0 comments by Mark Ortega on 8/26/2012
Photo courtesy of Erik Killin ringside FAIRFIELD, Calif. — A day after a club show took place down the road in Sacramento, Golden Boy Promotions in association with Don Chargin Promotions and Paco Presents returned to the Fairfield Sports Complex Saturday as homegrown Alan Sanchez looked to continue forward progress as he took on veteran […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 8/25/2012
(Photos courtesy of Erik Killin, ringside) SACRAMENTO — Friday night in Sacramento at the DoubleTree by Hilton, Sacramento favorite and former winner of the boxing reality show “The Next Great Champ” Otis Griffin (24-10-2, 10 KOs) found the win column again as he stopped the tough but inexperienced Adam Collins (11-8, 8 KOs) of Ironton, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
(Randy Caballero, Manuel Roman; photo credit: Omar Ornelas, The Desert Sun) Showtime’s prospect-oriented series ShoBox made a good faith attempt Friday to pair young men on the way up this weekend from Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino in Indio, Calif., a veritable hotbed of very solid fighters that seem to sprout up from nowhere in […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 8/24/2012
(Edward Cook, Cassius Clay, Wilbert McClure; photo credit: FPG/Getty Images) “…And then I come home with the Olympic gold medal and the light heavyweight championship of the whole world representing my country, America. Coming back to this city called Louisville, Kentucky, where I was born and raised. And then go to a restaurant and can’t […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
(photo credit: Stephanie Trapp, TrappFotos) Last Friday at the O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Nonito Donaire fired a pitch high but over the plate on Filipino Heritage Night prior to the hometown Athletics’ game with the Cleveland Indians. TQBR spoke to Donaire as he left the field on a variety of topics surrounding his compelling Oct. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/23/2012
This video-laden edition of Round And Round will feature, later on, a Mariah Carey boxing-themed video (not kidding) and not one but two Manuel Charr-related rap videos (still not kidding). But that video we began with… that’s sizzling material. The match-up promotes itself: aging middleweight king and superb talent Sergio Martinez vs. young, rising brawler […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 8/22/2012
I can see the light! Or is it just the reflection from Arthur Abraham’s chrome dome? No, it’s definitely the light. The professional boxing drought of the last month is about to end. Sound the train horns attached to scooters! Hallelujah! Abraham’s super middleweight bout with Robert Stieglitz is about the best thing going on […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 8/21/2012
(Sergo Mora, right, battles two-time rival Brian Vera) Perception is reality. Whether something is actually happening or not, if people think it’s happening, then that becomes the reality. Few fighters have dealt with this notion as much as, or been more maligned in the last several years than, Sergio Mora. “It’s affecting me in a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Don’t take that video’s appearance here as an endorsement of Maroon 5. Their catchy early Stevie Wonder impersonations have their merits, and that guest vocal on Kanye West’s “Heard ‘Em Say” is unreservedly good, but there’s a lot of mediocrity in there, too. Main thing is, a popular song by a popular act has a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/18/2012
Was a time when junior middleweight Carlos Molina had earned some mild admiration from hardcore fans, what with a disputed draw against Erislandy Lara that some thought Molina deserved to win, followed by an upset victory over Kermit Cintron. In both cases, the less gifted Molina used cleverness and grit to overcome his more naturally […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/17/2012
The ongoing carousel that became Don George’s next fight has finally slowed enough for the super middleweight to jump off. In a scattered series of events, George has had his bout delayed six days, moved from one network to another, promoted to the main event, lost his opponent then demoted to co-feature. “As my dad […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega
(Fights like this unnecessary ESPN2 televised rematch between Chantel Cordova and Unity Young from back when the network showcased women’s boxing is partly to blame for why the women are not given any credit.) Tuesday night in Friant, Calif., a lightly populated central California town, two of the most recognizable names in women’s boxing squared […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/16/2012
What if… there existed another universe where fighters were ranked pound-for-pound — i.e., who’s best regardless of weight — based nothing at all on any actual evidence from what a fighter had actually accomplished? A dimension where some figure or the other just points at a fighter and says, “I think he looks like he’s […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 8/15/2012
Maybe, as a boxing fan, I’m just a fan of seeing people fall over. That might explain why I find this compilation of people fainting so funny. After rigorous scientific analysis, I’ve concluded that people falling over on their own is comical, but that it’s more satisfying to watch when they’ve been exchanging punches with […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Isn’t he just the cutest. (via, h/t unofficial TQBR visual consultant Che) You know what else is cute? Our lame boxing blog trying to be all important. Like, maybe we write something for the Guardian’s website about the Olympics the other week, and then we do it again this week. Isn’t it adorable how we […]
