Tim Starks
661 articles · The Sweet Science
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Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Gennady Golovkin, Paulie Malignaggi, Amir Khan And Others
We'll have thoughts tomorrow on tonight's action and last night's, but fights in the works are like plaque that build up and build up if you don't address them. We're nearing gum…
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A List Of Young Boxers Who Could Be On The Rise In The United States In 2013, Part II
Read part I here. As before, we'll examine each fighter's upside and downside, albeit in shorter form than with the first installment. SECOND TIER Robert Guerrero, welterweight, 29 His rapid rise in…
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A List Of Young Boxers Who Could Be On The Rise In The United States In 2013, Part I
Last year around this time, in the similarly titled 2012 list, I floated a slightly scary thought: The lifespan of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao as the era's superstars might be coming…
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Weekend Afterthoughts On Sergey Kovalev, What’s Next For Mikey Garcia And Gennady Golovkin, More
Felix Verdejo got himself a little HBO shine Saturday thanks to that knockout, via a highlight clip that's rare for such an inexperienced fighter. Also probably because he does have the makings…
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Boxing In 2012, Reviewed
There was a moment toward the end of 2012, at the close of a boxing broadcast that aired on NBC -- the first time that network had aired a live boxing event…
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Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Carl Froch, Wladimir Klitschko, Nonito Donaire And Others
I'm sure you know the type, coming to the party to pluck the feathers off all the birds. We're in the after-party phase of 2012, and mostly this post is filled with…
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2012 Boxing Awards Pu Pu Platter, Part I
Your Pu Pu Platter of boxing awards has arrived. So sorry it's late to your table. It's still 2012, so it remains warm to the touch. Please savor its many flavors. In…
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Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 12/12
It was a busy few months for those who would be the elite boxers in the world, regardless of weight. Of the 20 people on this list, 11 of them fought since…
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Christmas Quick Jabs: Dana White Vs. Bob Arum; HBO And CBS Boxing Ratings; More
Happy holidays, friends. Santa Claus knows if you've been naughty, and he knows if you've been nice, and he will come down your chimney and if you've been naughty, be prepared to…
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2012 Boxing Fighter Of The Year: Nonito Donaire
When trying to decide between Nonito Donaire and Juan Manuel Marquez for Fighter of the Year, it comes down to a dilemma common to judging individual boxing matches: Do you like the…
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2012 Boxing Round Of The Year: Orlando Salido – Juan Manuel Lopez II, Round 9
To say that in the 9th round of Orlando Salido-Juan Manuel Lopez II "Lopez threw caution to the wind" would imply that he usually had any to spare. But, for once, he…
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2012 Boxing Knockout Of The Year: Juan Manuel Marquez – Manny Pacquiao IV
For Manny Pacquiao, Dec. 8 was a nightmare ending to a long fairy tale. For Juan Manuel Marquez, Dec. 8 was a fairy tale ending to a long nightmare. It was an…
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2012 Boxing Round Of The Year Nominees
Welcome to The Queensberry Rules' annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week. Here's how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year,…
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2012 Boxing Knockout Of The Year Nominees
Welcome to The Queensberry Rules' annual year-end awards, starting today and continuing throughout the week. Here's how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round…
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Leo Santa Cruz Struggles Against, Overcomes Alberto Guevara In Boxing’s Return To Network TV
For a while Saturday, Alberto Guevera was in danger of turning CBS' happy lead-in of Leo Santa Cruz as a family-friendly plugger into a tale of a guy who suffered his first…
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Round And Round, Featuring What’s Next For Guillermo Rigondeaux, Floyd Mayweather, Gary Russell, Jr. And Others
The Internet suffers for no lack of pictures of women with boxing gloves draped over their breasts, but none have a worse haircut than that. (h/t unofficial TQBR visual consultant Che) Saturday…
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Exclusive: Hall Of Fame Boxer Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson Arrested For Alleged Possession Of PCP, With Intent To Distribute
Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson, just inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame this year, was arrested this week and charged with possession of liquid PCP with the intent to distribute. The arrest…
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Boxing Back On CBS, NBC This Weekend And Next: What It Means, What You Need To Know
If you read boxing ignoramuses like ESPN's Scoop Jackson, boxing died this past weekend, just like critics have taken any occasion over the last 100 years-plus to declare it dead. So it…
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Weekend Afterthoughts On Manny Pacquiao Vs. Juan Manuel Marquez V, Pacquiao’s Religious Switch, Yuriorkis Gamboa’s Next Fight And More
Thanks, Next Media Animation, for rendering much of this blog post redundant. That's quality coverage -- Mitt Romney's losing stink infected Manny Paacquiao, Pacquiao lost because he loves cockfighting and women and…
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Living History: Juan Manuel Marquez Vs. Manny Pacquiao IV, One Day Later
We bore witness to enduring history last night, the kind of event that boxing aficionados will talk about for generations. And it's not too early to play boxing historian, either; it's often…
