Any Which Way: Juan Manuel Marquez Vs. Mike Alvarado Preview And Prediction

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It is popularly thought, and rightly, for that matter, that Juan Manuel Marquez’s counterpunching style is the antidote for Manny Pacquiao’s ultra-aggressive, livewire-as-bullwhip style; four meetings have borne that out. But, then, the antidote for a lot of things is a counterpunching style, and maybe no more so than for a natural counterpuncher like Marquez, […]

Floyd Mayweather, Marcos Maidana And The Nature Of Fighters

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I’m not here to write about the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana welterweight fight that aired on pay-per-view May 3 and re-aired on Showtime last weekend. Browse any major boxing website or social media threads and you’ll read plenty of opinions on how it went. If it helps, I had the fight 8-4 for Mayweather with plenty […]

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Deontay Wilder And The “Internet Troll”

0 comments by on 5/13/2014

This past weekend, two authentic heavyweight contenders (Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola) squared off on ESPN — a rare occurrence for the worldwide leader, which usually confines boxing to its sister network ESPN2. Yet the fight, a good one, was overshadowed by a farce in the same division, featuring Deontay Wilder — who is in […]

Bermane Stiverne Stops Chris Arreola In A Jiggly Good Fight

0 comments by on 5/10/2014

The old adage is “as go the heavyweights, so goes boxing.” Well, if more heavyweight fights were as entertaining as Bermane Stiverne’s 6th round stoppage of Chris Arreola on ESPN, boxing might be more popular. Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KO) was way behind on my card at the time of the stoppage. He was being outworked […]

The Portrayal Of The Boxer In Film

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After Grudge Match’s genre baiting, we might need a year off to take boxing films seriously again. Hopefully after 2014’s boxer-free film slate we’ll get back to the grit, poverty, powerlessness, and pathos the screen fighter suffers on our account. The ubiquity of the boxer in film doesn’t always make for the freshest films. New […]

British Beat: Kid Galahad And Derry Mathews Favoured For Weekend Honours

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Sheffield junior featherweight Kid Galahad, 16-0, 8 KOs, will attempt to sew another badge on his rucksack this weekend when he vies for Commonwealth honours against imported Aussie wildcard Fred “The General” Mundraby, 15-1-1, 7 KOs. Having already secured British and European awards in successive fights (he has since discarded the Lonsdale belt), the tricksy […]

Throwback Thursday: Mickey Walker Evens Score With Maxie Rosenbloom On Points

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Most boxing fans should be familiar with the term “crossroads fight.” For those who aren’t familiar, a crossroads fight is defined as one where the career trajectory of both men seem to be divergent. Bouts where youngsters face veterans often fit the description. In those match-ups, it sometimes happens that the guy supposedly fated to […]

Weekend Afterthoughts On Floyd Mayweather, Marcos Maidana, Lil Wayne And More

0 comments by on 5/6/2014

 (May 3, 2014; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Marcos Maidana punches against Floyd Mayweather Jr. during their fight at MGM Grand. Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) We came so very close to history Saturday night. Had Marcos Maidana defeated Floyd Mayweather on Showtime Pay-Per-View, it would have been the biggest upset in boxing at the […]

The Week’s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Chris Arreola And Kazuto Ioka

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There’s not much boxing on this week, so it’s possible that you’ll be reduced to watching praying mantises fight. That’s okay, though, they do look pretty cool with their dukes up. There are really only two fights of significance this week, with junior flyweight #2 contender Kazuto Ioka moving up to flyweight to face Amnat […]

TQBR Radio 5/6: Floyd Mayweather Vs. Marcos Maidana Recap With Joel Stern

0 comments by on 5/5/2014

“Okay. Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne and Floyd Mayweather walk into a dressing room doing a three-way hug…” Though that might seem like that’s the set up to one of the most mind- and/or gender-bending joke in the universe, it actually happened the other night. Let the reality of that sink in for a moment. Past […]

Floyd Mayweather Squeaks By Marcos Maidana In One Of His Toughest Bouts

0 comments by on 5/4/2014

(Floyd Mayweather, left, Marcos Maidana, right; via @shosports) The longer it went on, the more the expected became the reality between Floyd Mayweather and underdog Marcos Maidana on Showtime Pay-Per-View Saturday night. That’s because the first six rounds of Mayweather-Maidana required a  drastic suspension of disbelief: Maidana was winning rounds, and, often beating up Mayweather, […]

Mayweather Vs. Maidana Results: Amir Khan Better Than Lately In Win Over Luis Collazo

0 comments by on 5/3/2014

Amir Khan came out sizzling against Luis Collazo, and had glorious moments throughout over the 12 rounds of his decision victory on the undercard of the Showtime Pay-Per-View main event of Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana. It was the best he had looked in a while. Yet somehow, his victory continued to demonstrate his weaknesses. Khan dominated […]

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