The Cruelest Sport » Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com A Professional Boxing blog Sun, 19 May 2013 22:13:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 MACHINE HEAD: Lucas Matthysse TKO3 Lamont Peterson http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/05/19/machine-head-lucas-matthysse-tko3-lamont-peterson/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/05/19/machine-head-lucas-matthysse-tko3-lamont-peterson/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 22:13:24 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5557 **** Leading into his fight against Lamont Peterson at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Lucas Matthysse was a fighter whose notoriety exceeded his exploits. That he was a ferocious puncher was undeniable—as was the craft with which he delivered those destructive blows—but a reputation based on victories over the likes of Humberto Soto [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/05/19/machine-head-lucas-matthysse-tko3-lamont-peterson/feed/ 0 The Violent Men: Lamont Peterson vs Lucas Matthysse Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/05/17/the-violent-men-lamont-peterson-vs-lucas-matthysse-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/05/17/the-violent-men-lamont-peterson-vs-lucas-matthysse-preview/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 17:08:22 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5553 **** “So it has come, the day of testing…and he is in the middle of it.” – J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace A room full of monkeys plunking away on typewriters would struggle to script a scenario where Amir Khan is anointed the grand prize of a junior welterweight tournament. Yet this is what Golden Boy Promotions [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/05/17/the-violent-men-lamont-peterson-vs-lucas-matthysse-preview/feed/ 0 Unanswered Prayers: Floyd Mayweather Jr. W12 Robert Guerrero http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/05/05/unanswered-prayers-floyd-mayweather-jr-w12-robert-guerrero/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/05/05/unanswered-prayers-floyd-mayweather-jr-w12-robert-guerrero/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 01:06:11 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5539 **** It was a fight short on drama, one that prompted a smattering of boos among the throng gathered at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. And yet, there is a compliment buried in this criticism. For in so easily dismantling Robert Guerrero over twelve one-sided rounds on Saturday night, Floyd Mayweather, [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/05/05/unanswered-prayers-floyd-mayweather-jr-w12-robert-guerrero/feed/ 0 Storm Rider: Danny Garcia W12 Zab Judah http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/28/storm-rider-danny-garcia-w12-zab-judah/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/28/storm-rider-danny-garcia-w12-zab-judah/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:45:15 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5533 **** “You are fuckin’ something, man!” His arms draped across the fighter’s shoulders, looking reverently at, and beyond, the disfigured face, referee Steve Smoger offered this raw encomium. He did not address it to the victor, however—who was milling around the ring, lost in celebratory whoops and embraces—but to the loser. Nestled amongst his supporters, [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/28/storm-rider-danny-garcia-w12-zab-judah/feed/ 0 Cinders And Smoke: Danny Garcia-Zab Judah Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/25/cinders-and-smoke-danny-garcia-zab-judah-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/25/cinders-and-smoke-danny-garcia-zab-judah-preview/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:28:58 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5529 **** You can roll your eyes at the redemptive narrative of Zab Judah, but the fact that he has clung to relevance over seventeen years is no meager accomplishment. Despite the worst intentions of men like Kostya Tszyu, Miguel Cotto, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and a history of self-sabotage that runs the length of the [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/25/cinders-and-smoke-danny-garcia-zab-judah-preview/feed/ 0 The Golden Calf: Saul Alvarez W12 Austin Trout http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/21/the-golden-calf-saul-alvarez-w12-austin-trout/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/21/the-golden-calf-saul-alvarez-w12-austin-trout/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:54:45 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5518 **** Junior middleweight Saul Alvarez has long endured the criticism that he was a pampered and protected golden calf, a fighter whose popularity and earnings were disproportionate to his achievements. And this is true. The response to such cries, of course, is that Alvarez is a defense in himself: he makes truckloads of money grinding [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/21/the-golden-calf-saul-alvarez-w12-austin-trout/feed/ 0 SLUMBER TIME: Guillermo Rigondeaux W12 Nonito Donaire http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/14/slumber-time-guillermo-rigondeaux-w12-nonito-donaire/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/14/slumber-time-guillermo-rigondeaux-w12-nonito-donaire/#comments Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:59:14 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5513 **** I took you home Set you on the glass I pulled off your wings Then I laughed -Deftones, Change (In the House of Flies) In “Culture and Value,” Ludwig Wittgenstein warns: “Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/14/slumber-time-guillermo-rigondeaux-w12-nonito-donaire/feed/ 0 Paradox City: Gennady Golovkin & The Politics of Avoidance http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/10/paradox-city-gennady-golovkin-the-politics-of-avoidance/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/10/paradox-city-gennady-golovkin-the-politics-of-avoidance/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:20:40 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5508 **** Cleaved from his consciousness on March 30th—a single right hand having stretched him prostrate across the bottom rope in Monaco—Nobuhiro Ishida became the latest victim in Gennady Golovkin’s violent odyssey from internet bugaboo to hurt machine du jour. As has become the norm, the question of Golovkin’s next opponent was picked up with enthusiasm, [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/04/10/paradox-city-gennady-golovkin-the-politics-of-avoidance/feed/ 0 Blood In, Blood Out: Mike Alvarado W12 Brandon Rios http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/31/blood-in-blood-out-mike-alvarado-w12-brandon-rios/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/31/blood-in-blood-out-mike-alvarado-w12-brandon-rios/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:20:54 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5505 **** Boxing is never better than when it delivers the unexpected. This is not to say that the expected cannot amaze, as was the case last October when junior welterweights Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado made experts of everyone in tearing into each other for seven brutal rounds before Rios broke Alvarado with a crushing [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/31/blood-in-blood-out-mike-alvarado-w12-brandon-rios/feed/ 0 Pain is Truth: On Boxing and Cruelty http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/21/pain-is-truth-on-boxing-and-cruelty/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2013/03/21/pain-is-truth-on-boxing-and-cruelty/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:30:53 +0000 Jimmy Tobin http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=5493 **** It is a sanctuary for all brands of racketeers, a Rota Fortuna powered by an immiscible concoction of money and blood. With his typical acuity, John Schulian christened boxing “the cruelest sport,” and even the uninitiated appreciate the aptness of this title. What does it say about a sport that its most revered practitioners-among [...]

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