0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/29/2019
Demetrius Andrade has a deal with DAZN, which is why he was fighting there Saturday night, but more importantly he has a deal with DAZN because DAZN has the two biggest attractions in the middleweight division, champ Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin. And during his fight with Maciej Sulecki this time out, DAZN’s broadcasting team […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 11/18/2016
Whilst I admit we aren’t exactly the crew at My-T-Sharp, the staff here at TQBR is always up to gather round our smart phones and email each other at all hours of the night as we try to hash out our varying opinions of the sport’s biggest fights. Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward may not […]
LONDON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 01: Gennady Golovkin (L) and Kell Brook (R) pose for a photo during the press conference ahead of the fight between Gennady Golovkin and Kell Brook at the Dorchester Hotel on August 1, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images)
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 8/13/2016
When I was a kid, I was terrified of my parent’s basement. It was dark. There were weird noises. But the main reason I turned into Usain Bolt when the lights went off was very simple — I’d read Stephen King’s Novel “IT” when I was way, way too young. Most kids were scared of […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 10/28/2015
This is not an indictment of Jean Pascal’s skills as a fighter. He’s a perfectly fine boxer, and he’s fun to watch. He’s got a huge heart and stones to match. He’s got the grit. And he actually won a couple of rounds in his first meeting with the terrifying Sergey Kovalev, backing his opponent […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/11/2015
There have been worse match-ups in boxing main events in 2015 than light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson taking on fringe contender Tommy Karpency like he did on Spike Friday. But it’s a relatively short list. And fittingly, the fight was relatively short. Stevenson is one of boxing’s purest punchers, capable of hurting anyone with any […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/22/2015
It’s possible to think of better unmade fights right now than Andre Ward vs Gennady Golovkin, but the list only goes a couple fingers, tops. The two have danced around each other for the last couple years, each side accusing the other of not really wanting to lambada. But at this precise moment, it’s easy […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/14/2015
MONTREAL — Sergey Kovalev vs Jean Pascal Saturday on HBO is the kind of fight where there’s a clear favorite (in this case, Kovalev) and there are a whole slew of people who still think it’s closer to a 50-50 fight. There are good reasons people think this about Kovalev-Pascal. There are good reasons they […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/3/2015
Sick of the drip-drip-drip of year end boxing awards yet? Hard to blame you, hard to blame you. So we’ll bring out two enormous platters to conclude our 2014 awards. In the first installment, that flavor was heavy and serious. In the second one, that flavor is light and fluffy. Just add “award” at the […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 11/27/2014
What if an entire generation of boxers went missing? Imagine a world where the sport’s salivating spectators were left buying tickets to see aging wonders pushing 50 or past their prime dynamos who’s first major wins came a decade before. What if nearly every promising pugilist that began their career between 2000-2005 faltered and fell off […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 11/12/2014
Everything has its limits. A car stops running, a cigarette burns down, a love affair only goes so long. How things run out of time is maybe more important than that they inevitably will. Watching Bernard Hopkins fight in Atlantic City this past Saturday night one was seeing the slow demise of a once and in many ways still […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 11/7/2014
Big fights are a special time here at The Queensberry Rules. They are an occasion for our team (a group spanning 15 time zones, four countries, three continents, and one tenuously shared language) to gather and slam our heads together until something useful oozes out. With that noble purpose in mind, we offer you our […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
How’s this for an odd sport: The best thing to happen to boxing in a long time is a 49-year-old man taking on one of the sport’s premier power punchers in his prime. That’s what’s happening Saturday on HBO, when the crusty, mean-spirited old alley cat named Bernard Hopkins steps into the ring with the new blood […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/8/2014
Sam Soliman vs. Jermain Taylor on ESPN2 Wednesday night was a can’t-win fight. Nobody was going to come out of this making anyone feel warm and fuzzy. At least Taylor (complete with brain bleed and recent bizarre behavior) didn’t take a beating that made everyone fear for his health — on the contrary, he secured […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 10/7/2014
You children of the 80s will know exactly what that picture above is, and some of you might even know what the next line is, from there. If not, I’ll help you: “…the Nothing.” That’s more or less what we’ve been left with on our boxing schedules lately. At least as far as quality goes. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/4/2014
(Rances Barthelemy, left, Fernando David Saucedo, right; Amanda Kwok, Showtime) It had a sad start, a surprisingly exciting middle and a sleepy main event, Saturday’s Showtime card. To wit, in reverse order: Rances Barthelemy had no trouble with Fernando David Saucedo. Vanes Martirosyan and Willie Nelson waged a mini-war, with Martirosyan coming out on top. […]
