Continuing from Monday's Part One, here's the second and final installment of The Boxing Tribune's look at 2014's Best, Worst, and Strangest in Boxing: Fighter of the Year: Terence Crawford There has been some late resistance in giving the quiet kid from Omaha the honor he deserves, mostly because of Sergey Kovalev's big win over Bernard Hopkins registering much higher … [Read more...]
Boxing Judges: Another Perspective
by Ted Sares It’s easy to criticize boxing judges. But it’s not that easy to have a sound basis for the criticism. One needs to see the fight the judge saw to be in the position to rightly criticize. Critics should temper criticisms in light of the situations boxing judges are in when judging fights. And judges should likewise understand criticisms from the boxing public … [Read more...]
Another Boxing Turnoff
“Herrera is a tricky, dangerous fight…He can take you in to deep water, but he can swim.” -Oscar De La Hoya, Herrera’s promoter "Scoring more than 5 rounds for Benavidez is nothing short of corruption, or else unbelievable incompetence." —Connor Ruebusch “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people … [Read more...]
Controversial Bradley-Chaves Draw Tops Solid HBO Card
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada-- For the first four or five rounds of Saturday's HBO welterweight main event between Timothy Bradley (31-1-1, 12 KOs) and Diego Chaves (23-2-1, 19 KOs) it was all headbutts, flying fists, and awkward clashes. By the sixth round, though, a facially swollen Bradley-- who had ugly headbutt-caused bumps under the left eye, on the … [Read more...]
Thompson, Cano, Soto-Karass Victorious; The Mexican Boxing Recap
Oasis Hotel Complex, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico-- Sergio Thompson (23-2-1, 21 KOs) had a predictably easy time with Argentina's Juan Ramon Solis (17-6, 6 KOs) en route to a fifth round TKO victory, but also showed why his March victory over Jorge Linares could very well have been a fluke. Short-armed, crude, but aggressive, Thompson pursued a perpetually back-tracking … [Read more...]