0 comments by Patrick Connor on 6/16/2014
After a fight weekend, there’s bound to be an outcry over the things fight fans have been subjected to. There were quite a few upset people after this last weekend; the calls of “Man, that’s messed up!” still ring clean in the June air. And then those upset people remembered that that’s just how Adrien […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/17/2014
Yes, yes, #cancelcolbert and everything, but it just makes sense: This is Round And Round, and it’s a short version of Round And Round, thus, Short Round from Indiana Jones. Besides the men in the headline in this regular column featuring fights in the works, we have rounded-up news on Gennady Golovkin, Deontay Wilder, Mauricio […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/7/2014
Got my copy of Springs Toledo’s “Gods of War” off Amazon; still got a ways to go but it’s more than paying off in phrases like “[Ray] Leonard was confident enough to ask permission from an aging Ray Robinson to borrow ‘Sugar,’ but he couldn’t have anticipated how many lumps he’d get from [Roberto] Duran…” […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/3/2014
There is your lunch of champions, namely that of Saturday night’s champ, Floyd Mayweather, while in jail. The most entertaining read of the week was Sports on Earth’s account of his time in prison, with gems like how the stay might “infect” his career, about him getting mysterious rib injuries while reaching over to grab […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/1/2014
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest bouts of 2014, Floyd Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana, on May 3 on Showtime Pay-Per-View. Previously: the basics of Mayweather-Maidana; TQBR Radio on Mayweather-Maidana; the undercard, previewed; keys to the fight. Next: preview and prediction. Floyd Mayweather’s latest opponent is so well known that everyone knows how to spell his name. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 4/29/2014
So begins our marathon coverage of one of the biggest bouts of 2014, Floyd Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana, on May 3 on Showtime Pay-Per-View. Next: the undercard, previewed. This Saturday, the sport’s most recognizable name and its finest practitioner, Floyd Mayweather, is set to take on perhaps his most obscure opponent since his rise to enormous […]
