by Tim Starks | Apr 18, 2015
Well, karma and poor decisionmaking caught up to Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., finally, on Saturday night on Showtime. Beaten up by a larger man in Andrzej Fonfara for eight rounds, a man he wouldn’t have been fighting if he didn’t allow himself to blow up in...
by Tim Starks | Apr 8, 2015
We are sandwiched between weekends of two true divisional champions: light heavyweight king Adonis Stevenson last weekend, junior welterweight champ Danny Garcia next. It’s the kind of thing to make one take note of the caliber of the class of the current...
by Tim Starks | Mar 30, 2015
After decades of being at each others’ throats as the two biggest players in the boxing broadcast word, HBO and Showtime have joined forces for the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao pay-per-view on May 2. But don’t confuse that for the equivalent of...
by Tim Starks | Mar 14, 2015
MONTREAL — Sergey Kovalev, the Russian they call “Krusher” who has rolled through everyone he’s faced since arriving on the world stage, finally got a test Saturday night, from a courageous Jean Pascal, who made a bold stand to defend his home...
by Tim Starks | Feb 25, 2015
Let’s just go ahead and get this out of the way. Certain things are going to be said over and over and over again about Mayweather Pacquiao, by a mainstream media that doesn’t, frankly, know jackshit about this sport, and that would rather fall into easy,...
