Tim Starks
661 articles · The Sweet Science
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Hedge Your Bets: Mikey Garcia Vs. Rocky Martinez Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
Sometimes more is better. That's what Showtime has been thinking this year with multi-fight cards where the individual bouts are of questionable entertainment value, and that's what HBO seems to be thinking…
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Gennady Golovkin Gets A Real Fight From Curtis Stevens But Still Dominates, Stops Him
By Tim Starks
One view coming into Gennady Golovkin-Curtis Stevens Saturday night on HBO, probably not the prevailing one, was that Stevens was a patsy undeserving of stepping into the ring with GGG. We can…
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Bernard Hopkins Wins Antic-Filled Brawl Against Karo Murat
By Tim Starks
Bernard Hopkins beat Karo Murat Saturday night on Showtime in a bout notable for more action than you usually see in a Hopkins fight, but even more notable for exceeding the regular…
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Ho-Hum: Bernard Hopkins Vs. Karo Murat Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
Bernard Hopkins-Karo Murat Saturday on Showtime is a blemish on what big-time network boxing has been up to of late in the matchmaking department, so why are we being given a 48-year-old…
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Weekend Afterthoughts On Ruslan Provodnikov As Altered Beast, Strife For Mike Alvarado And More
By Tim Starks
It's like a little boink on the chin from the original angle, but Luis Concepcion's left hook that put down Carlos Ruiz this weekend obviously had the impact of more than that…
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How High: Mike Alvarado Vs. Ruslan Provodnikov Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
"I think of all the education that I missed," David Lee Roth once sang for Van Halen, "but then my homework was never quite like this." It's a real pleasure to write…
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Weekend Afterthoughts On Juan Manuel Marquez Whining, Orlando Cruz’s Matchmaking And More
By Tim Starks
Juan Manuel Marquez was falling down Saturday, yet from the screen capture he might as well be dancing. Timothy Bradley has earned some plaudits for beating the man on HBO pay-per-view Saturday,…
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Safety Last: Juan Manuel Marquez Vs. Timothy Bradley Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Timothy Bradley Saturday on HBO pay-per-view is a match-up spilling over with danger beyond recompense, and danger of the drool-worthy and bitter variety alike. If only we could…
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The Week?s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Juan Manuel Marquez, Vasyl Lomachenko And Jermell Charlo
By Tim Starks
Usually we start the week?s boxing schedule off with a random, non-boxing piece of media from the internet, but the above Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling program was too cool not to…
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Vintage Miguel Cotto Executes Delvin Rodriguez, Terence Crawford Blanks Reluctant Andrey Klimov
By Tim Starks
Miguel Cotto salvaged an action-free HBO card in the main event Saturday with a throwback performance against Delvin Rodriguez, electrifying the audience in Orlando, Fla. via the kind of bodypunching that drew…
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Quick Jabs: David Haye’s Injuries; Amir Khan’s Floyd Mayweather Ambition; Judges’ Foibles; More
By Tim Starks
Who would win in a fight between Rocky and Raging Bull? Rocky, just because he's a heavyweight and Raging Bull is a middleweight. Between the actors? Guess we'll just have to wait…
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Weekend Afterthoughts On Floyd Mayweather’s All-Time Status, Judge C.J. Ross’ Same And More
By Tim Starks
Danny Garcia's mouthpiece ejecting from his face and skating across the top ring rope was one of the best blends of violence and grace from this past weekend, the absolute best being…
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Strong Proof: Floyd Mayweather Vs. Saul Alvarez Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
There is enough distance in reality, but not in perception, between "Canelo Alvarez is the most threatening opponent for Floyd Mayweather, and his most threatening in many years" and "Canelo Alvarez is…
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Superimposed: Lucas Matthysse Vs. Danny Garcia Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez on Showtime pay-per-view on Sept. 14. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Alvarez; a special edition…
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Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Vs. Canelo Alvarez: Keys To The Fight Part II
By Tim Starks
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez on Showtime pay-per-view on Sept. 14. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Alvarez; a special edition…
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Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Vs. Canelo Alvarez: Keys To The Fight Part I
By Tim Starks
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez on Showtime pay-per-view on Sept. 14. Previously: the meaning of Mayweather-Alvarez; a special edition…
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Alternate Universe List Of The Pound-For-Pound Best Boxers, 2013 Edition
By Tim Starks
What if... there existed another universe where fighters were ranked pound-for-pound -- i.e., who's best regardless of weight -- based nothing at all on any actual evidence from what a fighter had…
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Weekend Afterthoughts On Abner Mares’ Mistake And Standing; Mike Tyson’s Sobriety; More
By Tim Starks
That's Canelo Alvarez getting his romance novel cover on, from a still from Saturday's episode of All Access. The episode gave people plenty of things to laugh about and talk about besides…
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Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For The Floyd Mayweather Vs. Canelo Alvarez Undercard, Robert Guerrero, Adrien Broner And Others
By Tim Starks
Green River and TQBR are in agreement: It's dry as a bone out there and will be for a few more weeks. There are some good scattered bouts floating around -- I'm…
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Juan Francisco Estrada, Zou Shiming, Evgeny Gradovich Win Tough Fights
By Tim Starks
The scorecards didn't always show it on the HBO2 tripleheader, but nobody had it easy in the ring in Macau, China on Saturday. Headliner and ex-Olympic gold medalist, flyweight Zou Shiming, in…