Tim Starks
661 articles · The Sweet Science
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Quick Jabs: Rest In Peace, Angelo Dundee; The New Technology Tonight On HBO; More
By Tim Starks
Boxing lost one of its greats this week, as everyone knows by now. Angelo Dundee, who died at age 90, was one of the best few trainers ever to grace the game,…
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Junior Class: Previews And Predictions For Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. Vs. Marco Antonio Rubio And Nonito Donaire Vs. Wilfredo Vazquez, Jr.
By Tim Starks
Middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.'s career arc resembles that of a kiddie pop star exiting his teenage years: Once ridiculed by boxing's grown-ups for his avid following's disproportionate ratio to his actual…
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Round And Round, Including What’s Next For Miguel Cotto, Lamont Peterson, Edwin Rodriguez And Others
By Tim Starks
Some folk are kinda excited about the early 2012 boxing schedule, but it's not doing much for me yet. I'm down with Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto doing a welterweight rematch, and…
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The Amir Khan Vs. Lamont Peterson “Mystery Man” Gives Boxing Its Latest Quizzical Semi-Scandal
By Tim Starks
The more the so-called "mystery man" talks, the more confusing it gets, the question of "what it was he was doing at the Amir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson fight in December." Ever…
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A List Of Young Boxers Who Could Be On The Rise In The United States In 2012, Part II
By Tim Starks
This is the second and final part of a series that began (and is explained) here. These are some of the runner-ups, essentially. SECOND TIER Timothy Bradley, junior welterweight, 28 Upside: He's…
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Quick Jabs: Grading Bob Arum’s Excuses For No Manny Pacquiao For Floyd Mayweather, Jr.; Drunk-Dialing Your Way To A Fight; More
By Tim Starks
These guys over in Taiwan who do computer-animated takes on the news crack me up. I don't agree with their take at all on this particular issue, but it would be better…
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A List Of Young Boxers Who Could Be On The Rise In The United States In 2012, Part I
By Tim Starks
Every couple years, boxing types get worried about whether there are new young stars in the pipeline to take over once the current standard-bearers depart, particularly here in America. There always seem…
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Round And Round, Including What’s Next For Abner Mares, Alexander Povetkin, Manny Pacquiao And Others
By Tim Starks
These two and their promoters just drive me up the wall. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. won't go to jail for smacking around his baby mama until June, in what is a miscarriage of…
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Quick Jabs: The New Philosophy At Showtime; Timothy Bradley Gon Cutchoo, Mang; More
By Tim Starks
In this edition of Quick Jabs, 'sides the headline and what we just talked about, we'll discuss Victor Ortiz maybe talking himself out of a boxing license; Snooki as boxing promoter; the…
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Boxing In 2011, Reviewed
By Tim Starks
If you ask the two top promoters in boxing how things are going in boxing, they'll give you a shit-ton of shiny happy talk about how terrific the sport is these days,…
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2011 Boxing Awards Pu Pu Platter, Part II
By Tim Starks
Best/Worst Excuse For Losing A Fight. There's nothing more I like than a good excuse when a fighter comes up short. The more improbable, the better. I loved the excuse from Wilfredo…
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2011 Boxing Awards Pu Pu Platter, Part I
By Tim Starks
Your Pu Pu Platter of boxing awards has arrived. So sorry it's late to your table. It's still 2011, so it remains warm to the touch. Please savor its many flavors. In…
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2011 Boxing Fighter Of The Year Nominees
By Tim Starks
Welcome to The Queensberry Rules' annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week. Here's how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year,…
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2011 Boxing Knockout Of The Year: Nonito Donaire – Fernando Montiel
By Tim Starks
There was an element of the cartoonish about what Nonito Donaire did to Fernando Montiel's face in the 2nd round of their Feb. 19, 2011 rendezvous. You can imagine the artists and…
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Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 12/11
By Tim Starks
Insofar as pound-for-pound lists are debate fodder -- and it's one of the main ideas -- there's a lot to debate to be had with at the end of 2011 with this…
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Washington, D.C. Hosts A Fight Of The Year Candidate As Lamont Peterson Upsets Amir Khan
By Tim Starks
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This city clearly has craved some boxing, as the racous thousands showed Saturday night, and they got as tasty a serving of it as they could when hometown boy…
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Is Washington, D.C. The Next Big “Fight Town?”
By Tim Starks
For the last couple years, there's been a theory floating around that Washington, D.C. is ripe to be exploited as a "fight town," that kind of U.S. city that embraces boxing and…
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Ugly Fruit: Antonio Margarito Vs. Miguel Cotto II Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
There's been something of an evolution of the Antonio Margarito tale: What once was grotesque to many of us (and for some of it, it still is) has now become a dramatic…
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Change To Win: Abner Mares Vs. Joseph Agbeko II Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
Saturday is just jam-packed with rematches of serious, serious action fights, a couple of them still fogging up your television screen with controversy from the first time around. Over on HBO pay-per-view,…
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Quick Jabs/Round And Round: Showtime’s New Leadership, Next For James Kirkland, More
By Tim Starks
The situation in New York with Antonio Margarito's license sunk very quickly into catastrophe status over the span of a few days to end the week, and has veered back toward salvageable…