0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/28/2014
This weekend TQBR had a chance to talk to Main Events’ Kathy Duva, fellow promoter Lou DiBella and manager Egis Klimas about their plans for the fighters they represent. In a previous post, they talked about Sergey Kovalev vs. Blake Caparello. Here, they talk about Sergio Martinez, Vasyl Lomachenko, Evgeny Gradovich, a featherweight tournament, Curtis […]
Gennady Golovkin (white gloves) knocks out Daniel Geale (black gloves) during their middleweight championship bout at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/26/2014
(Gennady Golovkin [white gloves] knocks out Daniel Geale [black gloves] during their middleweight championship bout at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) NEW YORK CITY — What can you say about a boxer who knocks out the best opponent of his career more easily than he does lesser ones? All you can really […]
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 Tim Starks on 7/13/2014
(Las Vegas; Erislandy Lara [red gloves] evades a blow by Canelo Alvarez [black gloves] during a junior middleweight fight at MGM Grand. Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports) We got an especially close fight Saturday on Showtime pay-per-view between Saul Alvarez and Erislandy Lara, and the tie went to the more popular fighter, young rising […]
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 7/4/2014
Really don’t understand what Riddick Bowe was going for here. (via)
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 Tim Starks on 6/29/2014
If you’re looking for a classy place to sign a contract with Al Haymon, one resplendent with gravitas, why not McDonalds? Lightweight Miguel Vazquez making the Haymon move means we can almost surely forget about starting a new championship lineage by fighting Terence Crawford, since Crawford is represented by Top Rank, which despises Haymon. It’s […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 6/15/2014
Every once in a while, an idiotic idea takes hold of me and I decide that it is worth pursuing despite the sheer lunacy of what I am going to attempt. It happened again yesterday when I read Alex McClintock’s inspired drinking game designed around HBO’s coverage of Ruslan Provodnikov-Chris Algieri. Despite the mounting evidence […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/10/2014
http://youtu.be/PFwA4jaSNZM Everybody’s trolling these days. The only appropriate response is to put up a couple knockout videos from recent weekends before discussing it all, so as to give you happy thoughts before delving into the sad business stuff (if you can be happy about knockouts, anyway). The one above is from this past weekend, via […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
It’s been commented on before, but TBA is some kind of throwback fighter. Not only is he fighting on the undercard of an HBO fight on Saturday (Ruslan Provodnikov vs. Chris Algieri), but he’ll also be in the ring in Manchester… on the same night. It’s impressive stuff that puts the active schedules of fighters […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 6/8/2014
Boxing is, sometimes, tragedy and triumph all at once. I’m not talking about how unfortunate it is that someone has to lose, or how nice it is that someone gets to win. I’m talking about tragedy, in the dramatic sense of a great figure brought to ruin, and about the exultation that accompanies the kind […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 6/7/2014
NEW YORK CITY — Puerto Rican idol Miguel Cotto exploded onto the middleweight scene, taking out lineal undisputed champion Sergio Martinez at the Mecca of Boxing — the famed Madison Square Garden in New York — Saturday night on HBO on the weekend of the Puerto Rican Day Parade. A raucous crowd watched the Puerto […]
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 […]
