0 comments by Patrick Connor on 4/3/2014
The 1920s spirit flowed freely in 1923. The roar was protected by low unemployment rates, jazz and dance clubs crawled with frantic activity, and New York — a city that embodied the decadence of the decade — was graced with ambiguous prohibition laws that lubricated the mind and spirit. And boxing breathed fire. When Al […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/1/2014
Mike Tyson and Street Fighter: it’s the best of the ’90s all in one place! The week ahead in boxing might not provide as much entertainment as Tyson with sound effects, but there’s a lot on. I guess you could describe the schedule this week as wide, not deep. As always, it’s a testament to […]
Satisfaction: what boxing has been largely unable to provide lately.
0 comments by Patrick Connor
What exactly do we get when a predatory butcher like Sergey Kovalev is granted a major pay cable network time slot to pulverize a virtually unknown opponent, and have it mean…nothing at all? Well, boxing, that’s what. While Adonis Stevenson’s departure to Showtime and the subsequent implosion of a likely matchup against Kovalev isn’t quite […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 3/30/2014
NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND – Martin Ward had offered to give his right hand in exchange for Stuart Hall’s recently acquired world bantamweight title belt, yet before a passionate crowd at the Metro Radio Arena on the banks of the River Tyne, Saturday, he wasn’t even afforded the chance to throw one. At the end of a tense opening session, […]
Sergey Kovalev; credit: Rich Graessle/Main Events
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/29/2014
We’ve gotten used to light heavyweight power puncher Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev krushing everyone in short order, so it was mildly disruptive of the pattern on HBO Saturday that unheralded Cedric Agnew took seven rounds to get krushed. Yet get krushed he did, posing only slightly more difficult target practice than usual. In the sense that […]
Thomas Dulorme holds off Karim Mayfield; credit: Rich Graessle/Main Events
0 comments by Tim Starks
Judging from the 1st round, Thomas Dulorme was going to be too quick, too big and too powerful Saturday night on HBO against fellow junior welterweight Karim Mayfield. But the fight went through a few metamorphoses, ending up with Dulorme pulling out a unanimous decision win that was anything but resounding. Dulorme hurt Mayfield twice […]
Boxcino semifinal fighters Chris Rudd, Miguel Gonzalez, Fernando Carcamo and Petr Petrov pose with 4 Bears Casino & Lodge General Manager Pat Packineau (middle) at Thursday’s weigh-in; credit: Shane Sims, Banner Promotions
0 comments by Matthew Swain
I love tournaments and the lightweight Boxcino tournament is why I love them. Five weeks ago, we were treated to an excellent opening round, and the semifinals from the Four Bears Casino in Newtown, N. Dakota Friday on ESPN2 were even better. The opening bout between Miguel Gonzalez and Fernando Carcamo produced the most gif-worthy […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/28/2014
Which staged-seeming heavyweight video to start this dual “fights in the works”/”news roundup and analysis” post with? Throwing a shoe or overturning a table? We’ll go with Shannon Briggs throwing a shoe at the champion, Wladimir Klitschko, and then with Tyson Fury throwing a table in advance of his rematch with Dereck Chisora. QUICK JABS […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 3/26/2014
Keeping up with our recent theme of historical headpunching, here’s a picture of “two women boxing” from an unknown year. It’s from Flickr Commons, which, like I’ve previously said, is bloody addictive. This week there’s plenty of the regularkind of non-historical boxing on, with fights in Japan, North Dakota, New Jersey and Mexico. Globalisation is […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
This will be a screed disguised as a fight preview. But then, the fight that is being “previewed” was itself a preview of a fight we actually cared about, and that will have to take on a new disguise now. Thus, the screed. There is no one — outside the usual friends and family — […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/25/2014
Short weekend, few afterthoughts to reflect upon: Tony Thompson vs. Odlanier Solis. Maybe I was being a Washington, D.C., homer, but I didn’t see much of a case for Solis winning this heavyweight clash, as one of the three judges did. I didn’t have Solis winning that many rounds overall, although I did not score […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 3/24/2014
In a suburban Leeds gym, a boxer punches out a percussive rhythm akin to a death march. In an adjacent room close to the entrance of this triangular, bone-coloured building, I’m talking to a ghost. John Murray isn’t supposed to be here. In November 2012, Murray, a former British and European lightweight champion, was tapering […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 3/23/2014
For all their base, animalistic intrigue, professional prizefights are often the antithesis to idealism. Unlike virtually all other athletic endeavours, the grandest stage in boxing is not by default reserved for the best. The finest two entities do not necessarily face one another for the prize of global supremacy. In fact, this happens so rarely […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison
Sheffield prospect Kid Galahad, 16-0, 8 KOs, roundly outboxed Spanish import Sergio Prado, 9-4-1, 3 KOs, to claim the European junior featherweight title, Saturday, live on terrestrial TV. The Qatar-born 24-year-old — who secures an alphabet world ranking with the win — wasn’t as much as scuffed throughout 12 rounds of adept technical boxing at […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 3/22/2014
If Vanes Martirosyan could have asked for an opponent to make him look good on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, he would have. That’s where “home” is for Martirosyan. With two exceptions — a bullshit technical draw against Erislandy Lara and a loss to Demtrius Andrade — he has spent his career looking good against hopelessly overmatched […]
