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 8/2/2014
We got a close, hard-fought bout Saturday on HBO between Anton Novikov and Jessie Vargas, one that most seemed to think Novikov won, but the judges, just plain hallucinating or something even worse, all saw Vargas winning by a very wide margin. Vargas, from Las Vegas, fighting in Las Vegas and promoted by Las Vegas-based […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 7/29/2014
I can’t tell you why I find that photo so amusing, I just do. It has absolutely nothing to do with the week’s boxing schedule (though there are fights in Wolverhampton, where that kid’s team is from, this week). There’s a split-site triple header on HBO, featuring Brandon Rios and Sergey Kovalev. At the time […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/15/2014
Manny Pacquiao’s mom loves Jesus, but maybe she has a little bit of that Santeria in her. This is not a full-fledged Weekend Afterthoughts, really, because I’m in Indonesia for a spell (no pun intended) and some fights from the past weekend have been difficult for me to track down. So we’ll confine ourselves mainly […]
Bryan Vasquez, right, punches Jose Felix during his upset win on the Manny Pacquiao Vs. Timothy Bradley undercard
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 4/12/2014
In a battle of two recently-robbed 135 pound contenders, longtime Pacquiao sparring partner Raymundo Beltran (29-6-1, 17 KO) faced off against late replacement, but undoubtedly game Arash Usmanee (20-2-1, 10 KO) in a de facto eliminator for Terence Crawford’s lightweight belt. Beltran had originally been scheduled to face Rocky Martinez, but Usmanee isn’t the type […]
Raymundo Beltran, via: http://firstclassboxing.com
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/9/2014
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest bouts of 2014, Timothy Bradley vs. Manny Pacquiao II, on April 12 on HBO Pay-Per-View. Previously: a primer on the rematch; a Bradley-Pacquiao edition of TQBR Radio; keys to the fight. Next: a staff roundtable. Usually pay-per-view weeks are busy in boxing, as promoters look to cash in […]
