Tim Starks
661 articles · The Sweet Science
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The Week’s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Previews And Predictions For Timothy Bradley Vs. Luis Carlos Abregu, Fernando Guerrero Vs. Ishe Smith And More
This week?s schedule includes an HBO doubleheader that may not be too competitive and a ShoBox tripleheader that?s as competitive on paper as any I can recall, basically ever. That?s the tip…
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The Rise And Fall Of Pinoy Boxing
To look at Pacland over the weekend, you'd think apocalypse had been visited upon the Philippines. A series of boxing matches that very weekend prompted the dour mood. Featherweight Bernabe Concepcion and…
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Juan Manuel Lopez Beats Bernabe Concepcion In A Brief Thriller, Nonito Donaire Toys With Hernan Marquez Then KOs Him
This was Juanma at his best and Juanma at his worst. On Showtime Saturday, featherweight Juan Manuel Lopez was on course for a destructive early knockout of Bernabe Concepcion in the 1st…
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The Rest Of The Week’s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Nonito Donaire, Mike Jones, Brian Viloria, Erislandy Lara, John Molina Jr. Vs. Hank Lundy And More
Whatever you think of the Showtime main event Saturday evening, you aren't without other boxing options this weekend, some of them promising. Especially on Friday. My DVR can't handle a night like…
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Quick Jabs: Bad Reasons For Boxers To Hit People; Surprise, Bob Arum Was Lying About Floyd Mayweather Vs. Manny Pacquiao; Good ESPN, Bad ESPN; More
Last year, I said the key to whether Golden Boy Promotions' stacked undercard for the pay-per-view welterweight fight between Floyd Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez was the start of a trend is…
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Bob Arum Says Floyd Mayweather Vs. Manny Pacquiao Is Ready If Mayweather Wants To Box In 2010, And If Arum’s Not Lying*, Mayweather SHOULD Want To Fight In 2010
Yes, yes, we're all sick of hearing about the negotiations for Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao, the biggest and most meaningful fight in decades that has been talked about and talked about and hasn't…
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Quick Jabs: Bob Arum Vs. Gary Shaw; James Kirkland Vs. Ann Wolfe; Carl Froch Vs. Reality; More
I have absolutely no good reason for linking to this comic other than that it's funny and enthralling. It has nothing to do with boxing whatsoever, although a bit of "fishrage" might…
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Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 6/10
The downside of updating one's pound-for-pound list of the best boxers in the world every month or two is that sometimes there's very little movement, or even a prospect for movement. Seven…
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Quick Jabs: Freck Billionaire One Six Millionth Of His Way To His Name Via Floyd Mayweather, Jr.; Shane Mosley’s Missed Opportunity To Buy A “Championship”; Thomas Hauser On Arthur Mercante, Jr.; More
Victory for Freck Billionaire! He won $6,000 from Floyd Mayweather in a court dispute over a record contract. The rapper has the freckles, obviously, per the stills in the video above where…
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The Manny-Floyd Clarion Bee: What Floyd Mayweather And Manny Pacquiao Are Up To, Vol. 3
This column was overdue for a renaming, so it'll keep reshuffling newspaper names around. In this edition of The Manny-Floyd Clarion Bee, we augur the likelihood of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao finally happening,…
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Weekend Results: Ivan Calderon Gives Jesus Iribe The Now-You-See-Me-Now-You-Don’t Treatment; David Lemieux Gives Elvin Ayala The Wrecking Ball Treatment
Could there be any two more contrasting victories that those in the main events of the two biggest televised cards of the weekend? On Fox Sports Net/Fox Sports en Espanol's Top Rank…
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Quick Jabs: Miguel Cotto Vs. Andre Berto?; Antonio Margarito Pay-Per-View Buys = Bupkis?; James Kirkland Ready To Return?; More
A commenter who clearly has it in for referee Arthur Mercante, Jr. mentioned the above fight recently in a list of Mercante's sins. It was news to me. Until Saturday night, I'd…
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For The Biggest Unmade Fights In Boxing, All We Have Are Excuses
Ask 100 boxing fans to name the fights they want to happen most, and you'd end up with a pretty consistent top five: Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao (welterweight), Wladimir Klitschko vs.…
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The Week’s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Friday Night Fights, Solo Boxeo, Top Rank Live And Richie Mepranum-Julio Cesar Miranda
The rest of June and all of July (at least based on what's scheduled as of this writing) offer very little in the way of ultra-top-notch boxing cards, with only two weekends…
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Round And Round: Next For Joe Calzaghe, Yonnhy Perez, Yuriorkis Gamboa, Danny Green, Amir Khan, Fernando Guerrero And More
There's not much Quick Jabbing material this week, other than: This interview with Virgil Hunter, the trainer of super middleweight Andre Ward (paired at right), who's fast become one of my favorite…
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Show And Tell: Previews And Predictions For Miguel Cotto Vs. Yuri Foreman And Vanes Martirosyan Vs. Joe Greene
You have to hand it to Uncle Bob on this one: The wily old promoter has taken a moderately interesting fight between a light-punching junior middleweight and a potentially war-drained welterweight and…
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Round And Round, Featuring Drama At Bantamweight, Featherweight, Heavyweight And More
Yesterday, I visited Goochland, Va. It's named after Sir William Gooch, a contrast I enjoy -- the dignity of "Sir William" and the 7th grade nickname quality of "Gooch." I attended a…
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Quick Jabs: Ali Funeka Gets Unluckier; The WBC Hounds Israel Vazquez; Carl Froch Imitates Andre Dirrell; More
It's obvious Amir Khan is aiming for bigger things! (I stole that joke straight from friend of the site Irvin Ryan.) Salacious is fun, but when a model came forward nearly a…
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The Five Most Bescrewed Boxers In The Sport
Some boxers are luckier than others. Some are really unlucky. Maybe you don't believe in luck. There's a saying about how the harder you work, the better you prepare, the luckier you…
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Quick Jabs: A Round Of The Year Candidate; The Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley-Sergio Martinez-Kelly Pavlik-Paul Williams-Kermit Cintron-Winky Wright-Andre Berto Nexus; More
The Amir Khan-Paulie Malignaggi junior welterweight fight started early Friday. It was supposed to be today, but as this video (h/t friend of the site Mady) shows, they got to swangin' at…
