0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/9/2016
Keep coming back here for a running tally of Pacquiao vs Bradley 3 results for the undercard on HBO Pay-Per-View. It kicks off with Jose Ramirez vs Manny Perez at junior welterweight; moves to Oscar Valdez vs Evgeny Gradovich at featherweight; and concludes with Arthur Abraham vs Gilberto Ramirez at super middleweight. Then it’s on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/5/2016
Four months into the year and we’re starting to get some decent fights. Sure, there’s only two cards of note this weekend, but they’re both intriguing in different ways. First up, chronologically speaking, is a clash of heavyweight up-and-comers Anthony Joshua (pictured, in cringeworthy tattoo form) and Charles Martin on Showtime. Then, later the same day, […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/25/2015
If the boxing schedule is anything to go by, this whole Al Haymon thing seems to be working out OK so far. This week he’s promoting (er, sorry, “advising”) a show featuring welterweights Amir Khan and Chris Algieri. It’s not going to set the world on fire, but the undercard could be a cheeky hit. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/14/2015
MONTREAL — There are some fighters you’ve heard of on the undercard of Sergey Kovalev vs Jean Pascal, and we’re here at the Bell Center to tell you about them. This post will be updated after every fight up to and including the first fight on the HBO broadcast, Isaac Chilemba. Then the Kovalev vs […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/1/2015
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 is heavy and serious. In the second one, that flavor is light and fluffy. Just add “of the year” […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 12/1/2014
It’s December in 2014. We’re tired and pessimistic, after 11 months of poor match ups. But like those loveable scamps on that album cover up there (via), maybe we have enough left for one good run before the year is over — one last hurrah before Yoko shuts it all down. We’re fragile, boxing. Don’t […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/30/2014
(Jayson Velez, left, Evgeny Gradovich, right; via @HBOBoxing on Twitter) Jayson Velez proved he belonged on the world stage against Evgeny Gradovich, who proved what he always proved, which is that fighting him is one of the most painful outings in boxing. But Gradovich probably deserved a decision win Saturday night on HBO rather than a split […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 11/26/2014
The above illustration comes from an 1885 book named Outing. It claims that, “There is no such thing as trickery in boxing, unless it is in attacking your man when and where he least expects and is unprepared for it.” I’m sure junior welterweight Ruslan Provodnikov, who fights this week, would agree with that. I’m […]
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 […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 9/23/2014
It’s been a while, but we’re back with a bumper edition of Round And Round, with all the business of fights being signed, fights being negotiated and fights being flirted with. Apart from the men in the headline, the fighters from the Mayweather vs. Maidana undercard are busy booking their next fights, Marcos Maidana himself is […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/28/2014
This weekend TQBR had a chance to talk to Main Events’ Kathy Duva, fellow promoter Lou DiBella and manager Egis Klimas about their plans for the fighters they represent. In a previous post, they talked about Sergey Kovalev vs. Blake Caparello. Here, they talk about Sergio Martinez, Vasyl Lomachenko, Evgeny Gradovich, a featherweight tournament, Curtis […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/2/2014
(Michael Farenas, left, Mark Davis, right; credit: Emily Harney, courtesy SMS Promotions) In a special Wednesday edition of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, the battle-hardened veteran Michael Farenas gave a painful lesson to unproven prospect Mark Davis about the kind of occasion in which experience trumps speed. That Farenas stopped him was not a shock — […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/31/2014
[UPDATE: HBO has aired the fight. Some commentary on that below.] This is a post about what happened in the Nonito Donaire vs. Simpiwe Vetyeka featherweight fight in Macau, China. Since the fight will air live on HBO this afternoon, anyone who doesn’t want a spoiler should stop reading now. OK:
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/27/2014
(photo via r/boxing) Like this picture of David Haye, Darren Barker and Matthew Macklin as horny adolescents standing next to (presumably) the first girl they’d ever seen, there’s so much boxing on this weekend, I don’t know where to look. The biggest fight of the week is the rematch between super middleweights Carl Froch and […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/26/2014
At some point in the history of boxing, someone decided that it was compulsory for every fighter to have a nickname. And since that point, the sport has been plagued by awful nicknames. Rather than being something you have to earn, nicknames are something your manager thinks of before your first fight. For every Juan […]
