Tim Starks
661 articles · The Sweet Science
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Weekend Afterthoughts On How Good Mike Alvarado Vs. Brandon Rios 2 Was, Zsolt Erdei’s First Loss And More
By Tim Starks
So that?s his secret. (via) The meat on the menu this past weekend for the fearsome middleweight puncher was Nobuhiro Ishida, and while Gennady Golovkin beating him was no more surprising than…
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Quick Jabs, Soon To Simply Be Known As “The Boxing PED Chronicles”
By Tim Starks
It might make you cut weight, but a tapeworm is not exactly a performance-enhancing drug, so we're already defying the headline. A tapeworm like the homely fellow to the left is what…
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More Human Than Human: Brandon Rios Vs. Mike Alvarado II Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado are not like most humans. They?re not even like most boxers, a class of people who, to varying degrees, must suppress their self-preservation instinct. At the lowest…
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Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 3/13
By Tim Starks
Been nearly three months round these parts since we updated the pound-for-pound top 20 list of the best boxers in the world regardless of weight, which is informational about how the sport…
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HBO Breaks Up With Golden Boy, Deepening Boxing’s Biggest, Most Unproductive Rift
By Tim Starks
"Can't figure out/What happened to us/I won't count on you anymore/I'll be all right/Don't worry about me Aren't you happy now/You got what you want/I wanted you/But I'm over that now/I'm so…
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Timothy Bradley Struggles To Win Against Ruslan Provodnikov, But Should Win His Way Into Boxing Fans’ Hearts
By Tim Starks
Timothy Bradley could've fought intelligently against Ruslan Provodnikov Saturday night on HBO and secured a victory with relative ease, but instead, perhaps driven by the fan animosity toward him over the bunk…
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Weekend Afterthoughts On The Scope Of Bernard Hopkins’ Achievement, Some Killer KOs And More
By Tim Starks
If spoil sports aren't your flavor, perhaps a pair of refreshing counter left hook knockouts from the past weekend can cleanse the palate? Edgar Sosa did in Ulises Solis with one in…
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Quick Jabs: Floyd Mayweather Revealed As Not A Class Act; The Million Dollar Doobie; More
By Tim Starks
America just don't know. That's Victor Ortiz in a publicity shot for Dancing With The Stars; he looks like he's got his VO FaceLube on in that very, very baby blue photograph,…
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Hanging On: Bernard Hopkins Vs. Tavoris Cloud Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
Time waits for no man, except, perhaps, Bernard Hopkins. The 48-year-old has fought at a high level despite a decrepit-for-boxing age far later than he has had any right to, and probably…
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Quick Jabs: Wrinkles For Floyd Mayweather And Showtime; PEDs, Thrown Fights, Corruption Scandals Again; More
By Tim Starks
Boxing promoter 50 Cent is one of our own now, which means we have to talk about him more often. This failed smooch with Erin Andrews has gotten a lot of attention,…
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Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Marcos Maidana, Nonito Donaire, Tomasz Adamek And Others
By Tim Starks
Matchmaking is more art than science, as we saw this weekend when Tony Thompson (D.C. BOXING WHAT UP!!!!) stunned heavyweight super-prospect David Price. I bet cowboy here thought he could take a…
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Battling Back: Lamont Peterson Vs. Kendall Holt Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks
Friday Night Fights on ESPN2 makes a much-needed shift this weekend in its matchmaking from "unwatchable dreck" to "as good as the program gets" with a bout headlined by Lamont Peterson vs.…
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Showtime Steals Floyd Mayweather From HBO, Books Him Against Robert Guerrero (And Then Some)
By Tim Starks
Major boxing news Tuesday: The biggest name in boxing in the United States and the country's highest-paid athlete in any sport, Floyd Mayweather, has signed a long-term deal with Showtime, starting with…
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Adrien Broner Tested More Than Expected By Gavin Rees, But Still Not Very Much
By Tim Starks
Rarely do you see a fighter win the first two rounds of a bout, as Gavin Rees did Saturday night on HBO against Adrien Broner, yet still remain so convinced that the…
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Quick Jabs: The Return Of The Boxing Dive; The Drug Testing Morass; More
By Tim Starks
Boxing dives are making a comeback in a big way! Let's party like it's the 1940s. The dives seem especially popular when they involve athletes from other sports, as with the opponent…
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Boxing Slows Its Roll In 2013 (So Far)
By Tim Starks
Was it an eternity ago that boxing was stacking up one hit weekend after another, or does it only seem that way? Pretty sure it's been a literal eternity. LITERAL. It's slow…
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Weekend Afterthoughts On Muhammad Ali Not Dying, Felix Sturm Losing And More
By Tim Starks
Mike Lee was in a Super Bowl commercial this weekend, and Muhammad Ali became the latest boxing personality not to die. At least this time the rumor of impending death was coming…
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Round And Round, Featuring Rematches Galore, A Casualty Of Top Rank Vs. Golden Boy And More
By Tim Starks
Assassin's Creed video game + Apollo Creed from Rocky = Apollo's Creed. (h/t Ramon Aranda) Are you ready for some rematches? Good, because you're going to get a lot of them, although…
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The Steady Decline Of Yuriorkis Gamboa
By Tim Starks
It wasn't so long ago, in the scheme of things, that Yuriorkis Gamboa's fan club among the hardcore boxing public was practically too full to accept new members. In 2010, the Cuban…
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Weekend Review: Wins For Lucas Matthysse, Demetrius Andrade, Brian Vera And Others
By Tim Starks
No major major fights this weekend, but some interesting results. Let's get to 'em. Lucas Matthysse vs. Mike Dallas, Jr. It might not be the most innovative nickname, yet there's probably no…