0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/12/2020
Boxing is a sport both immensely empowered by, and hamstrung by, its past. Its past dates back to at least the 8th century BC. Even now, the most important sporting figure of all time might just be Muhammad Ali. For much of the last century, the biggest-name boxer alive was often in contention for biggest […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/18/2017
Stop me if you’ve heard this one in 2017: Boxing has a big event with high expectations, it delivers at least in part, then it’s marred by something or the other. (Tip: You should stop me right at the end of that period.) Saturday night on HBO Pay-Per-View, we finally got a long-desired battle between […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/29/2017
In the course of one month, four boxers with Hall of Fame credentials that range from “unimpeachable” to “strong” have retired. Boxing being what boxing is, retirements don’t always stick. But these four — Floyd Mayweather, Wladimir Klitschko, Juan Manuel Marquez and Timothy Bradley — have a pretty solid chance of staying away from the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/27/2017
Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor gave fans an unexpectedly fun night Saturday on Showtime Pay-Per-View, as an aging Mayweather struggled at times against a funky McGregor before wearing him down and forcing the referee to stop it in the 10th. Mayweather, the best boxer of his generation, insisted afterward that however bad he looked against […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/26/2017
Keep coming back here for running updates for Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor results for the undercard on Showtime Pay-Per-View Saturday night. ****** Prospect Andrew Tabiti decisioned 41-year-old cruiserweight Steve Cunningham rather easily, giving him the best win of his young career. Cunningham, though, looked very old, looped his punches, had trouble finding the range, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/25/2017
Last year, it was the presidential candidate who spewed the most vulgarities and instigated the most provocations, who owned the thinnest resume, who won it all. So it’s feeling almost like an era of the stuff, when you look at what boxing is giving us this weekend. Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor, set to air Saturday […]
0 comments by Dick Hercules on 6/29/2017
Seriously, do it. You’re free. You don’t have to live like this. Unburden yourself from the psychological debt accrued by watching potential squandered in real-time. I absolve you. Go outside. Eat an egg. Learn to do a backflip. Your time on earth is finite and valuable. In the first “A Nightmare on Elm Street” movie, […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 6/28/2017
This Saturday, from a 55,000 person stadium in Brisbane, Australia, Manny Pacquiao will face basically unknown Jeff Horn in a welterweight bout. It’s not the fight that most of us expected for the Filipino. Nothing about the fight is normal. Not the opponent, not the location, and not the fact that instead of being on […]
0 comments by Steve Zemach on 6/15/2017
The Irish culture dictates that if you are not interested in school you must find a trade and begin the working life. The trade Conor McGregor pursued was already built into his DNA. The Irish have a strong affection for the fight game, but none have been able to rise to the level of Conor […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/14/2017
Well, that just happened. Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor, a showdown between the best boxer of his generation and the biggest star in mixed martial arts, is a go for Aug. 26 at junior middleweight. There will be more to say on this soon. But for now: Do not, repeat do NOT, expect anything remotely […]
