Alex McClintock
107 articles · The Queensberry Rules
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Juan Manuel Marquez Goes Full Juan Manuel Marquez On Mike Alvarado
Boxing?s return to fabled Los Angeles venue the Inglewood Forum proved a massive success on Saturday night, with Juan Manuel Marquez turning in a completely typical performance in an action-packed decision win…
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Quick Jabs, Featuring Abner Mares? (Alleged) Man Love, Boxers Going Broke And Moral Breakage
Abner Mares leads this edition of Quick Jabs with his supposedly hacked Twitter account, where he declared he?s into dudes. I don?t care one way or the other if he does, but…
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Round And Round, Featuring What?s Next For Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., Manny Pacquiao And Canelo Alvarez
Is it Danny Jacobs? Is it Shawn Porter? No, when their powers combine, they form Danny Porter! Anyway, enough jokes at some poor digital producer?s expense, let?s get to the Round and…
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Bradley Vs. Pacquiao II: TQBR Roundtable, Royal Rumble Edition
You know, I quite like watching guys fight. I?m excited for Tim Bradley vs. Manny Pacquiao II. But a whole lot of European guys fighting each other in teams? Not really my…
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Timothy Bradley Vs. Manny Pacquiao II Undercard, Previewed (And The Rest Of The Week?s Boxing Schedule)
Usually pay-per-view weeks are busy in boxing, as promoters look to cash in on the extra eyeballs on the sport. Not so this week; there?s very little on outside the Timothy Bradley…
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The Week?s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Marcos Maidana, Adrien Broner, Josesito Lopez And Sam Soliman
Who knew that Disney movies had such badass characters? Maybe they could make an animated movie about Marcos Maidana. It could be called ?The Ballad Of El Chino.? I?d watch, but I…
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Manny Pacquiao keeps going for a tilt at another career-defining fight
Manny Pacquiao's return to the boxing ring on Sunday morning was electrifying, but the victory over Brandon R?os here did not provide all the answers. In his first win in two years,…
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Notes From Macau, Featuring Bob Arum, Freddie Roach And Larry Merchant
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Manny Pacquiao vs. Brandon Rios on HBO pay-per-view on Nov. 23. Previously: The undercard, previewed. Next: Keys to the…
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Boxing’s centre of gravity shifts decisively towards Asia
As back pages cliches go, ?boxing is dying? has staying power. The Los Angeles Times might have been the first to read the sport its last rites when it declared in 1913…
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Break Him Morally: Ruslan Provodnikov Stops Mike Alvarado
It was like a Rocky movie gone terribly wrong. The hometown hero had been in control. His Russian opponent had looked frustrated and even a little primitive. But junior welterweight Ruslan Provodnikov…
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TQBR Roundtable, Boom Goes The Dinamita Edition: Juan Manuel Marquez Vs. Timothy Bradley
What happens when you get six boxing writers together to talk about Tim Bradley vs. Juan Manuel Marquez Saturday on HBO pay-per-view? An outpouring of man love for ?Dinamita,? pretty much pretty…
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The Week?s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Andre Berto, Zou Shiming And Juan Carlos Burgos
Some weekend, huh? In the land of Pacman, the Star Wars arcade game is king. And in a month without big time boxing, Andre Berto vs. Jesus Soto Karass starts to look…
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The Week?s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Dereck Chisora, Olusegen Ajose And John Molina
Sometimes being a boxing fan is like being a pizza enthusiast. Once in a while you?ll get an amazing pizza, but even an average pizza is still, y?know, pizza. That?s what this…
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The Week’s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Denis Grachev and Chris Avalos
?Look upon me, ye mighty, and despair,? said the July boxing schedule. And despair we shall, for there?s not much on. Sure, last week threw up an unexpected heavyweight slugfest in Thompson…
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Adrien Broner Beats Paulie Malignaggi In A Surprisingly Entertaining Fight
Adrien Broner beat Paulie Malignaggi in Brooklyn on Saturday in a closer than expected welterweight fight that showcased the loser?s toughness more than the winner?s skills. Broner at times appeared like an…
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Would You Let Your Son Or Daughter Box?
The most talked about issue in elite sport right now is head trauma. There?s no question. Sports the world over are struggling to deal with research that shows the dramatic long term…
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It’s Really Happening: Floyd Mayweather, Jr. To Fight Saul Alvarez
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez have signed to fight one another on September 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It?s the biggest fight that can be made in…
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Does Boxing Have A Nostalgia Problem?
"Boxing has a nostalgia problem. Any discussion about the fight game is really a discussion about the past and all arguments are really just variations on the barbershop scene in Coming to…
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TQBR Roundtable, Ruben Edition: Floyd Mayweather Vs. Robert Guerrero
So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2013, Floyd Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero on Showtime pay-per-view May 4. Previously: putting Mayweather-Guerrero in context; the undercard, previewed; keys…
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Canelo Will Be Here For A Long Time: Saul Alvarez Outpoints Austin Trout
?Canelo will be here for a long time,? said junior middleweight Saul Alvarez after defeating Austin Trout in San Antonio on Showtime. It?s hard to disagree with him, despite the third person…