0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/19/2013
Did you see Kell Brook nearly knock out Vyacheslav Senchenko this weekend, then see Senchenko nearly drop Brook the next round, then see Brook actually knock out Senchenko in the exact same round? If you haven't, and you've got 15 minutes to spare, you can. Riveting turn of events there. Brook wants Amir Khan next, […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 10/17/2013
(Andre the Giant, left, Bobby Chacon, right; via) There was some outstanding boxing in the 1980s. But as in every other decade of boxing, rankings and sanctioning bodies who created them really mimicked what was loosely considered the fashion of the times: funky, eccentric, and downright embarrassing in hindsight. The years have been kind to […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Allan Green shocked nobody by putting in a lacklustre performance against Australian’s Blake Caparello in Melbourne on Thursday. Green (32-5, 22 KO), who came in six lbs. over the light heavyweight limit, never wanted to fight and lost a fittingly wide unanimous decision. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say the high point of the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
"I think of all the education that I missed," David Lee Roth once sang for Van Halen, "but then my homework was never quite like this." It's a real pleasure to write a preview for a fight like Mike Alvarado-Ruslan Provodnikov, because it means I was forced to study up on each man's ouevre. And […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 10/16/2013
You’re probably aware that we usually start these schedules with non-boxing related videos. But god dammit, we’re excited about Mike Alvardo vs. Ruslan Provodnikov this weekend. Look at that water flying off the fighters. Why is there water? Stop asking uncomfortable questions. It looks cool and gets the people going, OK? There are other things […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Juan Manuel Marquez was falling down Saturday, yet from the
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 10/15/2013
(Frolicking above, one of Tim Bradley’s relatives. Maybe; via) By now it should be clear that nobody will be stealing Tim Bradley’s Lucky Charms. Not Juan Manuel Marquez, not those bratty kids in the commercial …and perhaps not even Floyd Mayweather? Discussing the possibility of harnessing Bradley’s prosperity, putting it toward winning some type of […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 10/14/2013
(Juan Manuel Marquez, left; Timothy Bradley, right) You can’t fault Tim Bradley for the way in which he beat Juan Manuel Marquez the other night. It was the blueprint that everyone agreed would work. The big question was whether or not he could stick to it and whether or not Marquez could disrupt it. As […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard
As befits the latest installment of ESPN’s acclaimed 30 For 30 series, or any boxing documentary if you’re really feeling facetious, “No Mas,” (debuting Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET) is anachronistic from the get go. From the opening shots of Ray Leonard’s ageless torso as he pounds the heavy bag in his home gym, to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/13/2013
In a high-level game of chess Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view, what could have been a stalemate ended up a closely-earned checkmate for Timothy Bradley against Juan Manuel Marquez. Measured purely by official outcomes, Bradley's win over Manny Pacquiao was to this point the best of his career, enveloped though it was in disbelief from […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Vasyl Lomachenko, above, Jose Ramirez, below; credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) These are the results for the three main undercard fights to support the main event of Juan Manuel Marquez and Timothy Bradley on HBO pay-per-view: In the chief supporting bout, Mexico's Orlando Salido (40-12-2, 27 KO) knocked out Puerto Rico's Orlando Cruz (20-3-1, 10 […]
0 comments by Steve Zemach on 10/12/2013
In June 2012, at the conclusion of Timothy Bradley-Manny Pacquiao, I paced swiftly up and down press row asking anyone in view how they had scored the fight. At the time, I could find only one person who had scored the fight for Bradley. As I walked through the doors of the MGM Grand’s media […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/11/2013
Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Timothy Bradley Saturday on HBO pay-per-view is a match-up spilling over with danger beyond recompense, and danger of the drool-worthy and bitter variety alike. If only we could mandate by law that boxers have chips on their shoulders of the boulder size Marquez and Bradley do, where more money is on […]
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0 comments by Alex McClintock
What happens when you get six boxing writers together to talk about Tim Bradley vs. Juan Manuel Marquez Saturday on HBO pay-per-view? An outpouring of man love for “Dinamita,” pretty much pretty much (though not from Andrew Harrison, who has some questions about the source of the 40-year-old Mexican’s youthful vitality). We’ve convened our metaphorical […]
0 comments by Springs Toledo on 10/10/2013
“Boxing doesn’t owe us; we owe it.” “Boxing is tainted,” said Floyd Mayweather a few weeks ago. “There are too many belts, too many champions.” Anyone at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on September 14th would have noticed an Elvis-worthy display case featuring Mayweather’s robes, gloves, and boots from past bouts. Several acronym-emblazoned “championship” […]
