0 comments by Tim Starks on 9/9/2016
Carlos Cuadras’ epic bacne, coming at ya. Gennady Golovkin vs Kell Brook, Saturday, HBO, London. Still not a fan. Brook is a terrific welterweight, and his bravery for taking this bout is commendable. Golovkin is the best middleweight alive, and fighting someone so much smaller is a bad look, even if it brings some filthy […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 10/23/2014
Despite its depleted press ranks who continue to deliver a procession of poison-tipped darts — at times with the eagerness of a kid armed with a plastic toy bow; sometimes withering, occasionally humorous, generally ineffective — boxing continues its descent into a state as indecipherable as Hilbert’s sixteenth problem. A case in point unfolds this […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 6/5/2014
Bring aa’ yor nobles grand an’ fine An match him if ye can; The brightest gem upon the Tyne’s The honest workin’ man –“The Honest Workin’ Man” by James Anderson *** Boxing returns to Newcastle on Saturday, as Darlington’s Stuart Hall tackles exciting Ellesmere Port talent Paul Butler at the Metro Arena, a suddenly reinvigorated […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/4/2014
(photo by official TQBR dodgy Photoshop consultant @georgemclintock) Sorry, facefolded Sergio Martinez can’t be unseen. But it’s a big fight week, so we’ll try and distract you as best we can with a jam-packed schedule. Obviously there’s the big HBO Pay-Per-View between Sergio Martinez and Miguel Cotto for the middleweight championship of the world. Then […]
0 comments by Andrew Harrison on 3/30/2014
NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND – Martin Ward had offered to give his right hand in exchange for Stuart Hall’s recently acquired world bantamweight title belt, yet before a passionate crowd at the Metro Radio Arena on the banks of the River Tyne, Saturday, he wasn’t even afforded the chance to throw one. At the end of a tense opening session, […]
