0 comments by Matthew Swain on 12/31/2019
The 1st and 12th rounds were the same, Tim Bradley in mortal danger, just about out on his feet, punching back with all his might. When the final bell rang, Ruslan Provodnikov dropped to his knees and pounded the mat in tears of rage, agony, lust, and joy. Minutes later, Bradley admitted to HBO’s Max […]
0 comments by Matthew Swain on 7/20/2016
Unlike most major sports, boxing exists in an anarcho-capitalist wasteland. It’s the kind of environment that would give Ayn Rand a dusty orgasm and produce a raging semi in Ted Cruz that’s normally reserved for when he imagines Jesus power bombing a refugee child. Because of this, most fighters get paid based on how many […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/22/2016
Toot toot, it’s fight week! And not only is the flute-wielding, luscious-haired Keith Thurman taking on Shawn Porter, but Anthony Joshua is fighting Dominic Breazeale (in a match-up that figures to be significantly less competitive). That’s not even all. Read on to find out more. Keith Thurman vs Shawn Porter, Saturday, CBS, New York. Just a […]
WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley Jr. connects on Brandon Rios during their title fight at the Thomas & Mack Center on November 7, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 11/13/2015
“Talk to me son,” bellowed referee Russell Mora after Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios had received a third low blow In the space of two minutes. “Let’s go baby!” came the defiant response from a man who seemed almost to be drawing energy from his opponent’s attempts to foul. Although his body would sag with each […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 1/26/2015
In boxing, even sure things aren’t sure things. The idea that Brandon Rios’ bludgeoning style would match well again with Alvarado’s boxer-puncher (with emphasis on the puncher) style for a third time was a certainty. And maybe it would have, if not for Alvarado’s tendency to err on the side of erring, but the Denver […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 1/25/2015
The first time Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado declared war on each other they embraced the messy tenets of inside battle and let the tea leaves dictate who won; it was Rios. The second time, Alvarado climbed the walls in Las Vegas, just barely escaping ruin to out-distance the gritty brawler. And this time, whatever series of […]
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 Alex McClintock on 1/20/2015
We’ve just come off an action packed week of boxing. Perhaps too action packed, judging by the photo of Deontay Wilder and Bermane Stiverne above (via
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 1/19/2015
It’s true that boxing has a funny way of bonding two men who steal life from one another inside of a square ring, but even so, sometimes a pair of fighters compliment one another so well when the action begins, that the rest doesn’t matter. You’d think two fiery characters like Brandon Rios and Mike […]
Brandon Rios calls for a third fight against Mike Alvarado after losing a close decision to Alvarado in their second bout bout at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on March 30, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Josh Hedges/Getty Images)
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 1/14/2015
destiny noun – the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future. There is no question of their suitability for one another, of their dual commitment to a fighting ethos that has fallen out of fashion with large sections of modern fans: A shared rejection of tomorrow, a stand against due care that […]
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 Alex McClintock on 1/5/2015
In news that should surprise no one, arrest-prone welterweight Mike Alvarado has been arrested. The Denver native was booked on gun possession charges during a traffic stop, according to friend of the site David Greisman. It’s not great timing, as Alvarado is due to close out his trilogy with Brandon Rios in just three weeks. According to trainer […]
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 6/15/2014
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0 comments by Patrick Connor on 5/27/2014
That’s it. We’re done. Hope is gone and humanity will fail. If the two jovial, carefree gentlemen in the photo above, rapper T.I. and Floyd Mayweather (via), cannot get along, then who can? Forget peace in the Middle East, TQBR Radio is just waiting for Brad Pitt and Jen Aniston to get back together. Boxing […]
