0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/26/2014
Kangaroo fight videos are too depressing. Koalas are now the Australian marsupial combatants of choice. They sound like geese squawking, and they don’t seem capable of doing much damage. The above video features a koala on the right who is the Bernard Hopkins of the koala fighting world — he’s a sneaky fouler, over and […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/19/2014
(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 […]
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 JJ Jabbal on 6/10/2014
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 Jeff Pryor on 6/6/2014
(Sergio Martinez on the mat against Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.) In the four years that Sergio Martinez has been the undisputed middleweight champion, who has he beaten that has impressed you? There are six defenses in that span, itself an unimpressive feat. The standout win by boxing’s exalted Argentinian is his one punch rematch knockout […]
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 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 5/7/2014
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 Alex McClintock on 4/27/2014
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 4/5/2014
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 […]
