Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Alexander Povetkin, Amir Khan, Nicholas Walters And Others

0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/2/2014

Here’s boxing in 2014, in a nutshell: Showtime, which had cast its lot with Golden Boy’s Richard Schaefer prior to the company’s split with him, has aired trash almost exclusively this year, yet is putting on a quality welterweight bout Dec. 13 between Devon Alexander and Amir Khan. The undercard bout between junior middleweights Demetrius […]

Barthelemy Coasts, Martirosyan Outbrawls Nelson, Karpency Upsets Dawson

0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/4/2014

(Rances Barthelemy, left, Fernando David Saucedo, right; Amanda Kwok, Showtime) It had a sad start, a surprisingly exciting middle and a sleepy main event, Saturday’s Showtime card. To wit, in reverse order: Rances Barthelemy had no trouble with Fernando David Saucedo. Vanes Martirosyan and Willie Nelson waged a mini-war, with Martirosyan coming out on top. […]

Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 10/14

0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/30/2014

(Roman Gonzalez, left; Akira Yaegashi, right) At last, some movement. Since our last update of the best boxers in the world, regardless of weight, some of them have, actually, you know, fought. And in some meaningful fights, too. There are two new entrants to the top 10 (hint: one of them is in the picture), […]

Alternate Universe List Of The Pound-For-Pound Best Boxers, 2014 Edition

0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/2/2014

What if… there existed another universe where fighters were ranked pound-for-pound — i.e., who’s best regardless of weight — based nothing at all on any actual evidence from what a fighter had actually accomplished? A dimension where some figure or the other just points at a fighter and says, “I think he looks like he’s […]

In The Interest Of Establishing Real Boxing Champions, The 2014 List

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 […]

Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 7/14

0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/4/2014

Really don’t understand what Riddick Bowe was going for here. (via)

Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Terence Crawford, Kell Brook And Others

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 […]

[UPDATED] Nonito Donaire Vs. Simpiwe Vetyeka (And Undercard) Results

0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/31/2014

[UPDATE: HBO has aired the fight. Some commentary on that below.] This is a post about what happened in the Nonito Donaire vs. Simpiwe Vetyeka featherweight fight in Macau, China. Since the fight will air live on HBO this afternoon, anyone who doesn’t want a spoiler should stop reading now. OK:

Quick Jabs, Featuring Abner Mares’ (Alleged) Man Love, Boxers Going Broke And Moral Breakage

0 comments by Alex McClintock on 4/27/2014

Abner Mares leads this edition of Quick Jabs with his supposedly

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