0 comments by Jason Langendorf on 1/19/2019
The American poet Edwin Markham once said, “Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” Markham, one can only assume, died penniless and jaundiced to the teeth – just as all 19th-century poets were contractually obliged to. But that kind of street cred merely adds heft to […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 4/14/2018
The Six Greatest Self-Punches In Boxing History If football is a game of inches, as my friends who enjoy spending their Sundays being hopelessly bored assure me it is, then boxing is a game of seconds. Each tick of the clock is accompanied by countless subconscious computations which direct a fighter’s body to make the […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 1/1/2016
2015 was a strange year for boxing. Like “Charles In Charge,” we took a lot of “bad” to go with the “good.” We got huge fights like Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao, free fights like Keith Thurman vs Robert Guerrero, and no fights like Showtime. New stars emerged, while some faded away before our eyes. Lineal […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 12/14/2015
It’s a sneaky week of boxing, with quite a few decent scraps on. The most decent of all features Andy Lee and Billy Joe Saunders, which Showtime is very obligingly broadcasting from England, while HBO has an offering of their own, headlined by heavyweights Luis Ortiz and Bryant Jennings. There’s also a couple of other […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/8/2015
Sometimes a boxer is good enough compared to the era he fights in that there are really only a couple options that can even get anyone at half-mast, in the current context. One of those options is fighting an opponent who is, juxtaposed against other opponents, highly deserving and/or someone who presents a Spock-eyebrow raising “maybe.” […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/4/2015
(Terence Crawford; Tom Pennington, Getty Sports) This is our first pound-for-pound update of 2015, and as such there are some major modifications. It made sense to wait this long after January and February produced negligible potential changes. It also made sense to wait until Mayweather vs Pacquiao, which would determine the p4p crown. As always, the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/30/2015
There is more to boxing these days than Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Paccquiao, although you might not believe it if this is the site you have mainly visited this week. But there are things happening, oh yes, besides the big ol’ fight Saturday. One of them involves the man in the photo above. TQBR is […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 4/25/2015
NEW YORK CITY — Wladimir Klitschko (63-3) defended his title Saturday night entering the ring to a raucous near sold out crowd of 17,056 at Madison Square Garden and staved off a spirited effort by Bryant Jennings (19-0) to defend the lineal heavyweight championship of the world. Jennings smiled as the bell waited to gong to start […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor
NEW YORK CITY — Keep coming back here for regular updates from ringside at Madison Square Garden, leading up to a separate post for the headliner of the HBO card, Klitschko vs Jennings. ****** Sadam Ali (21-0), the promising welterweight prospect and Brooklyn native, stepped under the bright lights at MSG to face Francisco Santana (22-3-1) and […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/22/2015
It’s the last week of boxing before the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao fight week, so we thought we’d give you a fashion suggestion with these cool Punchout themed shirts (via r/boxing). It’s not that bad a week either, with things to keep you occupied on both Friday and Saturday nights. Showtime will have episode two of their Inside […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 4/20/2015
There was literally a huge variety of photos and moments that could have been used to represent all that happened last weekend in boxing: aesthetically pleasing and gratifying, moving and even regrettable. But the photo above — of Lucas Matthysse’s fist after punching Ruslan Provodnikov for over a half-hour — serves as a reminder of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/13/2015
MONTREAL — Culled Friday at the weigh-in for Sergey Kovalev-Jean Pascal Saturday on HBO, get your red hot news tidbits from and about some of your favorite boxing personalities right here! Read on for more on these names: Deontay Wilder, Gennady Golovkin, David Lemieux, Dierry Jean, Bermane Stiverne, Blake Caparello, Curtis Stevens, Roy Jones, Jr., […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/24/2014
Hey, it’s a “punching bag!” Fashion is so clever and this is totally not weirdly and/or accidentally misogynist. Watch out, though, model lady — Floyd Mayweather might request a fight with you next, hey-oh. (h/t unofficial TQBR fashion consultant Che;
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/17/2014
(Nov. 8, Atlantic City; Sergey Kovalev celebrates his win over Bernard Hopkins after their bout at Boardwalk Hall. Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports) Just about all the 2014 business is finished for the best boxers in the world across every weight division, with only Adonis Stevenson and Guillermo Rigondeaux on this list yet to have […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 7/28/2014
Irony: 2012 was the year that Kazakhstan created The ATOM Project, a nuclear nonproliferation campaign, yet also the year that it sicked Gennady Golovkin’s destructive capabilities upon the U.S. via HBO. Golovkin drawing something like 8,000 to Madison Square Garden against Daniel Geale is a far cry from featherweight Fidel LaBarba doing 22,000 against Kid […]
