0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/19/2014
Very sorry. Look, having pictures in articles is a good thing from the standpoint of bloggery best practices. There isn’t a lot photographically to show you right now, so you get a graphic glance (or stare, given your inclinations) at naked 49-year-old Bernard Hopkins, from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue. This edition of Quick Jabs […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/11/2014
It is hard to believe that in a year of boxing as sclerotic as 2014 that a fight like Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Erislandy Lara is happening Saturday. Simple, absolutely fundamental building blocks of a functioning sport like “the ability to make any kind of worthwhile match whatsoever” have been toppled in one thunderclap after […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/10/2014
(Awww, they’re going to be friends again. May 3, 2014; Las Vegas; Marcos Maidana [right] embraces Floyd Mayweather, Jr. following their fight at the MGM Grand. Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) The rumored became reality Thursday when pound-for-pound champ and pay-per-view king Floyd Mayweather announced he would rematch Marcos Maidana in September on Showtime […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/7/2014
(June 7, New York City: Miguel Cotto reacts after a TKO against Sergio Martinez in the 10th round of the middleweight championship fight at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports) It’s been a few years since we last went through this exercise of looking at the lineal championship (aka real champs, as […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/4/2014
Really don’t understand what Riddick Bowe was going for here. (via)
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/3/2014
Real life Mike Tyson quotes for Nintendo’s Punch-Out make the whole game a lot weirder. (But if you want more of them, have at it.) The game of matchmaking never ends; in this edition of Round And Round, we contemplate what’s next for Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Ruslan Provodnikov, Andrzej Fonfara, the men in the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/29/2014
If you’re looking for a classy place to sign a contract with Al Haymon, one resplendent with gravitas, why not McDonalds? Lightweight Miguel Vazquez making the Haymon move means we can almost surely forget about starting a new championship lineage by fighting Terence Crawford, since Crawford is represented by Top Rank, which despises Haymon. It’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/22/2014
Saturday’s Showtime main event between Robert Guerrero and Yoshihiro Kamegai was overshadowed in the pre-fight hype by Vasyl Lomachenko-Gary Russell, Jr. As an action bout, it was much, much better, one of the best of 2014, and Guerrero came out with the bloody unanimous decision. It was a Fight of the Year candidate, a kind […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/10/2014
http://youtu.be/PFwA4jaSNZM Everybody’s trolling these days. The only appropriate response is to put up a couple knockout videos from recent weekends before discussing it all, so as to give you happy thoughts before delving into the sad business stuff (if you can be happy about knockouts, anyway). The one above is from this past weekend, via […]
0 comments by JJ Jabbal
The World Cup is upon us and 32 nations are preparing to go toe-to-toe to become the undisputed pound-for-pound king of the football world. Yes, FIFA, the governing body, is corrupt; yes, Brazil, the host nation has swallowed most of the money and is ill-prepared; and yes, the world will forget all this to gorge […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/8/2014
Boxing is, sometimes, tragedy and triumph all at once. I’m not talking about how unfortunate it is that someone has to lose, or how nice it is that someone gets to win. I’m talking about tragedy, in the dramatic sense of a great figure brought to ruin, and about the exultation that accompanies the kind […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/4/2014
First, we talk business. Then, we talk the fight. Sergio Martinez, the 39-year-old middleweight champion of the world, has waited his whole life to fight someone who will give him the kind of payday big-name Miguel Cotto will get him Saturday on HBO Pay-Per-View. Martinez’s 2012 tilt with Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. was probably somewhat […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/2/2014
It’s not going to be possible now, or even probably over the next few months, for the ramifications of Richard Schaefer’s departure from the sport’s biggest promoter Golden Boy — announced Monday — to become fully realized. Finish typing a sentence about it, and it’s already changed, say, with the sport’s biggest star Floyd Mayweather […]
0 comments by Cathal McGuigan
The sun is setting on Floyd Mayweather’s career — he’s 37, obscenely wealthy and has been so dominant that there is little left for him in boxing. To carry on could mean defying gravity like Bernard Hopkins, or to become a shadow of your former self, like Roy Jones, Jr. Why risk it when he […]
0 comments by David Scott on 5/30/2014
Would that I could equal the star power of actress Emily Blunt cheering on “Hammersmith boy” George Groves, but as a Nottingham native I am a huge supporter of Carl Froch in this weekend’s rematch between the pair. Indeed, it is the way he reflects the salt of the earth character of Nottingham that has […]
