0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/26/2014
Kangaroo fight videos are too depressing. Koalas are now the Australian marsupial combatants of choice. They sound like geese squawking, and they don’t seem capable of doing much damage. The above video features a koala on the right who is the Bernard Hopkins of the koala fighting world — he’s a sneaky fouler, over and […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 10/21/2014
31-0 (28 KO). A few belts. A fondness of meat. All are things Gennady Golovkin owns. This past weekend, he added a tennis court in Carson, Ca. — and all of its spectators — to his back pocket. There’s not much wrong with that, either. In fact, if asked nicely, many of us would happily […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/18/2014
(Nicholas Walters, right, Nonito Donaire, right;
0 comments by Tim Starks on 10/17/2014
On Saturday, HBO offers one spectacular fighter and one spectacular match-up. In a boxing year like 2014, that’s a mix you’ll take gladly — perhaps, too, though, one you’ll take masochistically, in a desert environment where any oasis will do, and where one with pear trees is like heaven. The spectacular fighter is, of course, Gennady […]
0 comments by Patrick Connor on 10/14/2014
Apparently the image above (via) is of a book that is a study and critique of pop culture in the 70s and 80s. The title is also, in order, a less-clever nickname for Gennady Golovkin, and what Marco Antonio Rubio is trying to avoid becoming. That’s the best we can do. We’re bloggers. This week […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 10/13/2014
It’s Mario — Mexican-style! You know what else is Mexican style? Mexican Style, which is the name of this weekend’s Gennady Golovkin vs. Marco Antonio Rubio middleweight card. I like the idea of promoting the Kazakh KO-artist to Mexican fans, and Golovkin’s growing cult status is a testament to his appeal. Apart from that card, there’s a […]
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), […]
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 […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 8/27/2014
Featherweights Nonito Donaire and Nicholas Walters will clash on the undercard of HBO’s Oct. 18 show headlined by Gennady Golovkin (against Marco Antonio Rubio), according to Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions. It’s a great fight between to of the top featherweights in the world (Donaire is the #2 contender and Walters the #5, according to the Transnational […]
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 […]
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 6/10/2014
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 […]
