0 comments by Steve Hunt on 5/7/2022
How should we remember John Tate? We could argue all day about how much control we have over the paths that our lives take, but one thing that we have little control of, is how people choose to remember us. Take Big John Tate, for example. Two boxing fans are chatting away in a bar… […]
0 comments by Glen Sharp on 8/18/2020
Pete Ranzany’s 1980 fight with Sal Lopez reminded Ranzany’s manager, Joey Lopes, of his own similar experience, when he fought Al Medrano in 1963. In both cases, the fight was promoted as the beloved and accomplished Sacramento boxer, clearly on the return home phase of his career, fending off a rising star, the future of […]
0 comments by Jason Langendorf on 5/19/2019
Are we sure this kid isn’t Kazakh? The thought dawned on me the first time watching Naoya Inoue. It might have been his swarming stoppage of Adrian Hernandez to win a junior flyweight title. Or maybe when he hopped a weight class to turn Omar Narvaez’s liver into pâté and swipe his belt. Could have […]
0 comments by Brent Hedtke on 4/14/2018
The Six Greatest Self-Punches In Boxing History If football is a game of inches, as my friends who enjoy spending their Sundays being hopelessly bored assure me it is, then boxing is a game of seconds. Each tick of the clock is accompanied by countless subconscious computations which direct a fighter’s body to make the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/27/2016
A super-exciting matchup we’d waited for forever turned into a mismatch followed by a quit job of epic proportions on HBO Saturday night, as Vasyl Lomachenko outclassed a toilet paper-soft Nicholas Walters to force Walters to give an actual “no mas.” This was honestly one of the best couple pairings that could be made in […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 10/7/2015
(Photo: Tom Hogan, Golden Boy) Lucas Matthysse lost to Viktor Postol in a junior welterweight fight Saturday night on HBO. After being dropped with a hard counter right hand in the 10th round, the normally menacing Matthysse got to his knees, rubbed his head with his gloves, and remained there until referee Jack Reiss counted […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/26/2015
Gennady Golovkin vs David Lemieux is booked for HBO pay-per-view on Oct. 17, and there’s a lot to like: These are two of the five best middleweights in the world, both are exciting quantities and it’s sure to end in a sensational knockout. But there are some cons: It’s on pay-per-view, it might not be competitive and it […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/2/2014
(via @HBOBoxing on Twitter) Three writers whose work I admire — David P. Greisman, Bart Barry and Carlos Acevedo — have in recent days offered some critiques of Terence Crawford vs. Raymundo Beltran that I think warrant rebuttals. We’ll dispense with the set-up other than to say that this isn’t anything personal in any way, […]
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 Sam Sheppard on 3/23/2014
For all their base, animalistic intrigue, professional prizefights are often the antithesis to idealism. Unlike virtually all other athletic endeavours, the grandest stage in boxing is not by default reserved for the best. The finest two entities do not necessarily face one another for the prize of global supremacy. In fact, this happens so rarely […]
