Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Alexander Povetkin, Amir Khan, Nicholas Walters And Others

0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/2/2014

Here’s boxing in 2014, in a nutshell: Showtime, which had cast its lot with Golden Boy’s Richard Schaefer prior to the company’s split with him, has aired trash almost exclusively this year, yet is putting on a quality welterweight bout Dec. 13 between Devon Alexander and Amir Khan. The undercard bout between junior middleweights Demetrius […]

Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Canelo Alvarez, Carl Froch, Danny Garcia And Others

0 comments by Alex McClintock on 10/14/2014

I can’t promise you any fights with novelty value like Muhammad Ali vs. Richard Pryor (pictured), but I can offer you a big fresh helping of boxing news. Round and Round is all about fights in the works, fights being cancelled and fights that have been made. Some of the biggest names of the sport are involved, as you […]

A Puncher’s Chance: Five Boxing Knockouts That Turned Around A Sure Defeat

0 comments by Cathal McGuigan on 8/28/2014

The puncher’s chance is a beautiful thing. A boxer can be barely standing, fighting more by muscle memory than will, and yet there is always a chance that a single perfect punch can turn a hopeless fight — and sometimes even a drooping career — around in a split second. This wild card factor is […]

Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Mayweather, Pacquiao Undercards, Gennady Golovkin, Others

0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/19/2014

(Dec. 12, Seattle — Jay-Z speaks with an acquaintance before a press conference to introduce new Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano [not pictured] at Safeco Field. Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports) That’s not just a picture of Jay-Z for no reason(able doubt). The Jigga Man’s Roc Nation has rather quickly started making a splash […]

Quick Jabs: Bob Arum Trolling; Bernard Hopkins Trolling; Freddie Roach Trolling; More

0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/10/2014

http://youtu.be/PFwA4jaSNZM Everybody’s trolling these days. The only appropriate response is to put up a couple knockout videos from recent weekends before discussing it all, so as to give you happy thoughts before delving into the sad business stuff (if you can be happy about knockouts, anyway). The one above is from this past weekend, via […]

Cotto Vs. Martinez Undercard Results

0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 6/7/2014

(Andy Lee, upright, John Jackson, prone; via) NEW YORK CITY — Keep coming back here for updated undercard results live from Madison Square Garden in advance of the main event between middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and Miguel Cotto on HBO Pay-Per-View. ****** Jose Lopez, the undefeated (12-0) Puerto Rican featherweight, took on tough veteran Raul […]

Sergio Martinez Vs. Miguel Cotto Undercard, Previewed (And The Rest Of The Week’s Boxing Schedule)

0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/4/2014

(photo by official TQBR dodgy Photoshop consultant @georgemclintock) Sorry, facefolded Sergio Martinez can’t be unseen. But it’s a big fight week, so we’ll try and distract you as best we can with a jam-packed schedule. Obviously there’s the big HBO Pay-Per-View between Sergio Martinez and Miguel Cotto for the middleweight championship of the world. Then […]

Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Gennady Golovkin, Felix Sturm And Others

0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/7/2014

Got my copy of Springs Toledo’s “Gods of War” off Amazon; still got a ways to go but it’s more than paying off in phrases like “[Ray] Leonard was confident enough to ask permission from an aging Ray Robinson to borrow ‘Sugar,’ but he couldn’t have anticipated how many lumps he’d get from [Roberto] Duran…” […]

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