0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/11/2015
A general view during a Premier Boxing Champions bout between Keith Thurman and Robert Guerrero in the MGM Grand Garden Arena on March 7 in Las Vegas. (Alex Trautwig/Getty Images) This won’t be quite a “Quick Jabs” column rounding up all the boxing news, so much as a dive into some stories on the two […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 3/10/2015
If my teenage years taught me anything, it’s that waiting for something to happen for five years doesn’t mean it’s going to be good. In fact, it’s probably going to be disappointing, a bit shameful and over very quickly. This week’s episode of Manny and Floyd, the podcast all about the big fight, takes a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/6/2015
The second leg of boxing’s twin 2015 assault on its own obscurity (following the announcement of Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao) drops this Saturday, when the sport appears in a primetime slot on NBC. If the main event this weekend, Keith Thurman vs Robert Guerrero, isn’t quite boxing “putting its best foot forward,” it’s at […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
When Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (no surnames required, really) happens on May 2, it may be the biggest sporting event of the year. It’ll certainly be the biggest fight in decades. To me, that seemed like a good enough reason to make Manny and Floyd, a podcast series which will keep you up to date with everything about, well, Manny […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/25/2015
Let’s just go ahead and get this out of the way. Certain things are going to be said over and over and over again about Mayweather Pacquiao, by a mainstream media that doesn’t, frankly, know jackshit about this sport, and that would rather fall into easy, historically false cliches and stereotypes about boxing. Example: When […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 2/23/2015
By now, everyone knows that Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao is on for May 2. And by “everyone,” we do mean everyone. The issue, of course, is a signed fight takes away an easy scapegoat when pointing a finger at all of boxing’s ills. But you know what they say about haters and their natural […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/20/2015
The myopic bubble in which boxing fans sometimes live is the hard-earned kind. On Friday, one of the biggest and most important fights in boxing history was announced — Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao, May 2 — and the reaction from the hardcores was, almost unanimously, “Finally.” For those of us who have been listening […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/9/2015
The talk of the boxing world, and the talk of boxing in the non-boxing world, is whether we might finally get Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao. The interest is understandable (if not comical, based on the various inaccurate reports about whether the fight is finalized). For a subset of boxing fans, the subject of Mayweather Pacquiao […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 1/29/2015
Boxing by its very nature is a troubled sport. When the exact goal of an endeavour is to entice two grown men into viciously attacking one another, it’s evident the entire affair and its surroundings will always be rife with unrest and agitation. Controversy and accusations of cheating are perhaps more prevalent in prizefighting than […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/21/2015
There are plenty of fights where it makes sense to strip away their components, one by one, and then reconstitute them, like a chemistry student studying an upcoming (sweet) science project. Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado III, this Saturday on HBO, isn’t one of them. Everything has chemistry at its core, even a couple of bricks. But […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/11/2015
On the surface, boxing in 2014 sucked. Everyone knows this, and most everyone knows why. Scratch a little deeper, and it still sucked — worse than any year since the mid/late-2000s — just maybe not as atrociously as commonly understood on the surface. There’s little need to rehash, at length, the rather obvious diagnosis about what ailed […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/3/2015
Sick of the drip-drip-drip of year end boxing awards yet? Hard to blame you, hard to blame you. So we’ll bring out two enormous platters to conclude our 2014 awards. In the first installment, that flavor was heavy and serious. In the second one, that flavor is light and fluffy. Just add “award” at the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/1/2015
Sick of the drip-drip-drip of year end boxing awards yet? Hard to blame you, hard to blame you. So we’ll bring out two enormous platters to conclude our 2014 awards. In the first installment, that flavor is heavy and serious. In the second one, that flavor is light and fluffy. Just add “of the year” […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/30/2014
Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end awards, continuing into this week. Here’s how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final leg, which will finish next week, is a pu pu platter of […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/25/2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFWUlObSgn0 There’s pretty much nothing a kangaroo won’t punch. But if you’re looking for some serious boxing footage, try this 30 For 30 episode, “Robbed,” revisiting the intersection of lawless New York City and the controversial decision for Ali-Norton III; or try “Tapia,” airing on HBO. “Robbed” is nice but I wish it was more […]
