0 comments by Alex McClintock on 9/10/2014
Marcos Maidana is the the kind of fighter fans love: a man of few words and many punches. He’s simple, not in the sense that he’s dull or stupid, but in the sense that he knows what he likes: to fight. Asked at press conference whether Floyd Mayweather is attempting to change the way their rematch will be refereed […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 9/9/2014
“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering… It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain — why he did not instantly disappear.” – Joseph Conrad. If the trappings of fame and a now-global renown have changed Marcos Maidana at all, […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
NFL player Ray Rice’s savage February assault on his then fiancee Janay Palmer is national news. Rightly, there is outrage at Rice, who has been let go by his team, the Baltimore Ravens, and suspended indefinitely by the league. A “national conversation” about domestic violence has been opened, according to some. But really, the conversation is about the surveillance […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 9/8/2014
Almost exactly four months ago, Robert Garcia (Pictured, right;
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Wow, is it a pay-per-view week again? Time flies when you’re paying huge amounts to view sporting events of dubious quality. Not that there’s anything wrong with the main event rematch between Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana on Saturday, it’s just that the undercard is a load of bollocks. Though there are big names, they’re in fights […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/4/2014
As funnier wags have said about this photo of Peter Dinklage and Gennady Golovkin, “GGG would have decimated the Mountain.” Golovkin certainly would have confirmed the kill. In this mammoth-sized edition of Quick Jabs, we will have more substantial matters to discuss about GGG. We will also have the subject in the headlines, and more […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/2/2014
What if… there existed another universe where fighters were ranked pound-for-pound — i.e., who’s best regardless of weight — based nothing at all on any actual evidence from what a fighter had actually accomplished? A dimension where some figure or the other just points at a fighter and says, “I think he looks like he’s […]
0 comments by Andy Ryan on 8/25/2014
(May 3; Las Vegas; Adrien Broner [right] against Carlos Molina during their fight at MGM Grand. Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) A young boxer without hype is just one of countless hopefuls. Add hype and suddenly you’ve got a “hot prospect,” “a contender,” maybe even “the next big thing.” Hype attracts fans, sells tickets, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/22/2014
(The good old [less funny] days of 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vskxj22-1c#t=256 Y kant Floyd read? Or maybe he can and the above clip of him trying to read isn’t as damning as it sounds because he was on muscle relaxers or something. Either way, Floyd Mayweather’s old pal 50 Cent is brutalizing him over […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/19/2014
(Dec. 12, Seattle — Jay-Z speaks with an acquaintance before a press conference to introduce new Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano [not pictured] at Safeco Field. Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports) That’s not just a picture of Jay-Z for no reason(able doubt). The Jigga Man’s Roc Nation has rather quickly started making a splash […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/16/2014
(Kell Brook celebrates the verdict; photo by Esther Lin, Showtime) It was anybody’s guess how the judges would score Kell Brook vs. Shawn Porter after 12 rounds, based on how wildly divergent fans and writers were calling it on social media. But most people had it for Brook in a rough-and-tumble, even unattractive fight, and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/15/2014
Hey, this is more like it this coming Saturday, Showtime. You don’t have to put on a tripleheader like last Saturday’s that produces, mainly, scorn. You can put on one that is evenly-matched, like what was happening last year more often than in 2014. The fight atop the card this Saturday is a nice meeting […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/5/2014
To fans of other sports, it’s just so obvious: The Spurs face the Heat in the NBA Finals because of course they do; the Spurs won the Western Conference and the Heat won the Eastern Conference and the two winners decide the champion. In boxing, it is never so simple, and it is especially complicated […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/4/2014
That Vice Sports interview between Carmelo Anthony and Daniel Jacobs doesn’t really get going until about five minutes in, but it’s good after that. We won’t take five minutes getting into a juicy Quick Jabs, which delves into the topics in the headline, the popularity (or lack thereof) of Gennady Golovkin, some wacky business involving […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 7/27/2014
Returning home at around midnight last night, I switched on the earlier BoxNation card and gamely attempted to stave off sleep. It didn’t work. No sooner had I watched Chris Eubank, Jr. destroy another journeyman when I promptly dozed off. I awoke some two hours later, in the midst of Mike Perez’s entrance for his […]
