0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/3/2014
When Russian lightweight Petr Petrov was interviewed in Spanish on an American English-language TV channel, my head exploded. But once I put it back together, I realised just how global this sport of ours is. It makes sense, then, that we tend to put fighters from different parts of the world into different categories. It […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/31/2014
It was, by the measure of the 80,000 fans in attendance, the biggest British fight ever. And it was Carl Froch, the man who currently rules the British scene, who established his conclusive supremacy on HBO over fellow British super middleweight George Groves with a fearsome knockout that was in no way as controversial as […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/17/2014
Yes, yes, #cancelcolbert and everything, but it just makes sense: This is Round And Round, and it’s a short version of Round And Round, thus, Short Round from Indiana Jones. Besides the men in the headline in this regular column featuring fights in the works, we have rounded-up news on Gennady Golovkin, Deontay Wilder, Mauricio […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/7/2014
Got my copy of Springs Toledo’s “Gods of War” off Amazon; still got a ways to go but it’s more than paying off in phrases like “[Ray] Leonard was confident enough to ask permission from an aging Ray Robinson to borrow ‘Sugar,’ but he couldn’t have anticipated how many lumps he’d get from [Roberto] Duran…” […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/6/2014
(May 3, 2014; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Marcos Maidana punches against Floyd Mayweather Jr. during their fight at MGM Grand. Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) We came so very close to history Saturday night. Had Marcos Maidana defeated Floyd Mayweather on Showtime Pay-Per-View, it would have been the biggest upset in boxing at the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/27/2014
(Manny Pacquiao is not receiving oral pleasure after beating Timothy Bradley; Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) If you’re looking for another measurement of how dismally boxing’s 2014 has kicked off — as if anyone needed any more evidence; put down that stupid giant magnifying glass, Sherlock Holmes — it took all the way until April […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Abner Mares leads this edition of Quick Jabs with his supposedly
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/19/2014
Is it Danny Jacobs? Is it Shawn Porter? No, when their powers combine, they form Danny Porter! Anyway, enough jokes at some poor digital producer’s expense, let’s get to the Round and Round — fights in the works, fights that might be in the works and fights that are definitely (maybe) going to happen. Some […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/6/2014
That’s the heavyweight fight people were gaga about this weekend: Steve Cunningham winning a tight battle against Amir Mansour on NBC Sports, one bloody, the other swollen, a power puncher vs. a boxer, both men on the canvas, a close decision win for Cunningham. It was more consistently good than the undercard bout, between middleweights […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/5/2014
You think you know all the kinds of boxing, and along comes the chicken variety. A Lousiana state senator, you see, is raising questions about a bill meant to increase restrictions on cockfighting, because he fears it could cut back on the “legitimate” sport of chicken boxing, which, yes, involves chickens with boxing gloves on […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/28/2014
Which staged-seeming heavyweight video to start this dual “fights in the works”/”news roundup and analysis” post with? Throwing a shoe or overturning a table? We’ll go with Shannon Briggs throwing a shoe at the champion, Wladimir Klitschko, and then with Tyson Fury throwing a table in advance of his rematch with Dereck Chisora. QUICK JABS […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 3/23/2014
For all their base, animalistic intrigue, professional prizefights are often the antithesis to idealism. Unlike virtually all other athletic endeavours, the grandest stage in boxing is not by default reserved for the best. The finest two entities do not necessarily face one another for the prize of global supremacy. In fact, this happens so rarely […]
