Tim Starks
661 articles · The Sweet Science
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Round And Round: Fights In The Works, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Edition
The talk of Floyd Mayweather, Jr.'s return to boxing has advanced beyond wisps of hints of rumors, although a pair of recent stories from trustworthy reporters seemingly contradict one another. On any…
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19 Ready-Made Replies To Fans Of Manny Pacquiao
To say fans of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao have had a love-hate relationship with me is an understatement. They've called me the greatest boxing writer of all time and they've called me…
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TSS’ Top 9 Unjustly Unloved
Some fighters get all the love. Most of them deserve it. Some fighters, though, don?t get the zealous affection they should. Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton definitely get love. Both have devoted…
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Our First Pound-For-Pound Top 20 List Of 2009
There has been a fair amount of moving and shaking in early 2009 amid The Queensberry Rules' pound-for-pound rankings, but I haven't posted a full update since December. There was Shane Mosley-Antonio…
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From Hell’s Heart, I Stab At Thee: The Bittersweet Career Of Juan Manuel Marquez
Maybe you like your "chasing the white whale"-style quotes to come from the original Moby Dick. I'm no Trekkie, but that Wrath of Khan is a good flick. Either way, the "hell's…
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Quick Jabs: Loaded Week For Boxing; Dr. Manny Pacquiao And Mrs. Ricky Hatton; Mexican Fighters On The Decline; More
It should be a truly excellent week of boxing on television, both in the quality and quantity departments. Just take a look at the schedule: * It's time, already, for this season's…
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Quick Jabs: Reductio Ad Absurdum; Floyd Mayweather Says “No” To Shane Mosley; Kelly Pavlik’s Bad Taste In Music; More
In related British news, did you know that Joe Calzaghe totally sucked because everyone else he ever fought totally sucked? You should not know this, because it is false. But with the…
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Manny Pacquiao Is The Latest Newly-Minted Superstar To Get A Big Head, But At What Risk?
Whatever the status of the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton negotiations, my takeaway from this particularly inside baseball phase of a fight's evolution is that Pacquiao has, for some reason or another, developed a…
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An Interview With Thomas Hauser
Thomas Hauser, I've made no bones about saying, is the finest boxing writer in the land. He's somewhere between the sport's poet laureate and its Bob Woodward. If you have read any…
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Quick Jabs: Manny Pacquiao – Ricky Hatton On Deck; Retirement For Israel Vazquez?; More
Welcome to boxing's weekend of disgrace! You've got the "Will this be the day Evander Holyfield's gets really bad brain damage?" bout with heavyweight titlist Nicolay Valuev. You've got Joan "I can't…
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Boxing’s 2008 Fighter Of The Year: Manny Pacquiao
When your year roughly mirrors one of the finest achievements in boxing history -- Henry Armstrong's simultaneous three-division reign -- then it's going to be hard for anyone to top you in…
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Oscar De La Hoya – Manny Pacquiao: Keys To The Fight, Part I
(Please join us all week long for daily De La Hoya/Pacquiao coverage, leading up to a live blog Saturday night. Today: How the two men stack up in some of the areas…
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Oscar De La Hoya – Manny Pacquiao: The Biggest Fight Of The Year Cuts Two Ways
A total joke. Earlier this year, that's what I thought of Oscar De La Hoya fighting Manny Pacquiao. In the first half of 2008, in separate bouts, De La Hoya and Pacquiao…
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08 An Interview With Nonito Donaire And Rachel Marcial Donaire
This is easily the weirdest way I've scored an interview in my whole life: 1. I say on the Internet that a boxer's wife is hot. 2. Someone from the boxer's team…
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Quick Jabs: Weekend Afterthoughts, And The Weekend Ahead; Weekly De La Hoya-Pacquiao Tidbits; More
Sandwiched between interesting weekends in boxing if not quite big ones comes this edition of ?Quick Jabs,? featuring members of Congress, the Utah Jazz, the Statue of Liberty and spies ? all…
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Five Fights That Should Be Happening But Aren?t
Paul Williams? steamrolling of a legit middleweight (160 lbs.) on Versus Network Thursday night provoked in me a fresh round of outrage that a Williams rematch with Antonio Margarito for clear welterweight…
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Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez III Is Now More Of A ?Must? Than Ever
Saturday night, Juan Manuel Marquez became the lightweight (135 lbs.) champion of the world. Let me correct that. Saturday night, Juan Manuel Marquez became the lightweight champion of the world, securing Ring…
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Round And Round We Go, With Margarito-Cotto II, Mijares-Darchinyan, De La Hoya-Pacquiao And Others
It?s time for ?Round and Round,? where I take a look at developments in upcoming fights. Bigger names and/or more important combatants get top billing, so stop reading at any time your…
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What The Hell? De La Hoya Talkin? Marquez-Casamayor On Sportscenter?
OK, obviously I?m into the Joel Casamayor-Juan Manuel Marquez lightweight (135 lbs.) fight this weekend, if you read the preceding post, but? well, I don?t want to get downright sappy? is it…
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Quick Jabs: Lots Of Lightweights; De La Hoya?s Daddy Issues; The Drunken Master?s Honor; More
Between arranging and hosting bachelor parties, visiting friends in Indiana, covering political conventions for my day job and an upcoming wedding, I?ll have been out of town five straight weekends and out…
