that often they’ll shy away from reality. It is the reason so many hucksters and carnival barkers have managed to pillage the sport through the years (and why an ever expanding number of elite-level boxers attempt to distance […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
Gauging the importance of a given fight in boxing is no easy task. It’s nigh impossible to put in stone exactly what it is that makes a bout important. There’s much to choose from, between attendance records and television views; world titles and simply how great the action is. Are fights that usher in new […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 5/28/2014
There have been few melt downs quite as magnificent as the one depicted in the video above, when a naïve Kevin Keegan fell prey to the mind games of arch-schemer Sir Alex Ferguson at the business end of the 1995-96 Premier League season. Keegan’s team, the swashbuckling Newcastle United, had at one point enjoyed a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/27/2014
Awww, remember when these two were pals for about 30 seconds after they first fought? Super middleweights Carl Froch (left) and George Groves (right) have done nothing but squabble since then, from whether there would be a rematch to the financial terms to awkward in-person confrontations to arguing over which referee and judges would officiate. […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
That’s it. We’re done. Hope is gone and humanity will fail. If the two jovial, carefree gentlemen in the photo above, rapper T.I. and Floyd Mayweather (via), cannot get along, then who can? Forget peace in the Middle East, TQBR Radio is just waiting for Brad Pitt and Jen Aniston to get back together. Boxing […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
(photo via r/boxing) Like this picture of David Haye, Darren Barker and Matthew Macklin as horny adolescents standing next to (presumably) the first girl they’d ever seen, there’s so much boxing on this weekend, I don’t know where to look. The biggest fight of the week is the rematch between super middleweights Carl Froch and […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/26/2014
At some point in the history of boxing, someone decided that it was compulsory for every fighter to have a nickname. And since that point, the sport has been plagued by awful nicknames. Rather than being something you have to earn, nicknames are something your manager thinks of before your first fight. For every Juan […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor
“War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” – On War, Carl von Clausewitz One of the more notable warriors in the sport of boxing, Matthew Saad Muhammad, had but one will when stepping through the ropes: lay waste to whatever was standing across from him at the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/25/2014
Even though D.C.-area prospect Mike Reed will be fighting outside of his backyard for the first time in his pro career when he travels to Atlantic City June 14, in a way, it’s nothing new for him. “I mean, it’s cool,” Reed said in a weekend interview. But, “It’s really not a big deal. As […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/24/2014
(Adonis Stevenson, right, throws at Andrzej Fonfara; credit: Stephanie Trapp, Showtime) From the very start, the expected Adonis Stevenson rout was on: The first clean left he landed on Andrzej Fonfara dropped him. Even the first whole half of Stevenson’s Showtime debut Saturday still had the air of the lineal light heavyweight champion getting a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
For half a round, busted prospect Fernando Guerrero acted like he might give fellow busted prospect David Lemieux a challenge on Showtime Saturday night, jabbing and staying at distance. Then Lemieux did what Lemieux does, which is to hit people very, very, very hard, and Guerrero spent the next two and a half rounds on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Showtime Extreme gave us a chance Saturday to get a look at two well-regarded young fighters, Eleider Alvarez and Julian Williams. Both won, but Alvarez didn’t live up to his hype the way Williams did to his. Granted, Alvarez faced the better competition of the two, befitting a fighter who is just now flirting with […]
