This, as they say, is why they fight the fights. Kermit Cintron upset Alfredo Angulo in a junior middleweight bout Saturday night on HBO where more than a few people thought it was glaringly obvious Cintron was going to get curbstomped, and he did it without much trouble at all, looking good along the way. […]

For some reason, I can’t resist the urge to poke at the disaster that is Ruslan Chagaev – Nicolay Valuev II, from conception to cancellation to radioactive fallout. Forget the Silver Bullet. For this mission, I need Basil Hayden’s.

I feel like it was just the other weekend that I was saying how bantamweight Silence Mabuza was making his return to elite competition after a couple setbacks in entertaining fights against Rafael Marquez, but I guess that got pushed back or sumpin, cuz all a sudden that fight is THIS weekend. I like Mabuza. […]

The Silver Bullet moves in me as I type this, and it’s about the only thing that could get me to write something more than a few sentences about the heavyweight fight Saturday between Nicolay Valuev and Ruslan Chagaev (headline from another writer: “Nicolay Valuev Vs. Ruslan Chagaev Rematch: Should We Just Ignore It?”). Or […]

After his rematch victory over Antonio Tarver this month, Chad Dawson’s shaky stock was no better, and, in fact, maybe worse. Many weren’t impressed with his performance, he’d sold less than 2,000 tickets total for both Tarver bouts and worst of all, he was actively proclaiming he had hoped to avoid Glen Johnson, the man […]

These are two mighty fine bouts HBO has put together Saturday night featuring two rising stars, welterweight Andre Berto (right) and junior middleweight Alfredo Angulo (below). But these are not, in my view, showcase fights. Juan Urango, Berto’s opponent, and Kermit Cintron, Angulo’s opponent, ain’t seatwarmers for bigger names. Although Berto and Angulo could theoretically […]

[Now UPDATED with video of Nishioka-Gonzalez and Marquez-Mendoza.] They are two of the more entertaining Mexican fighters of recent years, Rafael Marquez and Jhonny Gonzalez, and if they continued their career rehabilitations with wins Saturday night on TV Azteca, they were on a collision course. Marquez scored an early knockout in his long-awaited ring return, […]

Friday Night Fights recap, “what I learned”-style:

In this edition of Quick Jabs: We’ll summarize the key weekend bouts; examine some fallout, good and bad, from Andre Ward-Edison Miranda; rejoice in the possible revival of Bernard Hopkins-Tomasz Adamek and Chad Dawson-Glen Johnson II; and take a look at what’s up next — or isn’t — for Paul Williams, Timothy Bradley and others. […]

Remember this post the other day about how Juan Manuel Marquez had agreed to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. at 147 lbs. on July 18, thereby making the fight even harder on himself? Well (h/t johnpaulfutbol), ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports, contrary to what Ring reported to prompt my post, that the fight will be at no […]

If I were building the ideal heavyweight from scratch, he might, after all, end up looking a bit like Tor Hamer, a 5-0 prospect whom I recently had the pleasure of interviewing. I’ve made no effort to conceal my disdain for the modern heavyweight, preferring the cruiserweights as a closer facsimile of the heavyweights of […]

Ring reports today that Juan Manuel Marquez has agreed to a 147-pound welterweight limit for his July 18 pay-per-view fight with Floyd Mayweather, and it’s hard to imagine how such a thing came to be, if it’s accurate. It’s as stupid as stupid gets for the Marquez camp. After all, one of the quite understandable […]

There’s a crucial quote in a Maxboxing.com piece today that illustrates something that’s pretty widely understood, but that rarely has been laid out so explicitly, about a fundamental issue that confronts boxing as a whole. That is: The root of ongoing power and influence exercised by sanctioning organizations like the WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF […]

2004 Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward put together a terrific performance in a dominant decision win over fellow super middleweight Edison Miranda on Showtime Saturday. For a long time, we’ve been wondering whether Ward is legitimate, considering how slowly his career has proceeded. Now we know he is. Ward answered one of the biggest questions […]

Some decent action on ESPN2′s Friday Night Fights last night, plus some intrigue in a couple overseas bouts, with footage of one.