0 comments by Patrick Connor on 8/9/2014
Brooklyn native Danny “The Golden Child” Jacobs, now 28-1 (25 KO), stopped Queensland, Australia’s Jarrod Fletcher in the opening bout of the oft-dismissed Danny Garcia vs. Rod Salka card on Showtime. In a one-sided fight, Fletcher, 18-2 (10 KO), attempted to shift the momentum his way after finding himself falling behind, but couldn’t overcome a few […]
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 Tim Starks on 8/1/2014
Think about it: It’s 2013, and you’ve just heard that Gennady Golovkin and Sergey Kovalev, chief boxing kaiju and chief deputy boxing kaiju, are fighting on HBO on back-to-back weekends. Your head is probably swimming with possibilities. Golovkin just might be facing off against super middleweight king Andre Ward! Kovalev — is he fighting light […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 7/28/2014
Irony: 2012 was the year that Kazakhstan created The ATOM Project, a nuclear nonproliferation campaign, yet also the year that it sicked Gennady Golovkin’s destructive capabilities upon the U.S. via HBO. Golovkin drawing something like 8,000 to Madison Square Garden against Daniel Geale is a far cry from featherweight Fidel LaBarba doing 22,000 against Kid […]
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 […]
Gennady Golovkin (white gloves) knocks out Daniel Geale (black gloves) during their middleweight championship bout at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/26/2014
(Gennady Golovkin [white gloves] knocks out Daniel Geale [black gloves] during their middleweight championship bout at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) NEW YORK CITY — What can you say about a boxer who knocks out the best opponent of his career more easily than he does lesser ones? All you can really […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
NEW YORK CITY — It’s a short off-TV undercard, with just three bouts leading up to the main event Saturday night between Gennady Golovkin and Daniel Geale. We’ll cover those three here, then do separate posts for Golvokin-Geale and the televised undercard bout, the heavyweight clash between Bryant Jennings and Mike Perez. The three bouts […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/24/2014
Middleweight’s version of Perun, Gennady Golovkin, faces his best opponent this Saturday on HBO in Daniel Geale, an opponent who has beaten better foes than he has. Such is the mythological might of the man they call GGG that Geale is viewed as a sizable underdog. The longer we go, the more the mythology matches […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 7/22/2014
Forget Al Haymon, South Coast Mitsubishi is taking over boxing South Coast Mitsubishi. That’s what we call the sport nowadays, guys. Anyway, I hope you’re ready for the week’s South Coast Mitsubishi schedule. There’s a lot on, which is good after a few quiet weeks. It would have been even busier, but the the British heavyweight […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 7/21/2014
When your average fighter misses a punch, perhaps the opponent might feel a soft draft or breeze. But when Gennady Golovkin misses a punch, 200-foot sinkholes happen — like the one above (via). With Tyson Fury vs. Dereck Chisora II being canceled, there is a bit more perceived pressure on Golovkin and his foe, Daniel […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/17/2014
Old timey people were very much into animals boxing. There’s some appeal there, to be sure. (via) We’re heading toward the summer doldrums, which means not a lot of fights are being signed. A decent number are being discussed, though, and that’s good enough for Round And Round. Among the men discussed in this edition […]
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 Alex McClintock on 6/4/2014
Signing up to fight terrifying Kazakh KO artist Gennady Golovkin is a bit like joining an amateur theatre group: the end result is probably going to painful, public and the audience will be praying for the end by halfway. Which is exactly why we should respect Daniel Geale so much. The softly spoken Australia chose […]
