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 4/15/2014
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 […]
Manny Pacquiao (right) connects on Tim Bradley (photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank)
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 4/13/2014
In a rematch of a fight from 2012 that really needed no introduction, Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley met in a contest between two truly elite fighters that oozed class from the opening bell. Bradley entered the ring decked out in camouflage, and it was clear from the outset that this was not merely a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/11/2014
(Manny Pacquiao poses with Bob Dylan,
0 comments by Tim Starks
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; the undercard, previewed; a staff roundtable. Next: the Ultimate Guide. To the devoted boxing fan base, Timothy Bradley vs. Manny […]
0 comments by Steve Zemach on 4/10/2014
LAS VEGAS — Timothy Bradley’s trainer Joel Diaz spoke assertively during his roundtable discussion inside the MGM Grand media center Thursday morning: “I’m telling you right now,” Diaz said while flaring his arms like an Italian trying to punctuate an expression. “Tim Bradley is 100 percent ready mentally and physically to show that what happened […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
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; the undercard, previewed. Next: a final preview and prediction. You know, I quite like watching guys fight. I’m excited […]
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 […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
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. Next: the undercard, previewed. Mind. Matter. How do Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley stack up in those categories? […]
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, […]
Is Manny Pacquiao, left, ready for another go with Tim Bradley? (Photo: Kathy Willens)
0 comments by Patrick Connor
What does it say about boxing, as a whole, that the first really big, meaningful fight of 2014 is happening about a quarter of the way through the calendar year? Really. That’s not a rhetorical question, and the answer probably won’t be in this post. Whatever quasi-philosophical approach you take to figuring out how this […]
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 […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 3/26/2014
Keeping up with our recent theme of historical headpunching, here’s a picture of “two women boxing” from an unknown year. It’s from Flickr Commons, which, like I’ve previously said, is bloody addictive. This week there’s plenty of the regularkind of non-historical boxing on, with fights in Japan, North Dakota, New Jersey and Mexico. Globalisation is […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
This will be a screed disguised as a fight preview. But then, the fight that is being “previewed” was itself a preview of a fight we actually cared about, and that will have to take on a new disguise now. Thus, the screed. There is no one — outside the usual friends and family — […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 3/25/2014
Short weekend, few afterthoughts to reflect upon: Tony Thompson vs. Odlanier Solis. Maybe I was being a Washington, D.C., homer, but I didn’t see much of a case for Solis winning this heavyweight clash, as one of the three judges did. I didn’t have Solis winning that many rounds overall, although I did not score […]
