Tim Starks
661 articles · The Sweet Science
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Quick Jabs: Manny Pacquiao Makes It Rain; News Flash — Bob Arum Talks About Fight At Yankee Stadium; Tomasz Adamek Averts Plane Crash; More
Because I haven't had too many ganders at Manny Pacquiao's hoops game, I was pleased to watch this video -- even though that Elie Seckbach guy and his film "crew" (in this…
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Nonito Donaire And Fernando Montiel Win By Early Blowout, Eric Morel And Bernabe Concepcion Win Close Fights
It was a tale of two nights in the four fights on the split Pinoy Power/Latin Fury pay-per-view Saturday. In the main events, featuring the two top fighters of the evening, junior…
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Quick Jabs: Andre Berto And Paulie Malignaggi Go Separate Ways, Thankfully; Edison Miranda Doesn’t Trash Talk Lucian Bute, Texas Doesn’t License Antonio Margarito; Floyd Mayweather, Shane Mosley Strat
Mr. Tyrone Harris (left) is back on the teevee tonight, coming off his upset knockout win over lightweight prospect Marvin Quintero (right) in 2009. His team says Harris finally found his focus,…
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Pinoy Power, Or Pinoy Power Outage?: Previews And Predictions For Eric Morel Vs. Gerry Penalosa, Mario Santiago Vs. Bernabe Concepcion
This weekend's Pinoy Power card features in its main event one of the two finest Filipino boxers in the world, junior bantamweight Nonito Donaire (second only to Manny Pacquiao), but alas, he's…
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Edwin Valero Shows More Dimensions Than One To Stop Antonio DeMarco; Other Saturday Results
It was a fallacy to think lightweight sensation Edwin Valero was a one-dimensional puncher, which isn't the same as saying he's a master craftsman in the ring. But he showed off every…
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Quick Jabs: Steven Seagal Vs. Manny Pacquiao; Kangaroo Controversy; Amir Khan Protection Rumors True; More
You don't usually expect it to work out for a fighter who protests a bunk decision with one of the alphabet sanctioning organizations, because usually that only happens if there's some technicality.…
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Floyd Mayweather – Shane Mosley, The Best Consolation Prize In Boxing
It's a fight a decade in the making, and it's here: Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Shane Mosley have both signed to fight one another May 1, giving 2010 the best and most…
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Moment To Shine: Edwin Valero – Antonio DeMarco Preview And Prediction
Comes now the major U.S. television debut of Edwin Valero, the electric lightweight who's the biggest puncher in the sport today but has gobs of flaws and a messy life outside the…
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Boxing’s Top Speed Merchants
This past weekend, we saw my boy YURIORKIS GAMBOA! throwing punches so quickly that when HBO replayed the featherweight's knockout flurry, HBO's Bob Papa remarked, "It's fast in slow motion." Some fans…
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Quick Jabs: You’ll Never Guess Which State Wants To Relicense Antonio Margarito; Poow Wicky Hatton Doesn’t Like The Fat Talk; The Next Generation Of Boxer-Cops; More
I'm not one of these anti-Texas people. I've been there once, driving from Indiana to California. I didn't enjoy the humid heat, but I found nothing to hate. But Texas' boxing jurisdiction…
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Not Inevitable: Previews And Predictions For Juan Manuel Lopez – Steven Luevano, Yuriorkis Gamboa – Rogers Mtagwa
Double-headers intended to hype a future bout between the two featured fighters are usually as risk-free as boxing matches come. The headliners are never in very tough, because they're showcase fights meant…
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More Terrible Scorecards As Vanes Martirosyan Wins Wide Decision In Close Fight Against Kassim Ouma
If anything could go ugly in boxing lately, it's gone ugly. It's like everyone involved in the sport is conspiring to kill it. I don't mean literally. I doubt that's the idea.…
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The Floyd Mayweather – Manny Pacquiao Fallout Begins To Haunt Boxing
We're not supposed to be saying the zed-word, I know. We did the autopsy of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao and we'd begun moving on. But a development like this -- it doesn't just…
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A List Of Young Boxers Who Could Be On The Rise In The United States In 2010
This is the time of year when boxing writers begin to forecast who's "next" in the sport. Ring's Doug Fischer has already done a great job of running down the list of…
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Sizing Up Manny Pacquiao – Joshua Clottey, Floyd Mayweather – Somebody
Now that we're done with the autopsy of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao, it's worth glancing forward to the separate ways each of them are going. These are, after all, the two top fighters…
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Blame Enough For Everyone In The Foolish Failure To Deliver Floyd Mayweather – Manny Pacquiao
If you were holding on to the dream that Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would fight in March, it's time to let it go. Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey is set for Dallas, and Mayweather's…
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Quick Jabs: James Toney’s UFC Dream; Joe Calzaghe’s Allegedly “Phantom” Injuries; Ricky Hatton’s Pessimistic Forecast Of Return; More
Oh, you kids out there in Never Never Land. Your optimism about the possibility that Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao may still happen -- it helps open the door in my brain just enough…
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A Completely Arbitrary List Of Highly Desirable Fights In 2010
I'm usually all, like -- standards, guidelines, consistent principles, etc. etc., blah blah blah. But I've had three frozen pineapple margaritas at the sushi place, I'm still bitter about writing a full…
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Boxing’s 2009 Is Somewhere Between An “A” And “F”
If you stop 2009 on the afternoon of Dec. 22, the year boxing had ends up an unqualified success. Unprecedented pay-per-view sales and improved television ratings in the United States. Historic crowds…
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2009 Year-End Boxing Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Update
I have to invoke The Queensberry Rules mascot in the art of constructing pound-for-pound lists, Rene Descartes, to modify a guiding principle or two for the last pound-for-pound list of 2009. By…
