0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/12/2012
(James Kirkland, with trainer Ann Wolfe) Every couple years, boxing types get worried about whether there are new young stars in the pipeline to take over once the current standard-bearers depart, particularly here in America. There always seem to be, somehow. Once annually, I try to guesstimate who those people will be. I did the […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/10/2012
It’s another quiet one on the old boxing front. Thank the boxing gods for ESPN2, because without that channel there’d be virtually nothing on. Well, not nothing. There’s a German show featuring Arthur Abraham’s return to middleweight. So pretty much nothing. To the fights! Teon Kennedy vs. Chris Martin, Friday, ESPN2, Las Vegas. Philadelphian junior […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 1/9/2012
(Brandon Gonzales, right) Middleweight prospect Brandon Gonzales’ year is not going to begin the way he would have liked it to. Gonzales (15-0, 10 KOs), of Sacramento, Calif., was set to appear on Jan. 20th’s edition of ShoBox: The New Generation against fellow unbeaten Caleb Truax (18-0-1, 10 KOs) of Osseo, Minn. at the Palms […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/7/2012
These two and their promoters just drive me up the wall. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. won’t go to jail for smacking around his baby mama until June, in what is a miscarriage of the whole idea that celebrities don’t deserve special treatment that we’d been sold on by the judge. Gross. But even though Manny Pacquiao […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/6/2012
Who’s that mystery man? To me he looks like a slightly more bloated version of The Candyman. Could a slightly more bloated version of The Candyman have been trying to make it so Lamont Peterson beat Amir Khan? I guess it just depends on if Khan said the name “Candy-“… Ah, I almost said it […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 1/5/2012
(Continued from part I.) Joe Hanks, heavyweight, 28, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. [18-0, 12 KOs] Though not as well known as American heavyweights of the future Seth Mitchell and Deontay Wilder, Hanks has quietly put together a respectable career in four years as an American heavyweight hopeful. Hanks scored an improbable one-sided win over then-unbeaten […]
0 comments by Mark Ortega on 1/4/2012
(Dierry Jean) Don’t mistake this list as one to bank future successes of any of these fighters on, though I have faith that more than a handful of them will break through to the top level of the sport. No, what this list serves as is my 25 favorite prospects that I will be keeping […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/3/2012
We’re back to normal operations and action stations. This week’s boxing schedule isn’t crowded, but it’s not bad for the first week of the year. What could be a better way to welcome in the new year than watching people punch each other? I can’t think of anything, but that might have something to do […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/2/2012
We haven’t Open Threaded in a while, so let’s dip our toe in it. I want to start by saying, on this New Year’s Day, how grateful I am to all the readers, commenters, contributors and staffers who made TQBR what it was in 2011. This year we got declared “the best boxing blog” by […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/1/2012
If you ask the two top promoters in boxing how things are going in boxing, they’ll give you a shit-ton of shiny happy talk about how terrific the sport is these days, and how the future is so very bright. They are, though, “promoters.” The salesman accentuates the positive and eliminates the negative. “This car […]
