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Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 10/14

(Roman Gonzalez, left; Akira Yaegashi, right) At last, some movement. Since our last update of the best boxers in the world, regardless of weight, some of them have, actually, you know, fought. And in some meaningful fights, too. There are two new entrants to the top 10 (hint: one of them is in the picture), […]

Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Mayweather, Pacquiao Undercards, Gennady Golovkin, Others

(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 […]

Power Games: Carl Froch Vs. George Groves II Preview And Prediction

(photo of Carl Froch-George Groves I via Matchroom/HBO) Boxing exerts such a mental toll on its participants that often they’ll shy away from reality. It is the reason so many hucksters and carnival barkers have managed to pillage the sport through the years (and why an ever expanding number of elite-level boxers attempt to distance […]

Froch Vs. Groves II: TQBR Roundtable, Psychological Warfare Edition

There have been few melt downs quite as magnificent as the one depicted in the video above, when a naïve Kevin Keegan fell prey to the mind games of arch-schemer Sir Alex Ferguson at the business end of the 1995-96 Premier League season. Keegan’s team, the swashbuckling Newcastle United, had at one point enjoyed a […]

British Beat: Kid Galahad And Derry Mathews Favoured For Weekend Honours

Sheffield junior featherweight Kid Galahad, 16-0, 8 KOs, will attempt to sew another badge on his rucksack this weekend when he vies for Commonwealth honours against imported Aussie wildcard Fred “The General” Mundraby, 15-1-1, 7 KOs. Having already secured British and European awards in successive fights (he has since discarded the Lonsdale belt), the tricksy […]

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