Timothy Bradley, standing at right, Manny Pacquiao, sitting
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/7/2014
So begins our marathon coverage of one of the biggest bouts of 2014, Timothy Bradley vs. Manny Pacquiao II, on April 12 on HBO Pay-Per-View. Next: Keys to the fight. How fitting it is that in this dreadful, murky year for boxing so far, in which the sport has sunken down into a depressing morass, […]
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 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 […]
