0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/29/2017
In the course of one month, four boxers with Hall of Fame credentials that range from “unimpeachable” to “strong” have retired. Boxing being what boxing is, retirements don’t always stick. But these four — Floyd Mayweather, Wladimir Klitschko, Juan Manuel Marquez and Timothy Bradley — have a pretty solid chance of staying away from the […]
0 comments by Cathal McGuigan on 8/24/2017
If those long-promised time machines ever come out and you get bored of dinosaur safari trips or punching a young Hitler in the ribs, you could do worse than take a ride back to early 2015. Back then Donald Trump was still a relatively harmless figure of fun, the U.K. was still safely in 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 11/13/2014
This is just about as good as it gets for the modern heavyweight division: The true champion is facing the most qualified opponent he hasn’t yet defeated. It’s a legitimate fight, Wladimir Klitschko vs. Kubrat Pulev. HBO is televising Saturday afternoon, as it should, no matter how tedious Klitschko fights are to many of us, because […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 8/5/2014
To fans of other sports, it’s just so obvious: The Spurs face the Heat in the NBA Finals because of course they do; the Spurs won the Western Conference and the Heat won the Eastern Conference and the two winners decide the champion. In boxing, it is never so simple, and it is especially complicated […]
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 […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/26/2014
At some point in the history of boxing, someone decided that it was compulsory for every fighter to have a nickname. And since that point, the sport has been plagued by awful nicknames. Rather than being something you have to earn, nicknames are something your manager thinks of before your first fight. For every Juan […]
