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 7/3/2014
Real life Mike Tyson quotes for Nintendo’s Punch-Out make the whole game a lot weirder. (But if you want more of them, have at it.) The game of matchmaking never ends; in this edition of Round And Round, we contemplate what’s next for Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Ruslan Provodnikov, Andrzej Fonfara, the men in the […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/24/2014
“Showtime continues to deliver the deepest fight cards in boxing.” Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza is a funny man on Twitter, but he really outdid himself in Tuesday’s press release announcing the worst premium cable card in recent memory. The Aug. 9 Showtime/Golden Boy Barclay’s Center tripleheader will feature top junior welterweights Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson, […]
0 comments by David Scott on 5/30/2014
Would that I could equal the star power of actress Emily Blunt cheering on “Hammersmith boy” George Groves, but as a Nottingham native I am a huge supporter of Carl Froch in this weekend’s rematch between the pair. Indeed, it is the way he reflects the salt of the earth character of Nottingham that has […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 5/1/2014
Like all teen stars, Amir Khan seems to have been around forever. It is nigh on a decade since an unknown 17-year-old lightweight boxer from Lancashire captured the hearts of a nation. His gallantry at the Olympic Games in Athens returned an unexpected silver medal. And while the Val Barker trophy for the tournament’s most […]
Timothy Bradley, standing at right, Manny Pacquiao, sitting
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/7/2014
So begins 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. Next: Keys to the fight. How fitting it is that in this dreadful, murky year for boxing so far, in which the sport has sunken down into a depressing morass, […]
