0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/3/2010
It’s the last Open Thread of 2010, so I’m ’round to thinking about how to make the site better for all you fine people in 2011. Whaddya got? Should we keep TQBR Prediction Game going into 6.0 and beyond? Is there too much of something and not enough of another thing? Have you any innovative […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/2/2010
NEW YORK– Dominican junior lightweight Javier Fortuna announced his arrival to New York in style on Wednesday night in front of a packed house at B.B. Kings Blues Club, flooring unbeaten prospect Victor Valenzuela just over a minute into the 1st round. The light-punching Valenzuela started out boxing but then unwisely threw caution to the […]
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(This is what the banner of this card has come to.) Saturday night was to pit Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. and Saul Alvarez against one another in a contest to decide which young, debatably talented, widely loved Mexican junior middleweight would prove more popular when their matches went head-to-head. Then Chavez got sick, or had […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 12/1/2010
Welcome to Tuesday, the day that we sometimes review things that happened in boxing about three days ago. The above fight happened four days ago, and it features Hozumi Hasegawa making a successful debut at featherweight against Juan Carlos Burgos. I’m still working through the bout but it’s high-level stuff from both men. Burgos dwarfs […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/30/2010
The first 10 months of 2010 in boxing resembled a bad Fourth of July fireworks show: a few “oohs” and “aahs,” but you probably could have been just as impressed with a Roman candle and sparkler spinner show in your backyard after stopping at one of the ubiquitous fireworks shops along Interstate 95 on the […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/29/2010
Two weeks’ worth of fights in the works await below! Round And Round There’s some potential funny business afoot with the headliner of this weekend’s Top Rank pay-per-view. First, Alfonso Gomez pulled out of his middleweight bout with Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., citing an injury. In came Pawel Wolak, who might be a better opponent […]
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The holiday this weekend and the chaos of Atlantic City last weekend has us behind on some of the latest news tidbits and fights in the works, but we’ll get caught up, just you watch. It starts with the above video, a dynamite knockout from last weekend that was overshadowed, naturally, by Sergio Martinez’ knockout […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/28/2010
In a weekend with two very difficult winners to predict, three amigos — TJChim, Apemantus and Bundy Bears AKA ALEXMAC — got all of them right. And because of this, one of those three, Bundy Bears, is now in the lead for TQBR Prediction Game 5.0. Andre Ward-Sakio Bika was the gimme, with only one […]
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(Carl Froch hits Arthur Abraham right above his ill-conceived white see-through trunks/red underwear combination; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) What a wild night of fights. Carl Froch put on a master class in upsetting and outclassing Arthur Abraham. Juan Manuel Marquez put on a master class in stopping Michael Katsidis in a terrific brawl. Jason Litzau […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/27/2010
Click no further if you want to avoid finding out what happened in Finland today before it airs on Showtime tonight. “Exposed” is an overused word in boxing, but two fights in a row now, super middleweight Arthur Abraham has had vulnerabilities in his style, well, exposed. What’s surprising is who did it this time: […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/26/2010
Happy Thanksgiving, jive turkeys! Is the image at right racist? I honestly don’t know. Unless there’s a movement to boycott this blog, I probably won’t care. Mainly I wanted to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, but without appearing overly sentimental. Thus, possibly racist cartoon images of turkeys. You would think that it would be enough […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 11/25/2010
It used to be not many people loved lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez, even after his thrilling war with Manny Pacquiao in 2004. He wasn’t exciting enough for them, if you can imagine. Fans of beautiful boxing dug him, and there are still few combination punchers in the sport so fluid. But as he became […]
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(Arthur Abraham, left, and Carl Froch, right, stare at each other; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) This was the one you circled on your calendar when you got a glimpse of the Super Six tournament schedule: Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham. With the re-schedulings and relocations — it’s now in Helsinki on Saturday — maybe you […]
0 comments by Tom Chmielewski on 11/24/2010
To some, the saddest sight in boxing is a prizefighter after the cheers have stopped. Recognition eludes them. Physical ailments destroy their former godlike physiques. Some experience slurred speech, which could be a harbinger of further ramifications of brain damage down the road. And sadly, most end up broke with no skills, no friends, nobody […]
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One point one five million is a really good number of pay-per-views to sell in boxing, and that’s what Manny Pacquiao did two weekends ago against Antonio Margarito, according to the news today. It’s a tribute to what kind of star Pacquiao has become that he is now the first non-heavyweight boxer to headline a […]
